February 18th, 2009

Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1865-1869
by Stephen E. Ambrose
Published 2000 by Simon & Schuster

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780684846095

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The Union had won the Civil War and slavery had been abolished. Abraham Lincoln, however, would not live to see the next great achievement of the American people-the building of the transcontinental railroad. This fascinating book opens with Lincoln, who had championed the building of railroads as a young lawyer, and ends with the golden stake as the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific are linked in 1869.... More...

March 18th, 2009

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Earle Stegner
Published 1992 by Penguin Books

Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780140169300

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Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel--the magnificent story of four generations in the life of an American family. A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead. The unfolding drama of the story of the American West sets the tone for Stegner's masterpiece. More...

April 15th, 2009

The Heart of the Matter
by Graham Greene
Published 1948 by Viking Books

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780670364596

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May 20th, 2009

Five Quarters of the Orange
by Joanne Harris
Published 2001 by William Morrow & Company

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780060198138

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June 17th, 2009

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
by Alexandra Fuller
Published 2001 by Random House

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780375507502

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