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  The Third Life of Grange Copeland

  Alice Walker

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  From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Color Purple: A “moving, tender” novel of a Deep South tenant farmer’s quest for a new life (Publishers Weekly). Grange Copeland, a deeply conflicted and struggling tenant farmer in the Deep South of the 1930s, leaves his family and everything he’s ever known to find happiness and respect in the cold cities of the North. This misadventure, his “second life,” proves a dismal failure that sends him back where he came from to confront his now-grown-up son’s disastrous relationships with his own family, including Grange’s granddaughter, Ruth Copeland, a child that Grange grows to love. Love becomes the substance of his third and final life. He spends it in devotion to Ruth, teaching and protecting her—though the cost of doing so is almost more than he can bear. From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, this is an “honest sensitive tale . . . leavened by those moments of humor and warmth that have enabled men and women to endure so much tragedy” (Chicago Daily News).  This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

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  The Good Lord Bird

  James McBride

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  Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry's master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town - with Brown, who believes he's a girl. Over the ensuing months, Henry - whom Brown nicknames Little Onion - conceals his true identity as he struggles to stay alive. Eventually Little Onion finds himself with Brown at the historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 - one of the great catalysts for the Civil War. An absorbing mixture of history and imagination, The Good Lord Bird is both a rousing adventure and a moving exploration of identity and survival.

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  Black Towers to Danger

  L. Ron Hubbard

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  Drilling for oil is a dirty business, and for Bill Murphy, it's about to turn positively filthy. But Murphy's as big and tough as his home state of Texas and he's more than a match for everything the oil-rich land of Venezuela can throw at him. Everything, that is, except for one woman...
  
  Her name is Marcia Stewart. She's fiery, she's brave, and she's beautiful ... and she'd like nothing better than to see Bill Murphy dead. Her oilman father's been killed, and Marcia tags Murphy as the murderer. 
  
  Murphy's guilty of a lot of things, but murder's not one of them. He's drilling down for the truth, and now it's his land, his love for Marcia — and his life — that are on the line. With so much at stake, he'll go to any length to come out on top of the Black Towers to Danger. A Galaxy Press audio production.

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  Louisa May Alcott

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  Louisa May Alcott had a canon of stories that few other writers could compete with.  Writing across genres and experiences each story confirms her literary talent. Genius is written in her name. 
   
  01 - The Top 10 - Louisa May Alcott - An Introduction 
  02 - The Brothers by Louisa May Alcott 
  03 - Obtaining Supplies by Louisa May Alcott 
  04 - My Red Cap by Louisa May Alcott 
  05 - On Picket Duty by Louisa May Alcott 
  06 - Perilous Play by Louisa May Alcott writing as A M Bernard 
  07 - Psyche's Art by Louisa May Alcott 
  08 - Transcendental Wild Oats by Louisa May Alcott 
  09 - What the Bells Saw and Said by Louisa May Alcott 
  10 - Lost in a London Fog by Louisa May Alcott 
  11 - Lost in a Pyramid (or the Mummy's Curse) by Louisa May Alcott writing as A M Bernard

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  Now's the Time - A Novel

  Larry Strauss

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  Part mystery, part adventure, completely heart-felt, “Now’s the Time” follows jazz trumpeter Didi Heron as she searches for the lost tape of her father’s last gig before his tragic death. A celebration of family ties and musical legacies, “Now’s the Time” is a meditation on jazz and jazz players. Drawing inspiration from the lives of musical giants, Strauss has created a fictional work rooted in historical fact, jazz rhythms and harmonies and emotional reality.

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  Grasshoppers In Summer

  Paul Colt

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  Grasshoppers in Summer examines the conflict between Native American plains tribes and the U.S. westward expansion from 1866 to 1876. It begins with the Fetterman massacre and negotiation of the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. That treaty ended Red Cloud's war for control of the Bozeman Trail. President Ulysses S. Grant came to office a year later on a reform platform that included Indian peace policy. Relentless cultural, economic, political and religious pressure frustrated Grant's effort to reform Indian policy. Military, railroad and mining interests conspired to destroy the Fort Laramie Treaty. That broken promise led to the drum beat of war. The plain tribe's last great victory at Greasy Grass would win the bitter spoils of total defeat.

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