Shoeless Joe 9th February 2020
The book that inspired the movie Field of Dreams. The voice of a baseball announcer tells the Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella: “If you build it, he will come.” “He” is Shoeless Joe Jackson, Ray’s hero. “It” is a baseball...
Blogs in February 2020
Fool’s Paradise: Players, Poseurs, and the Culture of Excess in South Beach 9th February 2020
From the acclaimed bestselling author of Philistines at the Hedgerow comes a remarkably revealing profile of the Miami Beach no one knows-a tale of fabulous excess, thwarted power, and rekindled lives that will take its place among the decade’s...
Blood Meridian 9th February 2020
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America’s westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that...
Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People 9th February 2020
Born twenty-nine miles north of the arctic circle, William L. Iggiagruk Hensley was raised to live the semi-nomadic life that his Iñupiaq ancestors had lived for thousands of years. In this stirring memoir, he offers us a rare first-hand...
Anthill 9th February 2020
Winner of the 2010 Heartland Prize, Anthill follows the thrilling adventures of a modern-day Huck Finn, enthralled with the “strange, beautiful, and elegant” world of his native Nokobee County. But as developers begin to threaten the endangered marshlands around...
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