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The Lacuna
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Barbara Kingsolver
In her first novel in nine years, "New York Times"-bestselling author Kingsolver tells the story of Harrison William Shepherd, an unforgettable protagonist whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of the 20th century's most tumultuous events.
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Little Bee
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Chris Cleave
From the author of the international bestseller "Incendiary" comes a haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.
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Importance of Being Earnest
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Oscar Wilde
'A Trivial Comedy for Serious People': its subtitle is the best summary of a play that is the theatrical equivalent of a butterfly. The verbal brilliance of its highly self-conscious characters hides deep anxieties about social and personal identity: Jack Worthing, found as a baby in a handbag at Victoria Station and named after a railway ticket, ...
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Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School
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C J Pascoe
High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, "Dude, You're a Fag" sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and as a set of social practices. C. J. Pascoe's ...
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Stolen Child
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K Donohue
Henry Day is seven years old when he's kidnapped from the forest near his home. The perpetrators? Changelings ageless beings whose community is threatened by modern life. Now Henry Day, is Aniday, and he has the dubious gift of agelessness. In keeping with tradition, a changeling has been left in Henry's place, and he must adjust to a new way of ...
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When Joy Came to Stay
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Karen Kingsbury
"When Joy Came to Stay" is the heart-wrenching story of one woman's escape from the shadows of clinical depression. Maggie Stovall is trapped inside a person she spent years carefully crafting. Now the truth about who she is and what she has done is bursting to the surface and sending Maggie into a spiral of despair.
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Identity and the Life Cycle
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Erik H Erikson
This text contains three of Erik H. Erikson's early papers - "Ego Development and Historical Change", "Growth and Crises of the Healthy Personality", and "The Problem of Ego Identity" - which describe the important life stage of humans, namely identity development in adolescence.
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Circle of Stones: Woman's Journey to Herself
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Judith Duerk
Drase the reader into a meditative experience of the lost Feminine and crates a space for us to consider our present lives from the eyes of women's ancient culture and ritual.
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A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality
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John Perry
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You Remind Me of Me
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Dan Chaon
This novel by a short-story writer is a collection of fragmented, storylike chapters about two brothers, Troy and Jonah, who have grown up without knowing each other--Troy is given up for adoption by his teenage mother, who later gives birth to Jonah. As Jonah gets older, he seeks out Troy, learning that he has been arrested for drug possession- ...
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Childhood & Society
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Erik Homburger Erikson
Containing accounts of the author's field work among Sioux and Yurok Indians, and an examination of the American, German and Russian characters, this is an interpretation of human life on psychological lines. Using case histories as springboards for theoretical discussion of the formative years of childhood, Professor Erikson identifies human life ...
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What Janie Found
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Caroline B Cooney
Janie Johnson's two families appear to have made peace. But then Janie's father in Connecticut suffers a sudden stroke, which leaves her mother reeling. Janie must step in to manage family finances and support her mother emotionally. While handling her father's business matters, Janie discovers an undeniable fact that could destroy both of her ...
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Comfort & Joy
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Kristin Hannah
In this Christmas fable, a woman's brush with the supernatural helps her recover from emotional devastation. Joy Faith Candellaro is having a rotten Christmas. She divorced her husband Thom a few months ago for cheating on her with her sister Stacy; now she learns that Stacy, pregnant with the child Thom would never give Joy, plans to marry Thom. ...
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Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
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Jessie Redmon Fauset
This 1929 novel by a writer of the Harlem Renaissance is about a young black Philadelphia girl who discovers she can pass for white.
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Gender: Psychological Perspectives
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Linda Brannon
A balanced approach to the gender course -- providing research related to both men and women's issues and encouraging critical thinking about topics that are relevant to all people. This book examines the topic of gender -- the behaviors and attitudes that relate (but are not entirely congruent with) biological sex. Research and scholarship form ...
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Waves
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Woolf
THE WAVES, Woolf's highly experimental, almost-prose-poem of a novel, asks the reader, "What endures?" The answer calls out from the novel like an echo in a seashell: nothing. Everything changes, decays, morphs. Woolf sketches six lives--three women and three men--all focused on a leader, Percival, a classical hero. Each character narrates a set ...
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Dead Ringer
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Lisa Scottoline
Philadelphia lawyer Bennie Rosato is once again the focus of a Scottoline mystery. This time, she becomes involved in a class-action suit that escalates into something much, much worse. Worst of all, Bennie's long-lost twin sister Alice seems to be behind it all....
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Genius Squad
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Catherine Jinks
Once Cadel was going to take over the world. Now he's stuck in foster care.
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The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation
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Marion Woodman
"The women who is a virgin, one in herself, does what she does not for power or out of the desire to please, but because what she does is true." Here is writing with a thinking heart, blending art, literature, religion and extensive case material. Continues the author's pioneering work on the feminine in both women and men.
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Her own rules
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Barbara Taylor Bradford
Mega-success Meredith Stratton owns six elegant international hotels. When she falls prey to a mysterious illness, she seeks the help of a psychiatrist to find out who she really is. Tracing her roots back to England, she travels there in the hopes of finding her long-lost mother. Instead she finds the key to her past, and the man who will change ...
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Flow My Tears the Policeman Said
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Philip K Dick
A television personality awakens to find that he no longer has an identity in the world.
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House Thinking: A Room-By-Room Look at How We Live
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Winifred Gallagher
This lyrical, room-by-room exploration of the American home past, present, and future reveals how houses reflect identity and affect daily lives.
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Luna
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Julie Anne Peters
High school sophomore Regan grapples with the tensions stemming from her older brother Liam's longing to change genders and become Luna, a glamorous female. Supportive Regan has always been Liam's confidant and helped him whenever she could, including buying women's lingerie for him to wear in the privacy of their house. Now Liam gets bolder, ...
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The Butterfly Garden: Surviving Childhood on the Run with One of America's Most Wanted
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Chip St Clair
Part true crime story, part inspirational memoir, this is the haunting account of surviving the darkest of family secretsa childhood unknowingly spent on the run with one of Americas Most Wanted killersand how one man reconciled the demons of his past to construct a future based on redemption, justice, and hope.
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So B. It
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Sarah Weeks
After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agora phobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is.
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