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Woman of an Uncertain Age Priya Malhotra When fifty-something Naina Mehta's husband dies of a heart attack, she transforms herself from a suburban wife into a bold woman thirsty for new experiences. A far cry from the classic image of the aging Indian widow who dresses in subdued colors and focuses solely on her children and God. Naina moves to New... |
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My Journey from Prison Hostage to Leadership Executive Donnie Houston This book tells an unbelievable story of one man's journey that changed the entire trajectory of his entire life and shares how he went from a prison hostage to being a top leadership executive. Discover critical insight into the key principles of successful leadership. Regardless if you are a... |
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How I Escaped From Bloody Hell Mary LaForge Escaped shines a light on cosmically unanswered questions, and offers a perspective that outlines phases of reality from birth to deaths. Escaped is written with flowing words, without fluff, and with insights about the nature of reality that you can adopt and apply simply by journaling. Upon the death of her... |
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Susan: A Jane Austen Prequel Alice McVeigh Familiar characters abound - Frank Churchill, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Darcy himself - but Susan - mischievous and manipulative - is the star. This is Austen that even Austen might have loved, with a touch of Georgette Heyer in the romantic sections. Fans of Bridgerton will also relish this classic... |
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The Understudy Ellen Tovatt Leary The Understudy is the story of Nina Landau, an actress, living in New York City in the early '70s and trying hard to make it on Broadway. We follow her from her Broadway audition nerves to her eventual success on stage. Along the way we discover what goes on backstage during a Broadway show, how actors deal with the mistakes that... |
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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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The Chameleon Shuffle Jere Krakoff After languishing in The Depository for Foundlings and other Discarded Children, Leonard Zweig is adopted by staunch Conservative lawyer Milton and pious Liberal lawyer Miriam Zweig. When the Zweigs launch a secret program to indoctrinate Leonard in... |
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Grace listens to a story told to her by her Grandmother. Her Grandmother shares her wisdom. Grace learns the lessons of nature and of the heart. The greatest lesson of all is that we are all "Kin." Grandmother talks about basic traits that are appreciated and important. She focuses on our common humanity. Most of all... |
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The Great Derangement Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? Ghosh examines our inability—in literature, history, politics—to grasp the scale and violence of... |
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Mother Mother Jessica O'Dwyer Contemporary art museum curator Julie Cowan achieves her dream of motherhood through adoption, but her life is far from perfect. Her pathologist husband, Mark, is distracted at work, while her hotshot new museum director boss doubts Julie's curatorial chops. And Julie's young son, Juan, may never recover from trauma... |
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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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Catnip for the Cat Lover's Psyche Ann Lapatka Ann Lapatka transports the reader through adventurous, real life stories – the tragedies, the triumphs, the laughter and the tears – of her experiences with beloved companion cats. She shares with you how her cats blessed, enriched – and even surprised her – in totally unexpected ways. Cat lover or not, Catnip for... |
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Pavarotti and Pancakes Francesco Granieri Pavarotti and Pancakes is a candid, yet genially rendered tale, of the struggles and victories of a young Italian-American, Francesco Granieri. A child of the 1980's, Francesco grows-up amidst the erosion of a warm, embracing family, subject to the chilling grip of a tenacious... |
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The Journey Home Gabriel Bron The Journey Home is a novel narrated through 35 engaging vignettes involving a son’s relationship with his parents during their final year of life. Using amplified recollections vivid dreams, and impressionistic flashbacks, The Journey Home leads the listener on an amazing pilgrimage of discovery and healing. Starting... |
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Darkness Drops Again Melissa Manning After surviving a dysfunctional childhood caring for her alcohol and drug addicted mother while her father buried himself in his criminal law practice, thirty-nine-year-old attorney Maeve Shaw has painstakingly constructed the perfect life. Her husband, Patrick, is a handsome senior manager at a... |
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The Image: A Quantum Portal Has Opened Guy Morris A CERN black hole experiment creates a portal to a higher dimension, unleashing a quantum signal that entangles every computer on Earth. Only SLVIA, a rogue NSA AI, can decode its dire warning for humanity. Convinced civilization has entered the end of days, SLVIA... |
