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A richly textured generational tale of love, allegiance, loyalty, race, and music follows the marriage of David Strom, a German Jewish emigre scientist, and Delia Daley, an African-American singer, as they, along with their extraordinarily gifted children, struggle to overcome the racial injustices [...]
FROM THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD?WINNING AUTHOR OFTHE ECHO MAKER, A PLAYFUL AND PROVOCATIVE NOVEL ABOUT THE DISCOVERY OF THE HAPPINESS GENE
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Take your web development skills from the browser to the web server with Node, the programming framework that enables you to write data-driven applications with a language you already know: JavaScript. This guide offers a friendly way to master Node fundamentals with clear and concise information yo[...]