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Description: Addresses issues and questions relating to crime in the most violent and crime-ridden country in the industrialized world, the United States.
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Description: In this examination of the AIDS epidemic and the increasing rate of HIV infection worldwide, the author clearly presents the facts about the various medical, social, and psychological complexities of this modern-day disease.
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Description: During World War II, Allied victory rested on the wings of America's Liberator, the B-24 bomber. The only way to build them fast enough was to bring women into the work force. Join Audrey and Ruth as their search for freedom leads them to risk everything to rescue an abused young girl, somehow finding love and redemption along the way.
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Description: This poetic novel, by the acclaimed author of John Dollar and Properties of Thirst, describes America at the brink of the Atomic Age. In the years between the two world wars, the future held more promise than peril, but there was evidence of things unseen that would transfigure our unquestioned trust in a safe future. Fos has returned to Tennessee from the trenches of France. Intrigued with electr...
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Description: On the other Side, is a story about a young German girl, her family, and friends. The events take place in a quaint, old city in the foothills of the Taunus Mountain region near the Rhine. The story begins with the mysterious disappearance of her father suspected due to political provocation. The familys pains, sufferings, and difficulties continue to escalate amidst the war-torn surroundings of W...
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Description: It is 1932, Silesia, Germany, and the eve of Antonia's 12th birthday. Hitler's Brownshirts and Red Front Marxists are fighting each other in the streets. Antonia doesn't care about the political unrest but it's all her family argue about. Then Hitler is made Chancellor and order is restored across the country, but not in Antonia's family. The longer the National Socialists stay in power, the more ...
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Description: “A harrowing book about the horrors of motherhood, jealousy, and war trauma.” —Kirkus Reviews The Weight of Things is the first book, and the first translated book, and possibly the only translatable book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948–2007). For after winning acclaim with this novel—awarded the Robert Walser Prize in 1978—she embarked on a 10,000-page literary project called ...
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Description: A National Bestseller A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a novel destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II about the meaning of family and the limitations of the American Dream. Rockwell “Rocky” Rhodes has spent year...
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Description: A romance between Noah John, an American foreign correspondent, and Lilith Luciana da Vinci, a glamorous news photographer. They meet in Africa, he moves into her apartment in Paris, she drops him for a Rumanian politician who sells HIV-polluted blood, but they will meet again. By the author of John Dollar.
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