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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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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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Thus Spake Zarathustra
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Joseph Anton
Salman Rushdie
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • Newsweek/The Daily Beast • The Seattle...
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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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Seeing
José Saramago
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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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I am a story. So are you. So is everyone. Julius Lester says, "I write because our lives are stories....
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The Day the Crayons Came Home
Drew Daywalt
The companion to the #1 New York Times bestseller and blockbuster hit, The Day the Crayons Quit! A Wall Street...
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