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Her Own Hero: The Origins of the Women’s Self-Defense Movement

by Wendy L. Rouse

Published: 2017-08-08

Hardcover: 288 pages

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The surprising roots of the self-defense movement and the history of women’s empowerment.  At the turn of the twentieth century, women famously organized to demand greater social and political freedoms like gaining the right to vote. However, few realize that the Progressive Era also wi...

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Heartsick

by Dia Reeves

Published: 2018-08-07

Paperback: 216 pages

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A large creepy estate, mysterious twin brothers, family secrets, a diabolical invention known as the bone machine, and a young girl who is not at all human. Meet the Westwoods: a father whose inventions often create death and despair, his twin sons who are not above experimenting on the servants, and...

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Lanny: A Novel

by Max Porter

Published: 2019-05-14

Hardcover: 160 pages

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An entrancing new novel by the author of the prizewinning Grief Is the Thing with FeathersThere’s a village an hour from London. It’s no different from many others today: one pub, one church, redbrick cottages, some public housing, and a few larger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, ...

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The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam Trilogy)

by Margaret Atwood

Published: 2010-07-27

Paperback: 448 pages

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's TaleSet in the visionary future of Atwood’s acclaimed Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood is at once a moving tale of lasting friendship and a landmark work of speculative fiction. In this second book of the MaddAddam t...

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Three Women

by Lisa Taddeo

Published: 2019-07-09

Hardcover: 320 pages

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Extraordinary…A nonfiction literary masterpiece…I can’t remember the last time a book affected me as profoundly as Three Women.” —Elizabeth Gilbert“Taddeo spent eight years reporting this groundbreaking book....Breathtaking....Staggeringly intim...

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OPTIMIST, THE

by Sophie Kipner

Published: 2017-05-18

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Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America

by Bill Geist

Published: 2019-05-07

Hardcover: 208 pages

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Before there was "tourism" and souvenir ashtrays became "kitsch," the Lake of the Ozarks was a Shangri-La for middle-class Midwestern families on vacation, complete with man-made beaches, Hillbilly Mini Golf, and feathered rubber tomahawks. It was there that author Bill Geist spent summer...

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The Secrets We Kept: A novel

by Lara Prescott

Published: 2019-09-03

Hardcover: 368 pages

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A HELLO SUNSHINE x REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICKA thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the ...

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The Reckless Oath We Made

by Bryn Greenwood

Published: 2019-08-20

Hardcover: 448 pages

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A provocative love story between a tough Kansas woman on a crooked path to redemption and the unlikeliest of champions, from the New York Times bestselling author of All the Ugly and Wonderful ThingsZee is nobody's fairy tale princess. Almost six-foot, with a redhead's temper and a shatter...

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And Then Comes Summer

by Tom Brenner

Published: 2017-05-09

Hardcover: 32 pages

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A joyful, sun-drenched tribute to the anticipation and adventures of the warmest season of the year.When the days stretch out like a slow yawn, and the cheerful faces of Johnny-jump-ups jump up . . . then it’s time to get ready for summer! From flip-flops and hide-and-seek to fireworks a...