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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead - Doubleday
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation... |
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In the Time of the Butterflies
Julia Alvarez - Algonquin Books; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does... |
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Island Beneath the Sea: A Novel
Isabel Allende - Harper; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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“Allende is a master storyteller at the peak of her powers.” — Los Angeles Times From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende (Inés... |
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The Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story
Matt Bondurant - Scribner
Format: Print book
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Based on the true story of Matt Bondurant's grandfather and two granduncles, The Wettest County in the World is a gripping tale of brotherhood, greed, and murder. The Bondurant Boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ran liquor through Franklin County, Virginia,... |
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Luncheon of the Boating Party
Susan Vreeland - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author Susan Vreeland returns with a vivid exploration of one of the most beloved Renoir paintings in the world Instantly recognizable, Auguste Renoir's masterpiece depicts a gathering of his real friends enjoying a summer Sunday on a caf terrace along the Seine near Paris.... |
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Loving Frank: A Novel
Nancy Horan - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current.So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband,... |
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One thousand white women : the journals of May Dodd
Jim Fergus - St. Martins Griffin
Format: Print book
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"Based on an actual historical event but told through fictional diaries, this is the story of a remarkable woman who travels west in 1875 and marries the chief of the Cheyenne Nation. One thousand white women begins with May Dodds journey west into the unknown. Yet the unknown is a far better... |
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The Paris Architect: A Novel
Charles Belfoure - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times Bestseller!"A beautiful and elegant account of an ordinary man's unexpected and reluctant descent into heroism during the second world war." -- Malcolm GladwellA thrilling debut novel of World War II Paris, from an author who's been called "an up and coming... |
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Running the Rift
Naomi Benaron - Algonquin Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Running the Rift follows the progress of Jean Patrick Nkuba from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life. A naturally gifted athlete, he sprints over the thousand hills of Rwanda and dreams of becoming his countrys first Olympic medal winner... |
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