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Cry of the Rocks

by Pixie Emslie

Published: 2012-05-01

Paperback: 296 pages

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The mystique of mining has always fascinated people. Cry of the Rocks is a novel about the issues and dangers of deep rock mining. It describes life at Nkuti, a modern deep-rock platinum mine in post-apartheid South Africa, and takes the reader into the depths of the earth, to the grueling work-face...

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Cry to Heaven

by Anne Rice

Published: 1995-04-01

Mass Market Paperback: 576 pages

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In this mesmerizing novel, the acclaimed author of THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES and the LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES makes real for us the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brou...

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Cry, the Beloved Country

Published: 1954-06

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* * * * Gloomy,
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Cry, The Beloved Country

by Alan Paton

Published: 1984

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Paton's deeply moving story of Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the backdrop of a land and people riven by racial inequality and injustice, remains the most famous and important novel in South Africa's history. Published to coincide with the Miramax film release in December,...

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Cry, the Beloved Country (Oprah's Book Club)

by Alan Paton

Published: 2003-08-31

Paperback: 320 pages

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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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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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* * * Insightful,
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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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* * * * Life Changing,
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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 ...