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The Mermaid of Brooklyn: A Novel

by Amy Shearn

Published: 2013-04-02

Paperback: 368 pages

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SOMETIMES ALL YOU NEED IN LIFE IS A FABULOUS PAIR OF SHOES—AND A LITTLE HELP FROM A MERMAID.  Formerly an up-and-coming magazine editor, Jenny Lipkin is now your average, stretched-too-thin Brooklyn mom, tackling the challenges of raising two children in a cramped Park Slope walk-up. Al...

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The Color Master: Stories

by Aimee Bender

Published: 2013-08-13

Hardcover: 240 pages

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The bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake returns with a wondrous collection of dreamy, strange, and magical stories.Truly beloved by readers and critics alike, Aimee Bender has become known as something of an enchantress whose lush prose is “moving, fanciful, and go...

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by Hilary Mantel

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Rose Under Fire

by Elizabeth Wein

Published: 2013-09-10

Hardcover: 368 pages

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While flying an Allied fighter plane from Paris to England, American ATA pilot and amateur poet, Rose Justice, is captured by the Nazis and sent to Ravensbr ck, the notorious women's concentration camp. Trapped in horrific circumstances, Rose finds hope in the impossible through the loyalt...

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Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage

by Richard Stengel

Published: 2010-03-30

Hardcover: 256 pages

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A compact, profoundly inspiring book that captures the spirit of Nelson Mandela, distilling the South African leader’s wisdom into 15 vital life lessonsWe long for heroes and have too few. Nelson Mandela, who died in 2013 at the age of ninety-five, is the closest thing the world has to a...

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American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell

by Deborah Solomon

Published: 2013-11-05

Hardcover: 512 pages

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“Welcome to Rockwell Land,” writes Deborah Solomon in the introduction to this spirited and authoritative biography of the painter who provided twentieth-century America with a defining image of itself. As the star illustrator of The Saturday Evening Post for nearly half a century, Nor...

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Eighth Moon

by Bette Bao Lord

Published: 2013-05-12

Kindle Edition: 138 pages

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Sansan was four when the Communists took Tientsin. She was seventeen when she left China in 1962. This is her story of the years between: how she lived, what she hated, whom she loved; a sturdy, stubborn girl's true record of an existence none of her readers has ever known.

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The Sixes: A Novel

by Kate White

Published: 2011-08-02

Hardcover: 384 pages

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KateWhite rises to the pinnacle of modern suspense with The Sixes, apage-turning stand-alone thriller from the New York Times bestsellingauthor of Hush, and the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitanmagazine. With taught prose evocative of Laura Lippman’sLife Sentences and Dennis Lehane’s Moo...

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The Biology of Luck

by Jacob M. Appel

Published: 2013-10-07

Paperback: 220 pages

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Odd-job queen Starshine Hart is about to go on somebody else’s perfect date. At 29, the usually carefree Starshine has realized that it is easier to start sleeping with a man than to stop. Her lovers include one of the last underground members of the Weathermen and the dilettante heir to a lawn chair...

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Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster

by Michael Eric Dyson

Published: 2007-07-03

Paperback: 288 pages

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This work examines what Hurricane Katrina reveals about the fault lines of race and poverty in America - and what lessons we must take from the flood. When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans, hundreds of thousands were left behind to suffer the ravages of destruction, disease and even death....