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My Year Abroad: A Novel
Chang-rae Lee
Format: Hardcover
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Tiller is an average American college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations. Pong Lou is a larger-than-life, wildly creative Chinese American entrepreneur who sees something intriguing in Tiller beyond his bored exterior and takes him under his wing. When Pong brings him along... |
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A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself
Peter Ho Davies · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself traces the complex consequences of one of the most personal yet public, intimate yet political experiences a family can have: to have a child, and conversely, the decision not to have a child. A first pregnancy is interrupted by test results at once... |
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Elizabeth Kolbert · Crown
Format: Hardcover
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That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. In Under... |
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Super Host
Kate Russo · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply funny and shrewdly observed debut novel about being lost in the very place you know by heart.Bennett Driscoll is a Turner Prize-nominated artist who was once a rising star. Now, at age fifty-five, his wife has left him, he hasn't sold a painting in two years, and his galley... |
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No Going Back: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
Donna Leon
Format: Hardcover
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In his many years as a commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known intuitively how to navigate the various pathways in his native city, Venice, to discover the person responsible. Now, in the thirtieth novel in Donna Leon's masterful series, he faces a heinous... |
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That Affair Next Door
Anna Katharine Green · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
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The first book in an exciting new classic mystery series created in partnership with the Library of Congress, That Affair Next Door follows Miss Amelia Butterworth, an inquisitive single woman who becomes involved in a murder investigation after the woman next door turns up dead.Miss Amelia... |
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Lon Chaney Speaks
Pat Dorian · Pantheon
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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) , as imagined by an artist whose work recalls the style and skill of early-era New Yorker cartoonists.From the artist: "'No one will ever love me!' I believe it was this near-universal fear that makes Lon Chaney's characters continue to resonate with us today. On their... |
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We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
Becky Cooper · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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For readers gripped by In Cold Blood and I'll Be Gone in the Dark, We Keep the Dead Close is both a haunting true crime narrative of an unsolved 1969 murder at a prestigious institution and a lyrical memoir of obsession and love for a girl who dreamt of rising among men.You have to remember,... |
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Just As I Am
Cicely Tyson · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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At last, the Academy, Tony, and three-time Emmy Award-winning actor and trailblazer, Cicely Tyson, tells her stunning story, looking back at her six-decade career and life. |
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Passing Fancies
Marlowe Benn · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 331
Format: Hardcover
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Julia Kydd returns in a new mystery set in the beguiling world of the Harlem Renaissance, where reckless revelry leads to devastating crimes.When stylish young bibliophile Julia Kydd returns to 1920s New York, she's determined to launch her own private press. Julia's aspirations... |
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Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany
James Wyllie · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Hess, Bormann -- names synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin, Emmy, Magda, Margarete, Lina, Ilse and Gerda... These are the women behind the infamous men -- complex individuals with distinctive personalities... |
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Kopp Sisters on the March
Amy Stewart · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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In the fifth installment of Amy Stewart's clever and original Kopp Sisters series, the sisters learn some military discipline - whether they're ready or not - as the U.S. prepares to enter World War I.
It's the spring of 1917 and change is in the air. American women have done something... |
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Ibram X. Kendi
Format: Hardcover
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The story begins in 1619 - a year before the Mayflower - when the White Lion disgorges "some 20-and-odd Negroes" onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what would become the United States. It takes us to the present, when African Americans, descendants... |
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Meet Me in Bombay
Jenny Ashcroft
Format: Hardcover
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It's New Year's Eve in Bombay, 1913, and Madeline Bright, new to the sweltering heat of colonial India, is yearning for all she has left behind in England. Then, at the stroke of midnight, Maddy meets Luke Devereaux, and as the year changes so do both their lives.Bold and charismatic,... |
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The Nature of Fragile Things
Susan Meissner · Berkley
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly handsome. Sophie quickly develops... |
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This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing
Jacqueline Winspear · Soho Press
Pages: 314
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series offers a deeply personal memoir of her Kentish childhood and her family's resilience in the face of war and privation. After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing... |
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Want: A Novel
Lynn Steger Strong · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Grappling with motherhood, economic anxiety, rage, and the limits of language, Want is a fiercely personal novel that vibrates with anger, insight, and love. Elizabeth is tired. Years after coming to New York to try to build a life, she has found herself with two kids, a husband, two jobs,... |
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One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
Gene Weingarten · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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On New Year's Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day - chosen completely at random - turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten... |
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A Field Guide to a Happy Life: 53 Brief Lessons for Living
Massimo Pigliucci
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For more than two thousand years, Stoicism has offered a message of resilience in the face of hardship. Little wonder, then, that it is having such a revival in our own troubled times. But there is no denying how weird it can be: Is it really the case that we shouldn't care about |
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Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio
Derf Backderf · Abrams ComicArts
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From bestselling author Derf Backderf comes the untold story of the Kent State shootings - timed for the 50th anniversary On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard gunned down unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University. In a deadly barrage of 67 shots,... |
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The Great Gatsby: The Graphic Novel
F. Scott Fitzgerald · Scribner
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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A gorgeously illustrated, first-ever graphic novel adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's beloved American classic.First published in 1925, The Great Gatsby has been acclaimed by generations of readers and is now reimagined in stunning graphic novel form. Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, Daisy... |
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Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World
Vivek Murthy · Harper Wave
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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In this groundbreaking book, Murthy argues that loneliness is the underpinning to the current crisis in mental wellness and is responsible for the upsurge in suicide, the opioid epidemic, the overuse of psych meds, the over-diagnosing and pathologizing of emotional and psychological... |
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Alix E. Harrow · Redhook
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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"A gorgeous, aching love letter to stories, storytellers and the doors they lead us through...absolutely enchanting."--Christina Henry, bestselling author of Alice and Lost Boys
In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of self-discovery... |
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