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Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography and Being Female in America
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Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography and Being Female in America

This remarkable book - by turns moving, funny, and revelatory - records the relationship that developed between the women over the next twenty years. An empathic listener and participant in DeVries' life, and a scholar of the feminist and disability rights movements, Frank argues that Diane DeVries is a perfect example of an American woman coming of age in the second half of the twentieth century.
 
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Hell Is Coming
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Hell Is Coming

Leia Swanson has always believed in monsters, especially after one killed her parents when she was seven years old.
 
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Stop the Coming Civil War: My Savage Truth
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Stop the Coming Civil War: My Savage TruthStop the Coming Civil War: My Savage Truth

In his trademark in-your-face style, bestselling author and top conservative talk-show host, Michael Savage has a lot to say about the state of the country in STOP THE COMING CIVIL WAR.
 
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American Writers and the Approach of World War II, 1935-1941: A Literary History
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American Writers and the Approach of World War II, 1935-1941: A Literary History

Ichiro Takayoshi's book argues that World War II transformed American literary culture. From the mid-1930s to the American entry into World War II in 1941, preeminent figures from Ernest Hemingway to Reinhold Neibuhr responded to the turn of the public's interest from the economic depression at home to the menace of totalitarian systems abroad by producing novels, short stories, plays, poems, and cultural criticism in which they prophesied the coming of a second world war and explored how America could prepare for it.
 
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Coming Up for Air
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Coming Up for AirComing Up for Air

George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of his holiday is an accidental bombing by the RAF.
 
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