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America's Dream

by Esmeralda Santiago

Published: 1997-04-25

Paperback: 336 pages

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América Gonzalez is a hotel housekeeper on an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, cleaning up after wealthy foreigners who don't look her In the eye. Her alcoholic mother resents her; her married boyfriend, Correa, beats her; and their fourteen-year-old daughter thinks life would be bett...

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Let It Rain Coffee: A Novel

by Angie Cruz

Published: 2006-05-03

Paperback: 304 pages

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Angie Cruz has established herself as a dazzling new voice in Latin American fiction, her writing compared to Gabriel García Márquez's by The Boston Globe. Now, with humor, passion, and intensity, she reveals the proud members of the Colón family and the dreams, love, and heartbreak tha...

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Monkey Hunting (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Cristina García

Published: 2004-04-27

Paperback: 288 pages

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In this deeply stirring novel, acclaimed author Cristina García follows one extraordinary family through four generations, from China to Cuba to America. Wonderfully evocative of time and place, rendered in the lyrical prose that is García’s hallmark, Monkey Hunting is an emotionally r...

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Remember Mia

by Alexandra Burt

Published: 2015-07-07

Paperback: 368 pages

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Like Girl on the Train and Gone Girl, Remember Mia is a riveting psychological suspense, exploring what happens when a young mother’s worst nightmare becomes devastatingly real…First I remember the darkness.Then I remember the blood.I don’t know where my daughter is.Estelle Paradise ...

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You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

by Jen Sincero

Published: 2013-04-23

Paperback: 256 pages

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YOU ARE A BADASS IS THE SELF-HELP BOOK FOR PEOPLE WHO DESPERATELY WANT TO IMPROVE THEIR LIVES BUT DON'T WANT TO GET BUSTED DOING IT. In this refreshingly entertaining how-to guide, bestselling author and world-traveling success coach, Jen Sincero, serves up 27 bitesized chapters full o...

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Work Done for Hire

by Joe Haldeman

Published: 2014-12-30

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

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The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of The Forever War delivers "a riveting near-future science fiction story of the dangers of living in a surveillance state" (The Tech). Wounded in combat and honorably discharged nine years ago, Jack Daley still suffers nightmares from when he serve...

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The Marshmallow Test: Why Self-Control Is the Engine of Success

by Walter Mischel

Published: 2015-09-22

Paperback: 336 pages

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Renowned psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the famous Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it. A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for ...

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Across a Green Ocean

by Wendy Lee

Published: 2015-01-27

Paperback: 288 pages

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Michael Tang and his sister, Emily, have both struggled to forge a sense of identity in their parents' adopted homeland. Emily, an immigration lawyer in New York City, baffles their mother, Ling, by refusing to have children. At twenty-six, Michael is unable to commit to a relation...

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An Inquiry Into Love and Death

by Simone St. James

Published: 2013-03-05

Paperback: 368 pages

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In 1920's England, a young woman searches for the truth behind her uncle’s mysterious death in a town haunted by a restless ghost… Oxford student Jillian Leigh works day and night to keep up with her studies—so to leave at the beginning of the term is next to impossible. But after he...

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What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley

by Kim Cross

Published: 2015-03-10

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Immersive reporting and dramatic storytelling set you right in the middle of the horrific superstorm of April 2011, a weather event that killed 348 people.April 27, 2011, marked the climax of a superstorm that saw a record 358 tornadoes rip through twenty-one states in three days, seven ho...