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Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire

by Shane White

Published: 2015-10-13

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Winner of the 2015 Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Best Book PrizeIn the middle decades of the nineteenth century Jeremiah G. Hamilton was a well-known figure on Wall Street. Cornelius Vanderbilt, America's first tycoon, came to respect, grudgingly, his one-time oppon...

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The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America

by Shelby Steele

Published: 1998-09-23

Paperback: 192 pages

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In this controversial essay collection, award-winning writer Shelby Stelle illuminates the origins of the current conflict in race relations--the increase in anger, mistrust, and even violence between black and whites. With candor and persuasive argument, he shows us how both black and whi...

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Object Lessons: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Anna Quindlen

Published: 2010-08-25

Kindle Edition: 306 pages

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR"Elaborate and playful...Honest and deeply felt....Here is the Quindlen wit, the sharp eye for the details of class and manners, [and] the ardent reading of domestic lives."-THE NEW YORK TIMESIt is the 1960s, in suburban New York City. Maggie and he...

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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

by Susan Faludi

Published: 2006-08-15

Paperback: 608 pages

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From the author of In the Darkroom, a feminist classic and skillful examination of the attack on women’s rights. Today’s political climate leaves no doubt that American women are still being assaulted by the same antifeminist backlash messages that Susan Faludi brilliantly exposed in...

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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962

by Blanche Wiesen Cook

Published: 2017-11-07

Paperback: 688 pages

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One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2016One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016"Heartachingly relevant...the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages transcends both first-lady history and the marriage around which Roosevelt scholarship has traditionally pivo...

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A Big Storm Knocked It Over: A Novel

by Laurie Colwin

Published: 2015-07-14

Kindle Edition: 272 pages

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In A Big Storm Knocked It Over, acclaimed author Laurie Colwin explores marriage, friendship, motherhood, and careers as experienced by a cast of endearing, idiosyncratic Manhattanites. At once a hilarious social commentary and an insightful, sophisticated modern romance, A Big Storm Knock...

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A Farm Under a Lake

by Martha Bergland

Published: 1989-05-01

Hardcover: 208 pages

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As she takes May, an old woman she has cared for, to live with her daughter in Illinois, Janet recalls a summer twenty-years past when she loved two brothers but finally married one

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Felicia's Journey: A Novel

by William Trevor

Published: 1996-01-01

Kindle Edition: 240 pages

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William Trevor's Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking.Felicia is unmarried, pregnant, and penniless. She steals away from a small Irish town and drifts through the industrial English Midlands, searching for the boyfriend who left her. Instead she meets up with the fat, fiftyish, unf...

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A River Sutra

by Gita Mehta

Published: 1993-05-01

Hardcover: 291 pages

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A collection of interwoven stories, written in the traditional form of Indian storytelling, explores the savagery of human love and illuminate the paradoxes of India. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.

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Frida Kahlo

by Hayden Herrera, Victor Zamudio-Taylor, Elizabeth Carpenter

Published: 2007-10-01

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Few artists have captured the public's imagination with the force of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. During her lifetime, she was best known as the flamboyant wife of celebrated muralist Diego Rivera. Theirs was a tumultuous relationship: Rivera declared himself to be "unfit for fidelity." As...