FICTION
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Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner - Vintage; Reprint edition Format: Book
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Lyman Ward is a retired professor of history, recently confined to a wheelchair by a crippling bone disease and dependant on others for his every need. Amid the chaos of 1970's counterculture he retreats to his ancestral home of Grass Valley, California, to write the biography of his grandmother:... |
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Beloved
Toni Morrison - Vintage; Reprint edition Format: Audiobook
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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many... |
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The 19th Wife: A Novel
David Ebershoff - Random House Format: Book
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It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. A rich account of a family's polygamous history... |
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Caleb's Crossing: A Novel
Geraldine Brooks - Viking Format: Book
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In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator of Caleb's Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing... |
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Dances with Wolves
Michael Blake - Fawcett Columbine Format: Book
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Ordered to hold an abandoned army post, John Dunbar found himself alone, beyond the edge of civilization. Thievery and survival soon forced him into the Indian camp, where he began a dangerous adventure that changed his life forever.
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The Good Lord Bird: A Novel
James McBride - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated Format: Book
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Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856—a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces—when legendary abolitionist John Brown arrives. When an argument between Brown and Henry's master turns violent, Henry is forced to leave town—along... |
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The Moor's Account: A Novel
Laila Lalami - Pantheon Format: Book
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In 1527, the conquistador Panfilo de Narvaez sailed from the port of Sanlu'car de Barrameda with a crew of six hundred men and nearly a hundred horses. His goal was to claim what is now the Gulf Coast of the United States for the Spanish crown and, in the process, become as wealthy... |
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NON-FICTION
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A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn - Harper Perennial Modern Classics Format: Paperback
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Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools - with its emphasis on great men in high places - to focus on the street,... |
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These Truths: A History of the United States
JILL LEPORE - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Book
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In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. The American experiment rests on three ideas -- "these truths," Jefferson called them -- political equality,... |
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann - Random House Audio Format: Book
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A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus landing had crossed the Bering... |
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Drew Gilpin Faust - Alfred A. Knopf Format: Book
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An illuminating study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of death in the face of the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War. During the war, approximately 620,000 soldiers lost their lives. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million.... |
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
Taylor Branch - Simon and Schuster Format: Book
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Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the Kennedy brothers weighed demands for justice... |
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