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This Child Will Be Great - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
From Publishers WeeklyForbes lists Sirleaf, the 23rd president of Liberia and the first elected female president on the African continent, among the 100 Most Powerful Women in 200.... -
The orchard keeper - Cormac McCarthy
SUMMARY: An American classic, The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by one of America's finest, most celebrated novelists. Set is a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in t... -
The great American steamboat ra - Benton Rain Patterson
SUMMARY: Running from New Orleans to St. Louis in the summer of 1870, the race between the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez remains the world's most famous steamboat race. This book t... -
The food of a younger land_ a p - Mark Kurlansky
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A remarkable portrait of American food before World War II, presented by the *New York Times*-bestselling author of *Cod* and *Salt*.** Award-winning *New York ... -
The charm school - Nelson DeMille
From Publishers WeeklyThis highly charged espionage thriller gets off to a stunning start. On the road from Smolensk to Moscow, an American tourist, Gregory Fisher, is confronted b... -
The Woman Warrior_ Memoirs of a - Maxine Hong Kingston
Amazon.com ReviewThe Woman Warrior is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up Chinese American in Stockton, California. Maxine Hong Kingston (... -
The Wine-Dark Sea - Patrick O'Brian
SUMMARY: At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a heavy American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strang... -
The Whole Story of Half a Girl - Veera Hiranandani
After her father loses his job, Sonia Nadhamuni, half Indian and half Jewish American, finds herself yanked out of private school and thrown into the unfamiliar world of public edu... -
The Train of Small Mercies - David Rowell
In haunting and crystalline prose, The Train of Small Mercies follows six characters' intrepid search for hope among the debris of an American tragedy.In New York, a young black po... -
The Time of Our Lives - Tom Brokaw
Tom Brokaw, known and beloved for his landmark work in American journalism and for the New York Times bestsellers The Greatest Generation and Boom!, now turns his at...