Grand and minute, elegiac and hilarious, Lynne Tillman expands the possibilities of the American novel in this dazzling read about a former historian ruminating

Benjamin Franklin was a 17-year-old runaway when he arrived in Philadelphia in 1723. Yet within days he'd found a job at a local print shop, met the woman he wo

"In graphic novel format, tells the life story of American statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin"--Provided by publisher.

Designed to protect America's riches from every threat, these beautiful devices represent the evolution of lock technology during the nineteenth century, its mo

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