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Collected PoemsSylvia Plath died in 1963, and even now her outsize persona threatens to bury her poetry the numerous biographies and studies often drawing the reader toward anecdote and away from the work. It's a relief to turn to the poems themselves and once more |
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Franklin D Roosevelt And The New DealWhen the stability of American life was threatened by the Great Depression, the decisive and visionary policy contained in FDR's New Deal offered America a way forward. In this groundbreaking work, William E. Leuchtenburg traces the evolution of what |
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Love MedicineThe first book in Louise Erdrich's Native American series, which also includes The Beet Queen, Tracks, and The Bingo Palace, Love Medicine tells the story of two families the Kashpaws and the Lamartines.Now resequenced by the author with the addition |
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Slowness A NovelAfter the gravity of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Immortality, Slowness comes as a surprise it is certainly Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, with, as the author himself says, not a single serious word in it. Disconcerted and enchant |
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The Bean TreesClear eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head on. By the time Taylor |
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The Skeptic A Life of H L MenckenJournalist, muckraker, political gadfly, atheist, and conservative dissident, H.L. Mencken was to the first part of the twentieth century what Mark Twain was to the last part of the nineteenth the quintessential voice of American letters. So says the |
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