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Among the greatest novels of the twentieth century and the basis for director David Lean’s Academy Award-winning film, A Passage to India tells of the clash of cultures in British India after the turn of the century. In exquisite prose, Forster reveals the menace that lurks just beneath the surface of ordinary life, as a common misunderstanding erupts into a devastating affair.

The Hemingway Women

by Bernice Kert

Many books have been written about Ernest Hemingway, but no book has focused on the women he knew and loved and sometimes hated-his mother, who was the lifelong recipient of his invective; his wives; and others who captivated him. Hemingway married four times, each time to a fascinating person: Hadley Richardson, who shared the Paris years and one son; Pauline Pfeiffer, the mother of two more sons, who... (more)

North and South

by John Jakes

In the years before the Civil War, the Mains and Hazards achieve their triumphs and suffer their tragedies against the panorama of American history. 2 cassettes.

Regeneration

by Pat Barker

In a World War I British military hospital, a pacifist soldier and his doctor grapple with the outrage of war. By the author of Union Street. Reprint. NYT. K.

War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars

War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars

by Andrew Carroll

In 1998, Andrew Carroll founded the Legacy Project, with the goal of remembering Americans who have served their nation and preserving their letters for posterity. Since then, over 50,000 letters have poured in from around the country. Nearly two hundred of them comprise this amazing collection -- including never-before-published letters that appear in the new afterword. Here are letters from the Civil War,... (more)

Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman

Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman

by Sarah Morgan Dawson

Born into one of the best families of Baton Rouge, Sarah Morgan was not yet twenty when she began her diary in January 1862, nine months after the start of the Civil War. She was soon to experience a coming-of-age filled with the turmoil and upheaval that devastated the wartime South. She set down the Remarkable events of the war in a record that remains one of the most vivid, evocative portrayals in existence of... (more)

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: The Final Conflict : Yet More of the Best (? from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest)

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: The Final Conflict : Yet More of the Best (? from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest)

A collection of humorous selections taken from the Bulwer-Lytton Contest for the best of bad fiction presents entries on the most atrocious opening sentence to hypothetical bad novels.

Winterkill: A Novel

by Craig Lesley

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award From the two-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award: a deeply moving and evocative novel of fathers and sons. Danny Kachiah is a Native American fighting not to become a casualty. His father, Red Shirt, is dead; his wife, Loxie, has left him, and his career as a rodeo cowboy is flagging. But when Loxie dies in a... (more)

Stories For Christmas

by Charles Dickens

Words of the great writers feed thirsty minds. Only Charles Dickens could have captured the spirit of Christmas through his legacy A Christmas Carol. And in addition to this timeless tale this collection includes some introductory background about the author extraordinaire as well as a host of stories including The Cricket on the Hearth and The Chimes. This hardbound treasury is a must on every... (more)

A history of IrelandPeter Fry, Fiona Somerset Fry

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A Passage to India

by E. M. Forster