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THE GEOGRAPHY OF LOVE by GLENDA BURGESS

The Geography of Love by Glenda Burgess

New in Paperback! August 4, 2009 release of the critically acclaimed memoir THE GEOGRAPHY OF LOVE.
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A Distant Shore by Caryl Phillips

Set in contemporary England, A Distant Shore is the story of an African man and an English woman whose hidden...
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Louisiana's Song... by Kerry Madden

Livy Two is happy that Daddy is finally out of his coma, but the befuddled man who comes home is...
The Cloud Atlas

The Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan

Set in past and present Alaska, The Cloud Atlas is narrated by a missionary who spent World War II chasing...
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Under the Ladder to Heaven by Julia Stein

Poetry about three generations of Jewish women:  immigrant grandmothers who clawed their way out of sweatshops;  Anne Frank after she...
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The Women Outside: Meanings and... by Stephanie Golden

Based on my four years' experience as a volunteer in a homeless women’s shelter, The Women Outside examines the social...
based on the inspiring true story of a Holocaust survivor

FAR ABOVE RUBIES by Cynthia Polansky

On the morning of May 10, 1940, the last thing Sofie Rijnfeld expected was the sky to start raining German...
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The Same Embrace by Michael Lowenthal

The endless conflict between sameness and difference is at the heart of Michael Lowenthal's novel The Same Embrace, in which...
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Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story... by Michael Walker

LAUREL CANYON tells the true story of the remarkable events tha ...