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A Perfect Life
A luminous and insightful novel that considers the moral complexities of scientific discovery and the sustaining nature of love. A young researcher at MIT, Jane Weiss is obsessed with finding the genetic marker for Valentine's Disease, a neurodegenerative disorder. Her pursuit is deeply personal--Valentine's...- $15.99
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Breaking and Entering
Set against the tragic events of the Oklahoma City bombings, Breaking and Entering follows Christian/Jewish couple Louise and Richard Shapiro as they move from California to rural Michigan with their daughter Molly in an attempt to save their marriage. They find their core beliefs...- $18.95
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In the Mouth: Stories and Novellas
"...an American talent..."--Stephen King Pollack writes about times of tragedy and transition insightfully, aware of their everyday quality and of their gravity. In the Mouth is a window onto the amazing tenderness and irrationality of human life. One story, "The Bris," has been selected...- $18.95
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Maybe It's Me: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman
Eileen is nine and too smart for the third grade, but when the clownish school psychologist tries to gain her trust with an offer of Oreos, she refuses. After all, she doesn't accept gifts from strangers! This is the start of a love-hate relationship...- $27.00
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Maybe It's Me: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman
Eileen is nine and too smart for the third grade, but when the clownish school psychologist tries to gain her trust with an offer of Oreos, she refuses. After all, she doesn't accept gifts from strangers! This is the start of a love-hate relationship...- $18.00
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Paradise, New York
We first meet Lucy Appelbaum, the heroine of Paradise, New York, in 1970, as a nine-year-old girl enjoying her family's Catskills hotel, the Garden of Eden. Ten years later, having found nothing else at which she can distinguish herself, Lucy tries to save the...- $27.95
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The Bible of Dirty Jokes
When Ketzel Weinrach's beloved brother Potsie goes missing in Las Vegas, she not only must try to find him, she must confront her family's shady history and their ties to the legendary Jewish mob, Murder, Inc., as well as her troubling relationship to her...- $19.95
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The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club
ONE OF WASHINGTON POST'S NOTABLE NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR A bracingly honest exploration of why there are still so few women in STEM fields--"beautifully written and full of important insights" (Washington Post).In 2005, when Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, asked why so...- $18.95
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The Professor of Immortality
Professor Maxine Sayers once found her personal and professional life so fulfilling that she founded the Institute of Future Studies, a program dedicated to studying the effects of technology on our culture and finding ways to prolong human life. But when her beloved husband...- $15.95
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