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Lucy, a nineteen-year-old West Indian girl, escapes her mother and her island past to work in New York as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their ... More

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Quintessential immigrant narrative and acknowledged contemporary classic of Italian-American women's literature.

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Funny, yet heartbreaking, but rich in the idiosyncrasies of belonging to an immigrant family, this is a poignant novel about the patchwork of growing ... More

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Toby Dodge is happy to put her own life on hold while her husband writes "The Great American Novel". During the day she works and he writes. At night ... More

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The author of Philip's Girl and The Gated River now offers a haunting tale about a teenage girl whose dreams and disappointments unfold in a decaying ... More

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The mysterious death of an island village's favorite son forces the townspeople to reexamine their lives.

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America, the 'last world' holds out many promlses to the Santinio family from Cuba. For Alejo, the father, it means escape from the dreary farm of ... More

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A legal hell breaks loose when the mother of a poor 14-year-old Hispanic girl arranges to have her daughter's newborn baby adopted by a white woman. ... More

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The Bellefleurs live in a region not unlike the Adirondacks in an enormous mansion on the shores of mythic Lake Noir. A prolific and eccentric group, ... More

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The unforgettable story of the rise, fall and ultimate redemption of an American family. The Mulvaneys are seemingly blessed by everything that ... More

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In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in the art and culture of the Harlem Renaissance. Yet this significant collection is the ... More

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In "Sleepless Nights" a woman looks back on her life--the parade of people, the shifting background of place--and assembles a scrapbook of memories, ... More

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From war-torn Hungary in the 1900s to contemporary New York, two generations of strong-willed women attempt to hide secrets from their past behind ... More

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This appealing first novel about Filipino life today--in both the Philippines and America--introduces a striking new writer. When Maria Violetta ... More

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The story of the coming of age of the daughter of Barbadian immigrants living in Brooklyn druing the Depression and the Second World War. She ... More

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From the author of "Total Immersion" comes a keen first novel--the story of a devout Orthodox Jewish woman, a mother of five spending the summer in a ... More

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Exploring the bond between mother and daughter, this novel follows the matriarch, an abused child turned suffragist, her daughter, a calculating ... More

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