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Fourth of July Creek: A Novel

by Smith Henderson

Published: 2014-05-27

Hardcover: 480 pages

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In this shattering and iconic American novel, PEN prize-winning writer, Smith Henderson explores the complexities of freedom, community, grace, suspicion and anarchy, brilliantly depicting our nation's disquieting and violent contradictions. After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernou...

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Field of Prey

by John Sandford

Published: 2014-05-06

Hardcover: 400 pages

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The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford.   The night after the fourth of July, Layton Carlson Jr., of Red Wing, Minnesota, finally got lucky. And unlucky. He’d picked the perfect spot to l...

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The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic

by John Demos

Published: 2014-03-18

Hardcover: 352 pages

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The astonishing story of a unique missionary project—and the America it embodied—from award-winning historian John Demos. Near the start of the nineteenth century, as the newly established United States looked outward toward the wider world, a group of eminent Protestant ministers fo...

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A Long Time Gone (New American Library)

by Karen White

Published: 2014-06-03

Hardcover: 432 pages

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“We Walker women were born screaming into this world, the beginning of a lifelong quest to find what would quiet us. But whatever drove us away was never stronger than the pull of what brought us back....”  When Vivien Walker left her home in the Mississippi Delta, she swore never to ...

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The The Hunger Games Trilogy Box Set: Paperback Classic Collection

by Suzanne Collins

Published: 2014-06-24

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Suzanne Collins's extraordinary worldwide-bestselling Hunger Games trilogy is now available in a paperback boxset! This edition features the books with the classic cover art in a striking new package.Now available, a paperback box set of the Hunger Games! This special edition box set featu...

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Neverwhere Low Price CD

by Neil Gaiman

Published: 2013-09-17

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Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and...

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Team Seven: A Novel

by Marcus Burke

Published: 2014-04-08

Hardcover: 272 pages

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In contemporary American fiction there are very few examples of novels that have portrayed the realities of black inner-city life with honesty, empathy, and storytelling skills. Into that near-vacuum steps Marcus Burke and his first novel, Team Seven—a literarily accomplished, autobiogra...

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Selected Stories: John Updike

by John Updike

Published: 1985-11-12

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2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by John UpdikeJohn Updike reads six stories he has selected from the hundred-odd he has published."A&P", recounting a moral crisis on the checkout counter, is his most anthologized story."Pigeon Feathers," the longest story included, tells of a fourteen-year-old b...

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The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives

by Shankar Vedantam

Published: 2010-08-31

Paperback: 288 pages

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The hidden brain is the voice in our ear when we make the most important decisions in our lives—but we’re never aware of it. The hidden brain decides whom we fall in love with and whom we hate. It tells us to vote for the white candidate and convict the dark-skinned defendant, to hire ...

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Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

by Dave Eggers

Published: 2014-06-17

Hardcover: 224 pages

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From Dave Eggers, best-selling author of The Circle, a tightly controlled, emotionally searching novel. Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? is the formally daring, brilliantly executed story of one man struggling to make sense of his country, seeking answe...