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The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal (P.S.)

by Lily Koppel

Published: 2009-10-13

Kindle Edition: 354 pages

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Rescued from a Dumpster on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a discarded diary brings to life the glamorous, forgotten world of an extraordinary young woman.For more than half a century, the red leather diary lay silent, languishing inside a steamer trunk, its worn cover crumbling into lit...

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* * * Difficult,
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On Beauty: A Novel

by Zadie Smith

Published: 2006-08-29

Paperback: 445 pages

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Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for fiction, another bestselling masterwork from the celebrated author of Swing Time and White Teeth Having hit bestseller lists from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle, this wise, hilarious novel reminds us why Zadie Smith has rocketed to ...

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* * * * Informative,
Interesting,
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

by Kate Moore

Published: 2017-04-18

Hardcover: 496 pages

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A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts Bestseller!"the glowing ghosts of the radium girls haunt us still."?NPR Books The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark dangerThe Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headline...

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Two Thousand Seasons

by Ayi Kwei Armah

Published: 2000-01

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A young group inexorably rebels against the forces destroying Africa. By the author of Fragments and The Healers.

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Olive Witch: A Memoir

by Abeer Y. Hoque

Published: 2017-02-07

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In the 1970s, Nigeria is flush with oil money, building new universities, and hanging on to old colonial habits. Abeer Hoque is a Bangladeshi girl growing up in a small sunlit town, where the red clay earth, corporal punishment and running games are facts of life. At thirteen she moves with her family...

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At Home in Mitford (The Mitford Years)

by Jan Karon

Published: 1996-02-01

Paperback: 446 pages

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The first novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon’s beloved series set in America’s favorite small town: Mitford. It's easy to feel at home in Mitford. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are generally lovable. Yet, Fathe...

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The Mutual Admiration Society: A Novel

by Lesley Kagen

Published: 2017-02-01

Paperback: 282 pages

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Whistling in the Dark comes an unforgettable novel that illuminates the sweet and brittle bonds of family, the tenderness of growing up, the heartbreak of longing for what we’ve lost, and the poignancy of finding love.FACT: Unbeknownst to ele...

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* * * * Brilliant,
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things: A Novel

by Iain Reid

Published: 2017-03-21

Paperback: 240 pages

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AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016“I’m Thinking of Ending Things is one of the best debut novels I’ve ever read. Iain Reid has crafted a tight, ferocious little book, with a persistent tenor of suspense that tightens and mounts toward its visionary, harrowing final pages” (Scott He...

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Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed

by John F. Ross

Published: 2015-05-05

Paperback: 416 pages

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The sensational true story of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's greatest flying aceAt the turn of the twentieth century two new technologies?the car and airplane?took the nation's imagination by storm as they burst, like comets, into American life. The brave souls that leaped into these danger...

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The Salad Oil King

by M.G. Crisci

Published: 2016-06-01

Perfect Paperback: 449 pages

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THE SALAD OIL KING  is a uniquely American tale of Greed-Gone-Mad. Inspired by real events that took place in the 1940-60's. An unpretentious, diminutive Manhattan-born high school drop-out named Alfonso Gravenese morphs into one of the great scam artists in American financial history. ...