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Self, Will My Idea Of Fun: A Cautionary Tale 1994 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1132194. ISBN #0871135655 / 9780871135650. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Self, Will My Idea Of Fun: A Cautionary Tale 1994 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1132194. ISBN #0871135655 / 9780871135650. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Will Self, the man who the Telegraph claims "could write his way out of a nuclear attack," is surely one of the most original and highly acclaimed writers to appear on the scene in the last decade. From Kafka to Cronenberg, Monty Python to Gore Vidal, the range of seemingly incongruous comparisons that have been made about Self serve as testimony to the literary establishment's grappling with what is a truly unique, wonderfully outrageous vision. My Idea of Fun is his long-awaited, extraordinary first novel. The story of a devilishly clever international financier marketing wizard and his young apprentice, My Idea of Fun is both a frighteningly dark subterranean exploration of capitalism run rampant and a wickedly sharp, technically acute display of linguistic pyrotechnics that glows with pure white-hot brilliance. Ian Wharton is a very ordinary young man until he is taken under the wing of a gentleman known variously as Mr. Broadhurst, Samuel Northcliff, and finally and conclusively simply as the Fat Controller. Loud-mouthed, impeccably tailored, a fount of bombastic erudition, the Fat Controller initiates Ian into the dark secrets of his arts - of marketing, money, and the human psyche - and takes Ian, and the reader, on a wild voyage around the edges of reality. As we careen into the twenty-first century, Self perfectly captures the zeitgeist of our times: money is the only common language; consumerism, violence, and psychosis drug-induced and otherwise prevail; and the human soul has become the ultimate product. The object of frenetic attention in Britain, where it has been both lauded and attacked, My Idea of Fun is, as one critic said, a "novel in sparkling inventive prose, that crackles with hell-fire."
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Seligman, Courtney Two Pigs And a Chicken 2004 paperback. Signed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1101464. ISBN #1594573557 / 9781594573552. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Seligman, Courtney Two Pigs And a Chicken 2004 paperback. Signed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1101464. ISBN #1594573557 / 9781594573552. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The farmer takes a waif... When Gael bought Aramie, he presumed that they would just live together as friends, and that would be that. But he soon discovered that the dispirited girl who plodded behind her uncle's wagon was actually a captivating young woman, and as she almost literally blossomed before his eyes, he found it more and more difficult to think of her as someone he couldn't be interested in. And he couldn't be interested in her. He hadn't rescued her from her uncle, only to ruin her life, himself. He'd bought her to save her, and save her he would, no matter what it entailed..
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Sellers-Garcia, Sylvia When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep Riverhead Books 2007 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1101975. ISBN #1594489548 / 9781594489549. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Sellers-Garcia, Sylvia When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep Riverhead Books 2007 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1101975. ISBN #1594489548 / 9781594489549. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The award-winning debut novel that ?brings to mind the atmosphere and tension of Gabriel Garc a M rquez.? Katharine Weber, author of The Little Women N tido Am n knows he was born in Guatemala, but he doesn?t know why his family left. Raised in the States by his immigrant parents, they never talked about it. When N tido loses his father to Alzheimer?s disease, his despondent mother grows increasingly silent and N tido realizes that his links to the past are disappearing. Seeking answers, N tido travels to Guatemala against his mother?s wishes. Upon his arrival in the small town of R o Roto, he is mistaken for the new priest, and decides to play the part. From his parishioners, he catches tantalizing and frightening glimpses of the buried history he?s aching to know. In a place shrouded in secrets, N tido is at once determined and frightened to unearth the unnamed horrors it has seen. With her elegant, hypnotic prose, this marks Sellers- Garc a?s arrival as a distinctive new voice in fiction.
