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Cry, The Beloved Country (Oprah's Classics Book Club Selections)

by Alan Paton

Published: 2004-10

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"Cry the Beloved Country" is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its contemporaneity, unforgettable for character and incident, "Cry, the Beloved Country" is a classic...

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Cry, the Beloved Country: Classic Collection

by Paton, Alan

Published: 2008-05-01

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Set in the troubled South Africa of the 1940s, this is the deeply moving story of a Zulu pastor, his son, and a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Passionately African, yet timeless and universal, it is a work of searing beauty.

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The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)

by Thomas Pynchon

Published: 2006-11-07

Paperback: 192 pages

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The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge.

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The Crying Tree, 10 CDs [Complete & Unabridged Audio Work]

by Naseem Rakha

Published: 2010

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The Crying Tree: A Novel

Paperback: 368 pages

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Book Description Irene and Nate Stanley are living a quiet and contented life with their two children, Bliss and Shep, on their family farm in southern Illinois when Nate suddenly announces he's been offered a job as a deputy sheriff in Oregon. Irene fights her husband. She does not want ...

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The Crying Tree: A Novel

by Naseem Rakha

Published: 2010-07-06

Paperback: 368 pages

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Irene and Nate Stanley are living a quiet and contented life with their two children, Bliss and Shep, on their family farm in southern Illinois when Nate suddenly announces he’s been offered a job as a deputy sheriff in Oregon. Irene fights her husband. She does not want to uproot her fa...

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Cryptonomicon

by Neal Stephenson

Published: 2002-11-05

Mass Market Paperback: 1168 pages

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With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterho...

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The Crystal Cave

by Mary Stewart

Published: 1971

Paperback: 384 pages

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Crystelle Mourning: A Novel

by Eisa Nefertari Ulen

Published: 2007-09-04

Paperback: 224 pages

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With her well-employed fianc� and a comfortable life in New York City, Crystelle has a life most young professionals would envy. She has come a long way from the rough Philadelphia neighborhood where she grew up. But she hasn't left the past behind her. A ghost from her West Philly days co...

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Cuando a la gente buena le pasan cosas malas (Spanish Edition)

by Harold Kushner

Published: 2006-04-11

Paperback: 176 pages

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Cuando su hijo fue diagnosticado a los tres a�os de edad con una enfermedad degenerativa que acortar�a su vida en la adolescencia, Harold Kushner se enfrent� a una de las preguntas m�s angustiantes en la vida: �Por qu�, Dios? A�os m�s tarde, el rabino Kushner escribi� esta contemplaci�n se...