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Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family

by Bruce Haynes, Syma Solovitch

Published: 2017-04-11

Hardcover: 240 pages

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Down the Up Staircase tells the story of one Harlem family across three generations, connecting its journey to the historical and social forces that transformed Harlem over the past century. Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch capture the tides of change that pushed blacks forward through t...

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The Other Side of Silence: A Psychiatrist's Memoir of Depression

by Linda Gask

Published: 2016-09-28

Paperback: 272 pages

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Having spent her life trying to patch up the souls of others, psychiatrist Linda Gask came to realize that being an expert in depression didn’t confer any immunity from it—she had to learn take care of herself, too. Artfully crafted and told with warmth and honesty, this is the story o...

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After the Peace (Spoils of War)

by Fay Weldon

Published: 2018-11-01

Hardcover: 304 pages

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How many parents does it take to make a baby? In the case of Rosalind Melrose Smithson it took four: one birth mother; one legal father; one interfering neighbor; and one turkey baster filled with the defrosted essence of an anonymous donor. Or not so anonymous, as it turned out. For donor...

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Trust: Twenty Ways to Build a Better Country

by David Johnston

Published: 2018-10-09

Hardcover: 240 pages

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From our esteemed former Governor General--and author of the bestsellers The Idea of Canada and Ingenious--a very timely guide for restoring personal, community, and national trust.Trust is a much-needed manual for the repair and restoration of the social quality on which all democracies r...

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Sea Over Bow: A North Atlantic Crossing

by Linda Kenyon

Published: 2018-10-15

Paperback: 240 pages

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After her marriage of 25 years ended badly, Linda Kenyon was determined to never put herself in the way of a broken heart again. But then she met an extraordinary man, and in an act of great courage -- or foolishness -- decided to sell everything she owned and sail across the ocean with him. Sea Over...

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This Could Hurt: A Novel

by Jillian Medoff

Published: 2018-01-09

Hardcover: 384 pages

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“Periodically a writer captures the pattern of comedy and tragedy that peppers office life like alternating colors of carpet squares. . . . As smart as Medoff’s critique of corporate inanity is, it’s tempered by compassion for these people, who are ultimately tender with each other, ...

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Run You Down: A Novel (Rebekah Roberts Novels Book 2)

by Julia Dahl

Published: 2015-06-30

Kindle Edition: 287 pages

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Aviva Kagan was just a teenager when she left her Hasidic Jewish life in Brooklyn for a fling with a smiling college boy from Florida-and then disappeared. Twenty-three years later, the child she walked away from is a NYC tabloid reporter named Rebekah Roberts. And Rebekah isn't sure she w...

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Funny Woman (A Midland Book)

by Barbara W. Grossman

Published: 1992-08-22

Paperback: 304 pages

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Fanny Brice (1891-1951) was a truly popular entertainer, with a career that spanned four decades. She was a hit in almost every branch of American show business?burlesque and vaudeville, drama and musical revues (including nine Ziegfeld Follies), film and radio. She is most often remembere...

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An Inconvenient Woman: A Novel

by Dominick Dunne

Published: 2012-02-22

Kindle Edition: 480 pages

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Jules Mendelson is wealthy. Astronomically so. He and his wife lead the kind of charity-giving, art-filled, high-society life for which each has been carefully groomed. Until Jules falls in love with Flo March, a beautiful actress/waitress. What Flo discovers about the superrich is not a pretty sight....

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Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss: A Novel

by Rajeev Balasubramanyam

Published: 2019-03-26

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Follow the eccentric, cantakerous, utterly charming Professor Chandra as he tries to answer the biggest question of all: What makes us happy? “Searingly funny, uplifting, and wonderful . . . Professor Chandra is as unbending a curmudgeon as one could wish to find scowling from the pages ...