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by William Faulkner
Go Down, Moses is composed of seven interrelated stories, all of them set in Faulkner's mythic Yoknapatawpha County. From a variety of perspectives, Faulkner examines the complex, changing relationships between blacks and whites, between man and nature, weaving a cohesive novel rich in implication and insight.
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by Firoozeh Dumas
In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father’s glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and the clan has been here ever since. . . .
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by Osprey Publishing
Using the Essential Histories for a deeper examination of
key wars.
Essential Histories, published by Osprey Publishing, is
a series
of books on the history of war. These books can be used in
courses on military history or,
as would be more typical in a
high
school classroom, they can supplement discussions and activities in
survey courses in United States or world history classes . . .
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more >
by William Faulkner
Forty-two stories make up this magisterial collection by the writer who stands at the pinnacle of modern American fiction. Compressing an epic expanse of vision into hard and wounding narratives, Faulkner's stories evoke the intimate textures of place, the deep strata of history and legend, and all the fear, brutality, and tenderness of the human condition.
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