A young woman whose abolitionist husband is murdered in 1850s Kansas cuts her hair and tracks his killers to Missouri. This 1998 novel is from a Pulitzer prize-winning author.

Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he's willing to admit. Winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize.

Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz embarks on a search for places and people still held in thrall by America's greatest conflict.

James McBride grew up one of twelve siblings in the all-black housing projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn, the son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white. In her son's remarkable 1996 memoir, she tells in her own words the story of her past.

Part memoir, part meditation, The Cloister Walk is the movingly written and thought-provoking record of a married, Protestant woman's time spent in a community of men in a traditional Benedictine monastery in Minnesota.  This 1996 memoir is written by an award-winning poet.

The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. Meanwhile, on Earth, Laura Byrd leaves an Antarctic research station to set out across the ice. This 2006 novel alternates these two story lines to create a lyrical and haunting tale about love, loss, and the power of memory.

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