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From the author of the critically acclaimed story collection How This Night Is Different comes a dark, arresting, fearlessly funny story of one young woman's terminal illness. In The Book of Dahlia, Elisa Albert walks a dazzling line between gravitas and irreverence, mining an exhilarating blend of skepticism and curiosity, compassion and candor, high and low culture.Meet Dahlia Finger: twenty ... Read more

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From the author of the critically acclaimed story collection How This Night Is Different comes a dark, arresting, fearlessly funny story of one young woman's terminal illness. In The Book of Dahlia, Elisa Albert walks a dazzling line between gravitas and irreverence, mining an exhilarating blend of skepticism and curiosity, compassion and candor, high and low culture.Meet Dahlia Finger: twenty
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A fierce novel about the postpartum experience filled with "dark humor and brutal honesty" ( People) .A year has passed since Ari gave birth to Walker, though it went so badly awry she has trouble calling it "birth" and she still can't locate herself in her altered universe. Amid the strange, disjointed rhythms of her days and nights, and another impending winter in upstate New York, Ari is a tree ... Read more

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Human Blues

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“Crackling and bighearted...A powerhouse [that] echoes with the truth that we find harmony when we listen first to ourselves.” —Oprah Daily * “Takes off with magnificent speed and never lets up.” —The New York Times * “Revolutionary.” —NPR’s Morning Edition* A Los Angeles Times andPublishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA provocative and “darkly f... ... Read more

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Relationships with our siblings stretch, as an old saying has it, all the way from the cradle to the grave. Few bonds in life are as significant, as formative, as lasting, and as frequently overlooked as those we share with our brothers and sisters.In this stellar, first-of-its-kind anthology, contemporary writers explore the rich and varied landscape of sibling experience, illuminating the
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Human Blues

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After Birth

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This reference provides detailed coverage of dendritic spines, the fascinating neuronal components that modulate synaptic transmission, development, strength, and plasticity and are involved in the function of multiple areas of the nervous system. The density, shape, and function of spines may indicate the cellular connectivity and synaptic plasticity in normal and pathological conditions. This
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The Farm in the Green Mountains

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Translated by Ida H. Washington, Carol E. Washington ...

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Elisa, Confessions to Her Son

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At ninety, Elisa calls her son Simón to her bedside and, with a voice as firm as it is trembling, begins to unveil a life lived in silence. From a childhood on the coast of El Milagro, where fire devours everything she loves, to the cold corridors of a boarding school in Quito, Elisa learns early on that loss can arrive like a whisper in the dark. Yet kindness persists in small gestures that
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