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420 Characters

by Lou Beach

Published: 2011-12-06

Hardcover: 176 pages

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Within this collection of miniature stories, entire worlds take shape—some like our own, some hallucinatory fairylands--populated by heartsick cowboys, random criminals, lovers and drifters. In a dazzling narrative constellation, Beach’s characters contend with the strange and terrible...

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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition

by Tony Kushner

Published: 2013-12-24

Paperback: 304 pages

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for DramaAngels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes includes Part One, Millennium Approaches and Part Two, Perestroika?Glorious. A monumental, subversive, altogether remarkable masterwork?Details of specific catastrophes may have changed since this Re...

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Gertrude and Claudius: A Novel

by John Updike

Published: 2001-07-03

Paperback: 212 pages

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Gertrude and Claudius are the “villains” of Hamlet: he the killer of Hamlet’s father and usurper of the Danish throne; she his lusty consort, who marries Claudius before her late husband’s body is cold. But in this imaginative “prequel” to the play, John Updike makes a case for...

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A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings

by Coleman Barks

Published: 2006-10-31

Hardcover: 432 pages

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Coleman Barks has played a central role in making the Sufi mystic Rumi the most popular poet in the world. A Year with Rumi brings together 365 of Barks's elegant and beautiful translations of Rumi's greatest poems, including fifteen never-before-published poems.Barks includes an Introduct...

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Her Royal Spyness

by Rhys Bowen

Published: 2007-07-03

Hardcover: 336 pages

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The Agatha Award winner debuts a 1930s London mystery series, featuring a penniless twenty-something member of the extended royal family. Her ridiculously long name is Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, daughter to the Duke of Atholt and Rannoch. And she is flat broke. As the thir...

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And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life

by Charles J. Shields

Published: 2012-10-16

Paperback: 544 pages

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From the author of Mockingbird?the first authoritative biography of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a writer who forever altered American literatureIn 2006, Charles Shields reached out to Kurt Vonnegut in a letter asking for his endorsement for a planned biography. The first response was no ("A most re...

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The Cold Light of Mourning: A Mystery (A Penny Brannigan Mystery)

by Elizabeth J. Duncan

Published: 2009-04-28

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Elizabeth J. Duncan spins a charming tale of murder and intrigue in this winning first novel.The picturesque North Wales market town of Llanelen is shocked when Meg Wynne Thompson, a self-made beauty who has turned out to be something of an unpopular bride, goes missing on her wedding day�...

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Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

by Diarmaid MacCulloch

Published: 2011-02-22

Paperback: 1184 pages

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The New York Times bestseller and definitive history of Christianity for our time—from the award-winning author of The Reformation and SilenceA product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill, Diarmaid MacCulloch's Christianity goes back to the origins of the Hebrew B...

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A Handful of Rice

by Kamala Markandya

Published: 2009-01-30

Paperback: 237 pages

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A compulsively readable story of struggle for survival in a large modern city and how it demeans human life. Ravi, son of a peasant, joins in the general exodus to the city, and, floating through the indifferent streets, lands into the underworld of petty criminals. He falls in love with pretty Nalini,...

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City of God: A Novel

by E.L. Doctorow

Published: 2014-08-19

Paperback: 288 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   With brilliant and audacious strokes, E. L. Doctorow creates a breathtaking collage of memories, events, visions, and provocative thought, all centered on an idea of the modern reality of God. At the heart of this stylistically daring tour de force is a detecti...