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The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America--The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 (Vintage)

by Bernard Bailyn

Published: 2013-08-13

Paperback: 640 pages

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Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeBernard Bailyn gives us a compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.The...

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The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives

by Sasha Abramsky

Published: 2013-09-10

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Selected as A Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book ReviewFifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book The Other America, in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is back with a vengeance. It ...

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She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me

by Emma Brockes

Published: 2013-05-16

Hardcover: 320 pages

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"One of those memoirs that remind you why you liked memoirs in the first place... It has the density of a very good novel... As you do with the best writers, you feel lucky to be in Ms. Brockes’s company." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times A chilling work of psychological suspens...

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Layoff: American Dream Interrupted

by Carole Isom-Barnes

Published: 2012-09-20

Paperback: 244 pages

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Closed-door meetings, canceled projects, and office rumors hint at another round of layoffs at the company. Chris is a loyal thirty-year human resources executive in headquarters. Juan is a nervously employed company man playing the corporate game in hopes of a better future for his son. And single Jade-previously...

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Why Does E=mc2? (And Why Should We Care?)

by Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw

Published: 2010-07-13

Paperback: 272 pages

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What does E=mc2 actually mean? Dr. Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw go on a journey to the frontier of twenty-first century science to unpack Einstein’s famous equation. Explaining and simplifying notions of energy, mass, and light—while exploding commonly held misconception...

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The Crooked Branch: A Novel

by Jeanine Cummins

Published: 2013-03-05

Paperback: 400 pages

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From the national bestselling and highly acclaimed author of The Outside Boy comes the deeply moving story of two mothers—witty, self-deprecating Majella, who is shocked by her entry into motherhood in modern-day New York, and her ancestor, tough and terrified Ginny Doyle, whose battles ...

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War Brides: A Novel

by Lois Battle

Published: 2012-11-27

Paperback: 464 pages

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A vibrant novel set in postwar America from the New York Times bestselling author of The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary and Sewing CircleWorld War II is over, but for three young Australian women who meet on their way to new lives and new husbands in America, the adventure is just beginning. ...

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Summer Breeze: A Novel

by Nancy Thayer

Published: 2013-06-04

Paperback: 336 pages

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“Nancy Thayer is the queen of beach books.”—The Star-Ledger   In this captivating novel, New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer tells the wonderfully moving story of three women who forge a unique bond one sun-drenched summer on New England’s Dragonfly Lake. Thirty-year-ol...

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Labor Day Movie Tie- In Edition: A Novel

by Joyce Maynard

Published: 2013-12-03

Paperback: 288 pages

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“Joyce Maynard is in top-notch form with Labor Day. Simply a novel you cannot miss.”—Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of My Sister’s Keeper and Keeping Faith“Maynard has created an ensemble of characters that will sneak into your heart, and warm it while it b...

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Stop Here: a novel

by Beverly Gologorsky

Published: 2013-11-19

Paperback: 256 pages

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"The hard realities associated with growth, change, love, and death affect all, but the repercussions seem especially gritty in this working-class setting. Gologorsky’s writing is clean and spare as she gives each character her or his own specific voice and presents an unflinching, carin...