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Mystical Dreamers

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Mystical Dreamers collects two of Luis Harss's best-loved novels: Lonesome Twosome, a tragic war story told by a young girl in search of her father, and Messenger Pigeons, a tale of immigrants with memories of a desperate past pursuing illusion in a strange land. ... Read more

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Mystical Dreamers collects two of Luis Harss's best-loved novels: Lonesome Twosome, a tragic war story told by a young girl in search of her father, and Messenger Pigeons, a tale of immigrants with memories of a desperate past pursuing illusion in a strange land.
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Messenger Pigeons

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Poverty and illusion drive an immigrant family with memories of a desperate past in another part of the world across the Mexican border into Texas, where messages they have been receiving from messenger pigeons become calls over a hand phone that lead to a strange fate. ... Read more

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Poverty and illusion drive an immigrant family with memories of a desperate past in another part of the world across the Mexican border into Texas, where messages they have been receiving from messenger pigeons become calls over a hand phone that lead to a strange fate.
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Lonesome Twosome

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Angie, riding her bicycle, is looking for her father. He might be any one or more of the many men her mother has known. Some migrant workers could provide clues to solving the mystery of her birth. Angie lives in smalltown USA in a time of perpetual war. Brave and wounded lives surround her. Ordinary people transformed by the war culture: a world of heroic sacrifice, desperate patriotism and ... Read more

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Angie, riding her bicycle, is looking for her father. He might be any one or more of the many men her mother has known. Some migrant workers could provide clues to solving the mystery of her birth. Angie lives in smalltown USA in a time of perpetual war. Brave and wounded lives surround her. Ordinary people transformed by the war culture: a world of heroic sacrifice, desperate patriotism and
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Lonesome Twosome

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Angie, riding her bicycle, is looking for her father. He might be any one or more of the many men her mother has known. Some migrant workers could provide clues to solving the mystery of her birth.Angie lives in smalltown USA in a time of perpetual war. Brave and wounded lives surround her. Ordinary people transformed by the war culture: a world of heroic sacrifice, desperate patriotism and ... Read more

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Angie, riding her bicycle, is looking for her father. He might be any one or more of the many men her mother has known. Some migrant workers could provide clues to solving the mystery of her birth.Angie lives in smalltown USA in a time of perpetual war. Brave and wounded lives surround her. Ordinary people transformed by the war culture: a world of heroic sacrifice, desperate patriotism and
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Elephant Stories

by Luis Harss ...

Elephants tell us about ourselves. They can be merry-go-round animals or people weighted down with grief. In these stories a dreamer rides an elephant cart. A hunting party shoots elephants in a game ranch. White elephants inhabit a family home. Memory is an elephant head in a library. A land of dead immigrants is like an elephant cemetery. And an angel musician plays an elephant organ. ... Read more

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Elephants tell us about ourselves. They can be merry-go-round animals or people weighted down with grief. In these stories a dreamer rides an elephant cart. A hunting party shoots elephants in a game ranch. White elephants inhabit a family home. Memory is an elephant head in a library. A land of dead immigrants is like an elephant cemetery. And an angel musician plays an elephant organ.
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Singers

by Luis Harss ...

Certain singers carry the music of the world in their voices. In these tales, a hairdresser in a mobile home park sings of love and death, a family of immigrants sings haunting memories of other lands and lives, and a street girl in the years of the great depression dreams of being an opera singer. ... Read more

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Certain singers carry the music of the world in their voices. In these tales, a hairdresser in a mobile home park sings of love and death, a family of immigrants sings haunting memories of other lands and lives, and a street girl in the years of the great depression dreams of being an opera singer.
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Piano Stories

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From the writer adored by the likes of García Marquez, Calvino, and Francine Prose comes a collection of Hernández's classic talesPiano Stories presents fifteen wonderful works by the great Uruguayan author Felisberto Hernández, “a writer like no other,” as Italo Calvino declares in his introduction: “like no European or Latin American. He is an ‘irregular,’ who eludes all classifications and ... Read more

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From the writer adored by the likes of García Marquez, Calvino, and Francine Prose comes a collection of Hernández's classic talesPiano Stories presents fifteen wonderful works by the great Uruguayan author Felisberto Hernández, “a writer like no other,” as Italo Calvino declares in his introduction: “like no European or Latin American. He is an ‘irregular,’ who eludes all classifications and
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Cloud Atlas (20th Anniversary Edition)

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by David Mitchell ...

