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NORA: The Real Life of Molly Bloom

by Brenda Maddox

Published: 1988-06-16

Hardcover: 472 pages

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In 1904, having known each other for only three months, a young woman named Nora Barnacle and a not yet famous writer named James Joyce left Ireland together for Europe -- unwed. So began a deep and complex partnership, and eventually a marriage, which endured for thirty-seven years. This ...

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Mountain City

by Gregory Martin

Published: 2001-06-04

Paperback: 204 pages

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By the end of Gregory Martin's unsentimental but affecting memoir, only thirty-one people live in remote Mountain City, Nevada, and none of them are children. The town's abandoned mines are testimony to the cycle of promise, exploitation, abandonment, and attrition that has been the repeat...

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Mendel's Dwarf

by Simon Mawer

Published: 1999-07-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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Like his great, great uncle, the early geneticist Gregor Mendel, Dr. Benedict Lambert is struggling to unlock the secrets of heredity. But Benedict's mission is particularly urgent and particularly personal, for he is afflicted with achondroplasia—he's a dwarf. He's also a man desperate ...

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World of Bees: A Book of Puzzles

by Dannelle F Gay

Published: 2017-08-11

Paperback: 54 pages

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This is a book of puzzles for the fan of the simple creature: the bee. Pictures, words, poems and quotes all dedicated to this tinhy little miracle worker.

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The Assault

by Harry Mulisch

Published: 1986-03-12

Paperback: 192 pages

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It is the winter of 1945, the last dark days of World War II in occupied Holland. A Nazi collaborator, infamous for his cruelty, is assassinated as he rides home on his bicycle. The Germans retaliate by burning down the home of an innocent family; only twelve-year-old Anton survives.Based ...

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A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile

by Agate Nesaule

Published: 1997-01-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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"Shows us, in disturbing but illuminating detail, how violence and cruelty register on the psyche. This beautifully written book makes us reckon anew with the deep costs of war."—Eva Hoffman.

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The House Of Splendid Isolation

by Edna O'Brien

Published: 1995-04-03

Paperback: 224 pages

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Masterful novel by the bestselling writer, with a controversial story marrying the worlds of a political terrorist and a loveless widowJosie, the ailing, elderly inhabitant of an Irish country mansion, dwells in the shadowy world of remembered pain and loneliness. McGreevy, the terrorist, reintroduces...

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All Over Creation: A Novel

by Ruth Ozeki

Published: 2004-03-30

Paperback: 432 pages

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A warm and witty saga about agribusiness, environmental activism, and community—from the celebrated author of My Year of Meats and A Tale for the Time BeingYumi Fuller hasn’t set foot in her hometown of Liberty Falls, Idaho—heart of the potato-farming industry—since she ran away at...

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The Best American Short Stories 2016 (The Best American Series ®)

Published: 2016-10-04

Paperback: 336 pages

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“The literary ‘Oscars’ features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.” —Shelf Awareness for Readers The Best American Short Stories 2016 will be selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz. He brings "one of the most distinctive and mag...

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The Collected Stories (FSG Classics)

by Grace Paley

Published: 2007-04-03

Paperback: 400 pages

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This reissue of Grace Paley's classic collection?a finalist for the National Book Award?demonstrates her rich use of language as well as her extraordinary insight into and compassion for her characters, moving from the hilarious to the tragic and back again. Whether writing about the love ...