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Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen

by James Suzman

Published: 2017-07-11

Hardcover: 320 pages

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WASHINGTON POST'S 50 NOTABLE WORKS OF NONFICTION IN 2017AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2017A vibrant portrait of the “original affluent society”--the Bushmen of southern Africa--by the anthropologist who has spent much of the last twenty-five years documenting their encounter with modernity.If th...

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Give Me Your Hand

by Megan Abbott

Published: 2018-07-17

Hardcover: 352 pages

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A life-changing secret destroys an unlikely friendship in this "magnetic" (Meg Wolitzer) psychological thriller from the Edgar Award-winning author of Dare Me.You told each other everything. Then she told you too much. Kit has risen to the top of her profession and is on the brink of achie...

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The Rough Patch: Marriage and the Art of Living Together

by Daphne de Marneffe PhD

Published: 2018-01-23

Hardcover: 368 pages

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From a leading clinical psychologist who has counseled couples and individuals for decades, a wise, radical, and optimistic approach to marriage that promises compatibility between an individual’s development and the often relentless demands of a relationship.People today are trying to m...

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The Tobacconist

by Robert Seethaler

Published: 2017-09-05

Paperback: 224 pages

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From The Man Booker International Prize finalist Robert Seethaler comes a tender, heartbreaking story about one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he ...

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Salt Creek

by Lucy Treloar

Published: 2017-09-12

Paperback: 464 pages

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"Refigures the historical novel. . . . Salt Creek introduces a capacious new talent." —The Weekend AustralianHester Finch recalls her family's move to coastal South Australia in 1855. The connections the Finches form with passing travelers and with a local Aboriginal boy, Tully, whom Hes...

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The Summer Guest

by Alison Anderson

Published: 2017-05-23

Paperback: 416 pages

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What if Anton Chekhov, undisputed master of the short story, actually wrote a novel—and the manuscript  still existed? This tantalizing possibility drives The Summer Guest, a spellbinding narrative that draws together, across two centuries, the lives of three women through the discovery...

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Ethan Frome (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Edith Wharton

Published: 1991-01-01

Paperback: 77 pages

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Perhaps the best-known and most popular of Edith Wharton's novels, Ethan Frome is widely considered her masterpiece. Set against a bleak New England background, the novel tells of Frome, his ailing wife Zeena and her companion Mattie Silver, superbly delineating the characters of each as t...

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A Quiet Life

by NATASHA WALTER

Published: 2017

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Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier (Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit)

Published: 2012-08-30

Paperback: 288 pages

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Border Rhetorics is a collection of essays that undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States.A “border” is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geograp...

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The Female Persuasion: A Novel

by Meg Wolitzer

Published: 2018-04-03

Hardcover: 464 pages

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A New York Times Bestseller   “A powerful coming-of-age story that looks at ambition, friendship, identity, desire, and power from the much-needed female lens." —Bustle “Ultra-readable.” —Vogue    From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings, comes an elec...