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Salvage The Bones

Winner of the 2011 National Book Award. As Hurricane Katrina is building over the Gulf of Mexico, a poor family deals with the life and breeding of a winner pitbull and a teen's hidden pregnancy. Each family member has their own story and strong character.

Inside Out And Back Again

No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama.

Lord Of Misrule

A brilliant novel that captures the dusty, dark, and beautiful world of small-time horse racing, where trainers, jockeys, grooms and grifters vie for what little luck is offered at a run-down West Virginia track .

Just Kids

It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.

Lighthead

From the award-winning poet, a new collection in which the political and the personal converge in innovative and beautiful ways. In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience.

Mockingbird

Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.

Let The Great World Spin: A Novel

In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers.

The First Tycoon: The Epic Life Of Cornelius Vanderbilt

A biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism. Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt is an American icon.

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.' 2009 National Book Award winner for Children's Literature.

Shadow Country

The author has rewritten and shortened much of his Watson trilogy (Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man's River and Bone by Bone) and combined them into one volume. National Book Award winner.

The Hemingses Of Monticello: An American Family

Not only a biography of Sally Hemings, who bore 7 children by Thomas Jefferson, this book details the extraordinary lives of her ancestors and descendants also. Winner of the National Book award, and the Pulitzer Prize for History.

Fire To Fire: New And Selected Poems

"Fire to Fire" is a collection of the best of Mark Doty's seven books of poetry, along with a generous selection of new work.

What I Saw And How I Lied

In 1947, teenager Evie falls for a handsome G.I. soldier, ignoring the secrets surrounding him, until a tragedy shatters her family and breaks her life in two. National Book award winner.

Tree Of Smoke

The story of William 'Skip' Sands, CIA, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Viet Cong, and the disasters that befall him, a vision of human folly.

Legacy Of Ashes: The History Of The CIA

For the last 60 years, the CIA has maintained a formidable reputation despite its many blunders that lay hidden in its archives.

Time And Materials: Poems 1997-2005

The poems in Hass's new collection--his first to appear in a decade--are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture.

The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian

Available for the first time in eBook format-a deluxe, four-color edition of Sherman Alexie's National Book Award winning, bestselling young adult debut novel!

The Echo Maker

A complex novel dealing with the nature of consciousness, the nature of the self, and other philosophical and psychological themes.

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story Of Those Who Survived The Great American Dust Bowl

The stories of the families in the panhandle of Texas during the dust bowl.

Splay Anthem

In a stunning new collection of poems of transport and transcendence, African-American poet Nathaniel Mackey's "asthmatic song of aspiration" scuttles across cultures and histories from America to Andalucía, from Ethiopia to Vienna in a sexy, beautiful adaptive dance.

The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life Of Octavian Nothing: Traitor To The Nation; Volume 1)

Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.

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The Year Of Magical Thinking

Didion explores her husband's death and her daughter's death a few months later. This is her attempt to make sense of the months that followed, that cut loose any fixed idea she had about death.

The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale Of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, And A Very Interesting Boy

The Penderwicks, a family consisting of a botanist father and four girls ranging in age from 4 to 12, are on vacation in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts, where the girls meet new friends and generally have a good time.

The News From Paraguay

The year is l854. In Paris, Francisco Solano -- the future dictator of Paraguay -- begins his courtship of the young, beautiful Irish courtesan Ella Lynch with a poncho, a Paraguayan band, and a horse named Mathilde.