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  • The Last Pilot
    The Last Pilot
    Benjamin Johncock
    Paperback: 05/03/2016
     
    Set against the backdrop of one of the most emotionally charged periods in American history, The Last Pilot is...
  • The Sympathizer
    The Sympathizer
    Viet Thanh Nguyen
    Paperback: 04/12/2016
     
    Winner of 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A startling debut novel featuring one of the most remarkable ...
  • American Dervish
    American Dervish: A Novel
    Ayad Akhtar
    Paperback: 09/04/2012
     
    American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of ...
  • I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
    I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
    Steve Earle
    Paperback: 05/22/2012
     
    A brilliant excavation of an obscure piece of music history, Steve Earle's I'll Never Get Out of This World ...
  • Anthropology of an American Girl
    Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel
    Hilary Thayer Hamann
    Paperback: 06/14/2011
     
    A moving depiction of the transformative power of first love, Hamann's first novel follows Eveline Auerbach ...
  • The Help
    The Help
    Kathryn Stockett
    Paperback: 04/05/2011
     
    Winner of BookBrowse's 2009 Reader Awards. Three extraordinary women start a movement that forever changes a ...
  • Amaryllis in Blueberry
    Amaryllis in Blueberry
    Christina Meldrum
    Paperback: 02/08/2011
     
    Amaryllis in Blueberry explores the complexity of human relationships through the haunting voices of Dick and ...

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