National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary...
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Author: Bair, DeirdreSummary:
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Author: Rosen, JeffreySummary:
An intimate look at the life and career of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in her own words, through an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center....
Genre: Discursive works, Political science -
Author: Thomas, JanisSummary:
After years of battling with her troubled mother, Louise has found peace in her solitary existence. Until the day Grace crashes back into her life and entreats Louise to help her save a child from...
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Author: Fluke, Joanne, Levine, Laura, Meier, LeslieSummary:
Three short and sweet murder mysteries by three separate authors are included in this holiday batch.
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Author: Brown, PeterSummary:
Always on the verge of something better, Brown's characters in this short story collection are often hard drinking and fast driving--tending to be both violent and religious. And as they grasp for...
Genre: Short stories -
Author: Kirkpatrick, JaneSummary:
Eliza Spalding Warren was just a child when she was taken hostage by the Cayuse Indians during a massacre in 1847. Now the young mother of two children, Eliza faces a different kind of dislocation...
Genre: Religious fiction, Historical fiction -
Author: Moore, Deborah DashSummary:
The definitive history of Jews in New York and how they transformed the city Based on the acclaimed multi-volume series, "City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York," Jewish New York...
Genre: History and geography -
Author: Austin, Lynn N.Summary:
After years in exile, Iddo and his grandson Zechariah follow God's leading home to Jerusalem, where they struggle to rebuild their lives and God's temple--bringing to life the biblical...
Genre: Religious fiction -
Author: Donoghue, EmmaSummary:
A collection of short stories featuring a cross-section of society including runaways, drifters, gold miners, counterfeiters, attorneys, and slaves from Puritan Massachusetts and revolutionary New...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Edited by William Campbell, Foreword by Brian BarthSummary:
For anyone who wants to learn how to catch a runaway pig, mend a fence post, milk a cow, or throw an unforgettable barn party, this engaging volume delivers timeless advice on accomplishing tasks...
Genre: Self-help publications -
Author: Turner-Yamamoto, JudithSummary:
For forty years Aurilla Cutter has tended a clutch of secrets that have turned her mean. A fatal accident becomes the catalyst for the release of the passions, needs, and hurts in everyone...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Robinson, Kim StanleySummary:
The waters rose, submerging New York City. But the residents adapted and it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always been--though changed forever. Every street became a canal, every...
Genre: Science fiction -
Author: Fogel, SusannaSummary:
Told entirely in letters to a heroine we never meet, Nuclear Family is a comedic novel about a fractured family of New England Jews and their discontents.
Genre: Domestic fiction, Epistolary fiction