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Barack Obama's 2024 Summer Reading |
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Reading Genesis
Marilynne Robinson - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book of Genesis.For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents, by various hands, expressing different factional interests, with borrowings from... |
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James: A Novel
Percival Everett - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. * From the "literary icon" (Oprah Daily) , Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime.... |
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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Hanif Abdurraqib - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, life, and home - from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America. "Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book I've ever read but one of the most moving books I've ever read, period."... |
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Headshot: A Novel
Rita Bullwinkel - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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An electrifying debut novel from an "unusually gifted writer" (Lorrie Moore) about the radical intimacy of physical competition. An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family's unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed... |
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The God of the Woods: A Novel
Liz Moore - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide. Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn't just any thirteen-year-old: she's the daughter of the family that owns... |
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Beautiful Days: Stories
Zach Williams - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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From New Yorker and Paris Review contributor Zach Williams comes a striking and savage debut story collection that confronts parenthood, mortality, and life's broken promises.. A couple awakens in a home in the woods to find themselves rapidly aging as their toddler remains unchanged.... |
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Martyr!: A novel
Kaveh Akbar - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original,... |
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Memory Piece: A Novel
Lisa Ko - Penguin Audio
Format: Hardcover
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The award-winning author of The Leavers offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life?In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire... |
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The Ministry of Time: A Novel
Kaliane Bradley - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all: Welcome to The Ministry of Time, the exhilarating debut novel by Kaliane Bradley.. In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary... |
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Help Wanted: A Novel
Adelle Waldman - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. comes a funny, eye-opening tale of work in contemporary America.Every day at 3:55 a.m., members of Team Movement clock in for their shift at big-box store Town Square in a small upstate New York town. Under the eyes of a self-absorbed... |
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