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Spat the Dummy

by Ed Macdonald

Published: 2010-10-15

Paperback: 272 pages

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Fiction. Spat Ryan has demons. They haunt him by day and share his drink at night. Raised in Montréal by a bagman for the Irish mob, Spat has fictionalized or ignored chunks of his life too painful to recall. A chance meeting with an old friend of his father's in a bar exposes the dark se...

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Based on a True Story: A Novel

by Elizabeth Renzetti

Published: 2016-04-12

Paperback: 272 pages

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Augusta Price (not her real name) is famous in England for playing a slatternly barmaid on a nighttime soap opera and for falling down drunk in public. Now, she has no job, no relationship with her long-lost son, and a sad shortage of tranquilizers - but she has had an improbable hit with ...

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Every Note Played

by Lisa Genova

Published: 2019-01-29

Paperback: 336 pages

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“Unsparing in her depiction of the disease’s harrowing effects, neuroscientist Genova also celebrates humanity.” —People “Sometimes it’s easier to tell truth in fiction…And she tells it with heart and hope.” —NPR“Her juxtaposition of scientific detail with compassiona...

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The People at Number 9

by Felicity Everett

Published: 2017-08-08

Paperback: 315 pages

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Envy. Longing. Betrayal.Have you met the new neighbors?Sara and Neil have new neighbors in their street. Glamorous and chaotic, Gavin and Louise make Sara’s life seem dull. As the two couples become friends, sharing suppers, red wine and childcare, it seems a perfect couples-match. But t...

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Herbarium. Las flores de Gideon (Spanish Edition)

by Anna Casanovas

Published: 2016-05-31

Paperback: 300 pages

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Sarah se fue de Oxford con dieciocho anos. Descubrir un oscuro secreto familiar la llevo a huir a Brasil y dejar detras algo mas que su vida. Cinco anos mas tarde, Eddie, el padre de Sarah muere en un accidente de coche y ella tiene que volver para cuidar a su abuela Sylvia, la mujer que la crio de nina...

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The Awakened Woman: Remembering & Reigniting Our Sacred Dreams

by Tererai Trent PhD

Published: 2017-10-03

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Nominated for a 2017 NAACP Image AwardThrough one incredible woman’s journey from a child bride in a small Zimbabwe village to one of the world’s most recognizable voices in women’s empowerment and education, this manifesto inspires women to pursue their sacred dreams through nine e...

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Soar (Indigo Lounge) (Volume 4)

by Zara Cox

Published: 2015-11-11

Paperback: 268 pages

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Welcome back to The Indigo lounge, the scandalously sexy sky-high playground where anything can happen. Buckle up. Emotional turbulence guaranteed... SOAR, the sizzling conclusion to the next duet in the Indigo Lounge Series. Seven Nights, Seven Highs…the story continues! Dark and sinfully sexy Noah...

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A Burst of Light: and Other Essays

by Audre Lorde

Published: 2017-09-13

Hardcover: 144 pages

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"Lorde's words — on race, cancer, intersectionality, parenthood, injustice — burn with relevance 25 years after her death." — O, The Oprah MagazineWinner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation National Book Award, this path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build com...

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Bag Boys

by Christopher Conway

Published: 2017-11-12

Paperback: 352 pages

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A 'Bag Boy' is a kid the Mob uses to run numbers. "That’s how I got started. I was eight years old, the year was 1932." Paul "Funeral" Signori started as a numbers runner, but soon graduated to a street fighter. Then, he moved into the nightclubs on Baltimore’s infamous "Block" as a Mob enforcer....

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Victoria's Daughters

by Jerrold M. Packard

Published: 1999-12-23

Paperback: 370 pages

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Five women who shared one of the most extraordinary and privileged sisterhoods of all time...Vicky, Alice, Helena, Louise, and Beatrice were historically unique sisters, born to a sovereign who ruled over a quarter of the earth's people and who gave her name to an era: Queen Victoria. Two ...