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|  | Five Decades by Ben Belitt, Pablo Neruda
A collection of Neruda's poems published shortly before his death in 1973. Neruda's poetry, at its best, passionately evokes the Chilean natural world and his place in it as a tough, exuberant, amorous quasi-outlaw, the enemy of laws, leaders, and established institutions. AUTHOR: Ben Belitt, Pablo Neruda
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Vintage Anthology of African Poetry by Anthony Walton, Michael S. Harper
Description not available.Representing more than two hundred years of AfricanAmerican creative poetic endeavors, a remarkable anthology features an outstanding compilation of work from fiftytwo AfricanAmerican poets, including Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Phillis Wheatley, Rita Dove, and others. Original. 17,500 first printing. AUTHOR: Anthony Walton, Michael S. Harper
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Bliss
Description not available.A world famous violinist with wealth, beauty, two successful children, and a loving fiancT, Francesca Valentine is confronted by devastating emotional upheaval after the death of her longtime companion as she is faced with revealing dark secrets from the past that could destroy everything she has. Original. 30,000 first printing.
PUBLISHER: Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | New Stories from the South by Ellen Douglas, Lee Smith, Shannon Ravenel
Description not available.Stories by writers with Southern backgrounds deal with the modern problems of life in the South AUTHOR: Ellen Douglas, Lee Smith, Shannon Ravenel
PUBLISHER: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Dubliners by A. Walton Litz, Andrew Goodwyn, Bernard MCGinley, James Joyce, Jim Killavey
Joyce's celebrated short-story sequence provides a vivid and disturbing picture of early 20th-century Dublin and its inhabitants, whom Joyce saw as trapped in a repressed and stultifying environment. The stories are divided into five types: childhood, adolescence, marriage, maturity, and various aspects of public life, including politics. They embody Joyce's belief in the value of what he called epiphanies--insights into life that can be compared to the religious concept of the Epiphany, and that Joyce believed art can provide via the transformation of mundane events. The last story, The Dead --the brilliant and moving dissection of a failed marriage--actually takes place on the Feast of the Epiphany. AUTHOR: A. Walton Litz, Andrew Goodwyn, Bernard MCGinley, James Joyce, Jim Killavey
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Peter Carey tells the story of Australia's most famous outlaw, Ned Kelly, who was executed as a murderer and a horse thief in 1880. The facts of Kelly's brief life are revealed in a series of letters, very much in his own quirky vernacular voice, that he writes to the baby daughter he never sees. What is clear from Peter Carey's account is that poverty, hardship, and the prejudice of the English police force toward the Irish are all part of the plight of Ned Kelly--a good boy gone wrong who became a national hero. THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG was a New York Times Editor's Choice for 2001. AUTHOR: Peter Carey
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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