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The Perez Family

by Christine Bell

Published: 1990-09

Hardcover: 256 pages

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For twenty years in Castro's prisons, Juan Perez has dreamed of his family in the U.S. Released in the Mariel boatlift, he goes to find them in Miami, a city crayola and bright, like a child's drawing. So begins this magical brew of the absurd, the surreal, and the crazy logic of real life.

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Pekoe Most Poison (A Tea Shop Mystery)

by Laura Childs

Published: 2017-03-07

Hardcover: 320 pages

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In the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs, Theodosia Browning attends a “Rat Tea,” where the mice will play...at murder.   When Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is invited by Doreen Briggs, one of Charleston’s most prominent hostesses...

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My Sunshine Away

by M. O. Walsh

Published: 2016-04-05

Paperback: 336 pages

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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A tantalizing mystery and a tender coming-of-age story...Unputdownable."—Oprah.comIn the summer of 1989, a Baton Rouge neighborhood best known for cookouts on sweltering summer afternoons, cauldrons of spicy crawfish, and passionate football fandom i...

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The Woman Next Door: A Novel

by Yewande Omotoso

Published: 2017-02-07

Paperback: 288 pages

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Longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize • A Finalist for the Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize • One of the Best Black Heritage Reads (Essence Magazine) • One of The Millions' and Refinery 29's Best Books of the Year (So Far), from...

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Shrill

by Lindy West

Published: 2017-02-28

Paperback: 272 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: NPR, ESQUIRE, The LA Times, and NEWSWEEKWINNER OF THE STRANGER GENIUS AWARDShrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be fu...

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Mercy's Rain

by Cindy Sproles

Published: 2015-01-27

Paperback: 264 pages

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When your life is built around a father's wrath, how can you trust in the love of Father God? Mercy Roller knows her name is a lie: there has never been any mercy in her young life. Raised by a twisted and abusive father who called himself the Pastor, she was abandoned by the church commun...

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No Darker Place: A Thriller (Shades of Death)

by Debra Webb

Published: 2017-02-28

Paperback: 416 pages

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They want revenge. They need each other. Detective Bobbie Gentry has one objective: to stop the serial killer who robbed her of her husband, her child and her life. Nick Shade understands Bobbie's pain—and her desire for vengeance. He's on a mission of his own, and the murderer known as...

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Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (MAXNotes Literature Guides)

by Malcolm Foster, English Literature Study Guides

Published: 1999-04-16

Paperback: 130 pages

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REA's MAXnotes for Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's TaleMAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion. Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work....

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The Essex Serpent

by Sarah Perry

Published: 1844

Hardcover: 0 pages

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London 1893: When Cora Seaborne and her son Francis reach Essex, rumours spread from further up the estuary that the mythical Essex Serpent, once said to roam the marshes claiming lives, has returned to the coastal parish of Aldwinter. Cora, a keen amateur naturalist is enthralled, convinced that it...

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Lucia, Lucia: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Adriana Trigiani

Published: 2004-06-29

Paperback: 304 pages

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It is 1950 in glittering, vibrant New York City. Lucia Sartori is the beautiful twenty-five-year-old daughter of a prosperous Italian grocer in Greenwich Village. The postwar boom is ripe with opportunities for talented girls with ambition, and Lucia becomes an apprentice to an up-and-coming designer...