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Api's Berlin Diaries Gabrielle Robinson Moving and provocative, Api's Berlin Diaries offers a personal perspective on the fall of Berlin 1945 and the far-reaching aftershocks of the Third Reich. After her mother's death, Robinson found her grandfather's diaries and discovered that he had been a member of the Nazi party. Her memoir juxtaposes her grandfather's harrowing account serving as... |
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Pearls Dot Nuechterlein What's it like to grow older? More than 80 American women from across the country, aged middle 50s through late 90s, offer thoughtful insights on many aspects of advancing in years—the ups as well as some downs, joys along with sorrows, happy memories from the past plus... |
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Shoulda! Coulda! Woulda! Dwight Allen O'Neal It's been said that our mistakes are the sculptors that shape who we are. In actor, producer, director and fabulous "gaylebrity" Dwight Allen O'Neal's new book Shoulda! Coulda! Woulda! he explores some of his own missteps, and reflects on how they have affected his personal journey. In a... |
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How the Deer Moon Hungers Susan Wingate For people who enjoy books like Where the Crawdads Sing and My Sister's Keeper. Mackenzie Fraser witnesses a drunk driver mow down her seven-year-old sister and her mother blames her. Then she ends up in juvie on a trumped-up drug charge. Now she’s in the fight of her life... |
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The Black Girl in the Classroom Theodore Timms Theodore Timms is an award-winning former principal. Accolades include multiple 'Principal of the Year' awards, Master Principal status, and various excellence awards. His handbook for educators addresses a need for inclusion. Black schoolgirls are an 'at risk' group. This book shows you how to give... |
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Congo From the beginnings of the slave trade through colonization, the struggle for independence, Mobutu's brutal three decades of rule, and the civil war that has raged from 1996 to the present day, Congo traces the history of one of the most devastated nations in the world. Esteemed... |
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One in a Billion Nancy Pine This heart-wrenching story immerses readers in the dramatic survival of one outspoken man who illuminates the souls of a billion ordinary Chinese citizens. An Wei—a stubborn, hardworking peasant who has lived by his values and stood up for his convictions—has succeeded against all odds in the authoritarian environment of China. |
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Here on Moon Edward M. Krauss Betrayal, divorce, recovery. Here On Moon is the story of Carole, a wife and mother with a successful career who, in her mid-30s, is devastated by her husband Ken's infidelity and humiliated by his refusal to be forgiven. She has no choice but divorce, and we follow her through the... |
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Silver Baron's Wife Donna Baier Stein The Silver Baron's Wife traces the rags-to-riches-to-rags life of Colorado's Baby Doe Tabor. This fascinating heroine worked in the silver mines and had two scandalous marriages, one to a philandering opium addict, one to a Senator and silver baron worth $24 million in the late 19th century. A... |
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Inside Our Days Michele Merens Liked by Westchester Book Club! A happily married woman abruptly flees home and family after receiving a dire health diagnosis. As Bree Durning rejects all offers of help and instead becomes preoccupied with her own blindsiding memories, even her psychologist-trained husband is tested to his limits as he struggles... |
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Holy Ghost K.D. Conway It is said that history does not repeat, but rather it rhymes.Today, Spain is a modern, civilized, and progressive society, and it is difficult to imagine that less than 100 years ago that father was set against son, brother against brother, and neighbor against neighbor, in a fight to the death. But yet it was. From 1931 to 1936 Spain descended... |
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The Vines Shelley Nolden In the shadows of New York City lies forbidden North Brother Island, where the remains of a shuttered hospital hide the haunting memories of century-old quarantines and human experiments. The ruins conceal the scarred and beautiful Cora, imprisoned by contagions and the doctors who torment her. When Finn, a... |
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The Violence of Reason Pete Planisek As spring returns to Norway in 1942, Norill Haugen, a spy in the Norwegian resistance movement, barely recognizes her once quiet life. Two years of Nazi occupation, aided by the collusion of those loyal to the illegitimate government of Vidkun Quisling, a German sympathizer, has divided her country and... |
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This America At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America, a follow-up to her much-celebrated history of the United States, These Truths. With dangerous forms of nationalism on the rise, Lepore, a Harvard historian and... |
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Closure Has Come, Goldman Sachs Bobby Sachs You heard about my book, you saw me on the front cover just a few seconds ago, you’re debating in your mind right now whether you should read it or not. You are on the internet or standing at Barnes and Noble ready to make your decision. This is my first autobiography... |
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Hermit Jeffrey H. Ryan When Jim Whyte settled outside the slate mining town of Monson, Maine in 1895, people hardly knew what to make of him. And almost 130 years later, we still don't. A world traveler that spoke six languages fluently, Whyte came to town with sacks full of money and a fierce desire to keep to... |
