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 | Found ObjectsPeter Gelfan Aldo Zoria, a successful commercial photographer, lives with his wife and their lover in a happy household that includes the lover’s two young children. Domestic bliss shatters when an unexpected guest arrives and threatens to turn their world upside down. Found Objects is a... |
 | A Fighting Chance As a child in small-town Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren yearned to go to college and then become an elementary school teacher—an ambitious goal, given her family’s modest means. Early marriage and motherhood seemed to put even that dream out of reach, but fifteen years later she was a... |
 | Trinity StonesL. G. O'Connor Anxiety-ridden New York investment banker, Cara Collins, has little to smile about on her twenty-seventh birthday between a hostile work environment and her impossible romantic situation with her longtime friend and first love, Dr. Kai Solomon. But before the day ends, she learns she has... |
 | The Sixth Extinction Over the last half-billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact... |
 | The Autumn CrushAndrew Eustace Anselmi Guy Bennett was one of America's post-World War II success stories. Born of Italian immigrants during the Depression, he became a captain of industry, with a skyscraper in New York City and a son in the United States Senate. The applause mutes and friends grow scarce, however, when... |
 | The Essence of Christianity Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-72), the German philosopher and a founding member of the Young Hegelians, a group of radical thinkers influenced by G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), was an outspoken critic of religion, and the 1841 publication of this work established his... |
 | Cliff WalkingStephen Russell Payne Set on the rocky and at times unforgiving coast of Maine, Stephen Russell Payne's emotionally powerful debut novel, Cliff Walking, shares a poignant tale of loss and love that weaves together the lives of three desperate people who struggle mightily to find a way to save... |
 | Capital in the Twenty-First Century What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But... |
 | The Blue JournalL. T. Graham When one of Randi Conway's psychotherapy patients is found dead of a gunshot wound, the investigation is turned over to Lieutenant Anthony Walker. Formerly a New York City cop, Walker now serves on the police force of an affluent community in Fairfield County, Connecticut... |
 | The Sleepwalkers The Sleepwalkers is historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing not on the battles and atrocities of the war itself, but on the complex events and relationships that led a... |
 | kick bACKRC Atchisson Joe Thornton is having the time of... the end of... his life! After losing his wine business to an unscrupulous partner and his marriage to an unfaithful wife, Joe spends days drowning his sorrows and lamenting the mess his life has become. At the end of his rope, Joe tosses a coin to decide... |
 | Bittersweet ManorTory McCagg After a four-month estrangement from her family, thirty-two-year-old Emma Michaels visits The Harbor View Assisted Living Home to tell her grandmother, Gussie, that she has made a decision: she's going to sell the family property—her inheritance. Sitting on the dock of Poquatuck... |
 | The Sea of ObscurityMaryam Al-Faresi Usually self-help books just give advice in order to help people take control and make changes in their lives. But this book takes a different unique approach for you to change your life today. This book conveys real life experiences, written specifically to let you know that there's... |
 | I Am AbrahamJerome Charyn This unforgettable portrait of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War effortlessly mixes humor with Shakespearean-like tragedy to create an achingly human portrait of the sixteenth president. Charyn conducts an orchestra of historical figures and fictional extras centered around a profoundly... |
 | Citizen Claudia Rankine’s bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home... |
 | The ColossusRanjini Iyer Maxine Rosen, a demure, clumsy Chicago caterer, gets more than she bargains for when she discovers her father’s coded research document linked to health pills unearthed from the ancient Indus Valley civilization. The pills, she learns, carry frightening secrets about the true nature of her... |
 | The Geometry of LoveJessica Levine Why is it easier for a woman to be a muse than to have one? Can one be fully creative—in art or life—without the inspiration of erotic love? These are the questions asked in The Geometry of Love, a novel set in New York in the 1980s, then fast-forwarding to Northern California 20 years later. Julia, an... |
 | BreatheKelly Kittel Kelly Kittel never questioned her Mayflower Society mantra—"Family is the most important thing"—until the day her fifteen-month-old son was run over by her sixteen-year-old niece. Nine months later, Kittel’s doctor made a terrible mistake during her subsequent pregnancy... |
 | This Changes Everything The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political... |
 | Blood on the EarthJohn Laví In a rush one morning, a college professor drives over a boy on a bike, killing him. When the boy turns out to be the son of a mobster, the professor pays the ultimate price. He disappears, permanently. His death leads to more revenge killings. To stop them from escalating, the... |
 | A Sentimental Education Set against the backdrop of the 1848 Revolution, A Sentimental Education is the story of young lawyer Frédéric Moreau's infatuation with the demurely exotic Madame Arnoux. First published in 1869, it offers a meticulously accurate, ironic depiction of uneventful lives in a... |
 | The Journey of Mary / Ma LiJ. A. Graffagnino From early childhood Mary Petrovich has had visions of a girl named Ma Li Chin living in ancient China. As time passes, the images became clearer until it seemed that Ma Li was physically present, and as Mary grew, their bond became stronger. Mary's parents, a Sioux... |
 | The Autobiography Written during the most eventful years of Benjamin Franklin's life (1771-90), the Autobiography is one of the most influential memoirs in history. This newly edited Norton Critical Edition includes an introduction that explains the history of the Autobiography within the larger history of... |
 | She CriesAlexandra Allred With a plot that could have easily been pulled from newspaper headlines, She Cries is both a thriller and a surprising love story that will have readers on the edge of their seats. When Kali Jorgensen is left to raise her three daughters alone after her husband is killed in the war in Afghanistan... |
 | RedwoodA. Rod Womack Redwood is a gripping true story of a once successful and popular Baltimore restaurant known for its great cuisine, vivacious musical entertainment, radiant atmosphere and memorable A-List celebrity events. From the beginning, the three young entrepreneurs worked tirelessly to... |
