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Internment
Samira Ahmed · Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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Rebellions are built on hope.Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens.With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside,... |
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The Time Collector
Gwendolyn Womack · Picador
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
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A thrilling page-turner from Gwendolyn Womack, the USA Today bestselling author of The Fortune Teller Travel through time with the touch of a hand.Roan West was born with an extraordinary gift: he can relive memories across centuries and glean history first-hand. A highly skilled psychometrist,... |
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Ecstasy: A Novel
Mary Sharratt · Mariner Books
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
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Coming of age in the midst of a creative and cultural whirlwind in Vienna, young, beautiful Alma Schindler yearns to make her mark as a composer. A new era of possibility for women is dawning, and she is determined to make the most of it. But Alma loses her heart to the great composer Gustav... |
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Lori Gottlieb · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world - where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she) . One day, Lori Gottlieb... |
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Chronicles of a Radical Hag
Lorna Landvik · Univ Of Minnesota Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A bittersweet, seriously funny novel of a life, a small town, and a key to our troubled times traced through a newspaper columnist's half-century of taking in, and taking on, the world The curmudgeon who wrote the column "Ramblin's by Walt" in the Granite Creek Gazette... |
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In the Night of Memory: A Novel
Linda LeGarde Grover · Univ Of Minnesota Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Two lost sisters find family, and themselves, among the voices of an Ojibwe reservation When Loretta surrenders her young girls to the county and then disappears, she becomes one more missing Native woman in Indian Country's long devastating history of loss. But she is also a daughter... |
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The Motherhood Affidavits: A Memoir
LAURA JEAN BAKER · The Experiment
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"Laura Jean Baker has written a beautiful and brave memoir of motherhood and its discontents, which are indistinguishable from its joys. This is a warmly intimate yet intellectually provocative personal document of originality and considerable charm." - Joyce Carol Oates With... |
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Women Talking
MIRIAM TOEWS · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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"This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid's Tale." Margaret Atwood, on TwitterOne evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women,... |
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A Change of Time
Ida Jessen · Archipelago
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
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A penetrating study of a woman who, in the wake of her domineering husband's death, must embrace her newfound freedom and redefine herself.Set in rural Denmark in the early 20th century, A Change of Time tells the story of a schoolteacher whose husband, the town doctor, has passed away.... |
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