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  • A Possible Life
    A Possible Life : A Novel in Five Parts
    by Sebastian Faulks
    Hardcover: Dec 2012
    Paperback: Nov 2013
     
    From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Birdsong, new fiction about love and war—five transporting stories and five unforgettable lives, linked across centuries.
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  • The Post-Birthday World
    The Post-Birthday World
    by Lionel Shriver
    Hardcover: Mar 2007
    Paperback: Mar 2008
     
    Using a playful parallel-universe structure,The Post-Birthday World follows one woman's future as it unfolds under the influence of two drastically different men.
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  • The Postcard
    The Postcard
    by Anne Berest
    Hardcover: May 2023
    Paperback: May 2024
     
    Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a ...
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  • The Postmistress
    The Postmistress
    by Sarah Blake
    Hardcover: Feb 2010
    Paperback: Feb 2011
     
    The Postmistress is an unforgettable tale of the secrets we must bear, or bury. It is about what happens to love during war­time, when those we cherish leave. And how every story - of love or war - is about looking left when we should have been ...
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  • Poverty, by America
    Poverty, by America
    by Matthew Desmond
    Hardcover: Mar 2023
    Paperback: Mar 2024
     
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.
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  • Prague
    Prague : A Novel
    by Arthur Phillips
    Hardcover: Jun 2002
    Paperback: Jun 2003
     
    Brilliantly renders the Hungary of past and present: the generations of failed revolutionaries and lyric poets, opportunists and profiteers, heroes and storytellers.
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  • The Price of Motherhood
    The Price of Motherhood : Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued
    by Ann Crittenden
    Hardcover: Feb 2001
    Paperback: Jan 2002
     
    Bold and galvanizing, full of innovative solutions, The Price of Motherhood reveals the glaring disparity between the value created by mothers' work and the reward women receive for carrying out society's most important job. 
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  • The Pride of Carthage
    The Pride of Carthage : A Novel of Hannibal
    by David Anthony Durham
    Hardcover: Jan 2005
    Paperback: Jan 2005
     
    An epic work of literary fiction about the superb military leader of Carthage, Hannibal Barca, and his struggle against the mighty Roman Republic.
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