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    God’s Country

    Percival Everett, Madison Smartt Bell

    "The unlikely narrator through this tale of misadventures is one Curt Marder: gambler, drinker, cheat, and would-be womanizer. It's 1871, and he's lost his farm, his wife, and his dog…

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    Toussaint Louverture: A Biography

    Madison Smartt Bell

    In this fascinating biography, the first about Toussaint Louverture to appear in English in more than 50 years, Bell combines a novelist’s passion for his subject with a deep knowledge…

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    Save Me, Joe Louis

    Madison Smartt Bell

    From the bestselling author of Soldier’s Joy and Waiting for the End of the World comes a novel about the perils of living an unexamined life that scratches the underbelly…

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    Devil’s Dream

    Madison Smartt Bell

    A powerful new novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most reviled, celebrated, and legendary of Civil War generals.Forrest off the

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    Lavoisier in the Year One

    Madison Smartt Bell

    Building on his celebrated trilogy about the 18th-century Haitian uprisings, the author dramatically re-creates this turbulent era of reason and revolution, and the works of Antoine Lavoisier who so thoroughly…

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    Save Me, Joe Louis

    Madison Smartt Bell

    From the bestselling author of Soldier’s Joy and Waiting for the End of the World comes a novel about the perils of living an unexamined life that scratches the underbelly…

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    Soldier’s Joy

    Madison Smartt Bell

    A man returns home from Vietnam to his now abandoned family homestead outside of Nashville, suffering from a serious psychological wound incurred in combat. He meets up with a childhood…

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    Doctor Sleep

    Madison Smartt Bell

    A Scotland Yard searches for a ritualistic serial killer, an insomniac American hypnotherapist is enlisted to use his newly-found telekinetic powers to communicate with a young mute girl. Now a…

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    The Stone That the Builder Refused

    Madison Smartt Bell

    The finale in the Toussaint Louverture trilogy spans the last two years of Toussaint’s life, his triumphant struggle and the compromises made for a free Haiti. Toussaint was the legendary…

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    Master of the Crossroads

    Madison Smartt Bell

    Against the 1793 slave revolt of Haiti’s Saint Dominigue, the author of All Souls’ Rising gives a kaleidoscopic portrait of the remarkable Toussaint Louverture. The black leader’s beliefs, passions, and…

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    Behind the Moon

    Madison Smartt Bell

    A hypnotizing tale of a daughter’s journey into a numinous dream state, and a mother’s intuitive pilgrimage of atonement.

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    Narrative Design: Working with Imagination, Craft and Form

    Madison Smartt Bell

    In essays and analyses of 12 stories by established writers and students, bestselling author Madison Smartt Bell emphasizes the primary importance of form as the backdrop against which all other…

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    Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stone

    Madison Smartt Bell

    The first and definitive biography of one of the great American novelists of the postwar era, Robert Stone –

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    All Souls’ Rising: A Novel of Haiti (1)

    Madison Smartt Bell

    The Haiti of this novel is a malarial, fetid place, haunted by its genocidal past. The slaves are planning a rebellion and the aristocratic French plantation owners are preparing to…

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    Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution

    Madison Smartt Bell

    Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry. This narrative describes the circumstances that enabled Lavoisier to secure his reputation, a considerable fortune and social connections, and also caused his glory to be cut…

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    The Color of Night

    Madison Smartt Bell

    From the Manson murders to the fall of the World Trade Towers, The Color of Night is about the persistence of violence in America as experienced through the mind of…

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    Lavoisier En El Ano Uno de la Revolucion: El Nacimiento de Una Nueva Ciencia En La Era de Las Revoluciones

    Madison Smartt Bell

    Aunque el nacimiento de una nueva ciencia siempre constituya un hito historico, no es frecuente que una revolucion cientifica tenga como telon de fondo una revolucion politica. El destino quiso…

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    The Eye You See With: Selected Nonfiction

    Robert Stone,Madison Smartt Bell

    The definitive collection of nonfiction–from war reporting to literary criticism to the sharpest political writing–from the legend of American letters (Vanity Fair)

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    Robert Stone: Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, Outerbridge Reach (LOA #328)

    Robert Stone

    This volume brings together three novels by one of the most spellbinding writers of his generation, suspenseful masterworks that brilliantly capture the desperate underside of American life in the 1970s…

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    Conversation: A New Theory of Language

    Carl H. Flygt

    Takes the phenomenon of human conversation and analyses it to understand its relationship with social organisation and cultural background, based on the concepts of Rudolf Steiner’s threefold social order.

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    Nan Domi: An Initiate’s Journey into Haitian Vodou

    Mimerose Beaubrun

    The first and only insider’s account of Vodou’s private, mystical, interior practice, a compelling story of initiation and transformation.

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    Savage Seasons

    Kettly Mars

    Savage Seasons recounts a woman’s efforts to free her husband, a journalist arrested by the brutal regime of the Haitian government in the 1960s –

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    Tradition Im Uebergang: Untersuchungen Zu Den Kurzgeschichten Der Suedstaatenautoren Bobbie Ann Mason, Madison Smartt Bell Und Richard Bausch

    Andreas Beilmann

    Originally presented as the author’s thesis (doctoral)–Universiteat Bochum, 2003.

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    EIMI: A Journey Through Soviet Russia

    E. E. Cummings

    Presents the diary of a trip to Russia in the 1930s.

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    City of Artists: Baltimore

    A paean to Baltimore's creative spirit, penned by its resident authors and visual artists

    Baltimore has fostered literary and artistic excellence for over a century. City of Artists chronicles this…

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