John Boswell's highly acclaimed study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the Christian West challenges received opinion and our own preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members, among whom were priests, bishops, and even canonized saints. The historical bre... Read more

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A Bosnian immigrant living in the U.S. and his photographer girlfriend travel to the Balkans in a literary attempt to revive the life of an early-20th-century Jew named Lazarus Averbuch, who moved to Chicago, became suspected of being an anarchist, and was shot by the police. The parallel stories of... Read more

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In FINAL SALUTE journalist Jim Sheeler follows Major Steve Beck on one of the most heart-rending jobs imaginable: notifying family members of the death of a loved one while serving the United States in the Iraq War. Born out of Sheeler's Pulitzer Prize-winning feature article for the Rocky Mountain ... Read more

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Private papers, letters, and journals shed new light on Kennedy family relationships and underlie an account of Robert Kennedy's private and public lives, the forces that shaped him, and his impact on the United States. ... Read more

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Carlos Eire remembers growing up privileged in 1950s Havana, an interlude that ends with Fidel Castro and the revolution. Eire delivers transcendent prose that details the Cuba he grew up with and the "many deaths" he experienced, including being airlifted out of Cuba in 1962 with his brot... Read more

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A seventh volume of poetry involves a search to discover and reclaim what has been lost, forgotten, or unexplored. Reissue. NYT. ... Read more

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A young European girl, unaware of the Nazi threat, has her life transformed by a red-haired magician who challenges the complacency of her village. "Turns the hidden world of Eastern European Jews during the 1940s into a world of wonders, then transcends the Holocaust with magical optimism"... Read more

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Winner of the 2005 National Book Award in Poetry ... Read more

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The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Heres a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land. ... Read more

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William T. Vollmann turns his attention to Central Europe, setting this 800-page novel in 1941, when the German army was moving into Russia, where it would soon meet major defeats. Vollmann incorporates not only actual events but real people (they include K?the Kollwitz, Shostakovich, and the German... Read more

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Shy, quiet 13-year-old Ratchet Clark, used to life with her neurotic mother, spends an unusual summer in rural Maine with her elderly, eccentric twin great-aunts Tilly and Penpen. Though the aunts are "as different as chalk and cheese," they share an obsession with death, curse like sailor... Read more

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"Tell me how to live so many lives at once ..."Fowzi, who beats everyone at dominoes; Ibtisam, who wanted to be a doctor; Abu Mahmoud, who knows every eggplant and peach in his West Bank garden; mysterious Uncle Mohammed, who moved to the mountain; a girl in a red sweater dangling a book b... Read more

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This is the only collection of Dugan's poetry in print, chronicling a 40-year career and its shifting concerns. Here Alan Dugan adds to his body of work with nearly three dozen new poems. Eloquent, blunt, funny, or bitter, the poet, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Prix de Rome, comments on... Read more

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Richard and Sara Everton, a middle-aged couple devoted to each other and, perhaps, foolhardy, move from California to a small village in Mexico to reopen an abandoned copper mine. As foreigners in an alien environment, they must learn to cope with the villagers' exaggerated respect, their own disori... Read more

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The dazzling novel, written in 1961, that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback edition. "A brilliant novel. . . . . Percy touches the rim of so many human mysteries"--"Harper's". ... Read more

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Eudora Welty won the National Medal for Literature in 1979. A year later this award-winning volume of her short stories was published, and she was presented with the Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter. This comprehensive collection, selected and introduced by Welty herself, solidifies her po... Read more

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This is the classic introduction for the educated lay reader to the richly diverse world of mathematics: its history, philosophy, principles, and personalities. ... Read more

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Mickey Sabbath, an aging, misanthropic puppeteer, embarks on a journey into his checkered past when his long-time mistress dies. His journey turns into succession of disasters. And while Sabbath wants to die, he still has too much life in him to succumb. ... Read more

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Virgil's Homeric epic was not quite completed when he died suddenly in 19 B.C. However, against Virgil's expressed wishes, the emperor Augustus decreed that it be published. It traces the journey of Aeneas to Italy after the Trojan War, where (according to Homer) he was instrumental in the founding ... Read more

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A commemorative edition of the classic study of the earth's ocean--first published in 1951--from its earliest origins to the present day, explores the mysteries of undersea life past and present and features 130 full-color illustrations that capture the rich beauty of an enigmatic and endangered wor... Read more

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