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NONFICTION

Released: May 1, 2000

SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT PENN WARREN: VOL. I: THE APPRENTICE YEARS, 1924-1934

by Robert Penn Warren, edited by William Bedford Clark

" Useful for scholars and for admirers of Warren's work who are very familiar with the author's life and career. (b&w photos, not seen)"

Ten years of essentially unrevealing letters from a formative period of the poet and novelist best known for All the King's Men and as the first Poet Laureate of the United States. Read full book review >

Cover art for MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS

NONFICTION

Released: Sept. 16, 2003

MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS

by Tracy Kidder

"Skilled and graceful exploration of the soul of an astonishing human being."

Full-immersion journalist Kidder (Home Town, 1999, etc.) tries valiantly to keep up with a front-line, muddy-and-bloody general in the war against infectious disease in Haiti and elsewhere. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: Nov. 1, 2004

GILEAD

by Marilynne Robinson

"Robinson has composed, with its cascading perfections of symbols, a novel as big as a nation, as quiet as thought, and moving as prayer. Matchless and towering."

The wait since 1981 and Housekeeping is over. Robinson returns with a second novel that, however quiet in tone and however delicate of step, will do no less than tell the story of America--and break your heart. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: Jan. 1, 2009

TINKERS

by Paul Harding

"An evocative meditation on the nonlinear nature of a life."

Elderly New Englander on his deathbed finds his thoughts drifting back to the father who abandoned the family when he was 12. Read full book review >

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