April 19, 2013
The Family Dead: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison's skills are out in full force, in the story of Macon 'Milkman' Dead and the struggles of his family.
Toni Morrison's skills are out in full force, in the story of Macon 'Milkman' Dead and the struggles of his family.
In 1948, enigmatic Charlie Beale rolls into a sleepy rural Virginia town and forges dangerous connections with the townspeople that will impact their lives forever.
Loretta Lynn is an icon in the world of country music. She makes no apologies for who she is or where she is from. The hit songs that she wrote and recorded are infused with her hard-scrabble upbringing in the mountains of Kentucky during the 1930s and '40s. Upon reading the preface and opening letter of her autobiography, Loretta Lynn: A Coal Miner's Daughter, it is immediately apparent that she is both bigger than life and down-to-earth at the same time.
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Some Heat Before Summer: Long Simmering Spring by Elisabeth Barrett
Mark Bittman's VB6: The Lifestyle Book Everyone's Talking About
Free Will: A Concise Study in Fact vs Illustion
A Read for Realists: Jonathan Evison's The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
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Barbara Kingsolver
George Saunders
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