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The Known World CD
Published: 2004-06-01
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In one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Edward P. Jones, two-time National Book Award finalist, tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making cer...
The Known World
Published: 2003
Hardcover: 388 pages
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Henry Townsend, a black bootmaker and former slave in antebellum Virginia, becomes a proprietor of his own plantation--as well as his own slaves. This modern masterpiece explores what happens when he dies and "the known world" unravels. 2004 Pulitzer Prize Winner, Fiction.
Knoxville Bound: A Collection of Literary Works Inspired by Knoxville, Tennessee
Published: 2004
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Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity
Published: 2007-09-04
Hardcover: 48 pages
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Trixie can't wait to bring her one-of-a-kind Knuffle Bunny to school and show him off to everyone. But when she gets there, she sees something awful: Sonja has the same bunny. Suddenly, Knuffle Bunny doesn't seem so one-of-a-kind anymore. Chaos ensues until the bunnies are taken away by...
Kockroach
Published: 2008-02-26
Paperback: 384 pages
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It is the mid-1950s, and Kockroach, perfectly content with his life infesting a fleabag hotel off Times Square, awakens to discover that somehow he's been transformed into, of all things, a human. A tragic turn of events, yes, but cockroaches are awesome coping machines, so Kockroach cope...
Kockroach: A Novel
Published: 2007-01-01
Hardcover: 368 pages
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In Kockroach, a wholly original work of literary noir, Tyler Knox brilliantly turns Kafka's The Metamorphosis on its head It is the mid-1950s, and in a fleabag hotel off Times Square, Kockroach, perfectly content with life as an insect, awakens to discover that somehow he's become, of a...
The Kommandant's Girl
Published: 2007-02-20
Paperback: 400 pages
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Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft
Published: 2010-03-01
Paperback: 304 pages
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?One of the great adventures of our time.??Life ?Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? ?Reply at once.? That is how six brave and inquisitive men came to seek a dangerous path to test a scientific th...
The Koran: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Published: 2000-06-15
Paperback: 164 pages
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The Koran has constituted a remarkably resilient core of identity and continuity for a religious tradition that is now in its fifteenth century. In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Cook provides a lucid and direct account of the significance of the Koran both in the modern world and i...
Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion
Published: 2011-07-05
Paperback: 256 pages
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An irreverent tale of an American Jew serving in the Peace Corps in rural China, which reveals the absurdities, joys, and pathos of a traditional society in fluxIn September of 2005, the Peace Corps sent Michael Levy to teach English in the heart of China's heartland. His hosts in the city...
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