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The Town

This is the second volume of Faulkner's trilogy about the Snopes family, his symbol for the grasping, destructive element in the post-bellum South. Like its predecessor, The Hamlet, and its successor,...

A Piece of My Heart

Ford's mesmerizing first novel is the story of two godless pilgrims. Robard Hewes has driven across the country in the service of a destructive passion. Sam Newell is seeking the missing piece of hims...

Joe Hill

Wallace Stegner's remarkable portrait of Joe Hill, the man and the legend: from his entrance into the Industrial Workers of the World union, the most militant organization in the history of American l...

The Spectator Bird

A retired literary agent revisits his journals from a trip he took to his mother's birthplace some years before. His memories reveal that he has been less of a mere spectator through life than he had...

Oliver Twist

A Feast of Snakes

From the acclaimed author of such novels as "Blood and Grits" and "Childhood" comes a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural South that reveals the exotic subculture that erupts i...

Die schönen Mütter anderer Töchter

Nichts ist so wichtig, wie sich zeitweise von allem zurückzuziehen - die dreißigjährige Michelin kümmert daher ihr Lesben-Single-Dasein wenig. Schließlich hat sie ihren Freundeskreis und einen ausfüll...

Surgeon At Arms

Surgeon at Arms continues the story of the much-admired surgeon, Graham Trevose, who first appeared in The Facemaker. As the Second World War breaks out and begins to yield its countless casualties, T...

Negroland

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardWinner of the Heartland PrizeA New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Time, Vanity Fai...

Nobody Knows My Name

Told with Baldwin's characteristically unflinching honesty, this collection of illuminating, deeply felt essays examines topics ranging from race relations in the United States to the role of the writ...

Requiem for a Nun

This sequel to Faulkner's "Sanctuary," written 20 years later, takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events related in the first book.

Free Women, Free Men

Ever since the release of her seminal first book, Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia has remained one of feminism's most outspoken, independent, and searingly intelligent voices. Now, for the first time,...