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My Ex-Life
Stephen McCauley · Flatiron Books Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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David Hedges's life is coming apart at the seams. His job helping San Francisco rich kids get into the colleges of their (parents') choice is exasperating; his younger boyfriend has left him; and the beloved carriage house he rents is being sold. His solace is a Thai takeout joint that... |
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The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
HOWARD BRYANT · Beacon Press Pages: 312 Format: Hardcover
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Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today's Black athletes re-engage with social issues and the meaning of American patriotismFor most of the twentieth century, "No News on the Sports Page" governed how sports were played and perceived in America.... |
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Shadow Child
Rahna R Rizzuto · Grand Central Publishing Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Tayari Jones and Ruth Ozeki, from National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Rizzuto comes a haunting and suspenseful literary tale set in 1970s New York City and World War II-era Japan, about three strong women, the dangerous ties of family and identity, and the long shadow... |
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave
ZORA NEALE HURSTON · AMISTAD Format: Hardcover
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A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God which brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade - illegally smuggled... |
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Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
JANET DEWART BELL · The New Press Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking collection based on oral histories that brilliantly plumb the leadership of African American women in the twentieth-century fight for civil rights - many nearly lost to history - from the latest winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize During the Civil Rights Movement,... |
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The Crooked Staircase: A Jane Hawk Novel
DEAN KOONTZ · Bantam Pages: 480 Format: Hardcover
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Jane Hawk - who dazzled readers in The Silent Corner and The Whispering Room - faces the fight of her life, against the threat of a lifetime in this electrifying new thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling suspense master Dean Koontz. "I could be dead tomorrow. Or something worse... |
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That Kind of Mother: A Novel
RUMAAN ALAM · Ecco Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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"That Kind of Mother dives deep into big questions about parenthood, adoption, and race: Is mothering something learned, or that you're born to? How far can good intentions stretch? And most of all, can love can really overcome the boundaries of race and class? With his unerring... |
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The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life
Richard Russo · Knopf Pages: 224 Format: Hardcover
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A master of the novel, short story, and memoir, the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Everybody's Fool now gives us his very first collection of personal essays, ranging throughout writing and reading and living.In these nine essays, Richard Russo provides insight into his life... |
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What Should Be Wild: A Novel
Julia Fine · HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio Pages: 1 Format: Audiobook
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Cursed. Maisie Cothay has never known the feel of human flesh: born with the power to kill or resurrect at her slightest touch, she has spent her childhood sequestered in the family's manor at the edge of a mysterious forest. Maisie's father, an anthropologist who sees her as more... |
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Warlight: A novel
Michael Ondaatje · Knopf Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their... |
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