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Things That Happened Before the Earthquake: A Novel

by Chiara Barzini

Published: 2017-08-15

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Welcome to LA? Nineties' Hollywood gets an Italian makeover in this poignant and ruefully funny coming-of-age novel featuring a teenage girl who's on shaky ground—in more ways than one. Mere weeks after the 1992 riots that laid waste to Los Angeles, Eugenia, a typical Italian teenager, i...

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Serafina and the Splintered Heart (Serafina Book 3)

by Robert Beatty

Published: 2017-07-03

Hardcover: 368 pages

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The storms are coming... Something has happened to Serafina. She has awoken into a darkness she does not understand, scarred from a terrible battle, only to find that life at Biltmore Estate has changed in unimaginable ways. Old friends do unthinkable things and enemies seem all around.A ...

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Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD

by Romeo Dallaire

Published: 2016-10-25

Hardcover: 208 pages

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Longlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize: In this piercing memoir, Roméo Dallaire, retired general and former senator, the author of the bestsellers Shake Hands with the Devil andThey Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children, and one of the world's leading humanitarians, delves deep int...

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The Blue Bistro: A Novel

by Elin Hilderbrand

Published: 2010-05-25

Paperback: 336 pages

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Elin Hilderbrand, author of the enchanting Summer People and The Beach Club, invites you to experience the perfect getaway with her sparkling new novel.Adrienne Dealey has spent the past six years working for hotels in exotic resort towns. This summer she has decided to make Nantucket home...

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Beautiful Joe: By Margaret Marshall Saunders - Illustrated

by Margaret Marshall Saunders

Published: 2017-03-28

Paperback: 193 pages

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How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Beautiful Joe by Margaret Marshall Saunders One of the most beloved stories in the English language, originally published as a novel in 1894, "Beautiful Joe" is based on the ...

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The Risk of Sorrow: Conversations with Holocaust Survivor, Helen Handler

by Valerie Foster

Published: 2014-03-18

Paperback: 220 pages

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What can the few remaining survivors of the Holocaust teach us before they are gone? What is it that hasn’t yet been said? A high school teacher is given the opportunity to find out when one such survivor chooses her to preserve her final testament. In The Risk of Sorrow, Valerie Foster, an Irish-Catholic...

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The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies

by Jason Fagone

Published: 2018-08-28

Paperback: 464 pages

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERNPR Best Book of 2017 “Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie.” — The New York TimesJoining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greates...

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The Dark Lake (Gemma Woodstock)

by Sarah Bailey

Published: 2017-10-03

Hardcover: 400 pages

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Rosalind's secrets didn't die with her.The lead homicide investigator in a rural town, Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock is deeply unnerved when a high school classmate is found strangled, her body floating in a lake. And not just any classmate, but Rosalind Ryan, whose beauty and inscrut...

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A Queer History of the United States (ReVisioning American History)

by Michael Bronski

Published: 2012-05-15

Paperback: 312 pages

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Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction A Queer History of the United States is more than a “who’s who” of queer history: it is a book that radically challenges how we understand American history. Drawing upon primary-source documents, literature, and cultural histories,...

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A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Detectives Series)

by Chester Himes

Published: 2011-07-20

Kindle Edition: 151 pages

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A Rage in Harlem is a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City’s roughest streets in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series.  For love of fine, wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson surrenders his life savings to a con man...