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A book of short stories set in the cities, towns, mountain hollows, and tourist attractions of North Carolina. AUTHOR: Tony Earley
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown & Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | A Division of the Spoils by Paul Scott
In the final volume of Scott's Raj Quartet , British rule in India comes to an end amidst violence and bitterness. Sarah Layton and her fiance, sympathetic to the Indian cause, are caught up in the events. Ronald Merrick, the brutal and corrupt English police chief, is savagely murdered, and violence between Hindus and Muslims culminates in the killing of a group of Muslims, including Sarah's friend, Ahmed. The partitioning of the country into India and Pakistan led to the deaths of nearly 300,000 people--deaths for which Scott, in this novel, claims the departing British were directly responsible. AUTHOR: Paul Scott
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Year of the Sawdust Man by A. Lafaye, Jeff Chapman-Crane
Set in Depression-era Louisiana, this novel explores how a young girl named Nissa copes with being abandoned by her free-spirited mother. As Nissa dreams of her mother's return, she must also come to grips with her father's decision to move on with his life and court another woman. AUTHOR: A. Lafaye, Jeff Chapman-Crane
PUBLISHER: Aladdin Paperbacks
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Tribute to Another Dead Rock Star by Johnny Heller, Randy Powell
Fifteen-year-old orphan Grady Grennan is at a crossroads. Tired of living with his grandmother, Grady considers moving to Seattle to live with his mentally disabled half-brother, Louie. Grady doesn't get along with Louie's adoptive mother, but when he travels to Seattle to attend a tribute to his and Louie's mother--a rock musician who died three years ago--he decides to give life with Louie a chance. But when he is asked to speak at the tribute, Grady wonders what he can say about a mother who abandoned her children in pursuit of a musical career. AUTHOR: Johnny Heller, Randy Powell
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Family by Mario Puzo
What is a family?Mario Puzo first answered that question in his landmark bestseller The Godfather, with the creation of the Corleones. Now, thirty years later, Puzo enriches us all with his ultimate vision of the subject: the story of the greatest crime family in Italian history -- the Borgias.In The Family, this singular novelist transports his readers back to fifteenth-century Rome, and reveals to us the extravagance and intrigue of the Vatican as surely as he once revealed the secrets of the Mafia. At the story's center is Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, a man whose lustful appetites were matched only by his consuming love of family. Surrounding him are his extraordinary children: simple, unloved Jofre; irascible, heartless Juan; beautiful, strong-willed Lucrezia; and passionate warrior Cesare, Machiavelli's friend and inspiration. Their stories constitute a symphony of human emotion and behavior, from pride to romance to jealousy to betrayal and murderous rage.A labor of love two decades in the making, The Family marks the final triumph of one of the greatest storytellers of our time. AUTHOR: Mario Puzo
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: General
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 | A Midsummer Night's Dream by Linda Buckle, William Shakespeare
Confusions of the heart reign in Athens, where everyone is pining away for the wrong person except Theseus, the Duke and his fiancee, Hippolyta, whose wedding day is fast approaching. Hermia, the Duke's daughter, is intent on marrying Lysander, although her father disapproves and threatens to make her a nun if she refuses to marry his choice for her, Demetrius. However, Helena loves Demetrius, who courted her once, and Lysander and Hermia plan to elope despite the Duke's orders. Hoping that Demetrius will fall for her instead, Helena plans to alert Demetrius that Hermia will shortly be spoken for. Meanwhile, in a subplot, the artisans Quince, Snug, Flute, Snout, Starveling, and Bottom, are rehearsing the play PYRAMUS AND THISBE to be performed at the Duke's wedding. As Hermia and Lysander head into woods to elope, with Helena and Demetrius following, the amateur acting troupe likewise takes cover in the woods to rehearse in privacy. This leads all the players into the realm of fairy magic, where fairies Oberon and Titania are arguing over a changeling. When Oberon decides to play a trick on Titania with the aid of a magic flower that causes people to fall in love with the first person (or beast) they set eyes on, the real trouble starts. The flower is used liberally on both the humans and the fairies by the trouble-making sprite Puck, inspiring many amorous entanglements. There is no known source for Shakespeare's fantastic plot, though the structure is classical, as the events begin in the court, relocate to an uncivilized environment, and return to the court with renewed order, and aspects of the imagery are drawn from classic works, such as Apuleius's THE GOLDEN ASS and Ovid's METAMORPHOSES. Evidence in the play, like Titania's remark about three unusually unpleasant summers in a row--documented elsewhere in England's records--suggest a composition date of 1595 or 1596. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM was listed in a 1598 catalogue of Shakespeare's works, and was publi AUTHOR: Linda Buckle, William Shakespeare
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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