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  • Yale Needs Women
    Yale Needs Women : How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant
    by Anne Gardiner Perkins
    Hardcover: Sep 2019
    Paperback: Jul 2021
     
    "If Yale was going to keep its standing as one of the top two or three colleges in the nation, the availability of women was an amenity it could no longer do without."
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  • Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
    Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
    by Meg Medina
    Hardcover: Mar 2013
    Paperback: Aug 2014
     
    In Meg Medina's compelling new novel, a Latina teen is targeted by a bully at her new school - and must discover resources she never knew she had.
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  • The Year of Magical Thinking
    The Year of Magical Thinking
    by Joan Didion
    Hardcover: Oct 2005
    Paperback: Feb 2007
     
    'An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief.'
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  • The Year of Pleasures
    The Year of Pleasures
    by Elizabeth Berg
    Hardcover: Apr 2005
    Paperback: Mar 2006
     
    The Year of Pleasures is about acknowledging the solace found in ordinary things: a warm bath, good food, the beauty of nature, music, friends, and art.
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  • The Year of the Runaways
    The Year of the Runaways : A novel
    by Sunjeev Sahota
    Hardcover: Mar 2016
    Paperback: Feb 2017
     
    From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and Man Booker Prize nominee Sunjeev Sahota—a sweeping, urgent contemporary epic, set against a vast geographical and historical canvas, astonishing for its richness and texture and scope, and...
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  • Year of Wonders
    Year of Wonders : A Novel of The Plague
    by Geraldine Brooks
    Hardcover: Aug 2001
    Paperback: Apr 2002
     
    This gripping historical novel is based on the true story of Eyam, the "Plague Village," in the rugged mountain spine of England. In 1666, the bubonic plague is brought to this isolated settlement and the people choose to seal themselves off to ...
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  • The Year the Swallows Came Early
    The Year the Swallows Came Early
    by Kathryn Fitzmaurice
    Hardcover: Feb 2009
    Paperback: Jun 2011
     
    Eleanor "Groovy" Robinson loves cooking, but things start to go wrong the year she turns eleven - suddenly, her father is in jail, her best friend's long-absent mother reappears, and the swallows arrive early.
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  • Yellow
    Yellow : A Novel
    by Janni Visman
    Hardcover: Jun 2005
    Paperback: Jun 2006
     
    An intense, tautly crafted novel of sensual manipulation and suspense that confirms the arrival of a fantastic new talent.
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