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Ellen and Edith: Woodrow Wilson's First Ladies (Modern First Ladies)

by Kristie Miller

Published: 2010-10-15

Hardcover: 360 pages

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The wives of Woodrow Wilson were strikingly different from each other. Ellen Axson Wilson, quiet and intellectual, died after just a year and a half in the White House and is thought to have had little impact on history. Edith Bolling Wilson was flamboyant and confident but left a legacy o...

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The Fox Was Ever the Hunter: A Novel

by Herta Müller

Published: 2017-05-02

Paperback: 256 pages

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“VIVIDLY POETIC . . . MÜLLER HAS EXERCISED HER VOICE WITH A FURY THAT VIBRATES OFF THE PAGE.”?THE BOSTON GLOBERomania?the last months of the Ceausescu regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara’s lover. But one of them w...

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The Zero: A Novel

by Jess Walter

Published: 2006-08-29

Hardcover: 336 pages

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The Zero is a groundbreaking novel, a darkly comic snapshot of our times that is already being compared to the works of Franz Kafka and Joseph Heller.From its opening pages—when hero cop Brian Remy wakes up to find he's shot himself in the head—novelist Jess Walter takes us on a harrow...

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Little Voices

by Vanessa Lillie

Published: 2019-10-01

Paperback: 335 pages

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The voice in her head says he’s guilty. She knows he’s innocent.Devon Burges is in the throes of a high-risk birth when she learns of her dear friend’s murder. The police quickly name another friend as the chief suspect, but Devon doesn’t buy it—and despite her difficult recovery...

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The Second Sex

by Simone de Beauvoir

Published: 2011-05-03

Paperback: 832 pages

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Simone de Beauvoir’s essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a revolutionary exploration of inequality and otherness. Unabridged in English for the first time, this long-awaited edition reinstates significant portions of the original French t...

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Relative Fortunes (A Julia Kydd Novel)

by Marlowe Benn

Published: 2019-08-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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In 1920s New York, the price of a woman’s independence can be exorbitant—even fatal.In 1924 Manhattan, women’s suffrage is old news. For sophisticated booklover Julia Kydd, life’s too short for politics. With her cropped hair and penchant for independent living, Julia wants only to...

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The Gray and Guilty Sea: A Garrison Gage Mystery

by Jack Nolte, Scott William Carter

Published: 2011-01-21

Paperback: 268 pages

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"Carter's writing is on target." - Publishers WeeklyA curmudgeon. An iconoclast. A loner. That's how people describe Garrison Gage, and that's when they're being charitable. After his wife's brutal murder in New York, and Gage himself is beaten nearly to death, the crippled private invest...

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At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories

by Kij Johnson

Published: 2012-09-25

Paperback: 300 pages

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A sparkling debut collection from one of the hottest writers in science fiction: her stories have received the Nebula Award the last two years running. These stories feature cats, bees, wolves, dogs, and even that most capricious of animals, humans, and have been reprinted in The Year's Be...

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A Door in the Earth

by Amy Waldman

Published: 2019-08-27

Hardcover: 400 pages

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From the author of the national bestseller The Submission comes the journey of a young Afghan-American woman trapped between her ideals and the complicated truth in this "penetrating" (O, Oprah Magazine), "stealthily suspenseful," (Booklist, starred review), "breathtaking and achingly nuan...

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Ten Minutes to Rake the Carpet: An Unexpected Life of Hosting, Travel, Painting, and Politics

by Shirley Hansen Acker

Published: 2019-07-08

Hardcover: 172 pages

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While growing up in the Midwest, author Shirley Hansen Acker could never have imagined the experiences she'd be exposed to in her adult life. In Ten Minutes to Rake the Carpet, she offers a memoir describing a host of interesting events spanning nearly eight decades. Acker shares stories about hosting...