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Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS

by Martin Duberman

Published: 2014-03-18

Hardcover: 368 pages

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In December 1995, the FDA approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from what had been a death sentence; for others, it was too late. In the United States alone, over 318,000 people had already die...

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Querelle of Brest

by Jean Genet

Published: 2015-04-11

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'The man who wears the uniform of a sailor is in no way pledged or bound to obey the rules of prudence...'. First published in 1947, revised for Gallimard in 1953, Querelle of Brest is widely considered to be Jean Genet's most accomplished novel, its renown further aided by Rainer Werner Fassbinder's...

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Mothers and Other Strangers

by Gina Sorell

Published: 2017-05-02

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"My father proposed to my mother at gunpoint when she was nineteen, and knowing that she was already pregnant with a dead man’s child, she accepted."Thus begins this riveting story of a woman's quest to understand her recently deceased mother, a glamorous, cruel narcissist who left her o...

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The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria

by Alia Malek

Published: 2017-02-28

Hardcover: 352 pages

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At the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent's decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the people ...

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The Scrying (The Scrying Trilogy) (Volume 1)

by Jaci Miller

Published: 2017-05-25

Paperback: 326 pages

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A modern witch, an ancient warrior, two worlds about to collide.      Dane Watts-Callan's destiny has always been complicated, she has been a witch living in a modern world since her "awakening" at thirteen. Now on her thirty-first birthday an ancient family legacy is...

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Quicksand

by Malin Persson Giolito

Published: 2017-03-07

Hardcover: 512 pages

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SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIESNamed an NPR "BEST BOOKS OF 2017"Named the Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year by the Swedish Crime Writers AcademyAn incisive courtroom thriller and a drama that raises questions about the nature of love, the disastrous side effects of guilt, and th...

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The Answers: A Novel

by Catherine Lacey

Published: 2017-06-06

Hardcover: 304 pages

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NAMED A TOP 10 NOVEL OF 2017 BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AND VOGUE, A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY ESQUIRE, HUFFINGTON POST, POP SUGAR, ELECTRIC LITERATURE AND KIRKUS, AND A 2017 NPR GREAT READ. ONE OF DWIGHT GARNER'S TOP BOOKS OF 2017 IN THE NEW YORK TIMES. A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CH...

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Chemistry: A novel

by Weike Wang

Published: 2017-05-23

Hardcover: 224 pages

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Named by The Washington Post as a Notable Work of Fiction in 2017 and by Entertainment Weekly as a Best Debut Novel of 2017Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Ann Patchett on PBS NewsHour, Minnesota Public Radio, Maris Kreizman, and The Morning NewsNational Book Foundation “5 Under 3...

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The Red Coat - A Novel of Boston

by Dolley Carlson

Published: 2014-11-11

Paperback: 480 pages

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Think Downton Abbey, but set in the heart of Boston. . . Irish domestic worker Norah King's decision to ask her wealthy employer, Caroline Parker, for an elegant red coat the Beacon Hill matriarch has marked for donation ignites a series of events that neither woman could have fathomed. Th...

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Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Published: 2017-02-07

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction “A fascinating and moving account of a courageous and resourceful woman. Beautifully written and utilizing previously untapped sources it sheds new light both on the father of our country and on the intersections of slavery and freedom...