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Local and Popular Reviews Books reviewed in the Providence Journal, Boston Globe or People WeeklyApril 22, 2018
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The only story
by Julian Barnes
A man who ran away as a teen university student with a married woman more than twice his age reflects on how they fell in love, how he freed her from a sterile marriage and how their relationship fell apart as she succumbed to depression. By the award-winning author of The Sense of an Ending
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Then she was gone : a novel
by Lisa Jewell
Struggling to put her life back together a decade after her beloved teen daughter's disappearance, a divorced woman bonds with a charming single father whose young child eerily resembles the woman's own lost daughter and who compels a wrenching search for answers. By the best-selling author of The Third Wife
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Circe
by Madeline Miller
A highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning The Song of Achilles follows the banished witch daughter of Titans as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals. 75,000 first printing
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The Sparsholt affair
by Alan Hollinghurst
A World War II-era Oxford engineering student who hides secret ambitions to join the Royal Air Force and the lonely son of a celebrated novelist forge a fateful bond that reverberates throughout seven decades of shared family life and friendship. By the award-winning author of The Line of Beauty.
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A Higher Loyalty : Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey Former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power, and a remarkable lesson in what makes an effective leader.
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Love Rules : How to Find a Real Relationship in a Digital World
by Joanna Coles
Shares no-nonsense counsel for women on how to find meaningful relationships in today's complicated, largely digital, romantic landscapes, offering recommendations for recognizing and connecting with prospective quality partners who are capable of intimate, long-term commitments. Not available in SAILS system..
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The myth of the nice girl : achieving a career you love without becoming a person you hate
by Fran Hauser
A candid guide for ambitious women who want to succeed without losing themselves deconstructs the double standards that label and hold back women regardless of kindness or toughness, sharing personal, feminist-forward anecdotes and time-tested strategies for sidestepping regressive stereotypes, cultivating confidence and balancing personal and professional values. Not available in SAILS system.
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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel : Essays by Alexander CheeHow to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author's manifesto on the entangling of life, literature, and politics, and how the lessons learned from a life spent reading and writing fiction have changed him. In these essays, he grows from student to teacher, reader to writer, and reckons with his identities as a son, a gay man, a Korean American, an artist, an activist, a lover, and a friend. He examines some of the most formative experiences of his life and the nation's history, including his father's death, the AIDS crisis, 9/11, the jobs that supported his writing--Tarot-reading, bookselling, cater-waiting for William F. Buckley--the writing of his first novel, Edinburgh, and the election of Donald Trump.
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Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
by Eileen McNamara
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines the life and times of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, covering her Stanford education, her inspirational relationship with her sister Rosemary, her advocacy on behalf of disabled citizens and the solutions she envisioned that helped engineer one of the greatest civil rights movements of the modern world.
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