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Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (Mouthmark)

by Warsan Shire

Published: 2011-12-29

Paperback: 38 pages

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What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence to the veiled world where sensuality lives in the dominant narrative of Islam; reclaiming the more nuanced truths of earlier times - as...

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I Put A Spell On You: The Autobiography Of Nina Simone

by Nina Simone

Published: 2003-09-04

Paperback: 192 pages

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A gorgeous, inimitable singer and songwriter, Nina Simone (1933-2003) changed the face of both music and race relations in America. She struck a chord with bluesy jazz ballads like "Put a Little Sugar in My Bowl" and powerful protest songs such as "Mississippi Goddam" and "To Be Young, Gif...

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The Last Mile (Amos Decker series)

by David Baldacci

Published: 2016-04-19

Hardcover: 432 pages

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In his #1 New York Times bestseller Memory Man, David Baldacci introduced the extraordinary detective Amos Decker-the man who can forget nothing. Now, Decker returns in a spectacular new thriller . . . THE LAST MILEConvicted murderer Melvin Mars is counting down the last hours before his e...

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City of Secrets: A Novel

by Stewart O'Nan

Published: 2016-04-26

Hardcover: 208 pages

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“Stewart O’Nan’s City of Secrets will keep you up all night reading – what a beautifully crafted novel.” – Alan Furst, New York Times bestselling author of Mission to ParisFrom master storyteller Stewart O'Nan, a timely moral thriller of the Jewish underground resistance ...

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The Finnish Girl

by Dennis Frahmann

Published: 2014-07-30

Paperback: 324 pages

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Secrets kill. Not just those you choose to keep from others, or even those that others guard from you. There remains those secrets that you so desparately hide from yourself. They all catch up with Lempi Makinen Lahti. When Lempi’s teenage son Danny discovers her suicide, he seeks to solve the mysteries...

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Thousand Pieces of Gold

by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Published: 2015-07-21

Paperback: 216 pages

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Lalu Nathoy’s father calls his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his “thousand pieces of gold,” yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a...

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Caring for our Common Home: A Readers' Guide and Commentary on Pope Francis' Encyclical on the Environment

by Thomas Reese SJ

Published: 2015-11-25

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Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical on the environment has captured the attention of millions of people all over the world. One of the most important documents of this century, the encyclical puts the Catholic Church firmly behind the environmental movement, calling the world to a conversion that will have...

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Sweet Georgia Brown

by Cheryl Robinson

Published: 2008-01-02

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Meet Georgia Brown-a humble housewife determined to become a household name.... After eleven years of marriage, Georgia Brown is fed up with her husband, Marvin, a popular radio personality. It's not just because she suspects he's having an affair, or because she's suddenly expected to ra...

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My Boyfriend's Wife PT 1

by Mychea

Published: 2014-03-26

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Trust no man. Every action has a reaction and sometimes that reaction is... Death Lust, Lies and Betrayal Scarred by the one you love... Ananda is on her way to the top. A frail heart and mistrust of men once took her soul to the bottom. Her sassy personality is how she forges her way thr...

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I Almost Forgot About You: A Novel

by Terry McMillan

Published: 2016-06-07

Hardcover: 368 pages

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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting To Exhale is back with the inspiring story of a woman who shakes things up in her life to find greater meaningIn I Almost Forgot About You, Dr. Georgia Young's wonderful life--great friends, family, and...