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The Poetry of Robert Frost

by Robert Frost • 1969

The Poetry of Robert Frost

by Robert Frost 1969 607 pages

by Thomas Pynchon • 1973

by Thomas Pynchon 1973 776 pages

by Raymond Carver • 1983

by Raymond Carver 1983 230 pages

by Kash Patel • 2023

The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy

The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy

by Kash Patel 2023 320 pages

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

by Sylvia Plath • 1977

Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

by Sylvia Plath 1977 336 pages

بهترین داستان های کوتاه

by Ernest Hemingway • 1987

بهترین داستان های کوتاه

by Ernest Hemingway 1987 439 pages

by J.D. Salinger • 1957

by J.D. Salinger 1957

by Thomas E. Ricks • 2020

What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

by Thomas E. Ricks 2020 416 pages

Sometimes a Great Notion

by Ken Kesey • 1964

Sometimes a Great Notion

by Ken Kesey 1964 628 pages

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

by John Fante • 1938

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

by John Fante 1938 266 pages

by Richard Yates • 1961

by Richard Yates 1961 355 pages

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays

by Tennessee Williams • 1955

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays

by Tennessee Williams 1955 329 pages

The Liberal Tradition in America

by Louis Hartz • 1955

The Liberal Tradition in America

by Louis Hartz 1955 348 pages

by Pietro Di Donato • 1937

by Pietro Di Donato 1937 236 pages

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

by Charles Bukowski • 1986

You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

by Charles Bukowski 1986 320 pages

by Theodore Dreiser • 1947

by Theodore Dreiser 1947 334 pages

by Ernest Hemingway • 1927

by Ernest Hemingway 1927 153 pages

by Bill Bryson • 1989

Travels in Small-Town America

Travels in Small-Town America

by Bill Bryson 1989 299 pages

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald • 1922

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1922 422 pages

by William Blum • 2000

A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

The United States Of America

Rogue State

A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

by William Blum 2000 393 pages

The United States Of America

To Build a Fire

by Jack London • 2003

by Jack London 2003 32 pages

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

by Edgar Allan Poe • 1999

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

by Edgar Allan Poe 1999 288 pages

by Lionel Shriver • 2013

by Lionel Shriver 2013 384 pages

by Hank Moody • 2009

by Hank Moody 2009 200 pages

by Mark Twain • 1893

by Mark Twain 1893 160 pages

The Age of Entitlement

by Christopher Caldwell • 2020

America Since the Sixties

The Age of Entitlement

America Since the Sixties

by Christopher Caldwell 2020 352 pages

The Pleasures of the Damned

by Charles Bukowski • 2007

The Pleasures of the Damned

by Charles Bukowski 2007 557 pages

by Renata Adler • 1976

by Renata Adler 1976 192 pages

by Chuck Palahniuk • 2001

by Chuck Palahniuk 2001 293 pages

by Bret Easton Ellis • 1985

by Bret Easton Ellis 1985 208 pages

by Robert Dreyfuss • 2005

How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam

How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam

by Robert Dreyfuss 2005 400 pages

by Greg Grandin • 2019

From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

by Greg Grandin 2019 369 pages

The Republic for Which It Stands

by Richard White • 2017

The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896

The Republic for Which It Stands

The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896

by Richard White 2017 962 pages

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald • 1920

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1920 268 pages

by Henry James • 1879

by Henry James 1879 164 pages

Why Americans Hate Politics

by E.J. Dionne Jr. • 1991

Why Americans Hate Politics

by E.J. Dionne Jr. 1991 589 pages

A View from the Bridge

by Arthur Miller • 1977

A View from the Bridge

A Play in Two Acts

by Arthur Miller 1977 96 pages

by Lindsey A. O'Rourke • 2018

America's Secret Cold War

4.14

History

Politics

International Relations

Covert Regime Change

America's Secret Cold War

by Lindsey A. O'Rourke 2018 330 pages

International Relations

The Coming China Wars

by Peter Navarro • 2006

Where They Will Be Fought And How They Can Be Won

The Coming China Wars

Where They Will Be Fought And How They Can Be Won

by Peter Navarro 2006 263 pages

We Are the Change We Seek

by E.J. Dionne Jr. • 2017

The Speeches of Barack Obama

We Are the Change We Seek

The Speeches of Barack Obama

by E.J. Dionne Jr. 2017 369 pages

by Philip Roth • 1988

A Novelist's Autobiography

A Novelist's Autobiography

by Philip Roth 1988 208 pages

by Victor Davis Hanson • 2019

by Victor Davis Hanson 2019 400 pages

The Wisdom of the Heart

by Henry Miller • 1941

The Wisdom of the Heart

by Henry Miller 1941 250 pages

by Mark R. Levin • 2004

A Conservative Manifesto

A Conservative Manifesto

by Mark R. Levin 2004 245 pages

by Steve Coll • 2012

ExxonMobil and American Power

ExxonMobil and American Power

by Steve Coll 2012 685 pages

Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

by William James • 1958

Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

by William James 1958 272 pages

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

by David Foster Wallace • 2005

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

by David Foster Wallace 2005 505 pages

No Democracy Lasts Forever

by Erwin Chemerinsky • 2024

How the Constitution Threatens the United States

No Democracy Lasts Forever

How the Constitution Threatens the United States

by Erwin Chemerinsky 2024 240 pages

National Security Cinema

by Matthew Alford • 2017

The Shocking New Evidence of Government Control in Hollywood

National Security Cinema

The Shocking New Evidence of Government Control in Hollywood

by Matthew Alford 2017 265 pages

The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems

by T.S. Eliot • 1922

The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems

by T.S. Eliot 1922 88 pages

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