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Landed
CounterpointBrought up in the Anglo–Welsh borders by an affectionate but alcoholic and feckless mother, Owen Ithell's sense of self is rooted in his long, vivi...
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CounterpointAs fictional characters go, few embody such striking contradictions as cardsharp Elias Abrams: Jewish by birth, he joins the Confederate Army durin...
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CounterpointLuke Slade, a young Congressional aide, begins this business trip to China like all other international travel he's endured with "Leo the Lyin'": b...
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CounterpointIn this conservation classic, originally published more than sixty years ago, Fred Bodsworth tells the story of a solitary Eskimo curlew's perilous...
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CounterpointThe Giller Prize–winning novel from the #1 bestselling author of All Things Consoled. “A pleasure from start to finish” (Toronto Star).It’s 1975 wh...
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CounterpointTwenty years ago Frederick Barthelme began publishing stories that turned readers' expectations on their heads. In The New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, and...
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CounterpointA stunning collection of poems and other writings on love, nature, spirituality, and hope—from the award-winning Kentucky writer who “returned Amer...
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Counterpoint“The reading is something like archeology, sifting the layers that have built up over the years to find the source of a familiar voice . . . Left O...
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CounterpointThis painstakingly researched follow up to Ultimate Sacrifice draws on “explosive new material” from the National Archives to piece together the pu...
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CounterpointWhen Westerners think of a genie, the first image that comes to mind may be Barbara Eden in her pink harem pants or the illuminated blue buffoon fr...
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CounterpointThis startlingly original debut from This American Life contributor Jonathan Goldstein is, according to a Vice Magazine reviewer, "the cleanest dir...
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CounterpointThis meticulously researched and compassionately rendered portrait of Leonard Woolf, the "dark star" of Bloomsbury, is the first to capture his tro...
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CounterpointA companion to Still Lives—a Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine selection—this savvy thriller exposes dark questions about power and the art world ...
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CounterpointA companion to Still Lives--a Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine selection--this savvy thriller exposes dark questions about power and the art worl...
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CounterpointImbued with the tension of Taipei and the beauty of mountain seclusion, Lessons in Essence uncovers timeless human truths in the crises faced by an...
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Counterpoint"A compassionate look back at her lifelong mental health issues and how she finally came to the other side, this memoir will help families and part...
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CounterpointA bracing and fresh look at a lifelong struggle with depression and mental illnessPlagued by depression her entire life, it wasn’t until her early ...
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Counterpoint“[A] scathing assessment . . . Berry shows that Wilson's much–celebrated, controversial pleas in Consilience to unify all branches of knowledge is ...
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CounterpointThe youngest of nine children, Michael Downing was three when his father died — suddenly and inexplicably. No autopsy was performed. The family dia...
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CounterpointFragmentary, unabashed, erotic―“Lifting Belly” is a singular lesbian love poem from modernist Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) which lays bare desire and...
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CounterpointFew literary celebrities have lived with more abandon and under a brighter spotlight than Lillian Hellman. Even fewer have been doubted as absolute...
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CounterpointThis “delicious, suspenseful . . . and cleverly written romp through a dramatic and forgotten moment in American history” reveals how Lincoln manip...
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CounterpointThis “delicious, suspenseful . . . and cleverly written romp through a dramatic and forgotten moment in American history” reveals how Lincoln manip...
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CounterpointThis “delicious, suspenseful . . . and cleverly written romp through a dramatic and forgotten moment in American history” reveals how Lincoln manip...
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