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Why Religion?: A Personal Story

by Elaine Pagels

Published: 2018-11-06

Hardcover: 256 pages

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New York Times bestsellerOne of PW’s Best Books of the YearOne of Amazon’s Best Books of the MonthWhy is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to pol...

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The Occupation of Eliza Goode

by Shelley Mickle

Published: 2013-10-01

Kindle Edition: 336 pages

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Eliza Goode is born into a New Orleans' parlor house in the mid 1800s. Sold as a courtesan on her seventeenth birthday, she flees her arranged future at the outbreak of the Civil War. She is passed up through Mississippi's plantations from one slave quarters to another until she emerges at...

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The Outsider: A Memoir

by Jimmy Connors

Published: 2014-05-06

Paperback: 416 pages

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The Outsider is a no-holds-barred memoir by the original bad boy of tennis, Jimmy Connors.Connors ignited the tennis boom in the 1970s with his aggressive style of play, turning his matches with John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg, and Ivan Lendl into prizefights. But it was his prolonged dedication ...

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Woman Last Seen in Her Thirties: A Novel

by Camille Pagán

Published: 2018-02-27

Paperback: 254 pages

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From bestselling author Camille Pagán comes a hilarious and hopeful story about a woman on the verge of a nervous breakthrough.At fifty-three, Maggie Harris has a good marriage and two mostly happy children. Perpetually anxious, she’s also accumulated a list of semi-reasonable fears: fa...

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Signed, Mata Hari: A Novel

by Yannick Murphy

Published: 2007-11-14

Hardcover: 288 pages

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In the cold October of 1917 Margaretha Zelle, better known as Mata Hari, sits in a prison cell in Paris awaiting trial on charges of espionage. The penalty is death by firing squad. As she waits, burdened by a secret guilt, Mata Hari tells stories, Scheherazade-like, to buy back her life f...

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Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn

by Larry Colton

Published: 2001-10-01

Paperback: 434 pages

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In Native American tradition, a warrior gained honor and glory by "counting coup" -- touching his enemy in battle and living to tell the tale. This is a modern story of...COUNTING COUPIn this extraordinary work of journalism, Larry Colton journeys into the world of Montana's Crow Indians a...

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Double Blind: A Novel (Kendra Michaels Book 6)

by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen

Published: 2018-07-17

Kindle Edition: 336 pages

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The #1 New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award winning authors are back with an electrifying new novel that will leave your heart racing.Kendra Michaels, formerly blind and now a hired gun for law enforcement agencies who relies on her razor-sharp powers of observation, is reluctant to ...

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We Hope for Better Things

by Erin Bartels

Published: 2019-01-01

Paperback: 400 pages

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"In this powerful first novel . . . Bartels successfully weaves American history into a deeply moving story of heartbreak, long-held secrets, and the bonds of family."--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review"A forbidden interracial marriage, an escaped slave, an expectant mother waiting for her...

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Odessa, Odessa: A Novel

by Barbara Artson

Published: 2018-09-11

Paperback: 264 pages

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Odessa, Odessa follows the fates of two sons from a proud lineage of rabbis and cantors in a shtetl near the Black Sea in western Russia.As two brothers emigrate out of Russia to escape anti-Semitism, one chooses America and the other Israel/Palestine. The generations move forward in the t...

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Unchained: Blood Bond: Parts 1, 2 & 3 (Volume 1) (Blood Bond Saga)

by Helen Hardt

Published: 2018-10-02

Paperback: 384 pages

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Dante Gabriel is starving. What he craves is red gold?human blood. After being held captive as a blood slave to a female vampire for years, he has finally escaped. Unchained at last, he follows his nose to the nearest blood bank to sate his hunger.ER nurse Erin Hamilton expects just anothe...