In this drama, Lisa, the 15-year-old daughter of a prostitute runs away with Clint, a car thief, to free herself from her tragic home life. But her escape is hardly liberating when she finds herself at the center of crime ring. ... Read more

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Astra Dell, a popular student at an all-girls prep school in Manhattan, misses out on most of her senior year when she contracts a rare form of cancer. Astra's friends and family reveal themselves by their wildly divergent reactions to her absence and her illness. While most of Astra's best friends ... Read more

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In this ninth book by Gluck, a previous Pulitzer and Bollingen Prize recipient, her straightforward and haunting voice approaches autobiographical material, delving into questions about her own past. Gluck's older sister features importantly in this volume. Named a Best Book of 2001 by the Los Angel... Read more

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Traces the life of the American historian, novelist, and journalist, and discusses his approach to history. ... Read more

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After 30 years and with three million copies in print, Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, The Killer Angels, remains as vivid and powerful as the day it was originally published.July 1863. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia is invading the North. General Robert E. Lee ... Read more

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Into Thin Air is the definitive, personal account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed journalist and author of Eiger Dreams and Into the Wild. On assignment for Outside magazine, Krakauer, an accomplished climber, went to the Himalayas to report on the growing commerci... Read more

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The Hours is the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughan, a beloved friend of ailing poet Richard Brown, who one fine New York morning goes about planning a party in his honor; Laura Brown, who in a 1950's Los Angeles suburb slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family and home; and Virg... Read more

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Samuel G. Freedman tells the stories of the members of three immigrant families who were all ardent Democrats during the era of the New Deal. The grandchildren of these people were all supporter of Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. How and why things changed for these families over the course of three gen... Read more

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An anthology by one of America's most distinguished writers features fifty short stories, including selections from two prior collections--The Names and Faces of Heroes and Permanent Errors--as well as more than two dozen newer tales. Reprint. ... Read more

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Two journalists who covered the Civil Rights movement over two decades tell the stories behind the stories in this panoramic account of how reporters, photographers, editors, and others brought the events of that time to America's homes through its newspapers, magazines, and television. The media we... Read more

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The author of the bestseller Freud presents a close examination of the aggression--and debate about aggression--that raged through the Victorian Age. Gay looks at the works of such figures as Theodore Roosevelt and Nietzsche to present penetrating new insights. ... Read more

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