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Women's Literature April 2017
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The twelve lives of Samuel Hawley : a novel
by Hannah Tinti
A once-professional killer protects his daughter from the legacy of his criminal past, an effort that is challenged by his daughter's struggles with the death of her mother and the reckoning of old enemies. By the prize-winning author of The Good Thief.
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Abandon me : memoirs
by Melissa Febos
In her follow-up to Whip Smart, the former professional dominatrix fearlessly explores art, love and identity as she searches her childhood for resounding emotional truths about the bonds of family and the need for connections with other people.
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The wanderers
by Meg Howrey
Auditioning for the first-ever mission to Mars, three astronauts share experiences that push the boundary between the real and surreal while irrevocably changing their relationships and familial bonds.
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The rules do not apply
by Ariel Levy
An award-winning New Yorker staff writer and author of Female Chauvinist Pigs shares a profound, hopeful memoir of her own experiences with devastating loss to council fellow survivors about the healing aspects of accepting difficult life challenges that are beyond our control.
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The devil and Webster
by Jean Hanff Korelitz
The first woman president of an elite progressive college responds to student protests about a popular professor's tenure denial before the group's controversial leader emerges and shocking acts of vandalism begin to destabilize the campus. By the best-selling author of You Should Have Known. 50,000 first printing.
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Madame President : the extraordinary journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
by Helene Cooper
A harrowing but triumphant portrait of the Liberian women's movement and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize shares insights into her early experiences as an abuse survivor, her imprisonments for defying her country's oppressive patriarchal rule and her significant humanitarian changes after winning the 2005 Liberian presidential election.
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The idiot
by Elif Batuman
Embarking on her freshman year at Harvard in the early tech days of the 1990s, a young artist and daughter of Turkish immigrants begins a correspondence with an older mathematics student from Hungary while struggling with her changing sense of self, first love and a daunting career prospect.
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How to murder your life : a memoir
by Cat Marnell
A former beauty editor at Lucky describes her secret life as a prescription-drug addict and bulimic who manipulated doctors into supporting her destructive lifestyle, recounting the early experiences that shaped her addictions and her struggles to balance her literary ambition with her disease.
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The tea girl of Hummingbird Lane
by Lisa See
Explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter, who has been adopted by an American couple, tracing the very different cultural factors that compel them to consume a rare native tea that has shaped their family's destiny for generations.
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A Country Between : Making a Home Where Both Sides of Jerusalem Collide
by Stephanie Saldana
Showing us how love can pick up the broken pieces of our lives and make us feel whole, the author and her new husband, Frederic, start a new life on Nablus Road, where the fractious sides of Palestinian and Israeli Jerusalem collide—and where they are forced, as a family, to redefine their lives, their love and the place they call home, which is rife with violence.
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