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Murder at the Brightwell: A Mystery (An Amory Ames Mystery)

by Ashley Weaver

Published: 2015-10-06

Paperback: 336 pages

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Amory Ames is a wealthy young woman who regrets her marriage to her notoriously charming playboy husband, Milo. Looking for a change, she accepts a request for help from her former fiancé, Gil Trent, not knowing that she'll soon become embroiled in a murder investigation that will test no...

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The Do-Right

by Lisa Sandlin

Published: 2015-10-27

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1959. Delpha Wade killed a man who was raping her. Wanted to kill the other one too, but he got away. Now, after fourteen years in prison, she’s out. It’s 1973, and nobody’s rushing to hire a parolee. Persistence and smarts land her a secretarial job with Tom Phelan, an ex-roughneck ...

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Life's Golden Ticket: A Story About Second Chances

by Brendon Burchard

Published: 2016-05-03

Paperback: 224 pages

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National BestsellerThe classic inspirational parable from the top motivation and marketing trainer and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Millionaire Messenger—a triumphant tale of personal growth and change that will inspire anyone who has ever wished for a second chance.What i...

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Boy Erased: A Memoir

by Garrard Conley

Published: 2016-05-10

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A beautiful, raw and compassionate memoir about identity, love and understanding.   The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality.   When Garrard was a nineteen-year-ol...

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Street of Thieves

by Mathias Énard

Published: 2014-11-11

Paperback: 350 pages

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Recipient of three French literary awards, Mathias Énard's follow-up to the critically acclaimed Zone is a timely novel about a young Moroccan boy caught up in the turbulent events of the Middle East, and a possible murder.Exiled from his family for religious transgressions related to his...

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Faces in the Crowd

by Valeria Luiselli

Published: 2014-05-13

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"An extraordinary new literary talent."--The Daily Telegraph"In part a portrait of the artist as a young woman, this deceptively modest-seeming, astonishingly inventive novel creates an extraordinary intimacy, a sensibility so alive it quietly takes over all your senses, quivering through ...

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American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst

by Jeffrey Toobin

Published: 2016-08-02

Hardcover: 384 pages

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From New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of The Nine and The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson, the definitive account of the kidnapping and trial that defined an insane era in American history  On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress t...

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Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist

by George D. Morgan

Published: 2013-07-09

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AN UNSUNG HEROINE OF THE SPACE AGE—HER STORY FINALLY TOLD.     This is the extraordinary true story of America's first female rocket scientist. Told by her son, it describes Mary Sherman Morgan's crucial contribution to launching America's first satellite and the author's labyrinthine...

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No Name in the Street

by James Baldwin

Published: 2007-01-09

Paperback: 208 pages

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This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies displays James Baldwin's fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works.  In vivid detail he remembers the Harlem childhood that shaped his early conciousness, the later events that scored...

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The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture

by Glen Weldon

Published: 2016-03-22

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A witty, intelligent cultural history from NPR book critic Glen Weldon explains Batman’s rises and falls throughout the ages—and what his story tells us about ourselves.Since his creation, Batman has been many things: a two-fisted detective; a planet-hopping gadabout; a campy Pop-art s...