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Speaking Truth to Power

by Anita Hill

Published: 1998-10-20

Paperback: 384 pages

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See the new HBO movie CONFIRMATION about the Clarence Thomas hearings, starring Kerry Washington in the role of Anita Hill—then read Hill’s own life story.After her astonishing testimony in the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill ceased to be a private citizen and became a public figu...

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The Locals: A Novel

by Jonathan Dee

Published: 2017-08-08

Hardcover: 400 pages

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“Summons up a small American town at precisely the right moment in our history . . . a bold, vital, and view-expanding novel.”—George SaundersA rural working-class New England town elects as its mayor a New York hedge fund millionaire in this inspired novel for our times—fiction in...

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Raney: A Novel (Southern Revivals)

by Clyde Edgerton

Published: 2017-06-13

Paperback: 248 pages

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Clyde Edgerton's Raney is the comic love story of a marriage between Raney, a small-town Southern Baptist, and Charles, a librarian with liberal leanings from Atlanta, united by their shared enthusiasm for country music. The novel both interrogates and honors the faiths and foibles of its ...

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Crown of Stars

by Kate Elliott

Published: 2015-11-24

Paperback: 624 pages

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Set in an alternate Europe where bloody conflicts rage, the final book of the Crown of Stars epic fantasy series concludes the world-shaking conflict for the survival of humanityIn the wake of the cataclysm that has reshaped the very lands, Sanglant is struggling to legitimize his own rule...

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Signs Preceding the End of the World

by Yuri Herrera

Published: 2015-03-10

Paperback: 128 pages

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Signs Preceding the End of the World is one of the most arresting novels to be published in Spanish in the last ten years. Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores the crossings and translations people make...

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Loitering with Intent (New Directions Paperbook)

by Muriel Spark

Published: 2014-05-27

Paperback: 224 pages

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Where does art start or reality end? Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with the intent of gathering material for her writing, Fleur Talbot finds a job “on the grubby edge of the literary world” at the very peculiar Autobiographical Association. Mad egomaniacs writing their memoi...

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A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light

Published: 2017-07-04

Paperback: 288 pages

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A collection of all-new Paris-themed essays written by some of the biggest names in women’s fiction, including Paula McLain, Therese Anne Fowler, Maggie Shipstead, and Lauren Willig—edited by Eleanor Brown, the New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters and The Light of Par...

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Holding the Man

by Timothy Conigrave

Published: 2015-12-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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From the land of Down Under comes this true story about a male high school drama student who falls in love with the captain of the football team. Winner of the United Nations Human Rights Award for Nonfiction, HOLDING THE MAN has been adapted into a play opening in America in September 2007. The playwright...

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Greater Things

by Kristin Beale

Published: 2017-09-05

Paperback: 250 pages

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Kristin was thrown into a disability at the age of 14, and every day since then has been a struggle to overcome it. She has fought through the unavoidable physical stresses of her condition for over a decade and, even more, the heavy psychological burdens that follow closely behind. Greate...

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Pound The Stone: 7 Lessons To Develop Grit On The Path To Mastery

by Joshua Medcalf

Published: 2017-05-02

Paperback: 256 pages

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“There’s a secret to mastery that you may have never heard, a single little thing that only the very best in the world know how to do. In fact, I believe it is the only thing anyone can do to gain true mastery at anything, and it’s an equal opportunity principle. It can be applied to fulfill your...