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"First published in 1926, this book is Willa Cather's sparest and most dramatic novel, a dark and prescient portrait of a marriage that subverts our oldest notions about the nature of domestic happiness. As a young woman, Myra Henshawe gave up a fortune to marry for love--a boldly romantic gesture that became a legend in her family. But this worldly, sarcastic, and perhaps even wicked woman may have been made for something greater than love. In her...
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CAL volume 18
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A collection of over one hundred tribal tales drawn from government documents, old periodicals and histories, reports of anthropologists and folklorists, and personal interviews with Indians of Washington and Oregon.
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A novel on a World War II internment camp for Japanese-Americans whose hero is a white pacifist. He is Denton Jordan, a conscientious objector employed as an administrator by the U.S. government. Through his eyes is seen the mounting violence between the military, who have banned Japanese speech, and the resentful young inmates. By the author of Green Fires.