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Book cover with author name and book title and image of a a butterfly at the bottom of a mason jar
Julia Alvarez
In the Time of the Butterflies
Advice from the Lights cover
Stephanie Burt
Advice from the Lights
Five Skies cover: photo of a western landscape with the sky taking a large area of the picture
Ron Carlson
Five Skies
Pael yellow book cover with author name in brown and title in green, will a very positive blurb and a seal noting the book won the NBCC prize fo autobiography
Edwidge Danticat
Brother, I'm Dying
Postcolonial Love Poem cover
Natalie Diaz
Postcolonial Love Poem
Essential Emily Dickinson Cover
Emily Dickinson
The Essential Emily Dickinson
Infinite Country book cover
Patricia Engel
Infinite Country
Love Medicine book cover
Louise Erdrich
Love Medicine
Book cover: author name in large white serif, title in black large sans serif, background a huge red field as a cape covering most of a woman except har face just above the eyes with streaming black hair
Louise Erdrich
The Round House
A Lesson Before Dying Book Cover - typographic layout with author name and book title with small image of an African American man standing beneath a wooden structure
Ernest J. Gaines
A Lesson Before Dying
The Paperbark Shoe cover
Goldie Goldbloom
The Paperbark Shoe
The Maltese Falcon book cover
Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon
An American Sunrise book cover
Joy Harjo
An American Sunrise
Book cover with title and author name over an aerial shot of three native american dancers in eagle costumes moving in a line from right to left
Joy Harjo
How We Became Human
A Farewell to Arms book cover
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
Book cover; title in Yellow with background black and white illustration of a woman in a long dress carrying large ceramic vessels approaching the base of a tall wooden ladder
Jorge F. Hernández (editor)
Sun, Stone, and Shadows
Robinson Jeffers cover
Robinson Jeffers
Selected Poetry
Large elaborate typeface for title and author and an illustration of a menacing eagle flying right towards the reader over a blue forbidding landscape
Ursula K. Le Guin
A Wizard of Earthsea
To Kill a Mockingbird book cover
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
Kelly Link
Pretty Monsters
The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories book cover
Jack London
The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories
Book cover: title and author name in white over a background of large night sky and canvas tents illuminated from within behind a stone wall
Emily St. John Mandel
Station Eleven
Book cover: the words The Big Smoke, Poems, Adrian Matejka and a ventered drawing of an African America boxer ready for action
Adrian Matejka
The Big Smoke
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter book cover
Carson McCullers
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Book cover: title in black author name in yellow again a green-blue brushed background sky and dark mountains
Dinaw Mengestu
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Circe Book Cover
Madeline Miller
Circe
Book cover with brushed white lettering for title and author name against an aerial view of deep blue water with a women swimming
Celeste Ng
Everything I Never Told You
The Things They Carried book cover with author name and book title with a blurred image of soldiers carrying their weapons through a forest
Tim O'Brien
The Things They Carried
Book cover: author name in all caps orange, title in white against a background of two hands offering an orange origami bird
Julie Otsuka
When the Emperor Was Divine
Book cover with author name in yellow, title in dark brown over an illustration of a large billowing cloth with a small portion of a large number of metal bars
Cynthia Ozick
The Shawl
In the Heart of the Sea cover
Nathaniel Philbrick
In the Heart of the Sea
Edgar Allan Poe book cover.
Edgar Allan Poe
Great Tales and Poems
Book cover: author name and title in red serif type over a yellow background of an orange watercolor of a banyan tree
Vaddey Ratner
In the Shadow of the Banyan
Book cover: Red border, the words Alberto Rios, A Small Story About the Sky at the top above a large drawing of a woman from behind, hair in a bun, holding a parasol
Alberto Ríos
A Small Story About the Sky
Housekeeping book cover
Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping
Book cover with title and author in black type again a background of faded panels of a wooden door
Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
Heartland book cover
Sarah Smarsh
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
The Joy Luck Club book cover
Amy Tan
The Joy Luck Club
Adventures of Tom Sawyer book cover
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Book cover with title in red and author name in yellowm over a pencil drawing of an alluring woman in half-profile
Luis Alberto Urrea
Into the Beautiful North
Borne cover
Jeff VanderMeer
Borne
Bridge of San Luis Rey book cover
Thornton Wilder
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Old School book cover
Tobias Wolff
Old School
Book cover: title and author name in pink and white outline type over a background of an illustration of a car making its way around a curve on a mountain road
Tobias Wolff
This Boy's Life
Dark organge book cover with author name and title and an illustration of a single eye with several tear running down the page
Kevin Young
Book of Hours
Book cover: Title and author name in handwriting grey in a background of streaming blue arrows in the middle of which tow heads are formed, one by organge arrows, the by blue arrows
Alejandro Zambra
Ways of Going Home