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Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland

by Gerald Clarke

Published: 2001-03-06

Paperback: 528 pages

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She lived at full throttle on stage, screen, and in real life, with highs that made history and lows that finally brought down the curtain at age forty-seven. Judy Garland died over thirty years ago, but no biography has so completely captured her spirit -- and demons -- until now. From he...

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Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line: A Novel

by Deepa Anappara

Published: 2020-02-04

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Discover the debut novel that “announces the arrival of a literary supernova” (The New York Times Book Review),“a drama of childhood that is as wild as it is intimate” (Chigozie Obioma). In a sprawling Indian city, three friends venture into the most dangerous corners to find the...

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Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency

by Willy Wilkinson

Published: 2015-11-23

Paperback: 340 pages

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In this historic moment of transgender visibility in the U.S., writer, activist, and public health consultant Willy Wilkinson's Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency uses the power of storytelling to contextualize one of the most misunderstood social issues o...

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The Unexpected Joy of Being Single

by Catherine Gray

Published: 2019-01-15

Paperback: 272 pages

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Single in your late twenties or, hold the phone, in your thirties or beyond? Oh hi! You're in the right place.Over a third of us are now single. With the single camp growing at ten times the rate of the actual population, it is now the norm to be single well into our thirties - the average...

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You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

by Alexis Coe

Published: 2020-02-04

Hardcover: 304 pages

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"Alexis Coe energetically dusts off an old-boys genre to present a life in full, without sentiment or whitewashing. It's a public service, and it's also a lot of fun." --Irin Carmon, New York Times bestselling co-author of Notorious RBGAlexis Coe takes a closer look at our first--and finds...

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The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II

by Alex Kershaw

Published: 2019-05-14

Hardcover: 384 pages

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Alex Kershaw, author of The Longest Winter and The Liberator, returns with an utterly immersive, adrenaline-driven account of D-Day combat. “Meet the assaulters: pathfinders plunging from the black, coxswains plowing the whitecaps, bareknuckle Rangers scaling...

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The History Teacher

by Susan Bacon

Published: 2019-08-12

Paperback: 352 pages

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“Susan Bacon's THE HISTORY TEACHER is a rare thriller . . . scrupulously researched, cagily and compellingly plotted and eminently credible. . . . thought-provoking as both history and fiction. And oh yeah, a pleasure to read, written, sentence by sentence, with the eye of a shrewd obser...

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Black Hole (Pantheon Graphic Library)

by Charles Burns

Published: 2008-01-08

Paperback: 368 pages

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Winner of the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz AwardsThe setting: suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grote...

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LOVE, LIES AND SPIES

by Cindy Anstey

Published: 2016-04-19

Paperback: 368 pages

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Full of humor, English Regency charm, and starring a whip-smart strong female heroine, this hilarious homage to Jane Austen will “have readers rooting for love and science” (Entertainment Weekly). Juliana Telford isn’t your ordinary nineteenth-century lady. She's more interested in p...

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Love

by Hanne Orstavik

Published: 2018-02-13

Paperback: 180 pages

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WINNER OF THE 2019 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREA mother and son move to a village in northern Norway, each ensconced in their own world. Their distance has fatal consequences.Love is the story of Vibeke and Jon, a mother and son who h...