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The Indigo Girl

by Natasha Boyd

Published: 2017-10-03

Hardcover: 352 pages

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An incredible story of dangerous and hidden friendships, ambition, betrayal, and sacrifice. The year is 1739. Eliza Lucas is sixteen years old when her father leaves her in charge of their family's three plantations in rural South Carolina and then proceeds to bleed the estates dry in purs...

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A Life of Her Own: A Countrywoman in Twentieth-Century France

by Émilie Carles

Published: 1991-03-01

Hardcover: 296 pages

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Published in France in 1977 as Une Soupe aux Herbes Sauvages, this autobiography of a peasant woman reared in the stony insularity of a tiny Alpine village reveals the unfolding of a formidable person. Carles, born in 1900, writes of her life in the mountains coountry of southern France as...

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American Woman: A Novel

by Susan Choi

Published: 2014-07-08

Kindle Edition: 392 pages

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“Susan Choi…proves herself a natural—a writer whose intelligence and historical awareness effortlessly serve a breathtaking narrative ability. I couldn’t put American Woman down, and wanted when I finished it to do nothing but read it again.”   —Joan DidionA novel of impressi...

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River of the West: A Chronicle of the Columbia

by Robert Clark

Published: 1997-09-15

Paperback: 416 pages

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From glacial floods that began to shape the Columbia River twelve thousand years ago to its discovery, conquest, and colonization by the English, Spanish and Americans, the story of this river encompasses not only the full range of American history, but also a geography of myth, hope, and ...

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The Loop

by Joe Coomer

Published: 1999-09-08

Paperback: 208 pages

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Lyman, a thirty-year-old orphan, is sipping coffee on the front steps of the trailer he calls home one morning, when a ninety-year-old parrot arrives with a beakful of cryptic sayings -- such as "That which hath wings shall tell the matter" -- and a mysterious past. Convinced that heeding...

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The Bondwoman's Narrative

by Hannah Crafts

Published: 2003-04-01

Paperback: 365 pages

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Tells the story of Hannah Crafts, a young slave working on a wealthy North Carolina plantation, who runs away in a bid for freedom up North.

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Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback

by Robyn Davidson

Published: 1995-05-30

Paperback: 288 pages

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A cult classic with an ever-growing audience, Tracks is the brilliantly written and frequently hilarious account of a young woman's odyssey through the deserts of Australia, with no one but her dog and four camels as companions. Davidson emerges as a heroine who combines extraordinary cour...

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Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade

by Assia Djebar

Published: 1993-03-15

Paperback: 227 pages

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In this stunning novel, Assia Djebar intertwines the history of her native Algeria with episodes from the life of a young girl in a story stretching from the French conquest in 1830 to the War of Liberation of the 1950s. The girl, growing up in the old Roman coastal town of Cherchel, sees ...

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Mao II: A Novel

by Don DeLillo

Published: 1992-05-01

Kindle Edition: 260 pages

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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner AwardFrom the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K"One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The New York Times), Don DeLillo presents an extraordinary new novel about words and im...

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared Diamond Ph.D.

Published: 2017-03-07

Paperback: 528 pages

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"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history."?Bill Gates In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societie...