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Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs

by Rachel Jeffs

Published: 2017-11-14

Hardcover: 304 pages

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In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it.Born into the Fundamentalis...

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Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel

by Arthur Golden

Published: 1999-01-10

Paperback: 434 pages

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A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Speaking to us ...

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The Princess Bride Deluxe Edition HC: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

by William Goldman

Published: 2017-10-10

Hardcover: 448 pages

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William Goldman’s beloved story of Buttercup, Westley, and their fellow adventurers is now available in a beautifully illustrated deluxe edition     This tale of true love, high adventure, pirates, princesses, giants, miracles, fencing, and a frightening assortment of wild beasts, as...

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Freedom Fighters and Hell Raisers: A Gallery of Memorable Southerners

by Hal Crowther

Published: 2018-10-16

Paperback: 200 pages

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"I don't have any children, so I've decided to claim all the future freedom-fighters and hell-raisers as my kin," wrote journalist Molly Ivins. Ivins is one of the biggest hell-raisers profiled in this collection of essays by Hal Crowther, but there is plenty hell-raising and freedom-fighting to go around....

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The Free Men

by John Ehle

Published: 2007-02-01

Paperback: 376 pages

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This moving narrative by John Ehle describes the experiences of a handful of dedicated young students, both black and white, during the 1963-64 civil rights protests in Chapel Hill, NC. The movement began through the efforts of three young men: two white UNC-CHapel Hill students, John Dunne, a gifted...

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Areas of Fog

by Will Dowd

Published: 2017-11-14

Paperback: 160 pages

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Will Dowd takes us on a whimsical journey through one year of New England weather in this engaging collection of essays. As unpredictable as its subject, Areas of Fog combines wit and poetry with humor and erudition. A fun, breezy, and discursive read, it is an intellectual game that expos...

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Insurrecto

by Gina Apostol

Published: 2018-11-13

Hardcover: 336 pages

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"A bravura performance."—The New York TimesHistories and personalities collide in this literary tour-de-force about the Philippines’ present and America’s past by the PEN Open Book Award–winning author of Gun Dealers’ Daughter.   Two women, a Filipino translator and an American ...

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The Cloud Corporation (Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award)

by Timothy Donnelly

Published: 2010-09-21

Paperback: 176 pages

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"The poems of Timothy Donnelly astonish by their inventive intelligence . . . we learn that self-knowledge can be adequate to knowledge of the world, in all its violence and complexity."—Allen GrossmanTimothy Donnelly's long-awaited second collection is a tour de force, fully invested wi...

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Eggs on Ice (A Cackleberry Club Mystery)

by Laura Childs

Published: 2018-12-04

Hardcover: 304 pages

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“Childs serves dedicated cup-of-tea-and-a-cozy readers exactly what they long for.”--Publishers Weekly “Childs shines in the Cackleberry Club series, and not only with dandy plots and cherished characters, but also with a multitude of food references.”-- Richmond Times-Dispatch ...