Literature

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  Self Portraits: Fictions

  Frederic Tuten

  Hardback

  “An amazing, glittering, glowing, Proustian, Conradian, Borgesian, diamond-faceted, language-studded, myth-drowned Dream!”—Cynthia Ozick

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  Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother

  Beth Ann Fennelly

  Paperback

  "May be the best book ever to give for a baby shower."—Tampa Tribune

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  The Sugar Mother

  Elizabeth Jolley

  Paperback

  A New York Times Notable Book of the Year: a witty and sophisticated classic by one of Australia's most daring and entertaining novelists.

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  Foxybaby

  Elizabeth Jolley

  Paperback

  Rediscovered: a witty and sophisticated classic by one of Australia's most daring and entertaining novelists.

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  Madre: Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun

  Liza Bakewell

  Hardback

  Why is the word madre, "mother," so complicated in Spanish—especially in Mexico?