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Jonah's Gourd Vine
Zora Neale Hurston
Jonah's Gourd Vine, Zora Neale Hurston's first novel, originally published in 1934, tells the story of John Buddy Pearson, "a...
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that...
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Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
The story of Saleem Sinal, born precisely at midnight, August 15, 1947, the moment India became independent. Saleem's life parallels...
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Thus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
A new translation of Nietzsche’s seminal work by a prize-winning translator of W. G. Sebald, Goethe, Rilke, Herta Müller, and...
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Seeing
José Saramago
Four years after a bizarre blindness plague hits the capital, the political arena is thrown into turmoil when election day...
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Knockemstiff
Donald Ray Pollock
"More engaging than any new fiction in years." —Chuck Palahniuk An unforgettable work of fiction that peers into the soul...
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Begin the World Over
Li Sun Kung
Begin the World Over is a fictional alternate history of how the Founders' greatest fear--that Black and indigenous people might...
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