Guide to Absalom, Absalom -- William Faulkner’s greatest novel (Quentin Compson, Thomas Sutpen)

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  • The Best Medicine (Dilbury Village #3)

    • ASIN: B079DJGD2Y

    A love story for the books!She knows her way around risqué romances, but author, Charlie Faulkner, only dreams of starring in her own love story. Drowning her sorrows in takeaway pizza, she writes what she's never experienced.When she does venture out of her writing cave, chaos and medical disasters follow. After a trip to the emergency room, the ... [Read More]

  • The Overstory: A Novel

    • ASIN: 039363552X
    • ISBN: 039363552X
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

  • 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List

    • ASIN: 1523504455
    • ISBN: 1523504455
    • Brand: Workman Publishing Company
    • Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company

    “The ultimate literary bucket list.” —The Washington Post “If there’s a heaven just for readers, this is it.” —O, The Oprah Magazine          Celebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that’s as compulsively readable, entertaining, surprising, and enlightening as the 1,00... [Read More]

  • Love Medicine: Newly Revised Edition (P.S.)

    • ASIN: 0061787426
    • ISBN: 9780061787423
    • Brand: Harper Perennial
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    Set on and around a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation, Love Medicine—the first novel by bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich—is the epic story about the intertwined fates of two families: the Kashpaws and the Lamartines.With astonishing virtuosity, each chapter draws on a range of voices to limn its tales. Black humor mi... [Read More]

  • We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0142180823
    • ISBN: 9780142180822
    • Brand: Plume
    • Manufacturer: G.P. Putnam's Sons

    Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker PrizeWinner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award One of the New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of 2013Named by The Christian Science Monitor as one of the top 15 works of fiction The New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club introduces a middle-class American family, ordinary in every... [Read More]

  • To Have and Have Not

    • ASIN: 0684818981
    • ISBN: 0684818981
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0061577626
    • ISBN: 0061577626
    • Brand: Erdrich, Louise
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    A New York Times Notable BookFor more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved Native American tribe, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Now, nearing the end of his life, Father Damien dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man. To further complicate his qu... [Read More]

  • The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Hemingway Library Collector's Edition

    • ASIN: 147678762X
    • ISBN: 147678762X
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    The fourth in the series of new annotated editions of Ernest Hemingway’s work, edited by the author’s grandson Seán and introduced by his son Patrick, this collection includes the best of the well-known classics as well as unpublished stories, early drafts, and notes that provide fascinating insight into the writing process of one of America�... [Read More]

  • Barkskins: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0743288785
    • ISBN: 0743288785
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)

    • ASIN: 0684830485
    • ISBN: 9780684830483
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the moun... [Read More]

  • Germinal (Penguin Classics)

    • ASIN: 0140447423
    • ISBN: 0140447423
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope.Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Forced to take a back-breaking job at... [Read More]

  • Delicious Foods: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0316284939
    • ISBN: 0316284939
    • Brand: Back Bay Books
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

    WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE HURSTON/WRIGHT LEGACY FICTION AWARDFINALIST FOR THE 2016 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES PRIZE FOR FICTION NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington PostA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Kirkus, BuzzFeed, National Post, Kansas City StarTOP 10 BOOKS... [Read More]

  • Crime and Poetry (A Magical Bookshop Mystery)

    • ASIN: 0451477448
    • ISBN: 0451477448
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

    From the national bestselling author of the Amish Quilt Shop Mysteries comes the first charming caper in the Magical Bookshop Mystery series.Rushing home to sit by her ailing grandmother’s bedside, Violet Waverly is shocked to find Grandma Daisy the picture of perfect health. Violet doesn’t need to read between the lines: her grandma wants Viol... [Read More]

  • Absalom's Daughters: A Novel

    • ASIN: 1627794530
    • ISBN: 1627794530
    • Brand: Henry Holt Co
    • Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.

    A spellbinding debut about half sisters, one black and one white, on a 1950s road trip through the American SouthSelf-educated and brown-skinned, Cassie works full time in her grandmother’s laundry in rural Mississippi. Illiterate and white, Judith falls for “colored music” and dreams of life as a big city radio star. These teenaged girls are... [Read More]

  • Scar Lover

    • ASIN: 0671797867
    • ISBN: 0671797867
    • Brand: Brand: Touchstone
    • Manufacturer: Touchstone

    Scar Lover is a miraculous, true-to-the-bone story of love and redemption, at once a classic southern novel and purely, unmistakably, Harry Crews.Running from a past that has scarred and blamed him, and a tragic accident that has destroyed his family, Pete Butcher avoids all personal contact. Then Sarah Leemer, the oddly beautiful girl next door, w... [Read More]

  • This Side of Providence

    • ASIN: 1938849760
    • ISBN: 1938849760
    • Brand: Rachel M Harper
    • Manufacturer: Prospect Park Books LLC - Prospect Park Books

    “It is a book of such power that it is as if a completely new layer of the American experience has been exposed to our view...not one line is wasted and every single word rings true.”— Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color PurpleArcelia Perez fled Puerto Rico to escape a failed marriage and a history of abuse, but instead of... [Read More]

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