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41) Fallout
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From "the standard-bearer of alternate history" (USA Today) comes the second installment in an all-new series, set in an alternate 1950s in which General MacArthur ignites a nuclear war that nearly destroys the planet. With the destruction of Paris by the Russian bombers, an already hot war ramps up to scalding. And even those whose lives have not yet been substantially touched by the war now find themselves in the midst of a living hell as Russia...
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Dick, a blunt and bawdy Philly sports fan, finds himself in an assisted living facility following a stroke. Determined to regain his independence, he does daily laps around the grounds with his quad cane. But when recovery never comes, and days swell into years, Dick finds purpose instead by studying his fellow residents, chronicling their odd obsessions and their nasty arguments, their breakdowns, their drunken debaucheries-and yes, even their sexual...
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From the voice of Fenway Park comes a collection of sixty-four humorous and nostalgic poems celebrating the Boston Red Sox. A commonwealth institution and popular local television personality who is also the announcer, ambassador, and poet laureate for Fenway Park, Dick Flavin has entertained audiences with his incredible poetic talent and abiding love for the Red Sox before countless home games for more than twenty years. Now, this legendary talent's...
44) Gotham Tragic
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Kurt Wenzel is the acclaimed author of the novel Lit Life. In Gotham Tragic, the New York-based writer skewers celebrity culture with dead-on humor and deft plotting. Wenzel's subject, Kyle Clayton, is an author whose drunken escapades draw as much interest as his novels. But when he attempts to turn over a new leaf, he finds that years of excess are not so easily left behind. His engagement to a Turkish woman and conversion to Islam are threatened...
47) Code of the West
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Oscar-winning screenwriter and novelist Aaron Latham dazzles listeners with a colorful Old West tale of epic proportions. In a captivating barnburner of romance, adventure and gruesome frontier justice, Latham takes the mythical legend of King Arthur and create[s] a sweeping saga of three decades of Texas cowboy history.
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Andrew Huebner makes his debut with a novel that Booklist praises as "simply told and simply devastating." In American by Blood, Huebner gives a fictional account of three scouts after they discover the results of Custer's last stand at Little Big Horn. Ordered to follow the trail of the retreating Sioux Indians, they lead their fellow cavalrymen into bloody battles in which no life is spared. But the horror and the bloodshed the three witness are...
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O. Henry and National Book Award-winning author Nelson Algren has inspired thousands with his tough, gritty accounts of urban life. Written over the course of four decades, this collection of 12 stories centers around Depression-era Texas. Characterized by small-town strife, political corruption and frontier-style justice, each tale is a testament to the struggles of the working poor. Also among the stories is a retelling of the myth of Bonnie and...
50) The Clearing
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With The Clearing, Southeastern Booksellers Award winner Tim Gautreaux delivers a brutal novel of love, family, and redemption. Randolph Aldridge travels to a snake-infested Cypress mill in Louisiana to find his brother Byron, a troubled veteran of World War I. Once there, Randolph finds that By is a shell of his former self-and that the murderous cartel controlling the mill's casino won't give them any peace.
51) Bombs Away
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From "the master of alternate history" comes a new trilogy that reimagines a mid-twentieth century in which General MacArthur, without bothering to consult President Truman, detonates nuclear warheads in several Manchurian cities after China enters the Korean War.
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In the tradition of The Year of Magical Thinking comes a legendary editor's unflinching love song about his radiant wife, Margaret, and her battle with cancer. It was a warm April in Pleasant Valley when Margaret Korda, normally a fearless horsewoman, dropped her horsewhip while she was riding. Such a mild slip was easy to ignore, but when other troubling symptoms accumulated, she confided to her husband, "Michael, I think something serious is wrong...
53) Warrior's Blood
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Set in 1874, Warrior's Blood is the brutal story of two very different warriors who are destined to confront each other on the Staked Plains. Raised by Kiowa tribesmen, Boytale is now 17 years old and filled with an insatiable thirst for the blood of his people's enemies. Meanwhile, across the prairie at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 20-year-old army private James Rambling gears up for action as an Indian fighter. Henry Strozier provides a dramatic narration...
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Aaron Latham's popular Code of the West took its inspiration from Arthurian legend, exchanging cowboys and ranchers for knights and kings. In this rousing sequel, Jimmy Goodnight's son Percy, or Pyg as he is known, comes of age. Returning to their ranch land in Texas, Pyg and his mother discover their family heirloom ax is missing. Now Pyg's leading a posse aiming to get it back. "Well-paced, action-packed entertainment ..."-Los Angeles Times
56) Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America
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For the Whitman bicentennial, a delightful keepsake edition of the incomparable wisdom of America's greatest poet, distilled from his fascinating late-in-life conversations with Horace Traubel
Toward the end of his life, Walt Whitman was visited almost daily at his home in Camden, New Jersey, by the young poet and social reformer Horace Traubel. After each visit, Traubel meticulously recorded their conversation, transcribing with such sensitivity...
57) The Jungle Law
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The recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the New York Foundation of the Arts, acclaimed short fiction writer Victoria Vinton crafts a remarkable debut novel. Much like Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Hours, and other recent bestsellers, The Jungle Law fictionalizes the life of an extraordinarily creative person. Young Rudyard Kipling, privileged son of a well-connected British family, lives a life of luxury in Bombay. But when he is separated from...
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A classic from the Lone Star State, John Graves' Goodbye to a River is a poignant narrative of one man's journey by canoe down the river of his memories. Along the way, he describes the colorful Texas landscape and recounts its rich history. When Graves learns that the river he knew and loved as a youth-the Brazos in north-central Texas-is slated to be dammed at multiple points, he understands that things will never be the same.
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In Literary Life, author Larry McMurtry opens up about the triumphs and trials of his abundant literary career. Relaying his early interest in writing that began with a creative writing class at Rice University, to a career that boasts over 40 novels and an Academy Award-winning screenplay, this intimate portrait of the author offers a glimpse into an intelligent, honest and undeniably profound voice in contemporary American Literature.
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President of the Western Writers of America, Cotton Smith is critically lauded for his resurrection of the classic Western. A bit long in the tooth, Bass Tillman has given up the guns and gone respectable. But then his son and daughter-in-law are murdered in cold blood, and he swears on their graves he will bring their killers to justice.