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  Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

  by John Berendt

  Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town. A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie. And a redneck gigolo whose conquests... (more)
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  Robert Frost

  A Life

  by Jay Parini

  This fascinating reassessment of America's most popular and famous poet reveals a more complex and enigmatic man than many readers might expect. Jay Parini spent over twenty years interviewing friends of Frost and working in the poet's archives at Dartmouth, Amherst, and elsewhere to produce this definitive and insightful portrait of both the public and private man. While he depicts the various stages of Frost's... (more)
• Exiled in Paradise German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America, from the 1930's to the PresentAnthony Heilbut

  

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  Exiled in Paradise German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America, from the 1930's to the Present

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  Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages. (Revised and Expanded Edition).

  by Norman Cohn

  The end of the millennium has always held the world in fear of earthquakes, plague, and the catastrophic destruction of the world. Now with the year 1999 approaching, the world is again experiencing these anxieties, as seen by the onslaught of fantasies of renewal, doomsday predictions, and New Age prophecies. This fascinating book explores the millenarianism that flourished in western Europe between the... (more)