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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
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Dolores has suffered almost every abuse and familial travesty that exists. Her father is a violent, philandering liar, her mother has the mental and emotional consistency of Jell-O, and the men in her life are probably the gender's most loathsome creatures. She is determined to rise above all of it
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For fans of Downton Abbey: the enthralling true story of family secrets and aristocratic intrigue in the days before WWI. After the Ninth Duke of Rutland, one of the wealthiest men in Britain, died alone in a cramped room in the servants' quarters of Belvoir Castle on April 21, 1940, his son and heir ordered the room, which contained the Rutland family archives, sealed. Sixty years later, Catherine Bailey became the first historian given access. What...
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2023
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"An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents. When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad was Black, and to hide his Blackness from him, his maternal grandparents stole him from his father. In the years that followed, they manipulated and controlled him, refusing to...
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