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The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story

by Aaron Bobrow-Strain

Published: 2019-04-16

Hardcover: 432 pages

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Winner of the 2020 Pacific Northwest Book AwardWhat happens when an undocumented teen mother takes on the U.S. immigration system?When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Agua Prieta, Mexico, the nearby U.S. border was little more than a worn-down fence. Eight years later, Aida’s mother t...

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The Best Laid Plans

by Cameron Lund

Published: 2020-04-07

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Eighteen-year-old Keely Collins is determined to change her status as the last virgin standing in this sweet, hilarious rom-com for fans of Meg Cabot and Jenny Han.It seemed like a good plan at first.When the only other virgin in her group of friends loses it at Keely's own eighteenth birt...

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Keeper of the House: A Novel

by Rebecca T. Godwin

Published: 1995-08-15

Paperback: 288 pages

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Keeper of the House is an unforgettable novel narrated by the lively Minyon Manigault, a young black woman from a coastal South Carolina Gullah community. In 1929, due to mysterious family circumstances, Minyon is given up by her grandmother to the employment of Ariadne Fleming, a white ma...

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Murder at the Breakers (A Gilded Newport Mystery)

by Alyssa Maxwell

Published: 2014-03-25

Paperback: 304 pages

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As the nineteenth century comes to a close, the illustrious Vanderbilt family dominates Newport, Rhode Island, high society. But when murder darkens a glittering affair at the Vanderbilt summer home, reporter Emma Cross learns that sometimes the actions of the cream of society can curdle o...

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The End: A Novel

by Salvatore Scibona

Published: 2009-10-06

Paperback: 336 pages

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An incredible debut and National Book Award-nominated novel, described as "Memento meets Augie March. Didion meets Hitchcock" by Esquire, from the author of The Volunteer  It is August 15, 1953, the day of a boisterous and unwieldy street carnival in Elephant Park, an Italian immigrant e...

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The Best and the Brightest

by David Halberstam

Published: 1993-10-26

Paperback: 720 pages

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David Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain."A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience.”—The New York Times Using portraits of America’ s flawed policy makers and accounts of the f...

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The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy, Second Edition

by William Julius Wilson

Published: 2012-07-10

Paperback: 330 pages

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Renowned American sociologist William Julius Wilson takes a look at the social transformation of inner city ghettos, offering a sharp evaluation of the convergence of race and poverty. Rejecting both conservative and liberal interpretations of life in the inner city, Wilson offers essenti...

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Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

by Gordon S. Wood

Published: 2018-10-23

Paperback: 512 pages

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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nat...

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Franklin Pierce: The American Presidents Series: The 14th President, 1853-1857

by Michael F. Holt

Published: 2010-03-30

Hardcover: 176 pages

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The genial but troubled New Englander whose single-minded partisan loyalties inflamed the nation's simmering battle over slavery Charming and handsome, Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire was drafted to break the deadlock of the 1852 Democratic convention. Though he seized the White House in ...

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Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times

by Joel Richard Paul

Published: 2018-02-20

Hardcover: 512 pages

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The remarkable story of John Marshall who, as chief justice, statesman, and diplomat, played a pivotal role in the founding of the United States.No member of America's Founding Generation had a greater impact on the Constitution and the Supreme Court than John Marshall, and no one did more...