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Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz

by Eva Mozes Kor, Lisa Rojany Buccieri

Published: 2012-03-13

Paperback: 175 pages

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Eva Mozes Kor was just ten years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers, she and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man known as the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. Subjected to sadistic medical experimen...

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Dancing with a Ghost: Exploring Aboriginal Reality

by Rupert Ross

Published: 2006-01-31

Paperback: 248 pages

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As a Crown Attorney working with First Nations in remote northwestern Ontario, Rupert Ross learned that he was routinely misinterpreting the behaviour of Aboriginal victims, witnesses, and offenders, both in and out of court. He discovered that he regularly drew wrong conclusions when he e...

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The Girl Before: A Novel

by JP Delaney

Published: 2018-01-02

Paperback: 368 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the tradition of The Girl on the Train, The Woman in Cabin 10, and Gone Girl comes an enthralling psychological thriller that spins one woman’s seemingly good fortune, and another woman’s mysterious fate, through a kaleidoscope of duplicity, death, and ...

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The General in His Labyrinth

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Published: 2003-10-07

Paperback: 304 pages

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General Simon Bolivar, “the Liberator” of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the triumphs, passions, and betrayals of his life. Infinitely charming, prodigiously successful in love, war and politics,...

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Joy: And 52 Other Very Short Stories

by Erin McGraw

Published: 2019-03-05

Hardcover: 304 pages

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"How can stories this brief be so satisfying? . . . [McGraw] deals with the profound, the dire, the mundane, and the ridiculous, paying particular attention to relationships between parents and children, siblings, spouses, criminals, and their victims. While some stories are meant purely t...

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If, Then: A Novel

by Kate Hope Day

Published: 2019-03-12

Hardcover: 272 pages

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“A must-read—a gorgeous literary novel that asks us to imagine all the possible versions of ourselves that might exist.”—J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Saints for All OccasionsThe residents of a sleepy mountain town are rocked by troubling visions of ...

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The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds

by Caroline Van Hemert

Published: 2019-03-19

Hardcover: 320 pages

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For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure.During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornith...

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Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America

by Rickie Solinger

Published: 2007-03-01

Paperback: 312 pages

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A sweeping chronicle of women's battles for reproductive freedom throughout American history, Pregnancy and Power explores the many forces—social, racial, economic, and political—that have shaped women’s reproductive lives in the United States.Leading historian Rickie Solinger argues...

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Lifeonaire: An Uncommon Approach to Wealth, Success, and Prosperity

by Steve Cook

Published: 2018-10-27

Paperback: 286 pages

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Will becoming a Millionaire really set you free? How about the American Dream? If we, as a nation, declare freedom to be our number one priority, then why do so many of us, at a gut-level, feel less freedom than ever? Americans are working harder than ever to obtain financial success and material possessions...

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The Electric Hotel: A Novel

by Dominic Smith

Published: 2019-06-04

Hardcover: 352 pages

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A sweeping work of historical fiction from the New York Times–bestselling author Dominic Smith, The Electric Hotel is a spellbinding story of art and love.For more than thirty years, Claude Ballard has been living at the Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel. A French pioneer of silent films who...