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Charity Girl

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From the author of The Same Embrace: A "lively and illuminating" novel that explores a little-known chapter of World War I history ( The Washington Post Book World).Frieda Mintz refused her mother's plan to marry her off to an older, wealthy man. Now she's determined to make her own way in the world—and find love on her own terms. Earning her keep in a Boston department store, she spends her ... Read more

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From the author of The Same Embrace: A "lively and illuminating" novel that explores a little-known chapter of World War I history ( The Washington Post Book World).Frieda Mintz refused her mother's plan to marry her off to an older, wealthy man. Now she's determined to make her own way in the world—and find love on her own terms. Earning her keep in a Boston department store, she spends her
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Place Envy

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A queer, Jewish writer searches for belonging across countries, identities, and histories in a moving collection of essays about orientation and home.Growing up in places where his family had no past, and met mostly by silence from his Holocaust-refugee grandparents, Michael Lowenthal longed to be from somewhere. Then he realized he was gay and felt displaced from his own displaced family. Place ... Read more

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A queer, Jewish writer searches for belonging across countries, identities, and histories in a moving collection of essays about orientation and home.Growing up in places where his family had no past, and met mostly by silence from his Holocaust-refugee grandparents, Michael Lowenthal longed to be from somewhere. Then he realized he was gay and felt displaced from his own displaced family. Place
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To Pass On a Good Earth

The Life and Work of Carl O. Sauer

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To Pass On a Good Earth is the candid and compelling new biography of one of the twentieth century’s most distinctive and influential scholars. The legendary "Great God beyond the Sierras," Carl Ortwin Sauer is America’s most famed geographer, an inspiration to both academics and poets, yet no book-length biography of him has existed until now.This Missouri-born son of German immigrants ... Read more

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To Pass On a Good Earth is the candid and compelling new biography of one of the twentieth century’s most distinctive and influential scholars. The legendary "Great God beyond the Sierras," Carl Ortwin Sauer is America’s most famed geographer, an inspiration to both academics and poets, yet no book-length biography of him has existed until now.This Missouri-born son of German immigrants
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The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard

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A Kansas seamstress reinvents herself in Los Angeles, but the past comes back to haunt her, in this "superb, surprising" historical novel ( The Seattle Times).At age seventeen, Nell Plat is an unhappily married woman, quick with her needle and wit, but ill-suited to wifely duties like cooking, mothering, and tending to her boorish husband. Unable to shake her dreams of glamour and excitement, she ... Read more

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Ten Thousand Saints

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"Rarely has a coming-of-age novel captured a time and place—here the late 1980s on Manhattan's Lower East Side—with such perfect pitch. Grade: A" —Entertainment WeeklyA sweeping, multigenerational drama, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City during the late 1980s, Ten Thousand Saints triumphantly heralds the arrival of a remarkable new writer. Eleanor Henderson makes a truly ... Read more

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People of the River

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People of the River is a gripping new saga of pre-historic America that takes us to the Mississippi Valley and the tribe known as the Mound builders. It is a time of troubles. In Cahokia, the corn crop is failing again and a warchief—and the warrior woman he may never possess—are disgusted by their Chief's lust for tribute. Now even the gods have turned their faces, closing the underworld to the ... Read more

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What Is Visible

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A vividly original literary novel based on the astounding true-life story of Laura Bridgman, the first deaf and blind person who learned language and blazed a trail for Helen Keller.At age two, Laura Bridgman lost four of her five senses to scarlet fever. At age seven, she was taken to Perkins Institute in Boston to determine if a child so terribly afflicted could be taught. At age twelve, Charles ... Read more

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Those Who Save Us

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The Aloha Reef Collection

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