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Golden Child: A Novel
CLAIRE ADAM · SJP for Hogarth
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad, following the lives of a family as they navigate impossible choices about scarcity, loyalty, and loveRural Trinidad: a brick house on stilts surrounded by bush; a family, quietly surviving, just trying to live a decent life. Clyde, the father,... |
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That Churchill Woman: A Novel
STEPHANIE BARRON · Ballantine Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The Paris Wife meets PBS's Victoria in this enthralling novel of the life and loves of one of history's most remarkable women: Winston Churchill's scandalous American mother, Jennie Jerome. Wealthy, privileged, and fiercely independent New Yorker Jennie Jerome took Victorian England by storm... |
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Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
Emily Bernard · Knopf
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary, exquisitely written memoir (of sorts) that looks at race--in a fearless, penetrating, honest, true way--in twelve telltale, connected, deeply personal essays that explore, up-close, the complexities and paradoxes, the haunting memories and ambushing realities of growing... |
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Here and Now and Then
Mike Chen · MIRA
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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To save his daughter, he'll go anywhere - and any-when ... Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT, trying to keep the spark in his marriage, struggling to connect with his teenage daughter, Miranda. But his current life is a far cry from his previous career ... as a time-traveling... |
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A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming
KERRI RAWSON · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer? Kerri Rawson, the daughter of the notorious serial killer known as BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) , tells the nightmarish story of that discovery and of her long journey of faith and healing.In 2005, Dennis Rader... |
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The Falconer: A Novel
Dana Czapnik · Atria Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A literary page-turner brimming with intelligence, energy, and wit, centered on an unforgettable young heroine that "will thrill readers of all generations" (Colum McCann) .New York, 1993. Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only... |
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The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
Bridgett M. Davis · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Set against the dramatic backdrop of 1960s and 70s Detroit, novelist Bridgett M. Davis's stirring memoir tells how her ingenious mother used Detroit's illegal lottery to support her family Growing up, Bridgett knew that her family's livelihood was entirely dependent on her mother's business-something... |
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House of Stone: A Novel
NOVUYO ROSA TSHUMA · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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Pulsing with wit, seduction, and dark humor, House of Stone is a masterful debut that explores the creative -- and often destructive -- act of history-making.In the chronic turmoil of modern Zimbabwe, Abednego and Agnes Mlambo's teenage son, Bukhosi, has gone missing, and the Mlambos fear... |
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Downhill from Here: Retirement Insecurity in the Age of Inequality
Katherine S. Newman · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A sharp examination of the looming financial catastrophe of retirement in America.As millions of Baby Boomers reach their golden years, the state of retirement in America is little short of a disaster. Nearly half the households with people aged 55 and older have no retirement savings at all.... |
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Out of the Dark: An Orphan X Novel
GREGG HURWITZ · Minotaur Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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When darkness closes in -- he's your last, best hope. Evan Smoak returns in Gregg Hurwitz's #1 international bestselling Orphan X series. Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program, an off-the-books operation designed to create... |
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