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"I cannot emphasize enough the huge importance and value of this book. With meticulous research and extensive interviews, Nicholas Dawidoff shares the tragic story of one black, teenaged boy’s wrongful murder conviction in one city. But "The Other ..."
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"A landmark work of intimate reporting on inequality, race, class, and violence, told through a murder and intersecting lives in an iconic American neighborhood. One New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was shot point-blank by a...
"I've always gravitated toward fairytale retellings, and this debut novel focusing on Cinderella's stepmother--traditionally viewed as "wicked"-- impresses. It offers a feminist, nuanced story of survival, character evolution, and, above all, a mot..."
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"Twice-widowed, Lady Etheldreda Verity Isolde Tremaine Bramley is solely responsible for her two children, a priggish stepdaughter, a razor-taloned peregrine falcon, and a crumbling manor. Fierce and determined, Ethel clings to the respectability...
