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2025
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
"Patricia Smith is the greatest living poet. Every book is better than the last." —Danez Smith, The Guardian
"In The Intentions of Thunder, language itself becomes weather—charged, clarifying, and resounding, a form of resurrection and survival." —National Book Award Judges' Citation
A collection of the finest new and selected poems from one of...
"Patricia Smith is the greatest living poet. Every book is better than the last." —Danez Smith, The Guardian
"In The Intentions of Thunder, language itself becomes weather—charged, clarifying, and resounding, a form of resurrection and survival." —National Book Award Judges' Citation
A collection of the finest new and selected poems from one of...
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When Gore Vidal's recent New York Times bestseller Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace was published, the Los Angeles Times described Vidal as the last defender of the American republic. In Dreaming War, Vidal continues this defense by confronting the Cheney-Bush junta head on in a series of devastating essays that demolish the lies American Empire lives by, unveiling a counter-history that traces the origins of America's current imperial ambitions...
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"I am seeking to rescue the poor stockinger, the Luddite cropper, the "obsolete" hand-loom weaver, the "utopian" artisan, and even the deluded . . . from the enormous condescension of posterity. Their crafts and traditions may have been dying. Their hostility to the new industrialism may have been backward-looking. Their communitarian ideals may have been fantasies. Their insurrectionary conspiracies may have been foolhardy. But they lived through...
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Novels of the Civil War volume 3
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"New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil War terrain he knows so well, with the latest novel in the series that started with A Blaze of Glory and A Chain of Thunder. In The Smoke at Dawn, the last great push of the Army of the Cumberland sets the stage for a decisive confrontation at Chattanooga that could determine the outcome of the war. Summer, 1863. The Federal triumph at Vicksburg has secured complete control of the...
