Although James Hall was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, he has spent the last thirty-five years in Florida. He graduated from Florida Presbyterian College (now Eckerd College) in the late Sixties. He went on to do graduate work at Johns Hopkins and University of Utah, and he's been teaching literature and creative writing at Florida International University for the last 28 years. Many of his former students have gone on to publish novels of their own. Dennis Lehane, Barbara Parker, Vicki Hendricks and Chris Kling all studied with Jim. As a long time fan of Ross MacDonald, John D. MacDonald, Chandler, Hammet and Dutch Leonard, Hall wrote his first crime thriller, Under Cover of Daylight, in 1986, and he's gone on to publish nine more in the years since, including Rough Draft, Body Language, Red Sky at Night, Buzz Cut, Gone Wild, Mean High Tide, Hard Aground, Bones of Coral, Tropical Freeze, and Under Cover of Daylight. He recommends...

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The Poisonwood Bible (Hardcover)

By Barbara Kingsolver

$26.00

ISBN-13: 9780060995386
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: HarperCollins Publishers, 8/1998

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In 1959, Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist, takes his four young daughters, his wife, and his mission to the Belgian Congo -- a place, he is sure, where he can save needy souls. But the seeds they plant bloom in tragic ways within this complex culture. Set against one of the most dramatic political events of the twentieth century -- the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium and its devastating consequences -- here is New York Times-bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver's beautiful, heartbreaking, and unforgettable epic that chronicles the disintegration of family and a nation. "I'm probably the last person in America to read this wonderful book. Beautifully written, funny, moving and a novel with enormous scope and gravity."

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Six months ago, Lucas Davenport tackled his first case as a statewide troubleshooter, and he thought that one was plenty strange enough. But that was before the Russian got killed. On the shore of Lake Superior, a man named Rodion Oleshev is found shot dead, three holes in his head and his heart, and though nobody knows why, everybody -- the local cops, the FBI, and the Russians themselves -- has a theory. And when it turns out he had very high government connections, that's when it hits the fan. "Sandford's series character, Lucas Davenport, never disappoints."

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Gone with the Wind (Hardcover)

By Margaret Mitchell

$25.00

ISBN-13: 9780025853904
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Published: MacMillan Publishing Company, 9/1936

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First published in 1936, Gone With the Wind is a grand, passionate story about the American Civil War from the view of the confederacy. It is the story of Scarlett O'Hara, a stubborn Southern belle who never stops loving Ashley Wilkes, an moral man who is happily married. "A real treasure that is written with a lot more irony and self-deprecating humor than I'd remembered."

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