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Selznick, Matthew Wayne Pilgrimage Volume 2 2013 paperback. Signed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1108589. ISBN #0976942488 / 9780976942481. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Semple, Maria Today Will Be Different Back Bay Books 2017 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1156154. ISBN #0316403458 / 9780316403450. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Semple, Maria Today Will Be Different Back Bay Books 2017 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1156154. ISBN #0316403458 / 9780316403450. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In development with HBO as a series starring Julia Roberts Instant New York Times Bestseller Named a Notable Book of 2016 by the Washington Post, one of Amazon's Top 100 Books of the Year, one of New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books, one of The Guardian's Best Books of 2016, one of NPR's Best Books of 2016, a Must-Read Book of 2016 by PopSugar , one of EW 's 20 Best Books of 2016, one of Glamour's Top Ten Books of the Year, and one of Kirkus Reviews' "Best 100 Fiction Books of 2016" A brilliant novel from the author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette , about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future. Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won't swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action-life happens. Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into his mother's company. It's also the day Joe has chosen to tell his office-but not Eleanor-that he's on vacation. Just when it seems like things can't go more awry, an encounter with a former colleague produces a graphic memoir whose dramatic tale threatens to reveal a buried family secret. TODAY WILL BE DIFFERENT is a hilarious, heart-filled story about reinvention, sisterhood, and how sometimes it takes facing up to our former selves to truly begin living.
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Serena, Anthony FBI Murders 2003 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1037977. ISBN #0972798498 / 9780972798495. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Serena, Anthony FBI Murders 2003 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1037977. ISBN #0972798498 / 9780972798495. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The Murder of J. Edgar Hoover On May 1, 1972, J Edgar Hoover drove home after a full day's work, satisfied that another May Day had passed and, thanks to his singular effort, America had not fallen before the communist juggernaut. He had dinner with his ailing associate, Clyde Tolsen, and spent the next thirty minutes rough-housing with his dogs on the rear lawn of his suburban Washington home. He retired early. And died peacefully in his sleep. OR DID HE ? Patrick Desmond, a young architect living the good life in 1970's Boston, comes into an inheritance that hurtles him from his "yuppie" life style into the perilous world of political intrigue. A week after J. Edgar Hoover's death, Patrick's uncle--Francis X. Cavanaugh, Inspector, FBI--and another high-level bureau executive die under the most unusual circumstances. Patrick's inheritance: Inspector Cavanaugh's journal detailing deceit and betrayal at the highest levels of the United States government. AND SOMEONE WANTS THIS JOURNAL ENOUGH TO KILL FOR IT This novel touches on many of the events that fractured the social and political structure of America during the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations and reveals that J. Edgar Hoover had more potential assassins than Abraham Lincoln. Inspector Cavanaugh is involved in investigations into the assassinations of JFK and Martin Luther King, Jr., the Black Power movement, New Orleans DA Jim Garrison's "Truth of Consequences" grand jury, religious fundamentalism, a FBI agent that might be a serial killer, a SSS board that refused to induct draftees, a FBI agent driven berserk by his wife's poodle, the cult murders of a couple and their three daughters, the torture-murder of a Black Panther member by the Ladies Auxilliary, and mass murders and deportations of young blacks by the Ku Klux Klan's secret "Silver Dollar Club." As Patrick sets off on a picaresque flight through Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Washington and California to solve the FBI murders and perhaps save his own life, he establishes a long queue of possible assassins including the Ku Klux Klan, Hoover's domestic staff, the FBI, the CIA, the Nixon White House, students of the New Left, Catholic priests, renegade Mormons and others.
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Serle, Rebecca Dinner List Flatiron 2018 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1144055. ISBN #1250295181 / 9781250295187. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Seth, Vikram A Suitable Boy HarperCollins 1993 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151834. ISBN #0060170123 / 9780060170127. (keywords: INDIA FICTION) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Seth, Vikram A Suitable Boy HarperCollins Publishers 1993 hardcover. First Edition. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1149467. ISBN #0060170123 / 9780060170127. (keywords: Fiction) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Seth, Vikram A Suitable Boy HarperPerennial 1994 paperback. Small mark on top edge.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1158139. ISBN #0060925000 / 9780060925000. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Seth, Vikram A Suitable Boy HarperPerennial 1994 paperback. Small mark on top edge.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1158139. ISBN #0060925000 / 9780060925000. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: the tale of Lata's--and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra's--attempts to find a suitable boy for Lata, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set in the early 1950s in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, A Suitable Boy takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves. A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, A Suitable Boy remains the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of love and ambition, humor and sadness, prejudice and reconciliation, the most delicate social etiquette and the most appalling violence.
