Pamela Erens
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English
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A masterly evocation of life in a provincial English community, Middlemarch is considered perhaps the greatest novel of the Victorian era, praised by writers from Emily Dickinson to Virginia Woolf.
In the latest volume in Ig's acclaimed Bookmarked series, critically lauded author Pamela Erens talks about how Middlemarch "rescued" her, first as a distressed college student, and then during the tragic events of the global pandemic.
2) Matasha
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English
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It's 1970's Chicago. Eleven-year-old Matasha Wax is in the sixth-grade and just starting to feel the pressures of growing up. Her best friend Jean has been, blowing her off, while her parents are in a standoff over her mother's desire, to adopt a refugee from Vietnam. And while, the bullies in school have started to grow breasts and inches, Matasha remains a puny four-foot-four, which means she will need growth hormone shots, and she is terrified...