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The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to Charleston and to lifelong friendship.

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Pat Conroy has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. '
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

Master storyteller Ben Macintyre’s most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century’s greatest spy story.

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A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential writers of the nineteenth century.

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Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and inept businessman, fond of drinking to excess; or as the triumphant but brutal Union ge…

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A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor.

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