Dominion: A Novel by Calvin Baker from Grove Press is $2.83 (US Kindle)
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With Calvin Baker’s first two novels, Naming The New World and Once Two Heroes, he has continued to be acclaimed by the major media from the Los Angeles Times to Esquire. Now, with Dominion, Baker has written a lush, incantatory novel about three generations of an African American family in the years leading up to the Revolutionary War.
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Blue Highways: A Journey into America by William Least Heat-Moon from Little, Brown and Company is $3.99 (US Kindle)
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Published in 1983 to phenomenal reviews, Blue Highways: A Journey into America became a cult classic on par with Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley in Search of America.
In this highly acclaimed, bestselling memoir, a 38-year-old laid-off college professor of Sioux and white blood drives around the U.S. on the “blue highways, ” the rural back made that are colored blue on old maps. The places he discovers during his 13,000-mile journey are unexpected, sometimes mysterious, and often full of simply the wonder of the ordinary.
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Sweetsmoke by David Fuller from Hyperion is $3.99 (US Kindle)
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Screenwriter David Fuller spent eight years researching Sweetsmoke, in the process discovering that members of his family fought on both sides of the Civil War.
The year is 1862, and the Civil War rages through the South. On a Virginia tobacco plantation, another kind of battle soon begins.
Cassius Howard is a skilled slave, once his master’s favorite. But his master Hoke is now little more than a fragile old man, depressed about an ever-shrinking plantation and losing a son to war. When an old freed woman who once saved Cassius from Hoke’s wrath is killed, Cassius risks everything to avenge her death.
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