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American Book Award
The American Book Award was established in 1978 by the Before Columbus Foundation. It seeks to recognize outstanding literary achievement by contemporary American authors, without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre. This should not be confused with the National Book Awards which...
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Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern novel written by Thomas Pynchon and first published on February 28, 1973.
The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the...
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (commonly GEB) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas Hofstadter, described as "a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll".
On its surface, GEB examines logician Kurt...
Ceremony
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Future preconditional
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All I Asking for Is My Body
All I Asking for Is My Body is a book written by Milton Murayama.
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time of voice
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shameless hussy
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Turn again to me, and other poems
Turn again to me, and other poems is a book written by Helen Adam.
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Back Then Tomorrow
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The Liberties
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Songs for Jadina
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Traveling Light
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The chickencoop Chinaman ; and, The year of the dragon
The chickencoop Chinaman ; and, The year of the dragon is a book written by Frank Chin.
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Pre-faces & other writings
Pre-faces & other writings is a book written by Jerome Rothenberg.
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Songs for the Harvester of Dreams
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Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets
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The Shino Suite: Japanese-American Poetry
The Shino Suite: Japanese-American Poetry is a book written by Ronald Phillip Tanaka.
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Obasan
Obasan is a novel by the Japanese-Canadian author Joy Kogawa. First published by Lester and Orpen Dennys in 1981, it chronicles Canada's internment and persecution of its citizens of Japanese descent during World War II from the perspective of a...
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Marked by Fire
Marked by Fire (ISBN 0-380-79327-X) is a 1982 novel by Joyce Carol Thomas that won the United States 1983 National Book Award. The story follows the life of Abyssinia "Abby" Jackson, whose home in Oklahoma is destroyed by a tornado and fire.
Pet food & tropical apparitions
Pet food & tropical apparitions is a book written by Jessica Hagedorn.
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Californians: Searching for the Golden State
Californians: Searching for the Golden State is a book written by James D. Houston.
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Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, 1892-1976
Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, 1892-1976 is a book written by Barbara Christian.
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Chinese Folk Poetry
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Thirty: An Seen a Lot
Thirty: An Seen a Lot is a book written by Evangelina Vigil-Piñón.
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Legend of Food Mountain: LA Montana Del Alimento
Legend of Food Mountain: LA Montana Del Alimento is a book written by Harriet Rohmer.
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Love Medicine
Love Medicine is Louise Erdrich’s first novel, published in 1984. Erdrich revised and expanded the novel for an edition issued in 1993, and this version is now considered the definitive edition. Erdrich explores sixty years of a small group of...
Praisesong for the Widow
Praisesong for the Widow is a novel by Paule Marshall which takes place in the mid seventies, chronicling the life of Avey Johnson, a sixty-four year old African American widow on a physical and emotional journey in the Caribbean island of Carriacou...
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Echoes inside the labyrinth
Echoes inside the labyrinth is a book written by Thomas McGrath.
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Pie-Biter = Comepastels
Pie-Biter = Comepastels is a book written by Ruthanne Lum McCunn.
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Days without weather
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A Puerto Rican in New York, and Other Sketches
A Puerto Rican in New York, and Other Sketches is a book written by Jesús Colón.
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