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Hurricane Season

by Fernanda Melchor

Published: 2020-03-31

Hardcover: 224 pages

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The English-language debut of one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse?by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals?propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. R...

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A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump

by Lonnie G. Bunch III

Published: 2019-09-24

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Founding Director Lonnie Bunch's deeply personal tale of the triumphs and challenges of bringing the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture to life. His story is by turns inspiring, funny, frustrating, quixotic, bittersweet, and above all, a compelling read.In ...

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The Grotesque (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Patrick McGrath

Published: 2012-07-11

Kindle Edition: 191 pages

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This exuberantly spooky novel, in which horror, repressed eroticism, and sulfurous social comedy intertwine like the vines in an overgrown English garden, is now a major motion picture, starring Alan Bates, Sting, and Theresa Russell.

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A Mother's Goodbye: A gripping emotional page turner about adoption and a mother's love

by Kate Hewitt

Published: 2018-06-11

Paperback: 344 pages

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‘My arms ache with the need to reach and hold my precious child, and then to never let go. But I can’t. I know I can’t.’ Heather is devastated. There’s no way she can keep her baby. She can barely pay the bills as it is. But when she meets Grace, a wealthy, single career woman, w...

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A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis

by Françoise Frenkel

Published: 2019-12-03

Hardcover: 288 pages

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WINNER OF THE JQ–WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE“A beautiful and important book” (The Independent) in the tradition of rediscovered works like Suite Française and The Nazi Officer’s Wife, the prize-winning memoir of a fearless Jewish bookseller on a harrowing fight for survival across Naz...

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Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History

by Barry Eichengreen

Published: 2016-10-01

Paperback: 520 pages

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The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global financial system. When markets went ...

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Vested Outsourcing, Second Edition: Five Rules That Will Transform Outsourcing

by K. Vitasek, M. Ledyard

Published: 2013-04-18

Hardcover: 227 pages

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In her classic book Vested Outsourcing , Kate Vitasek identified the top 10 flaws in most outsourced business models and shows organizations how to rethink their outsourcing relationships in a way that will lower costs, improve service, and increase innovation. This revised edition includes updated case...

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The Girl Who Saved Christmas

by Matt Haig

Published: 2018-10-16

Paperback: 320 pages

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“If somewhere in the afterlife Roald Dahl met Charles Dickens and they cooked up a new Christmas tale, it couldn’t have much on this fleet, verbally rambunctious, heart-stealing follow-up to A Boy Called Christmas.” —The New York Times  Amelia Wishart was the first child ever to r...

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Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections

by Patrick Smith

Published: 2018-06-05

Paperback: 336 pages

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A New York Times bestseller!?The perfect book for the frequent flyer, nervous passenger or world traveler.Reassuring secrets of commercial aviation: For millions of people, travel by air is a confounding, uncomfortable, and even frightening experience. When you go behind the scenes, howeve...

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The Ravenmaster's Secret: Escape From The Tower Of London

by Elvira Woodruff

Published: 2005-09-01

Paperback: 240 pages

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Best-selling author Elvira Woodruff's thrilling novel set in 1700s London. Now in paperback!It's 1735. Forrest Harper's life inside the Tower of London consists of three ways to pass the time: chores, chores, and more chores. His only friends are the spirited ravens he tends with his fathe...