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Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein

by Lita Judge

Published: 2018-01-30

Hardcover: 320 pages

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“Both timely and terrifying.” ?Gregory Macguire, New York Times–bestselling author of WickedPairing free verse with over three hundred pages of black-and-white watercolor illustrations, Mary’s Monster is a unique and stunning biography of Mary Shelley, the pregnant teenage runaway ...

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Merry Hall (Beverley Nichols Trilogy Book 1)

by Beverley Nichols

Published: 1998-03-01

Hardcover: 342 pages

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First in a trilogy, Merry Hall is the account of the restoration of a house and garden in post-war England. Though Mr. Nichols's horticultural undertaking is serious, his writing is high-spirited, riotously funny, and, at times, deliciously malicious.

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Death in Her Hands: A Novel

by Ottessa Moshfegh

Published: 2020-04-21

Hardcover: 272 pages

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From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new homeWhile on her normal da...

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The Glass Hotel: A novel

by Emily St. John Mandel

Published: 2020-03-24

Hardcover: 320 pages

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From the award-winning author of Station Eleven ("Ingenious." - The New York Times), an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events-a massive Ponzi scheme collapse and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea. Vincent is a barte...

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After Anatevka: A Novel Inspired by "Fiddler on the Roof"

by Alexandra Silber

Published: 2017-07-04

Hardcover: 336 pages

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A sweeping historical novel in the grand tradition of Russian literature that imagines what happens to the characters of Fiddler on the Roof after the curtain falls. The world knows well the tale of Tevye, the beloved Jewish dairyman from the shtetl Anatevka of Tsarist Russia. In stories ...

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The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl

by Marra B. Gad

Published: 2019-11-12

Paperback: 256 pages

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An unforgettable memoir about a mixed-race Jewish woman who, after fifteen years of estrangement from her racist great-aunt, helps bring her home when Alzheimer’s strikes In 1970, three-day-old Marra B. Gad was adopted by a white Jewish family in Chicago. For her parents, it was love at ...

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A River Could Be a Tree: A Memoir

by Angela Himsel

Published: 2018-11-13

Hardcover: 288 pages

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How does a woman who grew up in rural Indiana as a fundamentalist Christian end up a practicing Jew in New York? Angela Himsel was raised in a German-American family, one of eleven children who shared a single bathroom in their rented ramshackle farmhouse in Indiana. The Himsels followed ...

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Mid, A Girl In The Mountains

by Constance Smith

Published: 2019-11-13

Paperback: 86 pages

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Meet cleareyed and spirited Mid Cover. Her story is set in the beautiful mountains of West Virginia during the years of the Great Depression. Mid and her siblings spent happy hours playing and foraging in the woods. However, Pocahontas County was not idyllic: poverty, stench from a tannery and polluted...

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Swimming in Darkness

by Lucas Harari

Published: 2019-11-05

Hardcover: 152 pages

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An NPR Best Book of the YearPierre is a young man at a crossroads. He drops out of architecture school and decides to travel to Vals in the Swiss Alps, home to a thermal springs complex located deep inside a mountain. The complex, designed by architect Peter Zumthor, had been the subject o...

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This Is Not How It Ends

by Rochelle B. Weinstein

Published: 2020-01-01

Paperback: 351 pages

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From USA Today bestselling author Rochelle B. Weinstein comes a moving novel of hearts lost and found, and of one woman torn between two love stories.When Charlotte and Philip meet, the pair form a deep and instant connection. Soon they’re settled in the Florida Keys with plans to marry....