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21) Heart Troubles
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[2016]
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English
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In this short story collection, the acclaimed author of Our Crowd offers fourteen darkly funny and poignant tales of the human heart.
Stephen Birmingham is renowned for his penetrating examinations of America's upper classes. Here, he proves himself a
22) Young Mr. Keefe
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[2016]
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English
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An ambitious young man seeks his fortune in 1950s California in this New York Times–bestselling author's classic novel of love and disillusionment.
As the heir apparent to his family's mercantile empire, Jimmy Keefe is guaranteed a bright future. But
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English
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A remarkable history of the Jewish immigrants from Russia and Poland who altered the American landscape from New York to Hollywood The wave of Eastern European Jewish immigrants who swept into New York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by way of Ellis Island were not welcomed by the Jews who had arrived decades before. These refugees from czarist Russia and the Polish shtetls who came to America to escape pogroms and persecution...
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[2016]
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English
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The Right Places is Stephen Birmingham's witty 1973 exploration of where the other half lives--the other half being the elite, of course. The legendary chronicler of the rich shows that the wealthy reside well beyond the tony New York suburbs: the tide of money has reached such far-flung places as Sun Valley, Idaho, and Kansas City, Missouri.
27) California rich
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[1980]
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English
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"[A] downright intriguing history . . . chronicling of the creation of the Californian Dream." -Los Angeles Times
Since the Gold Rush, California has represented a land of opportunity for a special breed of American. Heading west in pursuit of sunshin
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