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Middleman and Other Stories
These beautifully wrought stories reveal a new world that has been created imperceptibly in our midst: a United States transformed by many new faces from...
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The Tiger's Daughter
Born in Calcutta and schooled in the United States, beautiful, luminous Tara leaves her American husband behind as she journeys back to India. But the Calcutta she...
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Jasmine
Mukherjee has eloquently succeeded in creating a kind of impressionistic fable, a prose-poem, about being an exile, a refugee, a spiritual vagabond in the world...
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Leave It to Me
Debby DiMartino: saved from death in infancy by Gray Nuns at an Indian desert outpost; adopted as a toddler by Manfred and Serena DiMartino of Schenectady, New York...
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Wife
“Dimple Dasgupta had set her heart on marrying a neurosurgeon, but her father was looking for engineers in the matrimonial ads.” So begins the wry story of an...
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Desirable Daughters
Desirable Daughters, by the prolific writer Bharati Mukherjee, whose short story collection The Middleman won the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award, is a...
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Waiting to Exhale
From the number one New York Times bestselling author comes the contemporary classic of women, triumph, revenge, and comradeship in a special new trade edition....
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Mama
Mildred Peacock is the touch, funny, feisty heroine of Mama, a survivor who’ll do anything to keep her family together. In Mildred’s world, men come and go as...
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A Day Late and a Dollar Short
Las Vegas, 1994. The Prices are introduced by Viola, the family’s matriarch: Her husband, Cecil, and their four adult kids, scattered across the country, seem...
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Disappearing Acts
He was tall, dark as bittersweet chocolate, and impossibly gorgeous, with a woman-melting smile. She was pretty and independent, petite and not too skinny, just his...
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Mahu Blood
MAHU BLOOD begins on Hawaii Statehood Day, an anniversary that's controversial among Native Hawaiians who feel that the United States took possession of a sovereign...
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The late leader of China, Chairman Mao said that, "Women hold up half the sky." My Half of the Sky is the story of a contemporary young Chinese woman who strives to...
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Out of a Season-BT
An unusual, even haunting book, played bitter-sweetly against scenes of Italian life and landscapes. Leaves no question that one more serious, dedicated writer is...
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Jambalaya Justice
New Orleans prosecutor Ryan Murphy is back in the second of the Crescent City Mystery Series, Jambalaya Justice.  As Ryan tries to settle into life as a Strike...
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"Letters to Zerky, a Father's Legacy to a Lost Son and a Road Trip Around the Workl" is a travel memoir about driving a VW bus across Europe, Turkey, Iran,...
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Tree Soldier
One mistake can ruin a life. One mistake can transform it. A government forestry camp set deep in the mountainous forests of the Pacific Northwest might not seem...
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Madeline O'Connor was happy. Or was she? When she learns that her estranged sister is gravely ill, she leaves behind her life in Manhattan to be at her sister’s...
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The Election
Cody has been class president for two years in a row. This year should be no different with Cody's best friends all voting for him. Newcomer Nina Harkins would like...
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The Dynamic Manager's Guide To Creative Selling
Creative Selling works in good economies and bad, whether you’re selling widgets or financial services, roaming a nationwide territory or confined to a retail store...
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The Dynamic Manager's Guide To Practical Management
  Successfully managing a business takes knowledge, skills, and guts. The best managers constantly study finances, marketing, employee motivation,...
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