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An Unquiet Place

by Clare Houston

Published: 2018-09-01

Kindle Edition: 218 pages

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Hannah Harrison escapes her stalled life in Cape Town for a small-town bookshop in the Free State. A concentration-camp journal from the South African War, found in a dusty box of old stock, reveals the life of Rachel Badenhorst, a young girl separated from her family and enduring the crushing hardship...

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The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition

by David Elkind

Published: 2006-12-26

Paperback: 288 pages

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"David Elkind [is] one of psychology's leading lights."--Washington PostWith the first edition of The Hurried Child, David Elkind emerged as the voice of parenting reason, calling our attention to the crippling effects of hurrying our children through life. He showed that by blurring the b...

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Living Out Loud

by Anna Quindlen

Published: 1994-03-08

Paperback: 304 pages

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"A panopticon of life in this decade, sure to be valuable to future social historians She touches on life, love, home, family, work, men, women, children and issues large and small."CHICAGO TRIBUNEThe voice is Anna Quindlen's. But we know the hopes, dreams, fears, and wonder expressed in a...

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Crossing to Safety (Modern Library Classics)

by Wallace Stegner

Published: 2007-12-18

Kindle Edition: 370 pages

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?Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams Afterword by T. H. Watkins   ?Called a “magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the gre...

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Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire

by Shane White

Published: 2015-10-13

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Winner of the 2015 Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Best Book PrizeIn the middle decades of the nineteenth century Jeremiah G. Hamilton was a well-known figure on Wall Street. Cornelius Vanderbilt, America's first tycoon, came to respect, grudgingly, his one-time oppon...

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The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America

by Shelby Steele

Published: 1998-09-23

Paperback: 192 pages

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In this controversial essay collection, award-winning writer Shelby Stelle illuminates the origins of the current conflict in race relations--the increase in anger, mistrust, and even violence between black and whites. With candor and persuasive argument, he shows us how both black and whi...

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Object Lessons: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Anna Quindlen

Published: 2010-08-25

Kindle Edition: 306 pages

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR"Elaborate and playful...Honest and deeply felt....Here is the Quindlen wit, the sharp eye for the details of class and manners, [and] the ardent reading of domestic lives."-THE NEW YORK TIMESIt is the 1960s, in suburban New York City. Maggie and he...

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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

by Susan Faludi

Published: 2006-08-15

Paperback: 608 pages

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From the author of In the Darkroom, a feminist classic and skillful examination of the attack on women’s rights. Today’s political climate leaves no doubt that American women are still being assaulted by the same antifeminist backlash messages that Susan Faludi brilliantly exposed in...

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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962

by Blanche Wiesen Cook

Published: 2017-11-07

Paperback: 688 pages

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One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2016One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016"Heartachingly relevant...the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages transcends both first-lady history and the marriage around which Roosevelt scholarship has traditionally pivo...

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A Big Storm Knocked It Over: A Novel

by Laurie Colwin

Published: 2015-07-14

Kindle Edition: 272 pages

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In A Big Storm Knocked It Over, acclaimed author Laurie Colwin explores marriage, friendship, motherhood, and careers as experienced by a cast of endearing, idiosyncratic Manhattanites. At once a hilarious social commentary and an insightful, sophisticated modern romance, A Big Storm Knock...