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Boyle, T. Coraghessan
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Descent of Man
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AUD$22.22;
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A mad, hilarious collection of short stories, wherein Boyle offers his unique view of dictators, animals, scientists, explorers, collectors, teetotalers, and others.
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Boyle, T. Coraghessan
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East Is East
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A young Japanese seaman jumps ship off the coast of Georgia and washes ashore on a barrier island inhabited by a strange mix of rednecks, descendents of slaves, genteel retired people, and a colony...
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Boyle, T. Coraghessan
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The Road to Wellville
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A snobbish wife and her henpecked husband travel to Dr. Kellogg's spa in turn-of-the-century Battle Creek, where the youth-crazed affluent succumb to quackery
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Boyle, T. Coraghessan
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Water Music
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AUD$22.22;
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Mungo Park, based on a real-life African explorer, and Ned Rise, a scoundrel, pimp, thief, and cheat, travel about Africa and meet up with a varied assortment of characters--native and colonial,...
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De Lillo, Don
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Libra
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The scheme of two disgruntled CIA agents to stage an unsuccessful attempt on the life of President Kennedy and link it to Cuba backfires when the erratic Lee Harvey Oswald goes too far
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De Lillo, Don
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White Noise
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Jack Gladney, a professor of Nazi history at a Middle American liberal arts school, and his family try to handle normal family life as a black cloud of lethal gaseous fumes threatens their town
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Dexter, Pete
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Paris Trout
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A respected white citizen of Cotton Point, Georgia, Paris Trout is a shopkeeper, a money-lender, and a murderer of blacks. And his friends, family and foes do not realize the danger they face in a...
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Doerr, Harriet
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Stones for Ibarra
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Richard and Sara Everton move to Ibarra, Mexico to reopen Richard's grandfather's copper mine and learn that Richard is dying of leukemia
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Hagedorn, Jessica
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Dogeaters
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AUD$21.07;
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The destinies of a varied group of characters--movie stars, department store clerks, the wealthiest man in the Philippines--are intertwined with a beauty pageant, a film festival, and an...
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Kennedy, William
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Very Old Bones
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Orson Purcell, the illegitimate son of artist Peter Phelan, assists his father in the reading of his will--a will that will profoundly affect Orson's life
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Stegner, Wallace Earle
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Angle of Repose
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AUD$22.22;
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Traces the fortunes of four generations of one family as they attempt to build a life for themselves in the American West
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Stegner, Wallace Earle
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Big Rock Candy Mountain (Reprint)
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Bo Mason and his wife and two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair; drifting from town to town, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks his fortune. Stegner has created a masterful, harrowing...
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Stegner, Wallace Earle
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The Spectator Bird
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AUD$21.07;
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Joe Allston is a retired literary agent whose parents and only son are dead, and who feels that he has been a mere spectator through life. Than a postcard from a friend causes him to return to the...
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Welch, James
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Fools Crow
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In the Two Medicine territory of Montana, the Pikuni Indians are forced to choose between fighting a futile war or accepting a humiliating surrender, as the encroaching numbers of whites threaten...
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