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At Home: A Widow's Life, A Tiger Mother's Tale, And A Call For Compassion

Cover detail from Emily, Alone.

December 28, 2011 Just in time for New Year's reading, Stewart O'Nan returns with a captivating look at the life of a widow, while Deborah Harkness offers a tale of magical mayhem unleashed by a manuscript at Oxford. In nonfiction, Karen Armstrong invites readers to deepen their compassion and Amy Chua offers a call to arms for "Tiger Mothers."

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Tiger Mothers: Raising Children The Chinese Way

Amy Chua is the author of two books on globalization and democracy and is a professor at Yale Law School.

January 11, 2011 Amy Chua, a professor of law at Yale, has written her first memoir about raising children the "Chinese way" — with strict rules and expectations. Maureen Corrigan predicts the book will be "a book club and parenting blog phenomenon."

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