Chronological Period/1950-1999
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The Smell of Apples
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction from the Los Angeles Times
Winner of the M-Net Award
Winner of The Eugene Marais Award
Winner of the CNA Literary Award
Winner of the Betty Trask Award- Author: Behr, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0312152094
- Language: English
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The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
$27.95 Add to cartSet in Savannah, Georgia, in the early 1970s, this is a novel of the anarchic joy of youth and encounters with the concerns of early adulthood. Francis Doyle, Tim Sullivan, and their three closest fri… [more below]
- Author: Fuhrman, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 28 2001
- ISBN10: 0820323381
- Language: English
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The Wanderers
$15.95 Add to cartA teenage gang comes of age in the 1960s Bronx. Written when the author was twenty-four, this story was the basis for a major feature film.
- Author: Price, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0395977746
- Language: English
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The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
$30.99 Add to cartThe story of the rise and fall of those comic books has never been fully told — until The Ten-Cent Plague. David Hajdu’s remarkable new book vividly opens up the lost world of comic books, its creati
- Author: Hajdu, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0312428235
- Language: English
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Last of Her Kind
$26.99 Add to cart< I>The Last of Her Kind< /I> introduces two women who meet as freshmen on the Barnard campus in 1968. Georgette George does not know what to make of her brilliant, idealistic roommate, Ann Dray… [more below]
- Author: Nunez, Sigrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 12 2006
- ISBN10: 0312425945
- Language: English
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The Honk and Holler Opening Soon
$16.99 Add to cartCaney Paxton wanted his cafe to have the biggest and brightest sign in Eastern Oklahoma-the “opening soon” part was supposed to be just a removable, painted notice. But a fateful misunderstanding gave… [more below]
- Author: Letts, Billie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0446675059
- Language: English
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The Last Juror
$20.00 Read more#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – In 1970, Willie Traynor comes to Clanton, Mississippi, in a Triumph Spitfire and a fog of vague ambitions. Within a year, the twenty-three-year-old finds himself the ow… [more below]
- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0385339682
- Language: English
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The Millstone
$15.99 Add to cartMargaret Drabble’s affecting novel, set in London during the 1960s, about a casual love affair, an unplanned pregnancy, and one young woman’s decision to become a mother.
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Drabble, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0156006197
- Language: English
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Music for Torching
$17.99 Add to cartA tour de force: A. M. Homes’s unforgettable New Yorker story unfolds into a fiercely entertaining novel of marriage, family, and the American dream.
In a tale that unfolds over the course of one week
- Author: Homes, A. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 05 2000
- ISBN10: 068817762X
- Language: English
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The Ground Beneath Her Feet
$38.99 Add to cartFrom the world renowned author of Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses comes Salman Rushdie’s brilliant novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet, featuring an epic, exuberant love story with a rock ‘n’
- Author: Rushdie, Salman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 16 2000
- ISBN10: 0312254997
- Language: English
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Moving on
$18.95 Add to cartLarry McMurtry’s Moving On, his epic first novel in the acclaimed Houston series, has long been considered a defining tale of “monumental honesty” worthy of great attention (New York Times). Preceding… [more below]
- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1631493493
- Language: English
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Caucasia
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the author of New People and Colored Television, the extraordinary national bestseller that launched Danzy Senna’s literary career
“Superbly illustrates the emotional toll that politics and race- Author: Senna, Danzy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 01, 1999
- ISBN10: 1573227161
- Language: English
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The Fuck Up
$16.99 Add to cartArthur Nersesian’s underground literary treasure is an unforgettable slice of gritty New York City life.
This is the darkly hilarious odyssey of an anonymous slacker. He’s a perennial couch-surfer, an- Author: Nersesian, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0671027638
- Language: English
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Up Country
$21.99 Add to cart“Much more than a blood-and-guts thriller…An insightful, moving, and sensitive look at what the war did to a country, its people, and its enemies.” – Orlando Sentinel
Former army homicide investiga- Author: DeMille, Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: November 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0446177938
- Language: English
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Continental Drift
$16.99 Add to cart“The most convincing portrait I know of contemporary America . . . a great American novel.” — James Atlas, The Atlantic Monthly
From acclaimed author Russell Banks, a masterful novel of hope lost and
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Banks, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0060854944
- Language: English
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The Thanatos Syndrome
$26.99 Add to cartReturning home to the small Louisiana parish where he had praticed psychiatry, Dr. Tom More quickly notices something strange occuring with the townfolk, a loss of inhibitions. Behind this mystery is
- Author: Percy, Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 04 1999
- ISBN10: 0312243324
- Language: English
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The Blackwater Lightship
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the author of The Master and Brooklyn, Colm T?b? weaves together the lives of three generations of estranged women as they reunite to witness and mourn the death of a brother, a son, and a grands… [more below]
- Author: Toibin, Colm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 05 2001
- ISBN10: 0743203313
- Language: English
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The Deep End of the Ocean
$16.00 Read more“Masterful…A big story about human connection and emotional survival” – Los Angeles Times
The first book ever chosen by Oprah’s Book Club Few first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim s- Series: Oprah’s Book Club
- Author: Mitchard, Jacquelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140286276
- Language: English
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The Pump House Gang
$18.00 Add to cartA sprawling collection of essays about the subcultures of the 1960s by Tom Wolfe, the revolutionary journalist and novelist
When Tom Wolfe smashed his way onto the literary scene in 1965 with The Kand- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1250891337
- Language: English
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You Belong to Me
$17.99 Add to cart“The mistress of high tension” (The New Yorker) and undisputed Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark brings us another New York Times bestselling novel that USA TODAY calls “her page-turning best” abou… [more below]
- Author: Clark, Mary Higgins
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1668026201
- Language: English
