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Pope
Brock
Charlatan
978-0-307-33989-8 | $14.95 |
Three Rivers Press | TR | Available
In 1917, John R. Brinkley–America’s
most brazen con man–introduced an outlandish surgical method
for restoring fading male virility. It was all nonsense, but thousands
of eager customers quickly made “Dr.” Brinkley one
of America’s richest men.
Carolyn
Jessop & Laura Palmer
Escape
978-0-7679-2757-4 | $14.95 |
Broadway | TR | Available
At eighteen, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into
a plural marriage to a man thirty-two years her senior. Her
story exposes the physical and psychological abuse she lived
with as a member of an ultra-fundamentalist American religious
sect and her courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.
John Burnham Schwartz
The Commoner
978-1-4000-9605-3 | $14.95 |
Vintage | TR | Available
In 1959, a young woman marries the Crown Prince of Japan and
is controlled at every turn, suffering a nervous breakdown after
finally giving birth to a son. Thirty years later, now Empress
herself, she plays a crucial role in persuading another young
woman to accept the marriage proposal of her son, with tragic
consequences.
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Daoud
Hari
The Translator
978-0-8129-7917-6 | $13.00 |
Random House | TR | Available
A suspenseful, harrowing, and deeply moving memoir
of how one person has made a difference in the world, Hari gives
an on-the-ground account of how he risked his life working as
a translator for Western journalists dedicated to exposing the
genocide occuring in Darfur.
978-0-8129-7965-7 | $15.00 | Random House | TR
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Equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love
story, and piercing political drama, it is the story of an affluent
Indian family forever changed by one fateful day in 1969. The
seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevokably
by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin, Sophie.
Peter
Handke
Short Letter, Long Farewell
978-1-59017-306-0 | $14.95 |
New York Review Books | TR
Handke begins by introducing us to a young German
who has just arrived in America, where he hopes to get over the
collapse of his marriage. No sooner has he arrived, however, than
he discovers that his ex-wife is pursuing him. Soon the couple
is running circles around each other across the length of America.
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