The study of two demagogues, whose vast popularity explains much about Depression-era America. ... Read more

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A collection of forty-four poems--told from the point of view of Carver and the people who knew him--provides young readers with a compelling, lyrical account of the life of revered African-American botanist and inventor, George Washington Carver. ... Read more

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In this insightful examination of a neglected historical episode, Greg Grandin depicts Henry Ford's disastrous attempt to establish a rubber-producing settlement in the jungles of Brazil. While Ford's plan was initially motivated by purely economic reasons, it eventually swelled into an attempt to c... Read more

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Biologist Sean Carroll writes about the men and women who forged the foundations of evolutionary biology with their discoveries of the past 150 years. From Charles Darwin's historic voyage in the Beagle to the Leakeys' literally groundbreaking digs in Africa to the decoding of the Neanderthal genome... Read more

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While her aunt works to keep the family afloat in economically depressed 1950s West Virginia, 17-year-old Lark acts as a mother to her mute younger brother, Termite, and comes to terms with her and her brother's paltry choices in life. Intermingled with Lark's story is that of her father, Robert, wh... Read more

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THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLE takes place in St. Botolph's, Massachusetts, a fishing village in which a storm causes ferry pilot Leander Wapshot's boat to be damaged. His wife Sarah turns the ferry into a Floating Gift Shoppe, to Leander's discomfort, even though the shop pays for his sons' college educatio... Read more

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They came west inspired by the boldest American dream. Pioneers whose hands and hearts shaped the proud destiny of a nation. Seven men and 13 women and children--strangers who shed their blood to build a community out of the Wyoming community out of the Wyoming wilderness. And towering above them al... Read more

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Winner of the National Book Award, this novel of courage, violence, and passion was the basis of the famous film starring Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, and Frank Sinatra. This first book in James Jones's epic WW II trilogy follows the lives of the men and women stationed in Diamond Head, Hawaii, on ... Read more

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Pagels, a noted authority of religion, examines what impact Gnosticism could have had on Christianity had it not been labelled heretical by the early church fathers. THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS offers up insights from this obscure branch of Christianity, offering synopses of these documents that purport to ... Read more

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Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. ... Read more

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Fifteen-year-old Verna LaVaughn's life is turned upside-down when Jody, a childhood friend, returns to her housing project and rekindles their old relationship, but Verna may be feeling more emotions for Jody than he is for her. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. ... Read more

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Capturing the poet's consistent tone and lyrical beauty, this collection of poems takes readers deep into the heart of the poet's meditations on the natural world. Reprint. ... Read more

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A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itsel... Read more

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Many Americans know about "the Dustbowl" from the songs of Woody Guthrie (who experienced it) or from the famous book and film of Steinbeck's THE GRAPES OF WRATH. In THE WORST HARD TIME, Timothy Egan reminds us that, while many left the Dustbowl to start a new life out West, others chose t... Read more

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A collection of vignettes set in a coffee shop explores the subtle movements of love between ordinary people. Reissue. (An MGM/Lakeshore Entertainment film, releasing September 2007, directed by Robert Benton, starring Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinear, Radha Mitchell, Jane Alexander, Alexa Davalos, Toby ... Read more

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"Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." CommentaryThe 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world plunged into a c... Read more

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Winner of the 1999 National Book Award for Non-Fiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II. Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources... Read more

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When sixteen-year-old Jason Bock and his friends create their own religion to worship the town's water tower, what started out as a joke begins to take on a power of its own. ... Read more

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Nineteen new poems as well as selections from the author's earlier collections explore human suffering, the tragedy of violence, and theological mysteries. ... Read more

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