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Being Hindu: Understanding a Peaceful Path in a Violent World
Hindol Sengupta - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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There are more than one billion Hindus in the world, but for those who don't practice the faith, very little seems to be understood about it. Followers have not only built and sustained the world's largest democracy but have also sustained one of the greatest philosophical streams... |
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Eva and Eve: A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind
Julie Metz
Format: Hardcover
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To Julie Metz, her mother, Eve, was the quintessential New Yorker. It was difficult to imagine her living anywhere else except the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where she could be found attending Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Opera or inspecting a round of French triple crme at Zabar's.... |
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The Hotel Neversink
Adam OFallon Price - Tin House Books
Format: Paperback
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A 2020 Edgar Award Winner!"A gripping, atmospheric, heart-breaking, almost-ghost story. Not since Stephen Kings Overlook has a hotel hiding a secret been brought to such vivid life." -- Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden StateThirty-one years after workers first broke ground,... |
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Vexed with Devils: Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England
Erika Gasser - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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Stories of witchcraft and demonic possession from early modern England through the last official trials in colonial New England. Those possessed by the devil in early modern England usually exhibited a common set of symptoms: fits, vomiting, visions, contortions, speaking in tongues, and an antipathy... |
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Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler's Hidden Soldiers in America
Debbie Cenziper - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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The gripping story of a team of Nazi hunters at the U.S. Department of Justice as they raced against time to expose members of a brutal SS killing force who disappeared in America after World War Two.In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling... |
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Enough about Me: Find Lasting Joy in the Age of Self
Oshman, Jen - CROSSWAY BOOKS
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Women today feel a constant pressure to improve themselves and just never feel like they're "enough." They live their daily lives disheartened, disillusioned, and disappointed. That's because joy doesn't come from a new self-improvement strategy; it comes from rooting their identity... |
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The Third Daughter: A Novel
Talia Carner - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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"In The Third Daughter, Talia Carner ably illuminates a little-known piece of history: the sex trafficking of young women from Russia to South America in the late 19th century. Thoroughly researched and vividly rendered, this is an important and unforgettable story of exploitation... |
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