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A new edition of the timeless, structure-bending classic that explores how actions of individual lives impact the past, present and future—from a postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in fictionFeatures a new afterword by David Mitchell and a new introduction by Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and TomorrowOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best ... Read more

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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A new edition of the timeless, structure-bending classic that explores how actions of individual lives impact the past, present and future—from a postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in fictionFeatures a new afterword by David Mitchell and a new introduction by Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and TomorrowOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best
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On Fire

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NOW WITH A FOREWORD BY RON RASH AND AN APPRECIATION BY DWIGHT GARNER"One of the finest books I know about blue-collar work in America, its rewards and frustrations . . . If you are among the tens of millions who have never read Brown, this is a perfect introduction." —Dwight Garner, The New York TimesOn January 6, 1990, after seventeen years on the job, Larry Brown quit the Oxford, Mississippi, ... Read more

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NOW WITH A FOREWORD BY RON RASH AND AN APPRECIATION BY DWIGHT GARNER"One of the finest books I know about blue-collar work in America, its rewards and frustrations . . . If you are among the tens of millions who have never read Brown, this is a perfect introduction." —Dwight Garner, The New York TimesOn January 6, 1990, after seventeen years on the job, Larry Brown quit the Oxford, Mississippi,
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The Island

by Gary Paulsen ...

From a master storyteller comes a unique exploration into the exhilarating joys--and the inevitable dangers--of total solitude.Every day, 15yo Wil Neuton gets up, brushes his teeth, leaves the house, and rows away from shore. He's discovered the island, a place where he can go to be alone and learn to know nature--and himself.Wil's only mission is to let go of the outside world. But the outside ... Read more

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From a master storyteller comes a unique exploration into the exhilarating joys--and the inevitable dangers--of total solitude.Every day, 15yo Wil Neuton gets up, brushes his teeth, leaves the house, and rows away from shore. He's discovered the island, a place where he can go to be alone and learn to know nature--and himself.Wil's only mission is to let go of the outside world. But the outside
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The Book of Men

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by Dorianne Laux ...

"Laux writes gritty, tough, lyrical poems that depict the actual nature of life in the West today."—Philip LevineThe narrative poems in Dorianne Laux's fifth collection charge through the summer of love, where Vietnam casts a long shadow, and into the present day, where she compassionately paints the smoky bars, graffiti, and addiction of urban life. Laux is "continually engaging and, at her best, ... Read more

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"Laux writes gritty, tough, lyrical poems that depict the actual nature of life in the West today."—Philip LevineThe narrative poems in Dorianne Laux's fifth collection charge through the summer of love, where Vietnam casts a long shadow, and into the present day, where she compassionately paints the smoky bars, graffiti, and addiction of urban life. Laux is "continually engaging and, at her best,
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Wasted and Wounded: Narrative in Tom Waits’ Songs

by Barry Pomeroy ...

This collection unearths the stories that run parallel to those of Tom Waits' early songs. They do not retell as much as push the envelope wider, strain the meaning of a few lines, and stretch the place the song occupies so that the river rats and abandoned dogs, crying children on the street and shifty-eyed suits, salesmen with their patter and hobos with their rags, can shoulder out a space. ... Read more

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This collection unearths the stories that run parallel to those of Tom Waits' early songs. They do not retell as much as push the envelope wider, strain the meaning of a few lines, and stretch the place the song occupies so that the river rats and abandoned dogs, crying children on the street and shifty-eyed suits, salesmen with their patter and hobos with their rags, can shoulder out a space.
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