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With Love from the Inside

by Angela Pisel

Published: 2016-08-09

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Angela Pisel’s poignant debut explores the complex relationship between a mother and a daughter, and their quest to discover the truth and whether or not love can prevail—even from behind bars.   Grace Bradshaw knows the exact minute she will die. On death row for murdering her infant...

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The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway Mysteries)

by Elly Griffiths

Published: 2016-05-03

Hardcover: 368 pages

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In the next Ruth Galloway mystery, a vision of the Virgin Mary foreshadows a string of cold-blooded murders, revealing a dark current of religious fanaticism in an old medieval town. Known as England’s Nazareth, the medieval town of Little Walsingham is famous for religious apparitions. ...

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The Boat Rocker: A Novel

by Ha Jin

Published: 2016-10-25

Hardcover: 240 pages

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From the award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash: an urgent, timely novel that follows an aspiring author, an outrageous book idea,and a lone journalist’s dogged quest for truth in the Internet age.New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at ...

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The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White

by Henry Wiencek

Published: 2000-02-19

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The Hairstons is the extraordinary story of the largest family in America, the Hairston clan. With several thousand black and white members, the Hairstons share a complex and compelling history: divided in the time of slavery, they have come...

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Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North

by Blair Braverman

Published: 2016-07-05

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A rich and revelatory memoir of a young woman reclaiming her courage in the stark landscapes of the north.By the time Blair Braverman was eighteen, she had left her home in California, moved to arctic Norway to learn to drive sled dogs, and found work as a tour guide on a glacier in Alaska...

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The Hospital Always Wins: A Memoir

by Issa Ibrahim

Published: 2016-06-01

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Issa Ibrahim’s memoir details in searing prose his development of severe mental illness leading to a horrific family tragedy, his acquittal by reason of insanity, and his subsequent commission to a mental hospital for nearly twenty years.  Raised in an idyllic creative environment, mom ...

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Seventh Grave and No Body (Charley Davidson)

by Darynda Jones

Published: 2015-05-05

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages

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Lead me not into temptation.Follow me instead! I know a shortcut!--T-shirtTwelve. Twelve of the deadliest beasts ever forged in the fires of hell have escaped onto our plane, and they want nothing more than to rip out Charley Davidson's jugular and serve her body to Satan for dinner. So th...

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365 Ways to Criticize the Preacher: A Very Short Novel

by Pat Jobe

Published: 2002-01-15

Paperback: 144 pages

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Beginning on Christmas Day and ending on Christmas Eve a year later, "365" takes the reader on a spiritual journey with cranky old lady, Beverly Roberts. With laughter and tears, not one, but a half-dozen stories lead us through this year in the life of one Southern rural church and shows us the kingdom...

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Gap Year Girl: A Baby Boomer Adventure Across 21 Countries

by Marianne C. Bohr

Published: 2015-09-01

Paperback: 372 pages

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In the 1960s and ’70s, thousands of baby boomers strapped packs to their backs and flocked to Europe, wandering the continent on missions of self-discovery. Many of these boomers still dream of “going back”?of once again cutting themselves free and revisiting the places they encounte...

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Why Are They Angry With Us?: Essays on Race

by Larry E. Davis

Published: 2015-07-01

Hardcover: 150 pages

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Now, more than at any time since the 1960s, issues about race have taken center stage in America. From the killing of young black boys, to the travesty of mass incarceration, America is every day presented with evidence that the struggle for equality and justice is far from over. This book...