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  • All Over But The Shoutin'
    All Over But The Shoutin'
    by Rick Bragg
    Hardcover: Sep 1997
    Paperback: Aug 1998
     
    The story of a violent, war-haunted, alcoholic father and a strong-willed, loving mother who struggled to protect her three sons from the effects of poverty and ignorance that had tainted her own life.
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  • All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well
    All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well
    by Tod Wodicka
    Hardcover: Feb 2008
    Paperback: Jan 2009
     
    Meet Burt Hecker - a mead-drinking, tunic-wearing medieval re-enactor from upstate New York in Tod Wodicka's debut, a modern-day Arthurian quest that introduces one of the most winning oddball characters to come along in years.
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  • All That Is
    All That Is
    by James Salter
    Hardcover: Apr 2013
    Paperback: Jan 2014
     
    An extraordinary literary event, a major new novel by the PEN/Faulkner winner and acclaimed master: a sweeping, seductive, deeply moving story set in the years after World War II.
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  • All the Light We Cannot See
    All the Light We Cannot See
    by Anthony Doerr
    Hardcover: May 2014
    Paperback: Apr 2017
     
    A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Winner of the 2014 BookBrowse Award for Fiction.
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  • All the Little Hopes
    All the Little Hopes : A Novel
    by Leah Weiss
    Paperback: Jul 2021
     
    A Southern story of friendship forged by books and bees, when the timeless troubles of growing up meet the murky shadows of World War II.
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  • All the Lonely People
    All the Lonely People
    by Mike Gayle
    Hardcover: Jul 2021
    Paperback: Aug 2022
     
    If you loved A Man Called Ove, then prepare to be delighted as Jamaican immigrant Hubert rediscovers the world he'd turned his back on in this "warm, funny" novel (Good Housekeeping).
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  • All The Pretty Horses
    All The Pretty Horses
    by Cormac McCarthy
    Hardcover: Apr 1992
    Paperback: Nov 2002
     
    The first volume in the Border Trilogy - the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.
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  • All the Ruined Men
    All the Ruined Men : Stories
    by Bill Glose
    Hardcover: Aug 2022
     
    For readers of Phil Klay, Kevin Powers, and Tim O'Brien: Dramatic, powerful, authentic short stories of soldiers fighting a "forever war," in combat and back home.
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