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The Road is a post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy - the tale of a journey taken by a father and his young son over a period of several months, across a landscape blasted by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed all civilization and, apparently, most life on earth. The novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006.

The Little Stranger

by Sarah Waters

A chilling and vividly rendered ghost story set in postwar Britain, by the bestselling and award-winning author of The Night Watch and Fingersmith. Sarah Waters’s trilogy of Victorian novels Tipping the Velvet , Affinity , and Fingersmith earned her legions of fans around the world, a number of awards, and a reputation as one of today’s most gifted historical novelists. With her most recent book, The... (more)

Psyche: The Feminine Poetic Consciousness (An Anthology of Modern American Women Poets)BARBARA SEGNITZ CAROL RAINEY

Psyche: The Feminine Poetic Consciousness (An Anthology of Modern American Women Poets)

by BARBARA SEGNITZ CAROL RAINEY

The Scourges of Heaven: A Novel

by David Dick

A novel of prejudice and plague that sweeps gracefully, joyfully, and painfully across centuries and generations, The Scourges of Heaven centers on Cynthia Anne Ferguson, orphaned aboard a vessel carrying immigrants, hopes, dreams–and cholera–from the Old World to the New. David Dick paints a world where the causes of disease are little understood, where faith is not always a comfort, and where unexpected death is... (more)

We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work

We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work

by Jimmy Carter

In this urgent, balanced, and passionate book, Nobel Peace Laureate and former President Jimmy Carter argues that the present moment is a unique time for achieving peace in the Middle East -- and he offers a bold and comprehensive plan to do just that. President Carter has been a student of the biblical Holy Land all his life. For the last three decades, as president of the United States and as founder of The... (more)

Lonesome Road

by Martha Bennett Stiles

Fiction. LONESOME ROAD is a gripping story of the sudden disappearance of a child. The book explores the effect of family tragedy on a happy marriage. "A chilling and compelling story. The reader is caught up from the beginning and follows the steady anguish in the heart of a mother who has lost here child. The narrative races along, like one of those Bluegrass Thoroughbreds in the setting of this marvelous novel"... (more)

RebeccaDaphne Du Maurier

Rebecca

by Daphne Du Maurier

Peter and Wendy.J.M. Illustrated by F.D. Bedford. Barrie

Peter and Wendy.

by J.M. Illustrated by F.D. Bedford. Barrie

Icy SparksGwyn Hyman Rubio

Icy Sparks

by Gwyn Hyman Rubio

The American struggle; the story of the continuing conflict between labor and managementFrederick P Cook

The American struggle; the story of the continuing conflict between labor and management

by Frederick P. Cook

Observe the larkKatie Louchheim

Observe the lark

by Katie Louchheim

In Extremity: Manley HopkinsJohn Robinson

In Extremity: Manley Hopkins

by John Robinson

Storming the Court: How a Band of Yale Law Students Sued the President--And Won

Storming the Court: How a Band of Yale Law Students Sued the President--And Won

by Brandt Goldstein

"A tale more riveting than fiction, Storming the Court is the true story of idealistic law students who challenged the United States government in a battle for freedom and human rights that went all the way to the Supreme Court -- and resonates today more than ever. In 1992, three hundred innocent men, women, and children who had qualified for political asylum in the United States were forced into a detention camp... (more)

This house has fallen : midnight in Nigeria

This house has fallen : midnight in Nigeria

by Karl Maier

To understand Africa, you have to understand Nigeria, and few Americans understand Nigeria better than Karl Maier. In the tradition of Philip Gourevitch's bestselling We Regret to Inform You... and Redmond O'Hanlon's No Mercy, This House Has Fallen is a bracing, disturbing, evocative report on the state of Africa's most populous, potentially richest, and most dangerously dysfunctional nation. Each year, with... (more)

New vision : photographs of the American WestWolfgang Pogzeba

New vision : photographs of the American West

by Wolfgang Pogzeba

by Ann Pearlman

Mark your calendar. It's the Christmas Cookie Club! Every year on the first Monday of December, Marnie and her twelve closest girlfriends gather in the evening with batches of beautifully wrapped homemade cookies. Everyone has to bring a dish, a bottle of wine, and their stories. This year, the stories are especially important. Marnie's oldest daughter has a risky pregnancy. Will she find out tonight how that ... (more)

DEFINITIONS AND CRITERIAMarcella M. [introductory essay by Robert Evett] DuPont

DEFINITIONS AND CRITERIA

by Marcella M. [introductory essay by Robert Evett] DuPont

The Official Guide to the American Marketplace: The Real Facts About How Well-Educated, Healthy, Family-Oriented, Rich, Productive, Demanding, and OMargaret Ambry, Cheryl Russell

The Official Guide to the American Marketplace: The Real Facts About How Well-Educated, Healthy, Family-Oriented, Rich, Productive, Demanding, and O

by Margaret Ambry, Cheryl Russell

His Excellency: George Washington

by Joseph J. Ellis

The author of seven highly acclaimed books, Joseph J. Ellis has crafted a landmark biography that brings to life in all his complexity the most important and perhaps least understood figure in American history, George Washington. With his careful attention to detail and his lyrical prose, Ellis has set a new standard for biography. Drawing from the newly catalogued Washington papers at the University of... (more)

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The Da Vinci Code

by Dan Brown

An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci. A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe. An astonishing truth concealed for centuries . . . unveiled at last. As millions of readers around the globe have already discovered, The Da Vinci Code is a reading experience unlike any other. Simultaneously lightning-paced, intelligent, and intricately layered with remarkable... (more)

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