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2321) Sisters of treason
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
436 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Beginning early in Mary Tudor's turbulent reign, [this book] explores the lives of a pair of sisters as dangerously close to the throne as their sister Lady Jane Grey, who died on the executioner's block at the age of 16, after being queen for nine days"--
Author
Publisher
It Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 234 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From legendary Pixies frontman, Black Francis, comes a bold and visually arresting illustrated novel about art, conflict, and the origins of a certain type of cinema"--
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxix, 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"While in the short term--militarily--the North won the Civil War, in the long term--ideologically--victory went to the South. The continual expansion of the Western frontier allowed a Southern oligarchic ideology to find a new home and take root. Even with the abolition of slavery and the equalizing power of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and the ostensible equalizing of economic opportunity afforded by Western expansion, anti-democratic practices...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
" A major debut from an award-winning writer-an epic family saga set against the magic and the rhythms of the Virgin Islands. In the early 1900s an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea, just as the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule. Orphaned by the sunk vessel are two sisters and their half-brother, now faced with an uncertain identity and future. Each of them is unusually beautiful, and each is in possession of a...
2327) On democracy
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 203 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Anchored by an introduction by Jon Meacham, this concise collection of essays, letters, and poems from one of this country's most eminent literary voices sheds much-needed historical context on the state of the nation and offers a ray of hope for the future of our society; for "as long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman...the scene is not desolate.""--
2328) Made for love: a novel
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Moving to a senior citizen trailer park with her father, Hazel, the estranged wife of a corporate CEO who demanded she install a brain chip so that they could be constantly connected, tries to carve out a new life while her ex uses sophisticated technology to stalk her.
Hazel has just run out on her marriage to Byron Gogol, CEO and founder of Gogol Industries, a monolithic corporation hell-bent on making its products and technologies indispensable...
Publisher
Sea-Hill Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
142 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
True stories and poems about domestic violence, including the effects of physical, emotional, and sexual violence on children, dating teens, and married women, and stories of healing that break the cycle of violence.
2330) Ordinary light: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A memoir about the author's coming of age as she grapples with her identity as an artist, her family's racial history, and her mother's death from cancer"--
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: a deeply moving memoir that explores coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter. Tracy K. Smith had a fairly typical upbringing in suburban California: the youngest...
2331) A woman, in bed
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
411 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Paris, 20th century, WWI to WWII and beyond. Simone abandons her body to lust, leaves her husband for Jacques, sleeps with strangers. But she is never satisfied. It is only when she is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, when she appears to be most broken in her body, that she finally finds the tender, fulfilling love she has been seeking"--
"Simone comes of age in WWI. She comes into her own in WWII as part of the French resistance. Frequently,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Atria books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sharyn McCrumb comes a finely wrought novel set in nineteenth-century West Virginia, based on the true story of one of the strangest murder trials in American history--the case of the Greenbrier Ghost. Lakin, West Virginia, 1930. Following a suicide attempt and consigned to a segregated insane asylum, attorney James P.D. Gardner finds himself under the care of Dr. James Boozer. Fresh out of medical school, Dr. Boozer is eager to try the new talking...
2333) I am no one: a novel
Author
Publisher
Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A mesmerizing novel about memory, privacy, fear, and what happens when our past catches up with us. After a decade living in England, Jeremy O'Keefe returns to New York, where he has been hired as a professor of German history at New York University. Though comfortable in his new life, and happy to be near his daughter once again, Jeremy continues to feel the quiet pangs of loneliness. Walking through the city at night, it's as though he could disappear...
2334) Mr. Splitfoot
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A contemporary gothic from an author in the company of Kelly Link and Aimee Bender, Mr. Splitfoot tracks two women in two times as they march toward a mysterious reckoning. Ruth and Nat are orphans, packed into a house full of abandoned children run by a religious fanatic. To entertain their siblings, they channel the dead. Decades later, Ruth's niece, Cora, finds herself accidentally pregnant. After years of absence, Aunt Ruth appears, mute and...
2335) Human acts: a novel
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows the aftermath of a young boy's shocking death during a violent student uprising as told from the perspectives of the event's victims and their loved ones.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
159 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A mesmerizing interpretation of fourteen iconic Kafka short stories. Longtime lovers of Kafka will appreciate Kuper’s innovative interpretations, while Kafka novices will discover a haunting introduction to some of the great writer’s most beguiling stories."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xiv, 448 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
During the 2016 presidential election cycle, novelist Richard North Patterson wrote one column per week for The Huffington Post about the presidential race. Those essays are collected here for the first time in a highly personal 'journal' chronically Paterson's observations in real time.
2338) The arrangement
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An irresistible novel about food, desire, and the real-life love triangle between M.F.K Fisher, her husband, and the man she left him for--the true love of her life Los Angeles, 1934. Mary Frances is on the cusp of becoming M.F.K. Fisher--the writer whose artful personal essays about food created a genre. She is hungry, and not just for food: she wants Tim, her husband Al's charming friend, who encourages her writing and seems to understand her better...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"A superbly crafted study of Hunter S. Thompson's literary formation, achievement, and continuing relevance. Savage Journey is a "supremely crafted" study of Hunter S. Thompson's literary formation and achievement. Focusing on Thompson's influences, development, and unique model of authorship, Savage Journey argues that his literary formation was largely a San Francisco story. During the 1960s, Thompson rode with the Hell's Angels, explored the San...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Phyllis Rose embarks on a grand literary experiment--to read her way through a random shelf of library books, LEQ-LES. Can you have an Extreme Adventure in a library? Phyllis Rose casts herself into the wilds of an Upper East Side lending library in an effort to do just that. Hoping to explore the "real ground of literature," she reads her way through a somewhat randomly chosen shelf of fiction, from LEQ to LES. The shelf has everything Rose could...
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