Raintree County

Ross Lockridge
Lockrid

Throughout a single day in 1892, John Shawnessy recalls the great moments of his life—from the love affairs of his youth in Indiana, to the battles of the Civil War, to the politics of the Gilded Age, to his homecoming as schoolteacher, husband, and father. Shawnessy is the epitome of the place and period in which he lives, a rural land of springlike women, shady gamblers, wandering vagabonds, and soapbox orators.—Independent Publishing Group



"This best-selling book by a Bloomington author will give you a good notion of what living in 19th Century Indiana was like."—Submitted by Bill W., Communications & Marketing


Bicentennial Staff Picks

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  • The Eye of Minds


  • Fables. 8, Wolves


  • Cannery Row


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  • The Quilter's Apprentice


  • The Woman in the Dunes


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  • The Master and Margarita


  • Patriot Games


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  • Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks


  • In Full Color


  • The Universe in a Nutshell


  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid


  • Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World


  • Understanding Comics: the Invisible Art


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  • Inferno: The World at War 1939-1945


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  • The Licanius Trilogy


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  • Nitro --The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapes of Ted Turner's WCW


  • Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years


  • The Friend


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  • Near to the Wild Heart


  • Little Bear


  • My Name is Asher Lev


  • Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s


  • To Kill A Mockingbird


  • The Essential Tales of Chekhov


  • The Girl From Rawblood


  • The Snow Child


  • The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy


  • The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works


  • Watchmen


  • Running with Sherman


  • Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said


  • The Mistress of Spices


  • X'ed Out


  • Three Things About Elsie


  • The Blue Sword


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  • Pretty Deadly, Volume One: The Shrike


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  • Snotgirl Vol. 1


  • Clear and Present Danger


  • War and Peace


  • Star Wars : from a certain point of view : 40 stories celebrating 40 years of Star Wars


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  • Once & Future, Volume 1


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  • Castoff: The Strange Adventures of Petra De Winter and Bram


  • Why You Like This Photo : the Science of Perception


  • Oreo


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  • Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction


  • Braiding Sweetgrass


  • The Music Lesson


  • Lost Horizon


  • Siddhartha


  • Cry, Heart, But Never Break


  • Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?


  • The Index Card


  • The King's Stilts


  • Life


  • Warrior of the Wild


  • The Go-Between


  • The Lord of the Rings


  • Do Fish Sleep?


  • The Little Prince


  • Wild Beauty


  • Simulacra and Simulation


  • A Study in Scarlet Women


  • The Life and Art of Felrath Hines : from dark to light


  • Wired


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  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


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  • Autobiography of an Execution


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  • Tropic of Cancer


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  • Growth of the Soil


  • Spoon River Anthology


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  • The Room : A Novel


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  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine


  • The College of Beer : The Story of Nick's English Hut


  • The Chronicles of Amber


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  • Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero


  • The Lifespan of a Fact


  • Illuminatus! Trilogy


  • I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness


  • The Stand


  • The Murderer's Ape


  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking


  • A Clockwork Orange


  • The Snowy Day


  • Parable of the Sower


  • Slaughterhouse Five


  • Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker


  • Catch 22


  • Fog Island


  • The Monkey's Raincoat


  • Dealing with Dragons


  • Matter : a Culture novel


  • In the Dust of This Planet


  • Dangerous Laughter


  • Riddley Walker


  • Dragon Bound


  • The Clan of the Cave Bear


  • The Ghost Clause


  • The Luster of Lost Things


  • The Never Game


  • Station Eleven


  • Cinder


  • The Travelling Cat Chronicles


  • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City


  • Their Eyes Were Watching God


  • What is the What


  • Anne of Green Gables


  • Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems & Drawings of Shel Silverstein


  • Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale


  • Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality


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  • My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Book One


  • The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath


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  • Ulysses


  • The Lost Words: A Spell Book


  • Feeling Sorry for Celia


  • The Silmarillion


  • The Diary of a Young Girl


  • The Shell Seekers


  • Raintree County


  • Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste


  • The Rest is Noise


  • Communing With The Divine: A Clairvoyant's Guide To Angels, Archangels and the Spiritual Hierarchy


  • Chloe's Vegan Desserts


  • Look Both Ways : a Tale Told in Ten Blocks


  • The Lost Coast


  • Dragon's Merry Christmas


  • The Last Wish


  • Know My Name: A Memoir


  • Hawkeye omnibus


  • A Little Princess