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With the aid of the Native American Shaman Conawago, Duncan McCallum has begun to heal from the massacre of his Highland clan by the British. But his new life is shattered when he finds himself in a maelstrom of deception and violence.

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By turns funny, disquieting, and moving, "Fight Scenes" takes an unsparing look at juvenile disaffection and the dark side of white, working-class masculinity. In a pared-down, highly readable style, Bottoms shows how even the most accepted forms of "toughness" can be damaging.

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While most personal memoirs involve misery and dysfunction, Urquhart shares stories of a life of modesty, happiness, and stability in which he successfully combined a classical education with a lifelong passion for opera, literature, art and, of course, nature.

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Goya changed art forever. During the days of the Spanish Inquisition Goya painted royalty, street urchins and demons with the same brush bringing his own touch to each. This biography shine with wit, erudition and prodigious research.

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A Pulitzer Prize nominee blends the history and myths of air, together with its environmental and physiological effects, into a rich and sometimes troubling account of what gives us our life force.

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This is an impressionistic account of the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition, a two-month sea voyage to explore Alaska's Southeastern shoreline. Almost 100 years later, Alaskan Nancy Lord retraces Harriman's steps, seeking to understand this century's attitudes toward nature, landscape, and culture.

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Part love story, part thriller, part meditation on how the dead are remembered and history is presented, this novel chronicles the story of a letter written by eminent philosopher Martin Heidegger to his optometrist, who was lost in the dying thralls of Auschwitz.

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Drugs, madness, and a quest for enlightenment are Joel Agee's inheritance from the 1960s. Now sober, he recounts his adventures and knows the ghosts of past terrors--his own and his brother's, who died by his own hand at the age of 27--are still trapped and crying for release. To find them, he must write his way into the house of his fear.

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In the mid 1970s, John Hanson Mitchell discovered over 2,000 antique glass plate negatives in the attic of an old estate in Massachusetts, the work of a little-known African American named Robert Gilbert. "Looking for Mr. Gilbert" is filled with music, natural history, African-American history, and the world of early photography as Mitchell uncovers the life of this remarkable American.

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In this enormously appealing "implied autobiography," McClanahan has assembled a gathering of stories that are both quirky and cutting, hilarious and lyrical, all told in the inimitable voice of one of his generation's best southern chroniclers of American life.

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Prize-winning author Srodes offers a vivid and scintillating portrait of the 12 young men and women who, on the eve of World War I, came together in Washington, D.C.'s tony Dupont Circle neighborhood and would influence the world.

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Explores the historical context of the significant social dissent that was central to the cultural genesis of the sixties. Searches for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution for the past 150 years by studying what the Western European culture learned from African American culture in a historical progression that reaches from the minstrel era to Bob Dylan.

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In this bawdy first novel, Pavelich tells the epic tale of Danny Savage, an infamous Balkan-born misfit who migrates to the New World in 1899 where he encounters a host of legal and domestic problems before settling in Wyoming with his shrew of a wife.