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How Could She: A Novel

by Lauren Mechling

Published: 2019-06-25

Hardcover: 320 pages

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"Brilliant. . . . The perfect summer read." --Nylon"[A] compulsively readable page-turner." --CosmopolitanNamed a most anticipated novel of the summer by Vogue, Entertainment Weekly, Elle, Bustle, Vulture, and more.An assured and savagely funny novel about three old friends as they navigat...

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The Hotel Neversink

by Adam O'Fallon Price

Published: 2019-08-06

Paperback: 290 pages

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"A gripping, atmospheric, heart-breaking, almost-ghost story. Not since Stephen King's Overlook has a hotel hiding a secret been brought to such vivid life." ?Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden StateThirty-one years after workers first broke ground, the magnificent Hotel Neversink in the...

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Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America (Politics and Culture in Modern America)

by Victoria W. Wolcott

Published: 2014-10-06

Paperback: 320 pages

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Throughout the twentieth century, African Americans challenged segregation at amusement parks, swimming pools, and skating rinks not only in pursuit of pleasure but as part of a wider struggle for racial equality. Well before the Montgomery bus boycott, mothers led their children into segr...

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The Third Daughter: A Novel

by Talia Carner

Published: 2019-09-03

Paperback: 432 pages

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“In The Third Daughter, Talia Carner ably illuminates a little-known piece of history: the sex trafficking of young women from Russia to South America in the late 19th century. Thoroughly researched and vividly rendered, this is an important and unforgettable story of exploitation and em...

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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Oxford World's Classics)

by James Hogg, Ian Duncan

Published: 2010-06-06

Paperback: 272 pages

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One of the supreme masterpieces of Romantic fiction and Scottish literature, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a terrifying tale of murder and amorality, and of one man's descent into madness and despair. James Hogg's sardonic novel follows a young man who, falli...

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Whereabouts: Notes on being a foreigner

by Alastair Reid

Published: 1987

Hardcover: 205 pages

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King Solomon's Mines (Penguin Classics)

by H. Rider Haggard

Published: 2008-01-29

Paperback: 320 pages

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The first great "Lost World" action-adventure, a precursor to Indiana Jones H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines has entertained generations of readers since its first publication in 1885. Following a mysterious map of dubious reliability, a small group of men trek into southern Africa...

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Wigtown Ploughman: Part of His Life

by John McNeillie

Published: 2012-10-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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In following the growth into manhood of young Andy Walker, this novel provides a realistic depiction of the lives and living conditions of the rural laboring poor in Scotland in the 1930s. The son of an abusive father, Andy leaves school at age 13 and works for a succession of corrupt and ...

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Influence

by Carl Weber

Published: 2018-08-28

Hardcover: 288 pages

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Family Business crime series comes a deliciously provocative legal page-turner about the Hudson family.When famed attorney Bradley Hudson learns of his youngest son Langston’s arrest for drug trafficking, he immediately assembles a tea...

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Cafe Nevo

by Barbara Rogan

Published: 1987-05-01

Hardcover: 309 pages

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Vered begins an affair with a Palestinian in hopes of freeing herself from her husband, Peter Caspi, a famous Israeli author