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FATHER'S DAY

City of Fortune, How Venice Ruled the Seas

Roger Crowley

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PROVENCE & THE COTE D'AZUR

A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

Georgeanne Brennan

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OUR FAVORITES

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

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PENGUIN CLASSICS

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

John Steinbeck

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LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER, NEW ORLEANS TO MEMPHIS

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The Confidence-Man

The Confidence-Man


by Herman Melville

  • LITERATURE
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 384 PAGES

Melville's last novel, the tale of a gambler and con man on a Mississippi River steam boat. (USM112, $12.95)

Shantyboat: A River Way of Life


by Harlan Hubbard

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 1977
  • PAPER
  • 352 PAGES

Hubbard and his wife built a 24-foot houseboat and lived on it for six years, eventually drifting downriver to New Orleans. (USS383, $22.00)

Confederates in the Attic

Confederates in the Attic


by Tony Horwitz

  • HISTORY
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 406 PAGES

Subtitled "Dispatched from the Unfinished Civil War," this book reveals the strange world of the re-enactors, unreconstructed confederates and others whose ongoing interest and involvement in the War Between the States provide an intriguing cultural portrait of the southern and mid-Atlantic states. (USS35, $16.00)

Louisiana / Mississippi Map


by AAA Publishing

  • MAP

A clear, detailed traveler's map of the two southern states. (USS32, $4.95)

The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, The Classic Anthology from 1899 to 1967


by Langston Hughes

  • LITERATURE
  • 1969
  • PAPER
  • 512 PAGES

A collection of groundbreaking works by luminaries including James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Ellison and Alice Walker. (GEN400, $16.99)

 

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