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Possessing the Secret of Joy

by Alice Walker

Published: 1992-06-30

Hardcover: 286 pages

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A provocative novel about an African tribal woman’s battle with madness after the trauma of a childhood genital mutilation.

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Possessing the Secret of Joy: A Novel

by Alice Walker

Published: 2008-05-06

Paperback: 286 pages

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From the author the New York Times Book Review calls “a lavishly gifted writer,” this is the searing story of Tashi, a tribal African woman first glimpsed in The Color Purple whose fateful decision to submit to the tsunga’s knife and be genitally mutilated leads to a trauma that info...

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Possession : A Romance

by A. S. Byatt

Published: 1991-10-01

Paperback: 576 pages

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National Bestseller  Winner of England’s Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victor...

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The Possibility of Everything

by Hope Edelman

Published: 2009-09-15

Hardcover: 352 pages

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From the bestselling author of Motherless Daughters, here is the real-life story of one woman's search for a cure to her family's escalating troubles, and the leap of faith that took her on a journey to an exotic place and a new state of mind.In the autumn of 2000, Hope Edelman was a woman...

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The Possibility of You

by Pamela Redmond Satran

Published: 2012-02-21

Paperback: 384 pages

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1916. It was the one thing Bridget was supposed to never let happen. But no matter how many times she replayed the steps in her head, she couldn?t reanimate the small pale boy who lay limp in her arms. 1976. Billie felt as if she?d been wrenched in half more surely than when the baby had b...

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Possible Side Effects

by Augusten Burroughs

Published: 2006-05-02

Hardcover: 304 pages

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From the million-copy bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs's most provocative collection yet.This book is approved for consumption by those seeking pleasure, escape, amusement, enlightenment, or general distraction. This book is not approved to treat disorde...

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Post Captain (Vol. Book 2) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)

by Patrick O'Brian

Published: 1994-11-17

Hardcover: 496 pages

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"Master and Commander raised almost dangerously high expectations, Post Captain triumphantly surpasses them...a brilliant book."?Mary Renault "We've beat them before and we'll beat them again." In 1803 Napoleon smashes the Peace of Amiens, and Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., taking refuge ...

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Post Mortem (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition)

by Patricia D. Cornwell

Published: 2004-10-01

Paperback: 480 pages

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1st installment of the Scarpetta Series.On Saturdays, and under the cover of night, in Richmond, a human monster strikes leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed the city. Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta suspects the worst: a deliberate campaign by a brilliant serial kille...

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The Post-American World

by Fareed Zakaria

Published: 2008-04-17

Hardcover: 304 pages

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The Post-American World: Release 2.0

by Fareed Zakaria

Published: 2012-05-21

Paperback: 336 pages

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?A relentlessly intelligent book.? ?Joseph Joffe, New York Times Book Review?This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.? So begins Fareed Zakaria's blockbuster on the United States in the twenty-first century, and the trends he identifies h...