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Flora Sussekind,
Choruses and Counter-Choruses

In this book, the leading Brazilian cultural theorist Flora Süssekind analyses the turbulent recent history of Brazil. She examines the protests which erupted in Brazil in 2013 and the ways that these wer…

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John Updike,
Selected Letters of John Updike

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWEDITORS' CHOICE • The arc of literary giant John Updike's life emerges in these luminous daily letters to family, friends, editors, and lovers---a remarkable outpouring over …

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Ira Nadel
The American Sentence

"A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book uses four stages in the story of American letters - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper and the screen - t…

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Lawrence Buell
Henry David Thoreau

Very Short Introductions

"When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond..."Henry Da…

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Pamela Smith Hill
Too Good to Be Altogether Lost

Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the well-known Little House series, wrote stories from her childhood because they were "too good to be altogether lost." And those stories seemed far from being l…

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Benjamin Mangrum
The Comedy of Computation

"In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we've made sense of the technology's sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From…

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Benjamin Mangrum
The Comedy of Computation

"In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we've made sense of the technology's sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From…

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Mary Alice Monroe
Where the Rivers Merge

USA TODAYBESTSELLER"Wade into the Lowcountry of South Carolina with Mary Alice Monroe's sweeping Southern epic."---People"This is book club fiction at its finest! " ---Lisa Wingate, #1…

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Angela Flournoy
The Wilderness

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTIONFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITIC CIRCLES AWARD FOR FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS …

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Angela Flournoy
The Wilderness

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTIONFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITIC CIRCLES AWARD FOR FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS …

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Mary Alice Monroe
Where the Rivers Merge

USA TODAYBESTSELLER"Wade into the Lowcountry of South Carolina with Mary Alice Monroe's sweeping Southern epic."---People"This is book club fiction at its finest! " ---Lisa Wingate, #1…

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Mary Alice Monroe
Where the Rivers Merge

"1908: The Lowcountry of South Carolina is at the cusp of change. Mayfield, the grand estate held for generations by the Rivers family, is the treasured home of young Eliza. A free spirit, she refuse…

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Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

One of the best-known classics of American literature, Mark Twain's indelible novel of boyhood, friendship, and adventure.Few works of fiction are more known and beloved for keenly documenting the triumph…

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Alison Kinney
United States of Rejection

This is a love-hate story about personal and political relationships in the United States, told through the intimate stories of both the rejectors and the rejected: lovers, families, neighbors, and a nati…

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Lila Cain
The Blackbirds of St. Giles

From the brutal horrors of Jamaican plantations to the teeming streets of 19th century London, through lavish manor houses and across dangerous seas, escaped enslaved siblings survive the American War of …

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Dystopian States of America

A crucial resource that studies the impact of dystopian works on American society, this book examines ways in which they reflect our deep and persistent fears about environmental calamities, authoritarian…

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Lisette Lombé,
Eunice

A fierce, tender novel about grief, memory, and the powerful bond between mothers and daughters.Nineteen-year-old Eunice's life is suddenly interrupted when she learns that her mother, Jane, is dead, foun…

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Martin Amis
The Moronic Inferno

Martin Amis, the renowned author of Money and London Fields , presents a collection of essays on the "moronic inferno," aka the United States of America. A thrilling tour of late-twentieth-centu…

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,
The Uncollected Writings of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

This collection of early work, college writing, newspaper pieces, and stories of life in Florida by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is an intimate glimpse into the artistic development of a Pulitzer Prize-winnin…

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Léonora Miano,
Stardust

An unflinching look at the realities of racism, poverty, and exclusion in contemporary France--told through the eyes of a young Cameroonian mother navigating life on society's edge.At just twenty-three, L…

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