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  • Squeezed
    Squeezed : Why Our Families Can't Afford America
    by Alissa Quart
    Hardcover: Jun 2018
    Paperback: May 2019
     
    Families today are squeezed on every side - from high childcare costs and harsh employment policies to workplaces without paid family leave or even dependable and regular working hours. Many realize that attaining the standard of living their parents...
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  • Stalin's Children
    Stalin's Children : Three Generations of Love, War, and Survival
    by Owen Matthews
    Hardcover: Sep 2008
    Paperback: Sep 2009
     
    An indelible portrait of Russia over seven decades and an unforgettable memoir about how we struggle to define ourselves in opposition to our ancestry only to find ourselves aligning with it.
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  • Standing In The Rainbow
    Standing In The Rainbow
    by Fannie Flagg
    Hardcover: Aug 2002
    Paperback: Jun 2003
     
    The time is 1946 until the present. The town is Elmwood Springs, Missouri. Once again, Flagg gives us a story of richly human characters, the saving graces of the once-maligned middle classes and small-town life, and the daily contest between ...
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  • Stargirl
    Stargirl
    by Jerry Spinelli
    Hardcover: Aug 2000
    Paperback: May 2002
     
    A celebration of nonconformity; a tense, emotional tale about the fleeting, cruel nature of popularity--and the thrill and inspiration of first love. Ages 12+
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  • The Starless Sea
    The Starless Sea
    by Erin Morgenstern
    Hardcover: Nov 2019
    Paperback: Aug 2020
     
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world - a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.
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  • Started Early, Took My Dog
    Started Early, Took My Dog : A Novel
    by Kate Atkinson
    Hardcover: Mar 2011
    Paperback: Oct 2011
     
    Tracy, a retired police detective, rescues a small child; Jackson Brodie, a detective, rescues an abused dog. Dog in tow, Jackson is about to learn, along with Tracy, that no good deed goes unpunished.
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  • A State of Freedom
    A State of Freedom
    by Neel Mukherjee
    Hardcover: Jan 2018
    Paperback: Feb 2019
     
    What happens when one attempts to exchange the life one is given for something better? Can we transform the possibilities we are born into?
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  • Station Eleven
    Station Eleven
    by Emily St. John Mandel
    Hardcover: Sep 2014
    Paperback: Jun 2015
     
    An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the ...
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