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Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She wrestles alligators, eats roadkill, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she built by hand in an island wilderness. A combination of Henry David Thoreau and Jane Goodall, Carol is a self-taught scientist who has become a tireless defender of sea turtles on Cumberland Island, a national park off the coast of Georgia. Cumberland, the country's largest and most biologic...

Sherman Alexie's first novel in ten years is a powerful, fast and timely story of a troubled foster teenager who travels through time to learn the true meaning of terror. In a way, this fast, blistering novel might be seen as Sherman Alexie's response to 9/11. It's his effort to explore the meaning and purpose of violence at critical moments in American history while showing reasons the perpetrators have for enacting it and then questioning ou...

On a rainy winter night in Mexico City, a ten-member wedding party is kidnapped in front of the groom's family mansion. The perpetrator is a small-time gangster named El Galan, who wants nothing more than to make his crew part of a major cartel and hopes that this crime will be his big break. He sets the wedding party's ransom at five million US dollars, to be paid in cash within 24 hours. The only captive not related to either the bride or th...

Follows the story of Ivoe Williams, an African American woman journalist, through the start of the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.

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From a celebrated gay writer comes this novel about an earnest young historian named Nicholas Dee who finds his life being taken over by a mysterious dwarf and the gifted boy whom she is teaching to read. This revised edition includes an introduction by Michael Cunningham.

Charles Kaiser's 1968 in America is widely recognized as one of the best historical accounts of the 1960s. This book devotes equal attention to the personal and the political -- and speaks with authority about such diverse figures as Bob Dylan, Eugene McCarthy, Janis Joplin, and Lyndon Johnson.