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The Legacy

A Novel

by Howard Fast
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011

The New York Times–bestselling Lavette family saga from the author of Spartacus continues through the turmoil of Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement. The fourth installment of the Immigrants saga follows Barbara Lavette, the daughter of a self-made Italian immigrant, through the turmoil...
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by Howard Fast
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011

From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Immigrant: The conclusion to the Lavette family saga is “addictive as candy” and “genuinely touching” (Publishers Weekly).   In the sixth and final installment of the Immigrants saga, Fast revisits the charismatic Barbara Lavette....
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by Erskine Caldwell
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011

Short stories about the twentieth-century South by the national bestselling author of Tobacco Road.   Author of some of the most widely banned fiction of the twentieth century, Erskine Caldwell had a talent for striking a nerve. In this collection of nearly one hundred stories, the full depth...
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America Observed

From the 1940s to the 1980s

by Alistair Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014

The definitive survey of Alistair Cooke’s brilliant career as a newspaperman Few journalists have covered the American scene as thoroughly as Alistair Cooke did. In addition to presenting the Sunday-night Letter from America broadcasts for the BBC, Cooke was the* Guardian*’s chief US...
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The Poetry of Jack Kerouac

Scattered Poems, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity, and Old Angel Midnight

by Jack Kerouac
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017

From the iconic New York Times–bestselling author of On the Road: Three revolutionary collections of poetry in one volume. Rebelling against the dry rules and literary pretentiousness he perceived in early twentieth-century poetry, Jack Kerouac pioneered a poetic style informed by oral tradition...
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by Mary Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015

The acclaimed sequel to The Long Roll vividly dramatizes the final years of the Civil War A Confederate artilleryman from Virginia, Richard Cleave was in Chancellorsville when Stonewall Jackson lost an arm—and eventually his life—to a bullet fired by one of his own men. Now, Cleave is on...
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The World War II Trilogy

From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, and Whistle

by James Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012

Three classic World War II novels in one collection, including the National Book Award winner From Here to Eternity. An army base at Pearl Harbor. The jungles of Guadalcanal. A veterans hospital on the home front. Inspired by his own experiences in the US Army, author James Jones’s World...
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by R. F. Delderfield
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014

The residents of a South London street face World War II together in this novel from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Dreaming Suburb. Years ago, the Great War tore apart the lives of the families living on Manor Park Avenue in South London. Now, as Allied and Axis armies rage...
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by Jack Kerouac
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016

Poetic meditations on joy, consciousness, and becoming one with the infinite universe from the author of On the Road During an unexplained fainting spell, Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac experienced a flash of enlightenment. A student of Buddhist philosophy, Kerouac recognized the experience...
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Hardcastle

A Novel

by John Yount
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014

**“From now on, there are bound to be two classics of the Great Depression—The Grapes of Wrath and Hardcastle.” —Los Angeles Times In 1931 William Music is making his way back home to Virginia when he hops off a freight train in Switch County, Kentucky, to find something to eat. For...
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by Steve Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013

“If you read one philosophical-doomsday kinky-sex road-trip novel this year, make it this one.” —Salon It’s New Year’s Eve 1999, and the members of a powerful cult are about to commit ritual suicide. Fleeing their ranks at the final moment, teenager Kristin lands in Tokyo, where she...
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by Hermann Hesse
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015

Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s most lauded book: The enchanting story of one man’s journey in search of enlightenment Born into the privileged life of a Brahmin, young Siddhartha came of age surrounded by the teachings of the Buddha. But despite his earnest pursuit of enlightenment,...
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by Gwen Bristow
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014

New York Times**–bestselling author Gwen Bristow presents a captivating love story that dramatizes the struggle between the ways of the old Louisiana plantation families and those of the new twentieth-century South** In 1912, Eleanor Upjohn sits with her father near the work camp, overseeing...
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by Greg Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016

This epic Gothic Western about a half-Indian outcast who becomes a famous buffalo hunter is “a big sprawling novel of the West as it really was” (The Denver Post). Perhaps Joe Cobden was always destined to be an outcast. His Indian mother died in childbirth, alone on a stagecoach road under...
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