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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.

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From the author of "Ordinary Money" and "Particles and Luck" comes a new novel about a once-eminent physicist whose excursion with his daughter to Hollywood gives him a hint of what he really needs to be happy.

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This title presents essays on inspired writings, both sacred and secular, in which things inaccessible are made suddenly accessible, and diction and desire are miraculously at one. Texts include the Oxford English Dictionary, Tyndale's Bible and poems by T.S. Eliot.

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Surprise attack explores sixty plus years of military and terror threats against the United States. It examines the intelligence tools and practices that provided warnings of those attacks and evaluates the United States responses, both in preparedness the effectiveness of our military and national command authority.

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Set in 1970s San Francisco, "Swallow the Ocean" is a searing, beautifully written memoir of a childhood under siege and three young girls determined to survive despite their mothers mental instability. In luminous prose, this memoir paints an intimate portrait of what might have been a catastrophic childhood.