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One of America`s great baseball novels, THE NATURAL is the story of venerable ballplayer Roy Hobbs, who was forced out of the game when he was young but returns to baseball to pull the New York Knights out of their slump. Malamud has said of this novel: Baseball had interested me, especially its comic aspects, but I wasn`t able to write about the game until I transformed the game into myth, via Jessie Weston`s Percival legend with an assist by T. S. Eliot`s WASTE LAND plus the lives of several ballplayers I had read, in particular Babe Ruth`s and Bobby Feller`s. AUTHOR: Bernard Malamud, Ken Howard
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | The Turn of the Screw by Alan Lloyd-Smith, Ann Mavrolean, C. A. Andrews, Deborah Esch, Guido Crepax
An innocent, impressionable young governess takes over the education of two delightful children, Flora and Miles, at an isolated country estate. She becomes convinced that the children's former governess and a valet once employed on the estate--both now dead--have returned and are trying to gain control of the children's souls. Her hysteria builds to a terrifying and tragic climax. James's novella demonstrates the idea that the horrors concocted by the imagination are far worse than reality. AUTHOR: Alan Lloyd-Smith, Ann Mavrolean, C. A. Andrews, Deborah Esch, Guido Crepax
PUBLISHER: Tuttle Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Scenes from a Sistah by Lolita Files
This novel, in the tradition of Terry McMillan's books, is about two lifelong friends, Misty and Reesy, and the differences in their approach to life: Misty is career-driven, while Reesy strenuously avoids having a responsible job. AUTHOR: Lolita Files
PUBLISHER: Warner Books, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Practical Gods by Carl Dennis
The metaphysical pondering of the poems in this eighth collection of Dennis's verse eventually finds its way into the material world, where, for instance, the poet contemplates varnishing his bookshelves. AUTHOR: Carl Dennis
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | There's a Zoo in Room 22 by Barney Saltzberg, Judy Sierra
The kids in Miss Darling's class are very lucky--what other classroom has its own alphabet zoo? There's always an animal adventure unfolding in Room 22, with an Anaconda for lounging, a lunch-stealing Lemur, a Moose to hang coats, a Yak that kisses, and a Zorilla with fumes (pee-ewwwww!). AUTHOR: Barney Saltzberg, Judy Sierra
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Children's Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Poems for the Nation by Allen Ginsberg, Andy Clausen, Eliot Kutz
With poems by Ginsberg, Diane Di Prima, Wanda Coleman, Anne Waldman, William Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and others, this book represents a broad collection of writers focused on contemporary political life in America at the end of the 20th century. Many deplore what they see as a rightward drift in American politics and exhort poets and others to take up political calls more forthrightly. Ginsberg was working on this project, at the request of The Nation, when he died in 1997, and the work on it was finished by two editors who knew him. AUTHOR: Allen Ginsberg, Andy Clausen, Eliot Kutz
PUBLISHER: Seven Stories Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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