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White Unwed Mother: The Adoption Mandate in Postwar Canada

by Valerie Andrews

Published: 2018-11-20

Paperback: 307 pages

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In postwar Canada, having a child out-of-wedlock invariably meant being subject to the adoption mandate. Andrews describes the mandate as a process of interrelated institutional power systems that, together with sociocultural norms, ideals of gender heteronormativity, and emerging sociological and psychoanalytic...

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The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation

by Jodie Patterson

Published: 2019-01-29

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Inspired by her transgender son, activist Jodie Patterson explores identity, gender, race, and authenticity to tell the real-life story of a family’s history and transformation.“A courageous and poetic testimony on family and the self, and the learning and unlearning we must do for tho...

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The Windemere Affair

by Judith Rolfs

Published: 2018-09-14

Paperback: 342 pages

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Albert Windemere had many enemies, but only one hated him enough to commit murder. The Windemere Affair is a compelling multilayered plot brimming with emotional power and composed with intensity.Psychotherapist Jennifer Trevor is placed in the cross-hairs of a killer when she’s hired by...

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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (1999-03-04)

Published: 1762

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Tidelands (1) (The Fairmile Series)

by Philippa Gregory

Published: 2019-08-20

Hardcover: 464 pages

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The #1 New York Times bestselling author and “one of the great storytellers of our time” (San Francisco Book Review) turns from the glamour of the royal courts to tell the story of an ordinary woman, Alinor, who cannot bear to conform to the life that lies before her.Midsummer’s Eve,...

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White Elephant

by Trish Harnetiaux

Published: 2019-10-29

Hardcover: 240 pages

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A crackling Christmas mystery that combines murder and blackmail at a holiday office party, in a mashup reminiscent of Big Little Lies and Clue.There are only a few rules in a White Elephant gift exchange: 1) Everyone brings a wrapped, unmarked gift. 2) Numbers are drawn to decide who pick...

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The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

by Joseph E. Stiglitz

Published: 2013-04-08

Paperback: 560 pages

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A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist. America currently has the most inequality, and the least equality of opportunity, among the advanced countries. While market forces play a role in this stark picture, politics...

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El libro secreto de Frida Kahlo (Atria Espanol) (Spanish Edition)

by F. G. Haghenbeck

Published: 2012-09-25

Paperback: 320 pages

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Now in Spanish: one of Mexico’s most celebrated new novelists, F. G. Haghenbeck offers a beautifully written reimagining of Frida Kahlo’s fascinating life and loves.Entre los objetos personales de Frida Kahlo había una pequeña libreta negra a la que llamaba “El Libro de Hierba San...

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Living a Life of Awareness: Daily Meditations on the Toltec Path

by don Miguel Ruiz Jr.

Published: 2013-12-05

Paperback: 224 pages

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For the first time ever, the Toltec wisdom from the Ruiz family is bound together in a book of Daily Meditations.Readers are invited on a six-month journey of daily lessons with don Miguel Ruiz Jr. that are designed to inspire, nourish, and enlighten adherents as they travel along the Tolt...

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Deck the Hallways (A Fixer-Upper Mystery)

by Kate Carlisle

Published: 2016-11-01

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

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In the fourth novel in the New York Times bestselling Fixer-Upper Mystery series, contractor Shannon Hammer must restore the Christmas spirit by clearing her father's name...Don't miss the Hallmark Movies & Mystery Originals starring Jewel, based on the Fixer-Upper Mystery series!   Ev...