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Blanche DuBois, a fading Southern belle, arrives to see her sister Stella in New Orleans. An alcoholic, clinging to the Southern tradition, she criticizes Stella for losing the family home to marry the rugged and crude Stanley Kowalski. Blanche lives in her own grieving, half-mad fantasy world; this ires Stanley, who ruins her relationship with another man, rapes her, and further accelerates her descent into madness.
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Ten years ago, Delia fled her husband and daughters and set out to make a new life for herself. Now a recovering alcoholic, she returns to Georgia, bringing a new daughter with her, hoping to come to terms with the family she left behind. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.
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A mystery writer named Taylor O'Toole finds truth becoming scarier than fiction when, after a climbing accident, she becomes the inadvertent quarry in an international terrorist plot. Fortunately, her hunky next-door neighbor is a Navy SEAL, and he steps in to offer not only protection but some hot sex and--maybe--a heart as true as steel.
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Exploring the ongoing adaptation of the American Jewish population as it responds to the challenge of American life, this interdisciplinary collection offers a wide-ranging examination of the personal, social, religious, and political aspects of contemporary American Jewish life. Essays representing the most recent scholarship in sociology and related fields address a range of topics, including feminism, spirituality, intermarriage, antisemitism, and community. Emphasizing the changing patterns of conflict and accommodation resulting from the interaction of American and Jewish values, Jews in America will interest anyone concerned with Jewish identity and continuity in the twenty-first century.
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1st in series of mysteries set in 11th century Japan featuring Sugawara Akitada, a minor government official.
Akitada is secretly investigating a blackmail letter to one of the professors at the university.
While working undercover as a visiting lecturer he is asked to investigate 3 murders-that of a female musician (strangled with her own red sash), a professor (tied to a statue w/ a sash, throat slashed) , and Prince Yoakira, who disappeared while praying at a mountain temple (his head is later found under the floorboards of the shrine).
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