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  The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

  by Michael Chabon

  By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
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  Wonder Boys

  by Michael Chabon

  Grady Tripp is a pot-smoking middle aged novelist who has stalled on a 2611 page opus titled Wonder Boys . His student James Leer is a troubled young writer obsessed by Hollywood suicides and at work on his own first novel. Grady's bizarre editor Terry Crabtree and another student, Hannah Green, come together in his wildly comic, moving, and finally profound search for an ending to his book and a purpose to his... (more)
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  An American Childhood

  by Annie Dillard

  A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s.
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  Out of This Furnace

  by Thomas Bell

  Out of This Furnace is Thomas Bell’s most compelling achievement.  Its story of three generations of an immigrant Slovak family -- the Dobrejcaks -- still stands as a fresh and extraordinary accomplishment. The novel begins in the mid-1880s with the naive blundering career of Djuro Kracha.  It tracks his arrival from the old country as he walked from New York to White Haven, his later migration to the steel... (more)
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  Emily, Alone

  by Stewart O'Nan

  From the author of Last Night at the Lobster, a moving vision of love and family. A sequel to the bestselling, much-beloved Wish You Were Here, Stewart O'Nan's intimate new novel follows Emily Maxwell, a widow whose grown children have long moved away. She dreams of visits by her grandchildren while mourning the turnover of her quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood, but when her sole companion and sister-in-law Arlene... (more)
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  Our Lady of Immaculate Deception

  by Nancy Martin

  Big truck, big dog, big hair. Bad attitude. Roxy Abruzzo, bestseller Nancy Martin’s latest creation, is a loud-mouthed, sexy, independent-minded niece of a Pittsburgh Mafia boss trying to go (mostly) straight. She’d like to stay completely out of her uncle Carmine’s shady business dealings, though he's trying to reel her in. She'd like to concentrate on the architectural salvage business she runs mostly on the up... (more)
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  Clemente

  The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero

  by David Maraniss

  On New Year's Eve 1972, following eighteen magnificent seasons in the major leagues, Roberto Clemente died a hero's death, killed in a plane crash as he attempted to deliver food and medical supplies to Nicaragua after a devastating earthquake. David Maraniss now brings the great baseball player brilliantly back to life in Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero, a book destined to become a... (more)
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  Fences

  by August Wilson

  A Pulitzer Prize winner. Garbage collector Troy Maxson clashes with his son over an athletic scholarship.
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  The Memory Keeper's Daughter

  by Kim Edwards

  Kim Edwards’ stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every mother’s silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? In 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins, he immediately recognizes that one of them has Down Syndrome and makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever. He asks his... (more)
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  The Odds

  by Kathleen George

  Kathleen George’s latest work pushes the edge—a spectacularly original crime novel.
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  Sticky Fingers

  by Nancy Martin

  Roxy Abruzzo barely escaped big trouble in her first adventure, Nancy Martin’s totally charming series debut, Foxy Roxy . Now Roxy is determined to stay on the straight and narrow. . .except that with Sage, her daughter, about to start college, and the architectural salvage business she owns slowing down in the recession, her cashflow is not so great. So she’s been doing a few jobs here and there for her uncle... (more)
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  Noir City Series

  Pittsburgh Noir

  by Kathleen George

  Includes brand-new stories by Stewart O'Nan, Hilary Masters, Lila Shaara, Rebecca Drake, Kathleen George, Paul Lee, K. C. Constantine, Nancy Martin, Kathryn Miller Haines, Terrance Hayes, Carlos Delgado, Aubrey Hirsch, Tom Lipinski, and Reginald McKnight. Pittsburgh has recently (and more than once) been called the most livable city in America, yet the old image of smoky skies and steel mills spewing forth grit... (more)
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  Meet You in Hell

  Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America

  by Les Standiford

  Here is history that reads like fiction: the riveting story of two founding fathers of American industry—Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick—and the bloody steelworkers’ strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry. Author Les Standiford begins at the bitter end, when the dying Carnegie proposes a final meeting after two decades of separation, probably to ease his conscience. Frick’s... (more)
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  The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  by Stephen Chbosky

  Standing on the fringes of life offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks of Being a Wallflower.This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters... (more)
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  Ukiah Oregon: Book 1

  Alien Taste

  by Wen Spencer

  Living with wolves as a child gave tracker Ukiah Oregon a heightened sense of smell and taste. Or so he thought-until he crossed paths with a criminal gang known as the Pack. Now, Ukiah is about to discover just how much he has in common with the Pack: a bond of blood, brotherhood...and destiny.
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  Ukiah Oregon: Book 2

  Tainted Trail

  by Wen Spencer

  Half-man, half-alien Ukiah Oregon is tracking a missing woman when he discovers he may actually be the long-lost "Magic Boy"-who vanished back in 1933. "Murder, aliens, and a feral child turned detective...thoroughly entertaining SF mystery." ( Locus )
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  Ukiah Oregon: Book 4

  Dog Warrior

  by Wen Spencer

  On the run from a fanatical cult, Ukiah Oregon is surprised to discover Atticus Steele, a brother he didn't know he had. He's even more surprised when Atticus involves them in the traffic of an alien drug that could end up getting them both killed.
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  Ukiah Oregon: Book 3

  Bitter Waters

  by Wen Spencer

  From Wen Spencer, finalist for the John W. Campbell Award...In this brand-new adventure in the multiple award-winning series, half-human, half-alien tracker Ukiah Oregon must put his skills to the ultimate test-because kidnappers have taken his son.
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  The Piano Lesson

  by August Wilson

  Set in 1936, The Piano Lesson is a powerful new play from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. A sister and brother fight over a piano that has been in the family for three generations, creating a remarkable drama that embodies the painful past and expectant future of black Americans.
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  Pittsburgh Then and Now

  by Walter C. Kidney

  As part of the popular Then and Now Series, Pittsburgh is celebrated with archival photographs shown alongside specially commissioned contemporary images of the same scene. We find that the evolution of Pittsburgh over the last century has produced a compact urban landscape of older buildings blended with more recent architectural development. Downtown, the office blocks are still punctuated by traces of... (more)