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Blue Highways: A Journey into America

by William Least Heat-Moon

Published: 1991-10-23

Paperback: 421 pages

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William Trogdon, writing under the name of William Least Heat-Moon writes a winding story of his 13,000 mile trip across America. The people and the places he discovered on the back roads and through small forgotten towns is unexpected and sometime mysterious and full of ordinary life. He captures...

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Allegiant (The Guardian Trilogy) (Volume 2)

by Sara Mack

Published: 2013-10-04

Paperback: 338 pages

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** Allegiant by Sara Mack is the second novel in The Guardian Trilogy. It is not affiliated with the Divergent series by Veronica Roth. ** Last summer, Emma discovered that true love never dies. It can return. It can give you hope. It can pull you from darkness. Until it’s ripped from you. Again....

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Asylum Denied: A Refugee's Struggle for Safety in America

by David Ngaruri Kenney, Philip G. Schrag

Published: 2009-08-17

Paperback: 360 pages

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Asylum Denied is the gripping story of political refugee David Ngaruri Kenney's harrowing odyssey through the world of immigration processing in the United States. Kenney, while living in his native Kenya, led a boycott to protest his government's treatment of his fellow farmers. He was su...

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Chasing the Flame: One Man's Fight to Save the World

by Samantha Power

Published: 2008-12-02

Paperback: 656 pages

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In this perfect match of author and subject, Pulitzer Prize-winner Samantha Power tackles the life of Sergio Vieira de Mello, whose work for the U.N. before his 2003 death in Iraq was emblematic of moral struggle on the global stage. Power has drawn on a staggering breadth of research (inc...

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Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life, 2nd Edition

by Roger Daniels

Published: 2002-10-22

Paperback: 576 pages

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With a timely new chapter on immigration in the current age of globalization, a new Preface, and new appendixes with the most recent statistics, this revised edition is an engrossing study of immigration to the United States from the colonial era to the present.

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The Trial of Fallen Angels

by James P. Kimmel Jr.

Published: 2013-10-01

Paperback: 432 pages

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When young attorney and mother Brek Cuttler finds herself covered in blood and standing on a deserted train platform, she has no memory of how she got there. For one very good reason. She’s dead. But she doesn’t believe it at first. Trapped between worlds, Brek struggles to get back to...

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State of the Heart: South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love

Published: 2013-05-10

Paperback: 224 pages

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In State of the Heart, Aïda Rogers has crafted an artful love letter to our state, with contributions from a host of nationally and regionally recognized writers who've written short essays on the South Carolina places that they cherish. This anthology provides a multifaceted historical a...

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The Union Street Bakery

by Mary Ellen Taylor

Published: 2013-02-05

Paperback: 352 pages

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Life can turn on a dime. It’s a common cliché, and I’d heard it often enough. People die or move away. Investments go south. Affairs end. Loved ones betray us...Stuff happens. Daisy McCrae’s life is in tatters. She’s lost her job, broken up with her boyfriend, and has been reduced...

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Porgy

by DuBose Heyward

Published: 2001-03-14

Paperback: 168 pages

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The fictional characters of Porgy, Bess, Black Maria, Sportin' Life, and the other Gullah denizens of Catfish Row have attained a mythic status and have become inextricably identified with Charleston. This novel is the story of Porgy, a crippled street-beggar in the black tenement. Unwashe...

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The Remaining

by D.J. Molles

Published: 2013-10-08

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In a steel-and-lead-encased bunker 20 feet below the basement level of his house, a soldier waits for his final orders. On the surface, a plague ravages the planet, infecting over 90% of the populace. The bacterium burrows through the brain, destroying all signs of humanity and leaving behind little...