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  • WHAT WORKS FOR WOMEN AT WORK
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    WHAT WORKS FOR WOMEN AT WORK
    JOAN C. WILLIAMS / RACHEL DEMPSEY / ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER
    A mother-daughter legal scholar team "offers unabashedly straightforward advice in a how-to primer for ambitious women . . . [A]ttention-grabbing revelations" (Debora L. Spar, The New York Times Book Review)   What Works for Women at Work is a comprehensive and insightful guide for mastering office politics as a woman. Authored by Joan C. Williams, one of the nation's most-cite...

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  • SNOWFLAKE FREEZES UP
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    SNOWFLAKE FREEZES UP
    JOAN HOLUB / SUZANNE WILLIAMS
    A fairy tale character who doesn't know her identity must figure out what story she comes from before she can make friends at her new school. Snowflake isn't sure which fairy tale character she is. But with her magical powers causing lots of trouble, she's definitely on thin ice! So just in case she might be a villain, Snowflake is chilly to her classmates. Can she keep her coo...

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  • GOLDILOCKS BREAKS IN
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    GOLDILOCKS BREAKS IN
    JOAN HOLUB / SUZANNE WILLIAMS
    In this fairy tale retelling, Goldilocks hopes to prove herself a worthy friend by infiltrating an evil organization and saving the day. Once upon a time, in faraway Grimmlandia . . . Goldilocks is so eager to make friends at Grimm Academy, she's even tempted to accept an invitation to join E.V.I.L.—it's just nice to be included! But she doesn't want to be a villain. Can Goldie...

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  • SLEEPING BEAUTY DREAMS BIG
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    SLEEPING BEAUTY DREAMS BIG
    JOAN HOLUB / SUZANNE WILLIAMS
    In this fairy tale retelling, Sleeping Beauty goes to boarding school and must find protection from an evil curse. Sleeping Beauty—who just goes by her middle name, Rose—has always been a daredevil. But according to her fairy tale, after her twelfth birthday Rose must avoid all sharp objects. That isn't easy at Grimm Academy, where enchanted items can also be dangerous. Rose wi...

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  • COUNTY WOMAN
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    COUNTY WOMAN
    JOAN WILLIAMS
    A precisely observed portrait of the civil rights era and the gripping story of one woman's unexpected awakening Itna Homa, Mississippi, is like many small Southern towns in the early 1960s. News travels fast, gossip even faster, and one ugly incident has the power to set the entire community aflame. Forty years ago, the murder of a local white woman shook Itna Homa to its core...

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  • THE WINTERING
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    THE WINTERING
    JOAN WILLIAMS
    This poignant tale of a young woman's affair with a famous writer is based on Joan Williams's real-life relationship with William Faulkner For Amy Howard, the novels of Jeffrey Almoner are a refuge from the uncertainty of life. His books are full of the questions—about the nature of justice, the necessity of suffering, and the meaning of the past—that occupy her thoughts, but t...

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  • THE MORNING AND THE EVENING
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    THE MORNING AND THE EVENING
    JOAN WILLIAMS
    Finalist for the National Book Award: Joan Williams's unforgettable first novel is the story of a small Southern town struggling to care for one of its own In a rundown farmhouse in Mississippi, Jake Darby wakes up one morning to find his world forever changed. His long-suffering mother has died overnight, abandoning forty-year-old Jake, who is mute and, according to his neighb...

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  • PARIAH
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    PARIAH
    JOAN WILLIAMS
    Ten poignant and perceptive stories from one of the most distinctive voices in Southern literature In these deeply affecting tales, Joan Williams captures with heart-wrenching clarity the pain and confusion of characters struggling to come to terms with a changing world. "The Morning and the Evening," which would later be expanded into Williams's award-winning novel of the same...

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  • OLD POWDER MAN
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    OLD POWDER MAN
    JOAN WILLIAMS
    The vivid and absorbing story of a man whose unwavering pursuit of success leaves him searching for the true meaning of life  Raised in rural Arkansas during the Great Depression, Frank "Son" Wynn leaves home at age fourteen to seek his fortune. Handsome, charismatic, and headstrong, he eventually becomes a powder man, selling dynamite up and down the Mississippi River. With a ...

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  • PAY THE PIPER
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    PAY THE PIPER
    JOAN WILLIAMS
    The electrifying story of a woman whose search for love and fulfillment brings her to the very brink of disaster Laurel Wynn is haunted by her insecurities. Raised in a backwater Mississippi town by an alcoholic mother, she is now the author of largely ignored novels and the unhappy wife and mother of an upper-middle-class New England family. She continues to hold out hope, how...

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  • GRETEL PUSHES BACK
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    GRETEL PUSHES BACK
    JOAN HOLUB / SUZANNE WILLIAMS
    In this fairy tale retelling, Gretel ventures into a forbidden forest and falls into the hands of evil villains and must foil their dastardly plans. Welcome to Grimm Academy, where beloved fairy tale characters are BFFs—and saving the world from the E.V.I.L. Society, one magical adventure at a time! Gretel joins the Grimmtastic quest for justice in a world where the E.V.I.L. So...

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  • REMEMBERING
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    REMEMBERING
    JOAN WILLIAMS
    Remembering: Joan Williams' Uncollected Pieces illustrates again that rediscovering an admired author—especially through his or her later works—is every bit as engaging as discovering a new literary voice.   Joan Williams, an accomplished and prize-winning southern novelist, published a number of short stories and nonfiction pieces in the later years of her life; a life complic...

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