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Big Alma: San Francisco's Alma Spreckels

by Bernice Scharlach

Published: 1990-10

Paperback: 334 pages

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One of San Francisco's most vivid characters Born with an unshakeable belief that she was destined for greatness, Alma de Bretteville Spreckels (1881-1968) rose from poverty to become one of San Francisco's most powerful women. Alma's humble beginnings and scandalous lifestyle would alien...

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Madam: A Novel of New Orleans

by Cari Lynn, Kellie Martin

Published: 2014-02-25

Paperback: 336 pages

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When vice had a legal home and jazz was being born—the captivating story of an infamous true-life madam New Orleans, 1900. Mary Deubler makes a meager living as an “alley whore.” That all changes when bible-thumping Alderman Sidney Story forces the creation of a red-light district t...

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The Little Locksmith: A Memoir

by Katharine Butler Hathaway

Published: 2000-07-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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The Little Locksmith, Katharine Butler Hathaway's luminous memoir of disability, faith, and transformation, is a critically acclaimed but largely forgotten literary classic brought back into print for the first time in thirty years. The Little Locksmith begins in 1895 when a specialist str...

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Badlands

by C. J. Box

Published: 2015-07-28

Hardcover: 278 pages

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Edgar Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box is back with a masterpiece of suspense set in a time and place that readers won't soon forget.Twenty miles across the North Dakota border, where the scenery goes from rolling grass prairie to pipeline fields, detective Cassie ...

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Reunion: A Novel

by Hannah Pittard

Published: 2015-09-29

Paperback: 288 pages

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The author of the highly acclaimed The Fates Will Find Their Way returns with a novel about a far-flung family reunited for one weekend by their father's death.Five minutes before her flight is set to take off, Kate Pulaski, failed screenwriter and newly failed wife with scarcely a hundred...

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Tarzan of the Apes

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Published: 1990-10-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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The classic novel of a boy rasied by Apes in the African jungle, now the basis for a major motion picture, The Legend of Tarzan, starring Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson, and Djimon Hounsou Originally published in 1914, Burroughs’s Tarzan, the ideal image of pure...

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Let Me Explain You: A Novel

by Annie Liontas

Published: 2015-07-14

Hardcover: 352 pages

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A powerful debut novel about a Greek American family and its enigmatic patriarch from a riveting new voice in contemporary literature.Stavros Stavros Mavrakis, Greek immigrant and proud owner of the Gala Diner, believes he has just ten days to live. As he prepares for his final hours, he s...

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They're Watching

by Gregg Hurwitz

Published: 2010-07-06

Hardcover: 368 pages

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“Riveting, emotionally rich, original, and beautifully written, this book kept me up too late reading, had me sneaking in pages the next day. They’re Watching reminded me what it’s like to be in the thrall of a great story: helpless until the end, loving every minute of it.”—Lisa...

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Our Lady of the Nile: A Novel

by Scholastique Mukasonga

Published: 2014-09-16

Paperback: 240 pages

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For her most recent work and first novel - Notre-Dame du Nil, originally published in March 2012 with Gallimard in French - Mukasonga immerses us in a school for young girls, called "Notre-Dame du Nil." The girls are sent to this high school perched on the ridge of the Nile in order to bec...

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Sprite

by Peter Meredith

Published: 2012-12-28

Paperback: 368 pages

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From the Best Selling author Peter Meredith: SpriteHer name is Odd. Twelve-year-old Audrey Wyatt bears the unfortunate nickname "Odd," a name even her bar-hopping, alcoholic mother uses when she's sober enough to recognize the girl. Cowed by life, Odd doesn't protest, not when she's deform...