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Evening Is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan (Hardcover - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
 

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Evening Is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan (Hardcover - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The life of six-year-old Aasha Rajasekharan and those of her prosperous family are turned upside down by the death of her grandmother, the dismissal of the family's rubber plantation servant girl, and the departure of her older sister, Uma, for Columbia University, in the saga of one Malaysian Indian immigrant family's secrets and lies. A first novel.

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The Konkans by Tony D'Souza (Hardcover - Harcourt)
 

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The Konkans by Tony D'Souza (Hardcover - Harcourt)
Francisco D'Sai, the son of a Konkan father, Lawrence, and an American mother, Denise, grows up surrounded by the colorful tales of India and Konkan history, stories that feed his imagination and give him a profound sense of his heritage and its meaning in his life.

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The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux (Hardcover - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
 

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The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux (Hardcover - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
A trio of interlinked novellas chronicles the lives of Westerners who have been forever changed by their experiences with the people and places of India, from a middle-aged couple on vacation, to a staid Boston attorney, to a young woman who befriends an elephant in Bangalore.

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East Side Story by Louis Auchincloss (Hardcover - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
 

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East Side Story by Louis Auchincloss (Hardcover - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
An engaging fictional history of the rise of a single New York family, the Carnochans, from their early arrival in America from Scotland, through their successful integration into New York's textile business during the Civil War, to their rise to prominence and wealth, recounting the lives and fortunes of diverse members of the family across generations.

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Whatever It Takes by Paul Tough (Hardcover - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
 

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Whatever It Takes by Paul Tough (Hardcover - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
An intriguing portrait of African-American activist Geoffrey Canada, creator of the Harlem Children's Zone, describes his radical new approach to eliminating inner-city poverty, one that proposes to transform the lives of poor children by changing their schools, their families, and their neighborhoods at the same time.

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The Walking People by Mary Beth Keane (Hardcover - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
 

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The Walking People by Mary Beth Keane (Hardcover - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Having escaped her limited prospects and painfully critical family in Ireland, Greta Cahill embarks on a career and starts a family in America; an improved circumstance that forces her to choose between revealing her successes to her relatives back home and exposing her children to her painful past.

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Lost River by David Fulmer (Hardcover - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
 

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Lost River by David Fulmer (Hardcover - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
"When a man is found dead in a Storyville brothel and the local madam enlists his assistance, Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr returns to the old stomping grounds he has been trying to leave behind, only to become the prime suspect in a series of murders, abandoned by his long-time love Justine. By the author of Rampart Street."

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Hard Man by Allan Guthrie (Hardcover - Harcourt)
 

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Hard Man by Allan Guthrie (Hardcover - Harcourt)
Still grieving over the death of his mother, tough Edinburgh ex-con Pearce refuses a job offer from the dysfunctional Baxter family to protect their pregnant sixteen-year-old daughter from her older, martial-arts-expert husband Wallace, until Wallace makes the mistake of killing Pearce's dog.

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July, July by Tim O'Brien (Hardcover - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
 

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July, July by Tim O'Brien (Hardcover - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Old friends share memories of the past, current regrets, and future plans as they gather on a July weekend for the thirtieth reunion of Darton Hall College's class of 1969.

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Killer Woman Blues by Benjamin Demott (Hardcover - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
 

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Killer Woman Blues by Benjamin Demott (Hardcover - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The new "killer woman," says Benjamin DeMott in this lively and provocative book, believes that empowerment lies in tough, aggressive, "male" behavior. This gender denial, he contends, is reshaping American society and betraying the original vision of feminism, which embodied the ideal of a more compassionate and nurturing society for both women and men. Today, many women believe they must "become men" to succeed -- and men are perceived as often ruthless and brutally competitive. Differences molded by nature and history are obscured, as is the healthy flexibility that would free both sexes from rigid gender positions. The other side of this coin is an increasingly hard-nosed ethos in corporate America and in our public policy.
We can no longer think straight about gender and power, DeMott argues, because we are inundated daily by a flood of cultural material -- popular and literary fiction, movies, sitcoms, commercials, cartoons, the whole media mix -- embodying the killer woman and her values. It leads us to believe that the sexes have nothing to teach each other except ever harsher modes of selfishness and cruelty, both at work and at home. DeMott makes his case persuasively with a wealth of fascinating and highly entertaining material. Present, among others, are Nicole Kidman, Walt Whitman, Courtney Love, Teddy Roosevelt, and Rudy Giuliani, along with The New Yorker, Salon, Ally McBeal, Sex and the City, and much more.
Concluding with a passionate plea for a return to feminism's large-spirited vision of human variousness, KILLER WOMAN BLUES clarifies several of our nation's most troubling social problems and will surely be heatedly discussed.

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Savage Night by Allan Guthrie (Hardcover - Harcourt)
 

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Savage Night by Allan Guthrie (Hardcover - Harcourt)
Andy Park's plans to seek revenge on his family's enemies leads to mortal peril for his teenage son and forces his daughter and prospective son-in-law to carry out his dirty work, while Tommy Savage, blackmailed by a masked man calling himself Mr. Smith, and his brother, Phil, find themselves battling for survival in an Edinbrugh graveyard.

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Some Dream for Fools by Faiza Guene (Hardcover - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
 

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Some Dream for Fools by Faiza Guene (Hardcover - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Struggling with the realities of her unemployed father, her massacre-victim mother, and her reckless adolescent brother, AhlFme, a young Algerian immigrant living on the outskirts of Paris, struggles to hold fast to her dreams in the face of her limitations and responsibilities.

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The Work of Wolves by Kent Meyers (Hardcover - Harcourt)
 

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The Work of Wolves by Kent Meyers (Hardcover - Harcourt)
Carson Fielding is well respected for his ability to train horses, but after reluctantly agreeing to work for a wealthy rancher he despises, he finds his loathing supplanted by his growing desire for his employer's wife.

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