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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain - Penguin Classics; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen and a foreword by Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and The Republic of ImaginationIn recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial... |
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Autobiography of Mark Twain - 100th Anniversary Edition
Mark Twain
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"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense." - Mark Twain Within your hands is a glimpse into the life, mind, soul, and "truth" of cherished American icon, Mark Twain. This uncensored autobiography is not only a legacy he lef |
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Can't Wait to Get to Heaven (Random House Large Print)
Fannie Flagg - Random House Large Print
Format: Large Print]
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Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here?Life... |
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Clown in a Cornfield
Adam Cesare - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover
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In Adam Cesare's terrifying young adult debut, Quinn Maybrook finds herself caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress - that just may cost her life.Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. But what they don't... |
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Dead Ice: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
Laurell K. Hamilton - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Anita Blake has the highest kill count of any vampire executioner in the country. Shes a US Marshal who can raise zombies with the best of them. But ever since she and master vampire Jean-Claude went public with their engagement, all she is to anyone and everyone is Jean-Claudes fiancée.Its... |
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The End of the End of the Earth: Essays
JONATHAN FRANZEN - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsIn The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes... |
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The Glass Menagerie
Robert Bray - New Directions; 5 edition
Format: Paperback
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No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie.Menagerie was Williams's first popular success and launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwright.... |
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Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadMarriage can be a real killer. One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable... |
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Guinevere's Truth and Other Tales
Jennifer Roberson
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A collection of short stories that includes tales from each of the author's series plus contemporary tales about regular people under extraordinary circumstances. |
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I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey
Dominic Hoffman (Narrator) Langston Hugh
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In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s. His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War) , through dictatorships, wars, revolutio |
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Lanford Wilson: Early Stories, Sketches, and Poems
Lanford Wilson - University of Missouri
Format: Hardcover
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Before Lanford Wilson became a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, with such celebrated productions as The Hot 1 Baltimore, Fifth of July, Talley's Folly, and Burn This, he wrote dozens of short stories and poems, many of which take place in the 1950s small-town Missouri where he grew... |
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News of the World: A Novel
Paulette Jiles - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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National Book Award Finalist - FictionIt is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless,... |
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Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography
Laura Ingalls Wilder - South Dakota Historical Society Press; annotated edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Follow the real Laura Ingalls and her family as they make their way west and discover that truth is as remarkable as fiction. Hidden away since the 1930s, Laura Ingalls Wilder s never-before-published autobiography reveals the true stories of her pioneering life. Some of her experiences... |
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Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback
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AN HBO LIMITED SERIES STARRING AMY ADAMSFROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRLFresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls.... |
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The Weight of Blood
Laura McHugh - Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover
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A #1 Library Reads Selection An Indie Next Pick Deep in the Ozarks, folks in Henbane still whisper about Lucy Dane's mother, a bewitching stranger who appeared long enough to marry Carl Dane and then vanished when Lucy was just a child. Now on the brink of adulthood, Lucy experiences... |
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Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!: A Novel
Fannie Flagg - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback
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Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! is the funny, serious, and compelling new novel by Fannie Flagg, author of the beloved Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (and prize-winning co-writer of the classic movie) .Once again, Flagg's humor and respect and affection for her characters... |
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Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls - Delacorte
Format: Print book
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For fans of Old Yeller and Shiloh, Where the Red Fern Grows is a beloved classic that captures the powerful bond between man and man's best friend. This special edition includes new material, including a note to readers from Newbery Medal winner and Printz Honor winner Clare Vanderpool,... |
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Winter's Bone
Daniel Woodrell - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback
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"The lineage from Faulkner to Woodrell runs as deep and true as an Ozark stream in this book...his most profound and haunting yet." -- Los Angeles Times Book ReviewRee Dolly's father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house... |
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