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The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child

by Nancy Newton Verrier

Published: 1993-04-01

Paperback: 231 pages

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In this classic work, Nancy Verrier examines the life-long consequences of the 'primal wound' - the wound that results when a child is separated from his or her mother - for adopted people, as they grow up & into adulthood. It provides information about pre- & perinatal psychology, attachment, bonding...

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The Departure: The Owner: Book One

by Neal Asher

Published: 2013-02-05

Paperback: 412 pages

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TWO WORLDS, ONE ENEMYEarth An overpopulated world is under the brutal, high-tech thumb of the Committee. Towering robot shepherds, pain-inducers, and reader guns maintain control over masses of zero-asset citizens, but for the elite this not enough. Twelve billion must human beings must di...

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The Paper Bag Christmas: A Novel

by Kevin Alan Milne

Published: 2017-10-03

Hardcover: 160 pages

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When Molar Alan and his older brother, Aaron, fill out their Christmas wish lists front and back, the Santa at the mall informs the boys they won't be getting anything they asked for. Instead, he says, they will receive everything they never wanted. This isn't your garden-variety Santa,...

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The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories

by Yukiko Motoya

Published: 2018-11-06

Paperback: 224 pages

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Winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize "This may well give Your Duck Is My Duck a run for its money as best title of the century. People around the world have been whispering Motoya’s name in my ear. Now she’s translated into English!" ?Gary Shteyngart, Vulture, Most ...

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About My Mother: True Stories of a Horse-Crazy Daughter and Her Baseball-Obsessed Mother: A Memoir

by Peggy Rowe

Published: 2018-11-13

Hardcover: 192 pages

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A Message from Mike Rowe, the Dirty Jobs Guy: Just to be clear, About My Mother is a book about my grandmother, written by my mother. That’s not to say it’s not about my mother—it is. In fact, About My Mother is as much about my mother as it is about my grandmother. In that se...

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A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America

by T. Christian Miller, Ken Armstrong

Published: 2018-02-06

Kindle Edition: 282 pages

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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICETwo Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists tell the riveting true story of Marie, a teenager who was charged with lying about having been raped, and the detectives who followed a winding path to arrive at the truth.On August 11, 2008, eighteen-year...

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Nothing Is Okay

by Rachel Wiley

Published: 2018-03-20

Paperback: 96 pages

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Nothing is Okay is the second full-length poetry collection by Rachel Wiley, whose work simultaneously deconstructs the lies that we were taught about our bodies and our beings, and builds new ways of viewing ourselves. As she delves into queerness, feminism, fatness, dating, and race, Wiley molds these...

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The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

by Hazel Gaynor

Published: 2018-10-09

Kindle Edition: 416 pages

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From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years.“They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary ...

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The Castle

by Jason Pinter

Published: 2017-06-26

Hardcover: 354 pages

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"Gripping, wholly credible, and frankly terrifying." --Ian RankinFor fans of Vince Flynn and Harlan Coben comes an unputdownable new thriller from internationally bestselling author Jason Pinter that will have you reading long into the night. Remy Stanton is a young, ambitious corporate ...

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Black Tudors: The Untold Story

Published: 2017-11-07

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Seeking to overturn the common assumption that there were no black communities in Britain before Caribbean immigration after the Second World War." ?The New Yorker "Highly readable yet intensively researched... lively prose and fascinating microhistories, [BLACK TUDORS] should draw some we...