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"Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood-where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned-Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they...
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Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War. It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his...
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This book is the story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned that would transform the modern financial world. Tracing the trajectory of J.P. Morgan's empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the financial crisis of 1987, the author paints a portrait of the family's private saga and the rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they moved, including Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford,...
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Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856 - a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces - when legendary abolitionist John Brown arrives. When an argument between Brown and Henry's master turns violent, Henry is forced to leave town - along with Brown, who believes Henry to be a girl and his good-luck charm. Over the ensuing months, Henry, whom Brown nicknames Little Onion, conceals his true identity to stay...
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"When The Stories of John Cheever was originally published, it became an immediate national bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. In the years since, it has become a classic. Vintage Books is proud to reintroduce this magnificent collection. Here are sixty-one stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "the greatest generation." From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in "The Enormous Radio" to the surprising discoveries...
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Unas memorias conmovedoras sobre la enfermedad y la muerte a travâes de la experiencia personal de la periodista y escritora Joan Didion. Este libro memorable ha cautivado a millones de lectores en todo el mundo. En âel, la escritora Joan Didion, una de las autoras norteamericanas mâas reputadas de finales del siglo XX, narra con una fascinante distancia emocional la muerte repentina de su marido, el tambiâen escritor John Gregory Dunne. Este...
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"Siadasz do kolacji i życie, jakie znasz, się kończy. Ta książka to przejmująca opowieść o żałobie. Joan Didion, słynna amerykańska pisarka i dziennikarka, przygląda się najbardziej granicznym doświadczeniom w swoim życiu -- śmierci męża i chorobie córki. Precyzyjna, ale jednocześnie wrażliwa i czuła narracja dotyka uniwersalnego znaczenia tych doświadczeń, sprawiając, że „Rok magicznego myślenia" jest wymieniany pośród...
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Overlord: D-Day looms, and two soldiers are prepared to sacrifice their own lives to the noble cause of bringing down the Nazis. They have a secret mission to perform when they sneak into a Nazi-occupied town, but they do not realize what kind of a time they are in for. Not only is their mission dangerous by conventional means, but it has a supernatural element to it that makes their blood run cold. Can they successfully thwart the plot unfolding...
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