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The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

The Yellow Birds

A Novel

by Kevin Powers
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  • Sep 11, 2012, 240 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Apr 2013, 256 pages
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  Kevin Powers, the Poet

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