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Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island

by Earl Swift

Published: 2018-08-07

Hardcover: 448 pages

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A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction "BEAUTIFUL, HAUNTING AND TRUE." — Hampton Sides • "POWERFUL. A tale of our time, movingly told." — Bill McKibben • “GORGEOUS. A trul...

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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing

by Joy a Degruy

Published: 2017-09-11

Paperback: 252 pages

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In the 16th century, the beginning of African enslavement in the Americas until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and emancipation in 1865, Africans were hunted like animals, captured, sold, tortured, and raped. They experienced the worst kind of physical, emotional, psychologic...

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Soaring on Love (The Cardinal House)

by Joy Avery

Published: 2017-12-19

Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages

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Flights of passionWhen her engagement party is crashed by her fiancé’s mistress, Tressa Washington will do anything to escape the disastrous aftermath. Even stow away in the back of a guest’s SUV. And when she tells Roth Lexington to “just drive,” the handsome aerospace engineer d...

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The Balcony

by Jane Delury

Published: 2018-03-27

Hardcover: 256 pages

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A "breathtaking" (Jennifer Egan) century-spanning portrait of the inhabitants of a French village, revealing the deception, despair, love, and longing beneath the calm surface of ordinary lives.What if our homes could tell the stories of others who lived there before us? Set in a small vil...

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Too Close to Breathe: A Novel

by Olivia Kiernan

Published: 2018-04-03

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Olivia Kiernan’s tautly written debut novel immerses readers in a chilling murder case . . . and the tantalizing, enigmatic victim at the center of it all.In a quiet Dublin suburb, within her pristine home, Eleanor Costello is found hanging from a rope.Detective Chief Superintendent Fran...

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Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas

by Donna M. Lucey

Published: 2017-08-22

Hardcover: 336 pages

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"Sargent’s Women has a distinct elegance and potency?Lucey’s writing propels you forward, straight to the heart of the story, along the vibrant ties that linked this fascinating artist to the women he made infamous." ?Christene Barberich, global editor-in-chief and cofounder, Refinery2...

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Madame Claude: Her Secret World of Pleasure, Privilege, and Power

by William Stadiem

Published: 2018-05-15

Hardcover: 304 pages

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The life of Madame Claude, the brilliant and complicated and utterly amoral woman behind the most glamorous and successful escort service in the world.In post-WWII Paris, Madame Claude ran the most exclusive finishing school in the world. Her alumnae married more fortunes, titles and famou...

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Cause Celeb

by Helen Fielding

Published: 2002-02-26

Paperback: 352 pages

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Disillusioned with life as a literary publicist in London and sick of her hotshot TV presenter boyfriend, twenty-something Rosie Richardson decides to give up glitz for good deeds and escape to Africa to run a refugee camp. When famine strikes and a massive refugee influx threatens to over...

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The House of Mirth (Macmillan Collector's Library)

by Edith Wharton

Published: 2017-01-24

Hardcover: 432 pages

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Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library a...

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Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain

by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J Dubner

Published: 2015-07-07

Paperback: 304 pages

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Now in Paperback—the New York Times bestseller—and follow up to the revolutionary bestsellers Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics—with a new author Q&A. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner take us i...