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Southernmost

by Silas House

Published: 2018-06-05

Hardcover: 352 pages

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“A novel for our time, a courageous and necessary book.” —Jennifer Haigh, author of Heat and Light In this stunning novel about judgment, courage, heartbreak, and change, author Silas House wrestles with the limits of belief and the infinite ways to love. In the aftermath of a flood ...

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The Anchor Clankers

by Renee Garrison

Published: 2017-07-09

Paperback: 182 pages

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What if you were the only girl living in a private boys' boarding school? Fourteen-year-old Suzette LeBlanc moves into the Sanford Naval Academy in Florida when her dad becomes its Commandant. Walking through the school lobby, she feels like something on a specimen slide in biology class. ...

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The Clothesline Swing

by Ahmad Danny Ramadan

Published: 2017-06-10

Paperback: 288 pages

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The Clothesline Swing is a journey through the troublesome aftermath of the Arab Spring. A former Syrian refugee himself, Ramadan unveils an enthralling tale of courage that weaves through the mountains of Syria, the valleys of Lebanon, the encircling seas of Turkey, the heat of Egypt and ...

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House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row

by Lance Richardson

Published: 2018-05-01

Hardcover: 400 pages

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The strange, illuminative true story of Tommy Nutter, the Savile Row tailor who changed the silhouette of men’s fashion—and his rock photographer brother, David, who captured it all on film.  From an early age, there was something different about Tommy and David Nutter. Growing up in ...

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The Ghost Keeper

by Natalie Morrill

Published: 2018-05-22

Paperback: 368 pages

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Winner of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction, this powerful, sweeping novel set in Vienna during the 1930s and ’40s centres on a poignant love story and a friendship that ends in betrayal.In the years between the two world wars, Josef Tobak builds a quiet life around his fr...

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The Marrow Thieves

by Cherie Dimaline

Published: 2017-09-01

Paperback: 260 pages

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Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. In...

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Less Medicine, More Health

by Gilbert Welch

Published: 2016-03-01

Paperback: 240 pages

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The author of the highly acclaimed Overdiagnosed describes seven widespread assumptions that encourage excessive, often ineffective, and sometimes harmful medical care.  You might think the biggest problem in medical care is that it costs too much. Or that health insurance is too expensi...

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Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer

by Shannon Brownlee

Published: 2008-09-09

Paperback: 368 pages

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Our health care is staggeringly expensive, yet one in six Americans has no health insurance. We have some of the most skilled physicians in the world, yet one hundred thousand patients die each year from medical errors. In this gripping, eye-opening book, award-winning journalist Shannon B...

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Testing the Current (New York Review Books Classics)

by William McPherson

Published: 2013-01-08

Paperback: 352 pages

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Growing up in a small upper Midwestern town in the late 1930s, young Tommy MacAllister is scarcely aware of the Depression, much less the rumblings of war in Europe. For his parents and their set, life seems to revolve around dinners and dancing at the country club, tennis dates and rounds...