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Forthcoming from Library of America: Spring 2019
Coming in the first half of 2019: classic military history, pathbreaking modern novels, brilliant speculative fiction, a great poet’s enduring wisdom, and much more.

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Thomas Boyd: Through the Wheat (LOA eBook Classic)
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