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The Women : A Novel
Hannah, KristinMacmillan Audio 2024 Unabridged"Kristin Hannah's potent storytelling skills are brilliantly served by narrator Julia Whelan, whose limber, low-pitched voice moves nimbly from person to person, capturing personal...
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Velvet Was the Night
Moreno-Garcia, SilviaRandom House Worlds 2021GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a simmering historical noir about a daydreaming secretary, a lonesome enforcer,...
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After the Rain
Okorafor, NnediABRAMS 2021Nnedi Okorafor's story of Chioma, a young Nigerian-American woman whose destiny is revealed during a furious rainstorm—now in paperback, with bonus content including Q&As with the...
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Adrianne Geffel : A Fiction
Hajdu, DavidW. W. Norton & Company 2020This never-before-told story of the life and work of a (fictitious) musical phenomenon is "a revealing—and at times hilarious—satire of the music business, fame, and the cult of pe...
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Me : Elton John Official Autobiography
John, EltonMacmillan Audio 2019 UnabridgedIn his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life, from his rollercoaster lifestyle as shown in the film Rocketman,...
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Yale Needs Women : How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant
Gardiner Perkins, AnneSourcebooks 2019WINNER OF THE 2020 CONNECTICUT BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION AND NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS FOR BOOK CLUBS IN 2021 BY BOOKBROWSE"Perkins makes the story of these early and unwitting f...
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Mrs. Everything : A Novel
Weiner, JenniferAtria Books 2019In this instant New York Times bestseller and "multigenerational narrative that's nothing short of brilliant" (People), two sisters' lives from the 1950s to the present are explore...
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Gone So Long : A Novel
Dubus, AndreW. W. Norton & Company 2018"Taut with tension.... [E]nding with a hint of hope."—Rob Merrill, Associated Press Cathartic, affirming, and steeped in the empathy and precise observations of character for which...
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Little White Duck : A Childhood in China
Martínez, Andrés Vera; Liu, NaLerner Publishing Group 2018 UnabridgedThe world is changing for two girls in China in the 1970s. Da Qin—Big Piano—and her younger sister, Xiao Qin—Little Piano—live in the city of Wuhan with their parents. For decades,...
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What Does This Button Do?
Dickinson, BruceHarperCollins Publishers 2017'I was spotty, wore an anorak, had biro-engraved flared blue jeans with "purple" and "Sabbath" written on the thighs, and rode an ear-splittingly uncool moped. Oh yes, and I wanted...
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1970s Movie Quotes - The Quick Quiz
Goldstein, JackAndrews UK 2017 2. utgåvaAre you a fan of 70s movies? Do you think you could recognise a film just from a single quote? If so, you'll love this fantastic quiz featuring 120 of the greatest movies of the de...
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Ties
Starnone, DomenicoEuropa 2017A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Sunday Times and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year Translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, Ties is a compulsively...
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Serial Killer : Read Em and Weep, #1
Mills, Pat; O'Neill, KevinLisa Mills 2017Meet Dave. Comic book editor. Children’s avenger. Serial killer. Your new favourite person.It’s 1970s London and oddball Dave Maudling has got punk rock spitting in his face before...
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The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
Cannon, JoannaHarperCollins Publishers 2016THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Part whodunnit, part coming of age, this is a gripping debut about the secrets behind every door' RACHEL JOYCE 'Cannon is so attuned to other people's...
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M Train
Smith, PattiBloomsbury Publishing 2015'So honest and pure as to count as a true rapture' JOAN DIDION 'A poetic masterpiece' JOHNNY DEPP'Our St John of the Cross, a mystic full of compassion' EDMUND WHITE 'A roadmap to...
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Edge of Eternity : Book Three of The Century Trilogy: The Century Trilogy Series, Book 3
Follett, KenPenguin Publishing Group 2014Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic, the Century Trilogy, reaches its sweeping, passionate conclusion. In Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, Ken Follett followed the f...
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Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay : Neapolitan Novels, Book Three
Ferrante, ElenaEuropa 2014Soon to be an HBO series, book three in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by one o...
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The Iron Sickle : Sergeants Sueño and Bascom Series, Book 9
Limon, MartinSoho Press 2014Two US Army CID agents go rogue to track down a calculating Korean killer: "Limón is one of the best military writers ever" (Lee Child). Early one rainy morning, the head of the...
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The Persistence of Sentiment : Display and Feeling in Popular Music of the 1970s
Morris, MitchellUniversity of California Press 2013How can we account for the persistent appeal of glossy commercial pop music? Why do certain performers have such emotional power, even though their music is considered vulgar or se...
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The Artful Egg : The Kramer And Zondi Mysteries, Book 7
McClure, JamesSoho Press 2013Two detectives hunt for a woman's killer in apartheid-era South Africa: "The pace is fast, the solution ingenious" (The New York Times Book Review). Named one of the 100 Best Cri...