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The Bird's Nest

by Shirley Jackson

Published: 2014

Paperback: 272 pages

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Shirley Jackson's third novel, a chilling descent into multiple personalitiesElizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old wiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and subsisting off her dead mother’s inheritance. When Elizabeth begins to suffer terrible mi...

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The Uninvited

by Dorothy Macardle

Published: 2016-09-13

Paperback: 256 pages

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A gothic, bone-chilling Irish ghost story first published in 1941 and now brought back into print. The title benefits from an introduction by well-known academic Professor Luke Gibbons and Martin Scorsese and various critics, including William K. Everson and Leonard Maltin, regard The Unin...

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Kangaroo

by D H Lawrence

Published: 2013-10-23

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Kangaroo by D H Lawrence. Originally published in 1923

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Double Indemnity

by James M. Cain

Published: 1989-05-14

Paperback: 115 pages

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Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1935, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir....

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Long After Summer

by Robert Nathan

Published: 2013-09-10

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Our NARRATOR is a middle-aged bachelor who leads a simple but contented life. He enjoys his long summers spent on Cape Cod. Having long since abandoned the “deeper feelings” of youth, his solitary life is altered when JOHANNA, a lonely teenage girl, is sent to care for him during a sud...

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The Light in High Places: A Naturalist Looks at Wyoming Wilderness, Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, Cowboys, and Other Rare Species

by Joe Hutto

Published: 2014-06-03

Paperback: 288 pages

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Hutto is living in a tent at twelve thousand feet, where blizzards occur in July and where human wants become irrelevant and human needs can become a matter of life and death?to study the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. The population of these rare alpine sheep is in decline. The lambs are d...

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Illumination in the Flatwoods: A Season With The Wild Turkey

by Joe Hutto

Published: 2006-10-31

Paperback: 256 pages

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An unforgettable story about the fascinating behavior of the most elusive of wild game birds.

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Maurice: A Novel

by E. M. Forster

Published: 2005-12-17

Paperback: 256 pages

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"The work of an exceptional artist working close to the peak of his powers." Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York TimesSet in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist introduces us to Maurice Hall when he is fourteen. We follow him thr...

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All the President's Men

by Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

Published: 2014-06-03

Paperback: 368 pages

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With a new introduction by the authors for the fortieth anniversary of its publication, the most devastating political detective story of the century, two Washington Post reporters, whose brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation smashed the Watergate scandal wide open, tell the behi...

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Is Paris Burning?

by Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins

Published: 1991-03-01

Paperback: 404 pages

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From the bestselling author of The City of Joy comes the dramatic story of the Allied liberation of Paris. Is Paris Burning? reconstructs the network of fateful events--the drama, the fervor, and the triumph--that heralded one of the most dramatic episodes of our time. This bestseller about 1944 Paris...