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Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63

by Taylor Branch
Paperback, 1989
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20th Century & Contemporary American, History, Memoirs - Biographies - Letters - Diaries, Nonfiction, Politics, Sense of Time - Sense of Place, American History
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America in the King Years (1)

Roots

by Alex Haley
Paperback, 1980
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20th Century & Contemporary American, Africa, Historical Fiction, African History, American History, History of Literature
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Independence Day

by Richard Ford
Paperback, 2006
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20th Century & Contemporary American
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Frank Bascombe (2)

Watership Down

by Richard Adams
Paperback, 2012
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Arctic Dreams

by Barry Lopez
Paperback, 2014
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Midnight's Children

by Salman Rushdie
Paperback, 1991
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Rabbit Redux

by John Updike
Paperback, 1996
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20th Century & Contemporary American, Classics, American History
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"Rabbit" Series (2)

Beloved

by Toni Morrison
Paperback, 1997
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Beloved

by Toni Morrison
Digital audiobook, 2006-05-22
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Housekeeping

by Marilynne Robinson Autor
Paperback, 2005
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20th Century & Contemporary American, Women Writers
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Possession

by A. S. Byatt
Paperback, 1991
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Song of Solomon

by Toni Morrison
Paperback, 2001
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

by Dave Eggers
Paperback, 2007
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20th Century & Contemporary American, Memoirs - Biographies - Letters - Diaries, Nonfiction, American History, School & Academia
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Atonement

by Ian McEwan
Paperback, 2003
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Middlesex

by Jeffrey Eugenides
Paperback, 2003
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20th Century & Contemporary American, American History, Querelle des femmes
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The English Patient

by Michael Ondaatje
Paperback, 2004
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Africa, Canada & Canadian Literature, Historical Fiction, Italy & Italian Literature, Love and Romance, Movies & TV, History: Greece - Rome - Mediterranean, African History, History of Literature, War and Peace, Italian History
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The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro
Paperback, 1989
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The Things They Carried

by Tim O'Brien
Paperback, 1991
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World's End

by T. C. Boyle
Paperback, 1990
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Alexander Hamilton

by Ron Chernow
Paperback, 2005
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Chaos: Making a New Science

by James Gleick
Paperback, 1996
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Disgrace

by J. M. Coetzee
Paperback, 2000
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Drop City

by T. C. Boyle
Paperback, 2004
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20th Century & Contemporary American, California & Southwestern USA
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Life and Times of Michael K

by J. M. Coetzee
Paperback, 2005
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

by Steven Pinker
Paperback, 2000
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20th Century & Contemporary American, Language(s), Nonfiction, Science
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The White Album

by Joan Didion
Paperback, 2009
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Waiting for the Barbarians

by J. M. Coetzee
Paperback, 1982
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Africa, Nobel Prize, Politics
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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

by Margaret MacMillan
Paperback, 2003
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20th Century & Contemporary BritLit, France & French Literature, Germany & German Literature, History, Nonfiction, Politics, Russia, Women Writers, Russian History, French History, German History — 9 more, War and Peace, Orient & Asia, History: Orient & Asia, China, Southeast Asia, Middle East, Arab Crescent, Eastern Europe, History: Eastern Europe
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

by Jon Krakauer
Paperback, 1999
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The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868

by Robert Hughes
Paperback, 2009
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Down Under, History, Law, Nonfiction, Travel & Exploration, History Down Under, Legal History, British History
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The Poisonwood Bible

by Barbara Kingsolver
Paperback, 2012
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

by Milan Kundera
Paperback, 2005
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Austerlitz

by W. G. Sebald
Paperback, 2003
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A Star Called Henry

by Roddy Doyle
Paperback, 2000
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Historical Fiction, Ireland & Irish Literature, Irish History, War and Peace
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The Last Roundup (1)

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

by Frank McCourt
Paperback, 1999
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The Plot Against America

by Philip Roth
Paperback, 2005
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20th Century & Contemporary American, Historical Fiction, Politics, American History, War and Peace
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The Plot Against America

by Philip Roth
Digital audiobook, 2016
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20th Century & Contemporary American, Historical Fiction, Politics, American History, War and Peace
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The World According to Garp

by John Irving
Paperback, 1990
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

by Maxine Hong Kingston
Digital audiobook, 2011
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Paperback, 1999
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20th Century & Contemporary American, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Science, History of Science, Music, History of Music, Germany & German Literature, German History
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Kafka on the Shore

by Haruki Murakami
Paperback, 2005
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Cien años de soledad

by Gabriel García Márquez
Paperback, 1994
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One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel García Márquez
Hardcover, 2003
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The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen
Paperback, 2010
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20th Century & Contemporary American, American History, Christmas
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

by Oliver W. Sacks
Paperback, 2011
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A Brief History of Time: From The Big Bang To Black Holes

by Stephen Hawking
Paperback, 1990
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A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

by Julian Barnes
Paperback, 2010
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20th Century & Contemporary BritLit, Historical Fiction, Humor - Comedy - Satire, British History
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London Fields

by Martin Amis
Paperback, 1999
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British Mysteries and Crime Fiction, Mysteries and Crime Fiction
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The Ghost Writer

by Philip Roth
Paperback, 2005
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Zuckerman Bound (1)

The Puttermesser Papers

by Cynthia Ozick
Paperback, 1998
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20th Century & Contemporary American, Women Writers
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