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Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

by David Oshinsky

Published: 2016-11-15

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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled c...

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Enigma Variations: A Novel

by André Aciman

Published: 2017-01-03

Hardcover: 288 pages

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André Aciman, hailed as a writer of “fiction at its most supremely interesting” (The New York Review of Books), has written a novel that charts the life of a man named Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in his adolescence. Wheth...

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The Strays: A Novel

by Emily Bitto

Published: 2017-01-03

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A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice"Disturbing and magical....with a grace and eloquence." - NPR Books "Full of lush, mesmerizing detail and keen insight into the easy intimacy between young girls which disappears with adulthood." - The New Yorker "THE STRAYS is a knowing novel, a...

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All That's Left to Tell: A Novel

by Daniel Lowe

Published: 2017-02-14

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“Like Tim O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato, All That’s Left to Tell celebrates not just the power of storytelling but the deeply human need for it in even the most dire situations. Alternately gripping and dreamy, Daniel Lowe’s debut imagines what the stories we tell reveal about o...

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Selection Day: A Novel

by Aravind Adiga

Published: 2017-01-03

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From Aravind Adiga, the bestselling, Booker Prize­–winning author of The White Tiger, a dazzling new novel about two brothers in a Mumbai slum who are raised by their obsessive father to become cricket stars, and whose coming-of-age threatens their relationship, future, and sense of the...

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Basket Baby

by Kelli Donley

Published: 2016-09-06

Paperback: 332 pages

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Reeling from the loss of their first baby, Macy Duncan and her husband Ben flee their grief and enter an unknown world as Ben accepts a job offer that takes them to the far reaches of Southern Bolivia. While Ben's work takes him into the dangerous politics of coca farmers and indigenous rights, Macy...

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Foxy: My Life in Three Acts

by Pam Grier

Published: 2010-04-28

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Some may know her as hot, gutsy, gun-totin' Foxy Brown, Friday Foster, Coffy, and Jackie Brown. Others may know her from her role as Kit Porter on The L Word. But that only defines one part of the legend that is Pam Grier.Foxy is Pam's testimony of her life, past and present. In it, she re...

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Under the Same Moon

by Kelli M. Donley

Published: 2010-05-05

Paperback: 362 pages

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Abena Udate was selling mangos on a humid market day in her Mozambican village when she caught the eye of a wandering foreigner. Kidnapped and brought to live in suburban America, the African teenager struggles with the glaring cultural and social differences of her new life. Abena is expected to play...

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The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father

by Kao Kalia Yang

Published: 2016-05-10

Hardcover: 288 pages

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From the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrificed his gift for his children's future in AmericaIn the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses; extemporizing or drawin...

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Heart Journey

by Bobbi Blanzy

Published: 2016-11-03

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Dr. Joe Travis is a brilliant young surgeon as skilled with a scalpel as he is compassionate with his patients. His single-minded devotion to his work places him far above the rest. Throughout a troubled childhood and into abandoned years as a teenager, he struggled to maintain a belief i...