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  A Confederacy of Dunces

  by John Kennedy Toole

  A popular Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy follows the adventures of New Orlean's lower denizens of the French Quarter.
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  Naked

  by David Sedaris

  The author recounts hitchhiking across the country with an odd cast of quadriplegics and deadbeats, working as a migrant worker in North Carolina, and other adventures.
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  Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley

  by Peter Guralnick

  A prize-winning biography draws on almost a decade of research to recreate, in vivid detail, the beginning of the King's career. Reprint. National ad/promo. NYT.
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  Lonely Hunters: An Oral History of Lesbian and Gay Southern Life, 1948-1968

  by James T. Sears

  This is the story of Southern gays and lesbians in the twenty-year span between the end of World War II and the Stonewall Riot that sparked widespread gay rights consciousness. Across the United States, this was an era of courting and cocktail parties, Johnny Mathis and Jack Kerouac, with a Southern culture aptly depicted by Tennessee Williams-genteel attitudes and behavior covering, in a thin veneer, baser... (more)
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  Luncheon of the Boating Party

  by Susan Vreeland

  Bestselling author Susan Vreeland returns with a vivid exploration of one of the most beloved Renoir paintings in the world Instantly recognizable, Auguste Renoir’s masterpiece depicts a gathering of his real friends enjoying a summer Sunday on a café terrace along the Seine near Paris. A wealthy painter, an art collector, an Italian journalist, a war hero, a celebrated actress, and Renoir’s future... (more)
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  Winner of the National Book Award: A Novel of Fame, Honor, and Really Bad Weather

  by Jincy Willett

  Set in Rhode Island, Winner of the National Book Award tells the story of twins who could not be more different. Abigail Mather is a woman of passionate sensual and sexual appetites, while her sister, the book loving local librarian Dorcas, lives a quiet life of the mind. But when the sisters are sought out by the predatory and famous poet, Guy DeVilbiss, who introduces them to Hollywood hack writer and possible... (more)
• Hometowns: Gay Men Write About Where They Belong (Plume)

  

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  Hometowns: Gay Men Write About Where They Belong (Plume)

  Twenty-seven gay writers--including Andrew Holleran and Christopher Bram--explore the places they think of as their homes and create a telling portrait of gay identity, culture, and community. Reprint.
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  The Grass is Singing.

  by Doris Lessing

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  GIANT Edna Ferber 1st 1952 in DJ

  by Edna Ferber

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  Blue & Gray in Black & White: Newspapers in the Civil War

  by Brayton Harris

  Blue and Gray in Black and White is an exploration of the individual and collective efforts of newspaper journalists during the Civil War. As eyewitnesses to one of the most memorable conflicts in history, they left a record that us sometimes brilliant but, at other times, marred by shoddy journalism, sensationalism, and self-serving reporting. They were, however, the American public's primary source of... (more)
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  When You Are Engulfed in Flames

  by David Sedaris

  "David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," ( The Christian Science Monitor ) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously... (more)
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  Stand by Your Man; An Autobiography

  by Tammy Wynette, Joan Dew

  Tammy Wynette, the queen of Country Western, tells the inspiring life story of her ascent from rigs to riches. From teh obscurity of the tarpaper shack in Mississippi, to the splendor of the mansion in Florida.
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  For Cause and Comrades : Why Men Fought in the Civil War

  by James M. McPherson

  Drawing on more than 25,000 uncensored letters and nearly 250 private diaries from men on both sides, McPherson shows that, contrary to what many scholars believe, the soldiers of the Civil War remained powerfully convinced of the ideals for which they fought throughout the conflict.