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Seth, Vikram A Suitable Boy: A Novel Perennial 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151700. ISBN #0060786523 / 9780060786526. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Seth, Vikram Golden Gate Vintage 1987 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151846. ISBN #0394549740 / 9780394549743. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Seton, Anya Green Darkness hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1112127. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Seton, Anya Turquoise Sun Dial 1947 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Acceptable. Book #or1145418. (keywords: Sante Fe Cameron Mexico New Mexico Historical Fiction Saints) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Seton, Cynthia Propper Fine Romance 1982 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1018925. ISBN #0393300323 / 9780393300321. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Seton, Cynthia Propper Fine Romance 1982 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1018925. ISBN #0393300323 / 9780393300321. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary An elegantly written comedy of manners, constructed around serious ideas ideas jovially and sometimes outrageously explored by a group of civilized people. . . .It has been a long time since so much sparkling, quirky talk has appeared in an American novel. . . .This novel is a pure, a rare delight. Eugenia Thornton, Cleveland Plain Dealer Shines with elusive insights about persons we recognize at once as acquaintances and friends, caught briefly in events that are part of their upper-class life, part of their inevitable sexual prisons, part of their middle age. To be able to say consistently interesting things about these embroilments class, sex, age is a triumph for a novelist. Cynthia Propper Seton has pulled off just such a triumph. Doris Grumbach, Los Angeles Times
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Setterfield, Diane The Thirteenth Tale Washington Square Press 2006 paperback. Previous owner bookplate. Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1141032. ISBN #0743298039 / 9780743298032. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Setterfield, Diane The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel Washington Square Press 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1138050. ISBN #0743298039 / 9780743298032. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Setterfield, Diane The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel Washington Square Press 2007 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1138050. ISBN #0743298039 / 9780743298032. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Sometimes, when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny. Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve enchanting stories, has spent the past six decades penning a series of alternate lives for herself. Now old and ailing, she is ready to reveal the truth about her extraordinary existence and the violent and tragic past she has kept secret for so long. Calling on Margaret Lea, a young biographer troubled by her own painful history, Vida disinters the life she meant to bury for good. Margaret is mesmerized by the author's tale of gothic strangeness -- featuring the beautiful and willful Isabelle, the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline, a ghost, a governess,a topiary garden and a devastating fire. Together, Margaret and Vida confront the ghosts that have haunted them while becoming, finally, transformed by the truth themselves.
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Severin, Tim Viking: Odinn's Child Pan Macmillan 2005 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1047673. ISBN #0330426737 / 9780330426732. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Severin, Tim Viking: Odinn's Child Pan Macmillan 2005 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1047673. ISBN #0330426737 / 9780330426732. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In 1001, the young child, Thorgils Leiffson, son of Leif the Lucky and Thorgunna, arrives on the shores of Greenland to be brought up by a young woman Gudrid. Thorgils is a rootless character of quicksilver intelligence and adaptability. He has inherited his mother s ability of second sight, and his mentors teach him the ancient ways and warn him of the invasion of the White Christ into the land of the Old Gods. Guided by a restless quest for adventure and the wanderlust of his favored god, Odinn, Thorgils fortunes will take him into worlds of unimaginable danger and discovery.
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Severin, Tim Viking: Sworn Brother Pan Macmillan 2005 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1047744. ISBN #0330426745 / 9780330426749. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Severin, Tim Viking: Sworn Brother Pan Macmillan 2005 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1047744. ISBN #0330426745 / 9780330426749. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In London in 1019, a few months have passed since Thorgils escaped the clutches of the Irish Church, only to find himself at the center of a capricious love affair with Aelfgifu wife of Knut the Great, ruler of England, and one of the most powerful men of the Viking empire. As this passionate relationship between the two begins to unfold, it forebodes inevitable consequences. When Thorgils is finally on the run again, he meets Grettir, an outlaw feared for his volatility, and the two become travel companions and sworn brothers. At the gates of Byzantium, Thorgils loyalty is put to the ultimate test.
