Loving Frank: A Novel
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Nancy Horan
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Historical Fiction
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Ballantine Books (April 8, 2008) |
Blending fact and fiction, a bestselling historical novel about the clandestine love affair of Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick Cheney.
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
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Harriet Washington
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History
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Doubleday, Anchor (January 8, 2008) |
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a history of medical experimentation on black Americans from colonial times to the present.
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Population: 485
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Michael Perry
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Memoirs
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Harper Perennial; 1 edition (July 31, 2007) |
When writer Perry returned to his tiny childhood town, New Auburn, Wisc., after 12 years away, he joined the village's volunteer fire and rescue department. Six years later, he'd begun to understand at last that to truly live in a place, you must give your life to that place.
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Matrimony: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
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Joshua Henkin
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Literary Fiction
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Vintage; Reprint edition (August 26, 2008) |
A portrait of a marriage spanning twenty years beginning at the height of the Reagan era and ending in the new millennium.
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This Time Tomorrow: A Novel
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Michael Jaime-Becerra
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Literary Fiction
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Multi-Cultural
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Thomas Dunne Books (February 16, 2010) |
The story about working-class Mexican American culture in which a single father struggles to remain connected to the two people that he loves: his thirteen-year-old daughter and his girlfriend
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The Doctor and the Diva
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Adrienne McDonnell
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Commercial Fiction
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Viking Adult (July 22, 2010) |
The tale of a young, Harvard-educated obstetrician in Boston who imperils his promising career when he becomes attracted to one of his patients, a beautiful opera singer who has struggled for years to get pregnant -- inspired by the author's ancestor and based on family letters and memories of elderly relatives who have long been haunted by the secret
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Displaced Persons
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Ghita Schwarz
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Literary Fiction
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William Morrow; 1 edition (August 10, 2010) |
Moving from the Allied zones of postwar Germany to New York City, a novel of survival witnessed through the experiences of "displaced persons" struggling to remake their lives in the decades after World War II.
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Empire of Illusion
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Chris Hedges
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Current Affairs
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Nation Books; First Trade Paper Edition edition (October 5, 2010) |
A call to confront our economic, political, and moral collapse by refusing to take refuge in the trivia and gossip that pass for news and information, to turn away from the demagogues and charlatans who feed on discontent, and instead expose the mechanisms used to divert people from honing the linguistic and intellectual tools to cope with complexity.
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