Carl Phillips's distinctive voice emanates insight and discovery in this, his 10th collection of verse. Phillips has mastered the process of using a craft composed of seemingly simple language to dive into the darkened, still depths of dismay and doubt that lie beneath our shifting, glistening socia... Read more

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An exhilarating new collection by the poet often acclaimed as the modern Walt Whitman is "remarkable for its generosity of spirit, manifested in a warm surrealism that is often turned with humor toward his own past" ("Publishers Weekly"). ... Read more

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist brings together an oral history of the American Dust Bowl that devastated the Great Plains during the Great Depression, following several families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region and their desperate struggle to persevere despite the... Read more

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The novelists interpretes and dramatizes the October 1967 anti-war demonstration in Washington and the issues and politics involved. ... Read more

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A discussion of white racial attitudes from before the first Negroes set foot on American soil in 1619 to the present national situation. ... Read more

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Barzun unpacks a lifetime of learning in this comprehensive overview of history and culture. The distinguished historian reexamines major themes in Western civilization from the Renaissance through modern times. ... Read more

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The new and rapidly growing field of communication sciences owes as much to Norbert Wiener as to any one man. He coined the word for it--cybernetics. In God & Golem, Inc., the author concerned himself with major points in cybernetics which are relevant to religious issues. The first point he ... Read more

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Ranging over several centuries, this history of utopian thought describes the thinkers and the dreamers (and their visions of an ideal social order) who have left their mark on the thought of later generations. ... Read more

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A poet struggles to understand the role of the black man in America by evoking slave images to show the African-American family in crisis across three centuries. Simultaneous. ... Read more

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In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of Amer... Read more

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On his way to work one morning, Bill Chalmers suddenly discovers that he cannot remember where he is going, what he is meant to be doing or, indeed, who he is. He remembers only one thing, "The Maximum Information in the Minimum Time", his company's motto. But when his memory returns, it i... Read more

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THE PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS chronicles the dramatic story behind the realization of the centuries-old dream of creating a ship passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. In the style that has made him a favorite of readers and reviewers alike, McCullough weaves astonishing engineering feats, ext... Read more

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Winner of the 1989 National Book Award, this novel is about a cynical, disaffected fisherman in Rhode Island, Dick Pierce, who is building a boat--"Spartina"--in his back yard. His life, values, and view of himself are tested by a devastating hurricane and an unexpected, redemptive love af... Read more

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A new edition of the classic, National Book Award-winning biography examines the life of Theodore Roosevelt from age ten to twenty-seven, focusing on the influence of his family relationships and experiences on his growth to manhood. ... Read more

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In this National Book Award-winning book, Kozol offers a moving first-hand account of what he describes as the "destruction of hearts and minds in the Boston public school." ... Read more

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In this unusual and engaging collection, Calvino personifies scientific ideas, particularly from astronomy and the way the universe evolved, turning them into characters with stories of their own. ... Read more

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The edition of Bishop's complete poems published in 1968 won the National Book Award. This is a more complete, updated collection, published after her death in 1979. ... Read more

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Set against the backdrop of the Korean War in the 1950s, a multilayered novel about family, the power of loss and love, the repercussions of war, old secrets and the bonds that unite and sustain personal relationships focuses on a single family--Lark, her brother Termite, their mother Lola, their au... Read more

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