The Cleft
by Doris Lessing
ISBN: 9780060834869
$25.95 Hardcover
HarperCollins Publishers
In this fascinating and beguiling novel, Doris Lessing confronts the themes that inspired much of her early writing: how men and women manage to live side by side in the world and how the troublesome particulars of gender affect every aspect of our existence.
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Jubilee City
A Memoir at Full Speed
by Joe Andoe
ISBN: 9780061240317
$22.95 Hardcover
William Morrow & Company
A life story told in discrete, arresting snapshots of despair, resilience, creativity, and hope, internationally known painter Joe Andoe's raw, vivid, and utterly original memoir is as striking as his paintings. With echoes of Jim Carroll's poetic insight and Charles Bukowski's grit, yet still uniquely the artist's own, Andoe's literary self-portrait is a testament to a young man's resilience, genius, and luck that has enabled him to survive a life lived wildly out of control.
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Femme Fatale
Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari
by Pat Shipman
ISBN: 9780060817282
$25.95 Hardcover
William Morrow & Company
The life of notorious Oriental dancer Mata Hari reads like both an action-packed adventure tale and passionate romance. Pat Shipman reveals new information about this beautiful, brilliant, and dangerous woman, tracing the web of connections between her professional and personal lives. Once called "an orchid in a field of dandelions," Mata Hari was a multifaceted personality whose ambitions and talents propelled her breathtaking rise--and her tragic fall.
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India After Gandhi
The History of the World's Largest Democracy
by Ramachandra Guha
ISBN: 9780060198817
$34.95 Hardcover
Ecco
Born against a background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of caste, class, language, and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united and democratic country. This remarkable book tells the full story--the pain and the struggle, the humiliations, and the glories--of the world's largest and least likely democracy.
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Christianity and the Social Crisis in the 21st Century
The Classic That Woke Up the Church
edited by Walter Raushenbush
ISBN: 9780060890278
$27.95 Hardcover
Harper San Francisco
In the wake of the success of God's Politics, comes an anniversary edition of Walter Rauschenbusch's Christianity and the Social Crisis, a book which outsold every other religious volume for three years and has become a classic and mainstay for any Christian seriously interested in social justice.
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