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My Cubs: A Love Story

by Scott Simon

Published: 2017-04-11

Hardcover: 160 pages

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NPR's Scott Simon's personal, heartfelt reflections on his beloved Chicago Cubs, replete with club lore, memorable anecdotes, frenetic fandom and wise and adoring intimacy that have made the world champion Cubbies baseball's most tortured—and now triumphant—franchise.Heartbreak and hop...

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All That Man Is: A Novel

by David Szalay

Published: 2017-10-03

Paperback: 368 pages

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Finalist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize Winner of the 2016 Paris Review Plimpton Prize for FictionA magnificent and ambitiously conceived portrait of contemporary life, by a genius of realismAll That Man Is traces the arc of life from the spring of youth to the winter of old age by followin...

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Anne Boleyn, A King's Obsession: A Novel (Six Tudor Queens)

by Alison Weir

Published: 2017-05-16

Hardcover: 560 pages

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In this second novel of Alison Weir’s epic Six Tudor Queens series, the acclaimed author and historian weaves exciting new research into the story of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s most infamous wife, a woman ahead of her time whose very life—and death—forever changed a nation. Born int...

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Til It's Gone

by Dwayne S. Joseph

Published: 2008-08-01

Mass Market Paperback: 300 pages

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Danita & Stephen have been together for five years. Everything is great between them until an unexpected discovery sends Danita into a tailspin - Stephen's been cheating. With her trust shattered, & temptation in the form of a sexy colleague, Danita must decide whether to work things out or move one....

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Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in America

by Donna Brazile

Published: 2005-06-02

Paperback: 368 pages

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Cooking with Grease is an inspiring, behind-the-scenes memoir of the life and times of a tenacious political organizer and the first African-American woman to head a major presidential campaign. Donna Brazile fought her first political fight at age nine -- campaigning (successfully) for a...

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Consequences

by Linda R. Herman

Published: 2009-01-19

Paperback: 252 pages

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It all begins with the look; that initial contact when the eyes speak loud and clear as to what the body craves. Deep, wet, passionate kisses leading to mind blowing orgasms that leaves the body trembling much like a leaf on a tree on the windiest of days. Sex. It's meant to be a beautiful bond, a physically...

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The Known World: A Novel

by Edward P. Jones

Published: 2017-10-10

Paperback: 496 pages

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From Edward P. Jones comes one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory—winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction—now available in a limited Olive Edition.The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and fo...

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Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad

by Ann Petry

Published: 2007-08-14

Paperback: 256 pages

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The quintessential biography for middle grade readers of Harriet Tubman, the anti-slavery hero who is expected to be the face of the new $20 bill. The New Yorker praised this book as “an evocative portrait,” and the Chicago Tribune called it “superb.”Harriet Tubman was born a slave...

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Underground To Canada 25th Anniversary Edition

by Barbara Smucker

Published: 2003-02-11

Mass Market Paperback: 144 pages

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Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day that she spends huddled in the slave trader’s wagon travelling south or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks about the land where it is possible to be free, a land s...

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The Living is Easy

by Dorothy West

Published: 1995-07-01

Paperback: 376 pages

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This stunning first novel by the author of The Wedding is one of only a handful of novels published by black women during the 1940s. It tells the story of Cleo Judson—daughter of southern sharecroppers and wife of "Black Banana King" Bart Judson. Cleo seeks to recreate her original famil...