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The Last Samurai

by Helen De Witt

Published: 2002-04-03

Paperback: 544 pages

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Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, a single mother of precocious and rigorous intelligence, and her son, who, owing to his mother's singular attitude to education, develops into a prodigy of learning. Ludo reads Homer in the o...

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Clever Girl: A Novel (P.S.)

by Tessa Hadley

Published: 2015-04-14

Paperback: 288 pages

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Clever Girl is an indelible story of one woman’s life, unfolded in a series of beautifully sculpted episodes that illuminate an era, moving from the 1960s to today, from one of Britain’s leading literary lights—Tessa Hadley—the author of the New York Times Notable Books Married Lov...

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Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

by Sally Mann

Published: 2015-05-12

Hardcover: 496 pages

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARThe New York Times, Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, NPR, Publishers Weekly, BookPage A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. In this groundbreaki...

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Stepdog

by Mireya Navarro

Published: 2015-04-21

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Stepdog is the hilarious and heartwarming tale of a woman who has finally met the man of her dreams—and the dog of her nightmares. Lots of dogs eat shoes, bite people, destroy furniture . . . but Eddie tried to destroy a marriage.After more than three decades of happy single womanhood,...

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A Garden of Earthly Delights (20th Century Rediscoveries Series)

by Joyce Carol Oates, Elaine Showalter

Published: 2009-03-25

Kindle Edition: 448 pages

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Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born ...

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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

by Edward E. Baptist

Published: 2014-09-09

Hardcover: 528 pages

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Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution?the nation’s original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America’s later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy.As historian Edward Baptist reveals in The Half Has...

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The Haunting of Sunshine Girl: Book One

by Paige McKenzie, Alyssa Sheinmel

Published: 2015-03-24

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Sunshine Griffith and her mother Kat move from sunny Austin, Texas, to the rain-drenched town of Ridgemont, Washington. Though Sunshine is adopted, she and her mother have always been close, sharing a special bond filled with laughter and inside jokes....

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Dressing Your Truth, Discover Your Type of Beauty

by Carol Tuttle

Published: 2010-04-01

Perfect Paperback: 241 pages

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With the launch of her newest book, alternative therapist Carol Tuttle is turning long-standing fashion and beauty myths on their head, and helping rescue fashion victims who repeatedly fall prey to the latest trends. Based around Tuttle's years-in-the-making, breakthrough Beauty ProfilingTM system,...

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Second Chance Friends

by Jennifer Scott

Published: 2015-05-05

Paperback: 352 pages

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The national bestselling author of The Sister Season shares a novel of four ordinary women at one extraordinary crossroads....   Karen, Melinda, and Joanna have never met until the morning they witness an accident outside a local diner—and rush to help.   As a single mom whose sweet-fa...

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The Alpine Zen: An Emma Lord Mystery

by Mary Daheim

Published: 2015-04-07

Hardcover: 352 pages

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The picturesque town of Alpine in the foothills of Washington state’s Cascade Mountains—home to Emma Lord and her weekly newspaper The Alpine Advocate—has long charmed and enthralled mystery lovers. Now, with The Alpine Zen, Mary Daheim has at last reached the anticipated letter of Z...