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Feb.14.2012
T.C. Boyle's most powerful and fully realized work yet-"terrifically exciting and unapologetically relevant" (The Washington Post).
Principally set on the wild Channel Islands off the coast of California, T.C. Boyle's new novel is a gripping adventure with a timely theme. Alma Boyd Takesue is...
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Feb.09.2012
Lake Tahoe transformed America, and not just once but many times over from the earliest Ice Age civilizations, to the mysterious death of Marilyn Monroe. It helped in the American conquest of California, the launch of the Republican Party, and the ignition of the western Indian wars. And along...
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Dec.12.2011
Sea Glass Hearts is a book of spectacular images of sea glass, with hearts to find on every page. The book is also a poem, a Love Song for the Beach, evoking that moment when you find a glimmer of color at the waters edge
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Oct.08.2011
Japan's Tipping Point is a small book on a huge topic. In the post-Fukushima era, Japan is the "canary in the coal mine" for the rest of the world. Can Japan radically shift its energy policy, become greener, more self-sufficient, and avoid catastrophic impacts on the climate? ...
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Jul.22.2011
"The latest monograph in the winning Animal series—truly natural histories, each title a wide-ranging look at a single creature, replete with splendid illustrations—is perhaps the finest yet. Like its predecessors, this volume alternately informs, delights, moves, and astonishes. Success...
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Jun.17.2011
This anthology was a project of the current Poet Laureate of Alabama, Dr. Sue B. Walker, and was carried out, for the most, by poet and publisher of Elk River Review, J. William Chambers. Dr. Walker's idea was to collect a poem from Alabamians that had an Alabama place name or the word "...
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Jun.13.2011
From the back cover:
Farming and gardening in the rich southern soil is the thematic inspiration for this volume of verse featuring close to 100 poets--Wendell Berry, Henry Taylor, Andrew Glaze, Robert Morgan, Nikki Giovanni, John Crowe Robinson, James Applewhite, C.D. Wright, Rodney Jones, Robert...
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Jun.13.2011
Only the Sea Keeps is a collection of poems about the tsunami in Indonesia. Sankar Roy and Judith Robinson put this book together in order to honor the survivors of the tsunami and also to raise money to help the survivors rebuild their lives. The sales of Only the Sea Keeps, as of several years...
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May.22.2011
From back cover: "Writers from Gulf Shores to New Market, from high schoolers to great-grandmothers, from housewives and doctors to professors and retired accountants, have generously contributed to this volume. Their words are funny, outrageous, poignant, and pointed, but always genuine. ...
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May.11.2011
On April 20, 1925, Colonel Percy Fawcett, his elder son Jack Fawcett and Jack's lifelong friend, Raleigh Rimmell, departed from Cuiabá, the capital city of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, to find "Z" - Col. Fawcett's name for what he believed to be an ancient city lost in the...
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