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The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

by Anne Carson

Published: 2002-02-19

Paperback: 160 pages

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The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to the end.This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a single story in an imme...

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Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage

by Stephanie Coontz

Published: 2006-02-28

Paperback: 448 pages

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Just when the clamor over "traditional" marriage couldn’t get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, "What tradition?" In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes readers from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of V...

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If You Knew Then What I Know Now

by Ryan Van Meter

Published: 2011-04-05

Paperback: 176 pages

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New York Magazine's The Year in Books pickThe Millions' A Year in Reading pickSalon.com's Writers Choose Their Favorite BooksThe middle American coming-of-age has found new life in Ryan Van Meter's coming-out, made as strange as it is familiar by acknowledging the role played by gender and...

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All Our Names

by Dinaw Mengestu

Published: 2014-03-04

Hardcover: 272 pages

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From acclaimed author Dinaw Mengestu, a recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award, The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 award, and a 2012 MacArthur Foundation genius grant, comes an unforgettable love story about a searing affair between an American woman and an African man ...

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The Emigrants

by W. G. Sebald

Published: 1997-09-17

Paperback: 238 pages

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"A masterpiece."—Richard Eder, The New York Times. Published to enormous critical acclaim in the US, The Emigrants has been acclaimed as "one of the best novels to appear since World War II" (Review of Contemporary Fiction) and three times chosen as the 1996 International Book of the Yea...

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Heaven Is Paved with Oreos

by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Published: 2013-09-03

Hardcover: 208 pages

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Fourteen-year-old Sarah Zorn intends to spend the Wisconsin summer with her “boyfriend” Curtis, waiting for a dead calf named Boris to decompose in time for the science fair. Her plans upend, however, when her fake-boyfriend strategy goes seriously awry just as her hippie Grandma Z inv...

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North and South

by Elizabeth Gaskell

Published: 2009-03-26

Paperback: 356 pages

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North and South is a novel that exposed Victorian inequalities. Margaret Hale a woman from the South of England moves to the industrialized North of England where she is shocked by the huge inequalities between the rich and the working class. This serves as a backdrop for a conflicted love story. Margaret...

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Sisterland: A Novel

by Curtis Sittenfeld

Published: 2014-05-06

Paperback: 432 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY Slate • Daily Candy • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Guardian (U.K.)“Novelists get called master storytellers all the time, but Sittenfeld really is one. . . . What might be most strikingly excellent about Sisterl...

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Hello! Is the Pastor Home?: Life in the ministry through the eyes of a pastor's wife

by Cynthia Owen

Published: 2011-05-26

Paperback: 88 pages

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Have you ever wondered what it is like to live in a parsonage? Have you been curious as to why certain people are called by God to serve in full-time pastoral positions? Maybe you've believed the lives of people called by God are more sanctified and holy than other believers. Nothing could be further...

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The Witch's Get

by Diana Janopaul

Published: 2013-08-16

Paperback: 170 pages

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The Witch’s Get tells the story of a healer; a woman who talks to plants, discerns illnesses by smell, and whose hands guide babies as they come into being. She lives in a time when it is not safe to be a woman, especially one who has been given the gift of healing. Mancy has hidden herself away from...