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1) Indignation
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Novels volume 02
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What impact can American history have on the life of the vulnerable individual? It is 1951 in America, the second year of the Korean War. A studious, law-abiding, intense youngster from Newark, New Jersey, Marcus Messner, is beginning his sophomore year on the pastoral, conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg College. And why is he there and not at the local college in Newark where he originally enrolled? Because his father, the sturdy, hard-working...
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From Mike Magnuson's Author's Note:The Right Man for the Job was originally published in 1997, and it's based upon my actual experiences working from the fall of 1991 through the winter of 1993 as an account manager and repo man for a rent-to-own company in the poor black neighborhoods of Columbus, Ohio. I worked some other jobs in Columbus during that stretch – temp-service general labor in warehouses and factories and construction sites and even...
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"Peeling apples for tartes tatin, an Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbors, all of them oblivious to what Dupont has dumped into the rivers and what's happening at the factory farm down the interstate--not to mention what was done to the land's first inhabitants. A torrent of consciousness, narrated in a single sentence by a woman whose wandering thoughts...
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"In the sequel to Ways of Dying, Toloki, the professional mourner, comes to America and settles down in Athens, Ohio, where he meets an angry young man, falls in love with the man's sister, and becomes involved with a local quilting group, which provides a gateway to the past and the story of two escaped slaves seeking freedom in Ohio."--NoveList website viewed October 11, 2007.
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"Beyond the skyline of Toledo stands the Toledo Institute of Astronomy, ... a beacon of scientific learning for astronomers far and wide. One of these is George Dermont, ... who's trying to prove the scientific existence of a Gateway to God ... Its newest star is Irene Sparks, a pragmatist and mathematician invited to lead the Institute's work on a massive superconductor being constructed below Toledo. This would be a scientist's dream come true,...
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Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God's will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town while Augustus Voorhees, the idealistic doctor who is killed, leaves behind a wife and children scarred and embittered by grief. In her moving, insightful portrait, Joyce Carol Oates fully inhabits the perspectives of two interwoven families whose destinies are defined by their warring convictions and...
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