The Great Depression continues to sweep across the land where the Brazos and Navasota rivers meet, taking with it the hope of many poor black farmers. One of these farmers, young Cleveland Webster...
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Author: Wilson, John W.Summary:Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Burroughs, AugustenSummary:
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the...
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Author: Nevala-Lee, AlecSummary:
"A big biography of John Campbell, the genius magazine editor who created a mass market for science fiction, couldn't be timelier. Alec Nevala-Lee's granular portrait of Campbell...
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Author: Lee, John B.Summary:Shortlisted for the 1987 Milton Acorn Memorial People’s Poetry Prize
The hired hand of these poems was a stupid man. Nowadays he would be known as one of the employable retarded. Tom was...
Genre: Canadian poetry, Poetry -
Author: King, StephenSummary:
One of the Ten Best Books of The New York Times Book Review Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Now a miniseries from Hulu starring James Franco ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, THREE SHOTS RANG OUT...
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Author: Penilla, Adan R.Summary:Grasp the rich culture and language of the Deaf community To see people use American Sign Language (ASL) to share ideas is remarkable and fascinating to watch. Now, you have a chance to enter the...
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Author: Casey, DonisSummary:Alafair Tucker is a strong woman, the core of family life on a farm in Oklahoma where the back-breaking work and daily logistics of caring for her husband Shaw, their nine children, and being...
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Author: Lee, John B.Summary:Rediscovered Sheep takes its origin generations ago when an ancestor of John B. Lee began to raise Lincoln sheep in Ontario. John B. may never take up his inheritance as Master of the...
Genre: Canadian poetry, Poetry -
Author: Casey, DonisSummary:Alafair Tucker is a strong woman, the core of family life on a farm in Oklahoma where the back-breaking work and daily logistics of caring for her husband Shaw, their nine children, and being...
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The most important anthology of American poetry ever recorded, this essential document is now available in three volumes from Recorded Books, digitally remastered with introductions and brief poet...
Genre: Poetry -
Author: Stabler, DavidSummary:Every great author started out as a kid. Before the bestsellers, fan clubs, and beloved stories we know today, the world's most celebrated writers had regular-kid problems just like you. Sam...
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Author: Stevens, CourtneySummary:
A Golden Kite Honor Book of 2018 * A Kirkus Best Book of 2017.
“A poetic love letter to the complexities of teenage identity, and the frustrations of growing up in a place where everything...Genre: Young adult fiction, Romance fiction -
Author: Lee, Robert C.Summary:The Canada Company was responsible for the opening and settling of over two million acres of land in Upper Canada. Author Robert C. Lee focuses his attention on the extensive parcel of land on the...
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Author: Morrow, BradfordSummary:New writings on our fear of-and fascination with-the "other" from Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, Kelly Link, Jeffrey Ford, and more.Alien is a powerful and flexible word. Aliens are...
Genre: Science fiction, Short stories -
Author: Kim, Nancy JooyounSummary:
A "propulsive and moving story of a family torn asunder by their mother's disappearance" (Bookreporter) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Story of Mina Lee....
Genre: Historical fiction, Domestic fiction