false 3727 0 0 5512 0393327809 9780393327809 43 <![CDATA[The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165522628m/5512.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165522628s/5512.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5512.The_Boy_Who_Loved_Anne_Frank_A_Novel 3.51 222 "An appealing and inventive novel…original and cathartic."—Dana Kennedy, New York Times On February 16, 1944, Anne Frank recorded in her diary that Peter, whom she at first disliked but eventually came to love, had confided in her that if he got out alive, he would reinvent himself entirely. This is the story of what might have happened if the boy in hiding survived to become a man.

Peter arrives in America, the land of self-creation; he flourishes in business, marries, and raises a family. He thrives in the present, plans for the future, and has no past. But when The Diary of a Young Girl is published to worldwide acclaim and gives rise to bitter infighting, he realizes the cost of forgetting.

Based on extensive research of Peter van Pels and the strange and disturbing life Anne Frank's diary took on after her death, this is a novel about the memory of death, the death of memory, and the inescapability of the past. Reading group guide included. .]]> 3727 3.43 492 116 2005 180810 0393325105 9780393325102 36 <![CDATA[Lucy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172494852m/180810.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172494852s/180810.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/180810.Lucy 3.37 139 On the eve of World War I, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt, fiercely ambitious and still untouched by polio, falls in love with his wife's social secretary, Lucy Mercer. Eleanor stumbles on their letters and divorce is discussed, but honor and ambition win out. Franklin promises he will never see Lucy again.

But Franklin and Lucy do meet again, and again they fall in love. As he prepares to run for an unprecedented third term and lead America into war, Franklin turns to Lucy for the warmth and unconditional approval Eleanor is unable to give.

Ellen Feldman brings a novelist's insight to bear on the connection of these three compelling characters. Franklin and Lucy did finally meet, across the divide of his illness and political ascendancy, her marriage and widowhood. They fell in love again. As he prepared to run for an unprecedented third term and lead America into war, Franklin turned to Lucy for the warmth and unconditional approval Eleanor was unable to give.

Drawing on recently discovered materials to re-create the voice of a woman who played a crucial but silent role in the Roosevelt presidency, Lucy is a remarkably sensitive exploration of the private lives behind a public marriage. Reading group guide included.

]]> 3727 3.43 492 116 2003 2276859 0393064905 9780393064902 15 <![CDATA[Scottsboro: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237377641m/2276859.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1237377641s/2276859.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2276859.Scottsboro_A_Novel 3.71 49 A powerful novel about race, class, sex, and a lie that refused to die.

Alabama, 1931. A posse stops a freight train and arrests nine black youths. Their crime: fighting with white boys. Then two white girls emerge from another freight car, and fast as anyone can say Jim Crow, the cry of rape goes up. One of the girls sticks to her story. The other changes her tune, again and again. A young journalist, whose only connection to the incident is her overheated social conscience, fights to save the nine youths from the electric chair, redeem the girl who repents her lie, and make amends for her own past. Intertwining historical actors and fictional characters, stirring racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism into an explosive brew, Scottsboro is a novel of a shocking injustice that convulsed the nation and reverberated around the world, destroyed lives, forged careers, and brought out the worst and the best in the men and women who fought for the cause.]]> 3727 3.43 492 116 2008 619923 1551665409 9781551665405 0 <![CDATA[God Bless the Child]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176395358m/619923.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176395358s/619923.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/619923.God_Bless_the_Child 2.88 8 --Dick Adler]]> 3727 3.43 492 116 1998 619926 0440215137 9780440215134 1 <![CDATA[Too Close for Comfort]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176395360m/619926.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176395360s/619926.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/619926.Too_Close_for_Comfort 1.75 4 NYT. ]]> 3727 3.43 492 116 1994 619928 0440215161 9780440215165 0 <![CDATA[Rearview Mirror]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/619928.Rearview_Mirror 1.00 1 3727 3.43 492 116 1995 619927 0440208173 9780440208174 0 <![CDATA[Looking for Love]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176395361m/619927.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176395361s/619927.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/619927.Looking_for_Love 1.00 1 3727 3.43 492 116 1990 619925 0688047394 9780688047399 0 <![CDATA[Conjugal Rites]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/619925.Conjugal_Rites 1.00 1 3727 3.43 492 116 1986 619924 0440102197 9780440102199 0 <![CDATA[A.K.A. Katherine Walden]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176395359m/619924.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176395359s/619924.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/619924.A_K_A_Katherine_Walden 1.00 1 3727 3.43 492 116 1982 3731239 1559630639 9781559630634 0 <![CDATA[Plastics: America's Packaging Dilemma]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3731239.Plastics_America_s_Packaging_Dilemma 0.0 0 Tells what plastics are, how they are made, how they are used, and the problems and opportunities they bring.

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