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The Birth of Venus: A Novel (Reader's Circle)

by Sarah Dunant

Published: 2004-11-30

Paperback: 448 pages

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Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra i...

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American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment

by Shane Bauer

Published: 2018-09-18

Hardcover: 368 pages

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A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history.In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana...

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Locked In: The Will to Survive and the Resolve to Live

by Victoria Arlen

Published: 2018-08-28

Hardcover: 256 pages

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ESPN personality and Paralympics champion Victoria Arlen shares her courageous and miraculous story of recovery after falling into a mysterious vegetative state at age eleven and how she broke free, overcoming the odds and never giving up hope, eventually living a full and inspiring life.W...

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Rose in Scotland

by Joan Overfield

Published: 2012-10-09

Kindle Edition: 384 pages

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A delicate flower Lady Caroline Burroughs is desperate. Her unscrupulous guardian is squandering away her inheritance, and now wants to gain complete control over her dwindling wealth by forcing her to wed his aged crony. But Caroline has found a solution to her woes. Though it means surre...

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The City of Mirrors: A Novel (Passage Trilogy)

by Justin Cronin

Published: 2017-05-16

Paperback: 624 pages

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A thrilling finale to a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction.”—Stephen King You followed The Passage. You faced The Twelve. Now enter The City of Mirrors for the final reckoning. As the bestselling epi...

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Florence Grace: The Richard & Judy bestselling author

by Tracy Rees

Published: 2018-07-31

Paperback: 560 pages

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'Possibly the most wonderful book I've ever read. A complete joy' Amazon reviewer. The stunning new novel from the author of the Richard and Judy bestseller Amy Snow. Perfect for fans of The Keeper of Lost Things and Island of Secrets. Florrie Buckley is an orphan, living on the wind-blast...

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The Milliner's Secret

by Natalie Meg Evans

Published: 2015-07-30

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Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

by Monique Morris

Published: 2018-01-16

Paperback: 304 pages

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NOW IN PAPERBACK The "powerful" (Michelle Alexander) exploration—featured by the Atlantic, Essence, the Washington Post, New York magazine, NPR, the New Republic and the Tom Joyner Morning Show—of the harsh and harmful experiences confronting black girls in schools In a work that has...

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Let Her Fly: A Father's Journey

by Ziauddin Yousafzai

Published: 2018-11-13

Hardcover: 176 pages

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Let Her Fly traces the inspirational journey of Malala Yousafzai's father, Ziauddin, from a boy in Shangla to a man who broke with tradition and proves there are many faces of feminism.With humor and sincerity, Yousafzai describes his life before the Talibanization of Mingora, scenes of hi...

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The World According to Tom Hanks: The Life, the Obsessions, the Good Deeds of America's Most Decent Guy

by Gavin Edwards

Published: 2018-10-23

Hardcover: 368 pages

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An entertaining and insightful homage to Tom Hanks, America's favorite movie star, from the New York Times bestselling author of the cult sensation The Tao of Bill Murray.In The World According to Tom Hanks, through deep research and interviews, Gavin Edwards will explore and celebrate how...