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Sewell, Anna Black Beauty Children's Classics 1986 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1152706. ISBN #0517618842 / 9780517618844. (keywords: Children Fiction Horses Nineteenth Century 19th England) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Sey, Susan Time For Trouble 2015 paperback. Signed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1128890. ISBN #1938580117 / 9781938580116. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Sey, Susan Time For Trouble 2015 paperback. Signed by Author. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1128890. ISBN #1938580117 / 9781938580116. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Family first... To Drew Blake, happiness is very simple: Never want more than you have. Never risk what you re afraid to lose. And above all, never get attached. Outside of his family, there s nothing and nobody that Drew takes seriously. Except Meg, his best friend forever. Your fight is my fight... Meghan Wise doesn t do casual. She fights hard, she works hard and she falls hard. One kiss and she knew that Drew would be a man worth having. But more importantly? He d be a friend worth keeping. Which meant no more kissing. Ever. It s a promise she s kept for eight long years, and with no regrets. Until a dead man shows up at happy hour, looking for a favor. What we have, we share... A rootless childhood left Drew with lots of loose ends, abandoned friends and unpaid debts. So when an old friend who isn t nearly as dead as Drew had been led to believe walks into Drew s favorite bar looking for help, Drew s all over it. But the guy wants more than a favor. He wants Meg. And suddenly Drew s looking at his best friend in a whole new light... Then love changes everything.
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Shaara, Jeff Glorious Cause: A Novel Of The American Revolution Ballantine Books 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or986248. ISBN #0345427564 / 9780345427564. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Shaara, Jeff Glorious Cause: A Novel Of The American Revolution Ballantine Books 2002 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or986248. ISBN #0345427564 / 9780345427564. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In Rise to Rebellion , bestselling author Jeff Shaara captured the origins of the American Revolution as brilliantly as he depicted the Civil War in Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure . Now he continues the amazing saga of how thirteen colonies became a nation, taking the conflict from kingdom and courtroom to the bold and bloody battlefields of war. It was never a war in which the outcome was obvious. Despite their spirit and stamina, the colonists were outmanned and outfought by the brazen British army. General George Washington found his troops trounced in the battles of Brooklyn and Manhattan and retreated toward Pennsylvania. With the future of the colonies at its lowest ebb, Washington made his most fateful decision: to cross the Delaware River and attack the enemy. The stunning victory at Trenton began a saga of victory and defeat that concluded with the British surrender at Yorktown, a moment that changed the history of the world. The despair and triumph of America s first great army is conveyed in scenes as powerful as any Shaara has written, a story told from the points of view of some of the most memorable characters in American history. There is George Washington, the charismatic leader who held his army together to achieve an unlikely victory; Charles Cornwallis, the no-nonsense British general, more than a match for his colonial counterpart; Nathaniel Greene, who rose from obscurity to become the finest battlefield commander in Washington s army; The Marquis de Lafayette, the young Frenchman who brought a soldier s passion to America; and Benjamin Franklin, a brilliant man of science and philosophy who became the finest statesman of his day. From Nathan Hale to Benedict Arnold, William Howe to Light Horse Harry Lee, from Trenton and Valley Forge, Brandywine and Yorktown, the American Revolution s most immortal characters and poignant moments are brought to life in remarkable Shaara style. Yet, The Glorious Cause is more than just a story of the legendary six-year struggle. It is a tribute to an amazing people who turned ideas into action and fought to declare themselves free. Above all, it is a riveting novel that both expands and surpasses its beloved author
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Shaara, Jeff Gods And Generals Ballantine Books 1996 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or777129. ISBN #0345404920 / 9780345404923. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Shaara, Jeff Gods And Generals Ballantine Books 1996 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or777129. ISBN #0345404920 / 9780345404923. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this brilliantly written epic novel, Jeff Shaara traces the lives, passions, and careers of the great military leaders from the first gathering clouds of the Civil War. Here is Thomas Stonewall Jackson, a hopelessly by-the-book military instructor and devout Christian who becomes the greatest commander of the Civil War; Winfield Scott Hancock, a captain of quartermasters who quickly establishes himself as one of the finest leaders of the Union army; Joshua Chamberlain, who gives up his promising academic career and goes on to become one of the most heroic soldiers in American history; and Robert E. Lee, never believing until too late that a civil war would ever truly come to pass. Profound in its insights into the minds and hearts of those who fought in the war, Gods and Generals creates a vivid portrait of the soldiers, the battlefields, and the tumultuous times that forever shaped the nation. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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