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by Barry Moser
Published Oct 2015
Read Reviews"We Were Brothers, Barry Moser's beautiful - and beautifully illustrated - new book, tells the wrenching and redeeming story of brothers who take different paths and yet ultimately find their ways back to each other...Their careful reconciliation after decades of strife and avoidance is sad, moving, and joyful all at the same time." - Andrew ...
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
by Carrie Tiffany
Published Jul 2007
Read ReviewsThe government "Better Farming Train" brings advice to the small towns of Australia. The train is staffed by irresistibly eccentric agricultural and domestic experts; and when two of the train's experts fall in love, in an atmosphere of heady scientific idealism they settle in the impoverished Mallee farmland with the ambition of ...
by Timothy Egan
Published Sep 2006
Read ReviewsAs only great history can, Egan's book captures the very voice of the times: its grit, pathos, and abiding courage.
by James McBride
Published Feb 2006
Read ReviewsTouches readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son.
by Melinda Haynes
Published Jun 2000
Read ReviewsSet in the Deep South in the late 1950s, Mother of Pearl vividly brings to life the extraordinary inhabitants of the small town of Petal, Mississippi.
by Frank McCourt
Published May 1999
Read ReviewsImbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion. This is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic.
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