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Literary Brooklyn
The Writers of Brooklyn and the Story of American City Life

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For the first time, here is Brooklyn's story through the eyes of its greatest storytellers. Like Paris in the twenties or postwar Greenwich Village, Brooklyn...
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
A Novel

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The classic novel about a young woman’s struggle against madness, now a Holt Paperback, with a new afterword by the author Hailed by The New York Times as...
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What Was Lost
A Novel

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A tender and sharply observant debut novel about a missing young girl—winner of the Costa First Novel Award and long-listed for the Booker Prize, the Orange...
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The Boys in the Trees
A Novel

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“This is a mesmerizing novel, that can truly claim to be filled with a ‘terrible beauty.’”—Alice Munro Newly arrived to the countryside, William Heath, his...
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The Buried Book
The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh

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Adventurers, explorers, kings, gods, and goddesses come to life in this “useful, entertaining and informative” story of the first great epic (The Washington...
  
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This I Believe
The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women

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“A welcome change from the sloganeering, political mudslinging and products of spin doctors.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer Based on the NPR series of the...
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Book by Book
Notes on Reading and Life

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“As warm and stimulating as a library to which one returns again and again.” —Chicago Tribune (Editor’s Choice) While books contain insights into our...
  
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A Galaxy Not So Far Away
Writers and Artists on Twenty-five Years of Star Wars

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A dazzling collection of original essays by some of America's most notable young writers on the cultural impact of the Star Wars films A Galaxy Not So Far...
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Abe
A Novel of the Young Lincoln

A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book
A brilliant work of historical imagination, Abe immerses the reader in the isolating poverty and difficult circumstances that shaped Abraham Lincoln's...
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Despair
And Other Stories

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The exquisitely crafted, haunting story collection from theaward-winning author of Childhood. Following on the heels of his award-winning first novel,...

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The Old Man and the Boy

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This classic captures the endearing relationship between a man and his grandson as they fish and hunt the lakes and woods of North Carolina. All the while the...
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The Milagro Beanfield War
A Novel

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Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of...
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The Old Man's Boy Grows Older

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The heartwarming sequel to the best-selling The Old Man and the Boy is a moving, nostalgic tale that will transport the reader back to a time when going...
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The Fool's Progress
An Honest Novel

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When his third wife abandons him in Tucson, boozing, misanthropic anarchist Henry Holyoak Lightcap shoots his refrigerator and sets off in a battered pick-up...
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The Bear Went Over the Mountain
A Novel

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William Kotzwinkle, the esteemed author of The Fan Man and E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, is in top comic form in this outrageous and uproarious parable featring...
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Marking the Sparrow's Fall
The Making of the American West

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Winner of three O. Henry Awards, the Commonwealth Gold Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Literary...
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In This Sign
The Highly Acclaimed Novel of a Family Whose Love and Courage Enable Them to Survive in the Silent World of the Deaf

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The highly acclaimed novel of a family whose love and courage enable them to survive in the silent world of the deaf.