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  • America's Women
    America's Women : Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
    by Gail Collins
    Hardcover: Sep 2003
    Paperback: Sep 2004
     
    A landmark work of history telling the story of more than four centuries of history featuring a stunning array of personalities.
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  • American Dervish
    American Dervish : A Novel
    by Ayad Akhtar
    Hardcover: Jan 2012
    Paperback: Sep 2012
     
    American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life.
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  • American Dirt
    American Dirt : A Novel
    by Jeanine Cummins
    Hardcover: Jan 2020
    Paperback: Feb 2022
     
    Hailed as "a Grapes of Wrath for our times" and "a new American classic", American Dirt is a rare exploration into the inner hearts of people willing to sacrifice everything for a glimmer of hope.
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  • American Gods
    American Gods
    by Neil Gaiman
    Hardcover: Jun 2001
    Paperback: Apr 2002
     
    As unsettling as it is exhilarating, American Gods is a dark and kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an America at once eerily familiar and utterly alien.
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  • American Han
    American Han : A Novel
    by Lisa Lee
    Hardcover: Mar 2026
     
    Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1980s, Jane Kim and her brother, Kevin, dutifully embodied the model minority myth as their parents demanded: both stellar tennis players and academically gifted, they worked hard to make their parents ...
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  • The American Heiress
    The American Heiress : A Novel
    by Daisy Goodwin
    Paperback: Mar 2012
     
    Witty, moving, and brilliantly entertaining, The American Heiress marks the debut of a glorious storyteller who brings a fresh new spirit to the world of Edith Wharton and Henry James.
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  • American Histories
    American Histories
    by John E. Wideman
    Hardcover: Mar 2018
    Paperback: Mar 2019
     
    With characters ranging from everyday Americans to Jean-Michel Basquiat to Nat Turner, American Histories is a journey through time, experience, and the soul of our country.
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  • The American Lover
    The American Lover
    by Rose Tremain
    Hardcover: Feb 2015
    Paperback: Jan 2016
     
    Rose Tremain awakens the senses in this magnificent and diverse collection of short stories.
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