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Nice Girls Don't Get The Corner Office
Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers
2024 || Paperback || Lois P. Frankel || Little, Brown & Company
The New York Times bestseller, which has become a must-have for women in business, is now revised and updated in celebration of its 10th anniversary.
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The Situation Room
The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
2024 || Paperback || George Stephanopoulos e.a. || Little, Brown & Company
George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor of This Week and co-anchor of Good Morning America, recounts the crises that decided the course of history, from the place 12 presidents made their highest-pressure decisions: the White House Situation Room.
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The Dissident
Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner
2024 || Paperback || David Herszenhorn || Little, Brown & Company
A news-driven biography of Vladimir Putin's nemesis Alexey Navalny- lawyer, blogger, anti-corruption crusader, protest organizer, political opposition leader, mayoral and presidential candidate, campaign strategist, provocateur, poisoning victim, dissident, and now, prisoner of conscience and anti-war crusader.
Fingersmith
A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick – Booker Prize Shortlisted
2024 || Paperback || Sarah Waters || Little, Brown & Company
The book that inspired Park Chan-wook's astonishing film The Handmaiden. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Booker PrizeLondon 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves - fingersmiths - under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her 'family'.
But from the moment she draws breath, Sue's fate is linked to that of another orphan growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many miles away.
A Different Mirror
A History of Multicultural America
2019 || Paperback || Ronald T. Takaki || Little, Brown & Company
Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics as a dramatic retelling of America's past. Beginning with the colonisation of the New World, it recounted the history of America in the voice of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States - Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos and others - groups who helped create this country's rich mosaic culture. Now, Ronald Takaki has revised his landmark work and made it even...