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Dance Like You Mean It

by Jeanne Skartsiaris

Published: 2017-02-11

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What if you wrote a steamy, erotic novel that was so hot bookstores couldn't keep it on their shelves? What if you couldn't tell anyone you wrote it? At night, nurse Cassie Calabria pens a bodice-ripper novel, using an alias. She sends it to a few agents, then forgets about it. She's more ...

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The Dime

by Kathleen Kent

Published: 2017-02-14

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Brooklyn's toughest female detective takes on Dallas--and neither is ready for the fight.Dallas, Texas is not for the faint of heart. Good thing for Betty Rhyzyk she's from a family of take-no-prisoners Brooklyn police detectives. But her Big Apple wisdom will only get her so far when she ...

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A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley

by Katherine Frank

Published: 1986-09

Hardcover: 333 pages

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Mary Kingsley began her life as a typically conventional Victorian woman. She would end up travelling to some of the most inhospitable regions of Africa and became one of the most celebrated travellers of the day. At the age of 31, she sailed on a cargo ship along the coast from Sierra Leo...

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Speaking Truth to Power

by Anita Hill

Published: 1998-10-20

Paperback: 384 pages

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See the new HBO movie CONFIRMATION about the Clarence Thomas hearings, starring Kerry Washington in the role of Anita Hill—then read Hill’s own life story.After her astonishing testimony in the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill ceased to be a private citizen and became a public figu...

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The Locals: A Novel

by Jonathan Dee

Published: 2017-08-08

Hardcover: 400 pages

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“Summons up a small American town at precisely the right moment in our history . . . a bold, vital, and view-expanding novel.”—George SaundersA rural working-class New England town elects as its mayor a New York hedge fund millionaire in this inspired novel for our times—fiction in...

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Raney: A Novel (Southern Revivals)

by Clyde Edgerton

Published: 2017-06-13

Paperback: 248 pages

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Clyde Edgerton's Raney is the comic love story of a marriage between Raney, a small-town Southern Baptist, and Charles, a librarian with liberal leanings from Atlanta, united by their shared enthusiasm for country music. The novel both interrogates and honors the faiths and foibles of its ...

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Crown of Stars

by Kate Elliott

Published: 2015-11-24

Paperback: 624 pages

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Set in an alternate Europe where bloody conflicts rage, the final book of the Crown of Stars epic fantasy series concludes the world-shaking conflict for the survival of humanityIn the wake of the cataclysm that has reshaped the very lands, Sanglant is struggling to legitimize his own rule...

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Signs Preceding the End of the World

by Yuri Herrera

Published: 2015-03-10

Paperback: 128 pages

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Signs Preceding the End of the World is one of the most arresting novels to be published in Spanish in the last ten years. Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores the crossings and translations people make...

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Loitering with Intent (New Directions Paperbook)

by Muriel Spark

Published: 2014-05-27

Paperback: 224 pages

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Where does art start or reality end? Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with the intent of gathering material for her writing, Fleur Talbot finds a job “on the grubby edge of the literary world” at the very peculiar Autobiographical Association. Mad egomaniacs writing their memoi...

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A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light

Published: 2017-07-04

Paperback: 288 pages

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A collection of all-new Paris-themed essays written by some of the biggest names in women’s fiction, including Paula McLain, Therese Anne Fowler, Maggie Shipstead, and Lauren Willig—edited by Eleanor Brown, the New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters and The Light of Par...