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A Deadly Affection

by Cuyler Overholt

Published: 2012-01-18

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Winner of ForeWord Reviews' Book of the Year AwardNew York City, 1907. At the dawn of the twentieth century, Americans believe that science, especially the medical sciences, will soon conquer all of mankind's ills. For a brief time medical schools open their doors to women, allowing them t...

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The Golden Age

by Joan London

Published: 2016-08-16

Paperback: 224 pages

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A Publisher's Weekly Best Book of 2016 Frank Gold’s family, Hungarian jews, flee the perils of World War II for the safety of Australia, but not long after their arrival, thirteen-year-old Frank is diagnosed with polio. He is sent to a sprawling children’s hospital called The Golden ...

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Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home

by Anita Hill

Published: 2012-09-04

Paperback: 224 pages

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From the heroic lawyer who spoke out against Clarence Thomas in the historic confirmation hearings twenty years ago “This ambitious book provides just as dignified and well intentioned a performance as the one she gave at those hearings.” —Megan Buskey, The New York Times Book Revie...

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Morgue: A Life in Death

by Vincent DiMaio, Ron Franscell

Published: 2016-05-17

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Forensic science is booming. TV dramas, books and movies have made morgues cool. Complex technology and intricate research can take curdled blood, bone shards, and flakes of skin and turn them into justice. And Vincent Di Maio, MD, son of a famous New York City medical examiner, is one of ...

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The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion

by Tim Crothers

Published: 2013-10-15

Paperback: 256 pages

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The “astonishing” (The New York Times Book Review) and “inspirational” (Shelf Awareness) true story of Phiona Mutesi—a teenage chess prodigy from the slums of Uganda.One day in 2005 while searching for food, nine-year-old Ugandan Phiona Mutesi followed her brother to a dusty vera...

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Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory

by Deborah E. Lipstadt

Published: 1994-07-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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A timely analysis of the antisemitism and prejudice that fuels Holocaust deniers, written by the inspirational author behind the major motion picture Denial, starring Rachel Weisz.The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. Yet there are t...

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Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story

by Matti Friedman

Published: 2016-05-03

Hardcover: 256 pages

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“A book about young men transformed by war, written by a veteran whose dazzling literary gifts gripped my attention from the first page to the last.” —The Wall Street Journal “Friedman’s sober and striking new memoir . . . [is] on a par with Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carr...

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A Murder in Time: A Novel (Kendra Donovan Mysteries)

by Julie McElwain

Published: 2016-04-11

Hardcover: 320 pages

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When brilliant FBI agent Kendra Donovan stumbles back in time and finds herself in a 19th century English castle under threat from a vicious serial killer, she scrambles to solve the case before it takes her life?200 years before she was even born. Beautiful and brilliant, Kendra Donovan i...

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The Secret Pearl

by Mary Balogh

Published: 2005-11-29

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Mary Balogh has no equal when it comes to capturing the complex, irresistible passions between men and women. Her classic novel, The Secret Pearl, is one of the New York Times bestselling author’s finest–a tale of temptation and seduction, of guarded hearts and raw emotion…and of a ...

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Fish in a Tree

by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Published: 2015-02-05

Hardcover: 288 pages

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A New York Times Bestseller!The author of the beloved One for the Murphys gives readers an emotionally-charged, uplifting novel that will speak to anyone who’s ever thought there was something wrong with them because they didn’t fit in. “Everybody is smart in different ways. But if ...