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Marie Kondo's Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life

MARIE KONDO - ‎Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 bestselling sensation and Netflix star comes her inspirational visual guide to elevating the joy in every aspect of your life, with more than 100 photographs of the Marie Kondo lifestyle.Inspired by the Japanese concept of kurashi, or "way of life," Kurashi at Home...
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The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

Michelle Obama - Crown
Format: Book

In an inspiring follow-up to her critically acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world. There may be no tidy solutions or pithy answers...

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The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd

Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos

The dramatic and deliciously swashbuckling story of Sarah Kidd, the wife of the famous pirate Captain Kidd, charting her transformation from New York socialite to international outlaw during the Golden Age of PiracyCaptain Kidd was one of the most notorious pirates to ever prowl t
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Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World

PeNeLOPE BAGIEU - First Second
Format: Paperback

Throughout history and across the globe, one characteristic connects the daring women of Brazen: their indomitable spirit. With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Pnlope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some...

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Daughters of Victory: A Novel

Gabriella Saab - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

From the acclaimed author of The Last Checkmate comes a brilliant novel spanning from the Russian Revolution to the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union and following two unforgettable women ... their fates intertwined by ties of family and interrupted by the tragedy of war. Perfect for readers...
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Scatterlings

Rešoketšwe Manenzhe - Jacana Media
Format: Hardcover

In this journey, someone will get lost, someone will give up and turn back, and someone may go all the way to the end. All these people will try to tell you the story of what happened. Abram, a South African winemaker who might be English or Dutch (depending on whomever happens to be listening...
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Moth

Melody Razak - ‎Harper
Format: Hardcover

"Both a heartbreaking and heart-warming story, Melody Razak's debut transports the reader into the home of a Brahmin family in 1940s Delhi. . . . The character portrayal is so intricate that as the plot twists and turns, you'll truly care what happens to them." - The Independent...
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A Black Women's History of the United States

Berry, Daina Ramey - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are--and have always been--instrumental in shaping our country In centering Black women's stories, two award-winning historians seek both to empower African American...
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March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women: A Library of America Special Publication

Kate Bolick - Library of America
Format: Hardcover

On its 150th anniversary, four acclaimed authors offer personal reflections on their lifelong engagement with Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of girlhood and growing up.For the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang,...
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The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

KAMALA HARRIS - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country.Senator Kamala Harris's commitment to speaking truth...
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Sour Heart: Stories

Jenny Zhang - Lenny
Format: Paperback

A sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City - for readers of Zadie Smith, Helen Oyeyemi, and Junot DazWinner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction * Finalist for the New York...
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The Witch's Heart

Genevieve Gornichec
Format: Hardcover

Angrboda's story begins where most witches' tales end: with a burning. A punishment from Odin for refusing to provide him with knowledge of the future, the fire leaves Angrboda injured and powerless, and she flees into the farthest reaches of a remote forest. There she is found...
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City of a Thousand Gates: A Novel

Rebecca Sacks
Format: Hardcover

A novel of great humanity, compassion, and astonishing immediacy, this inventive and unique debut captures the emotional reality of contemporary life in the West Bank and the irreconcilable Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a collage of narrative voices and different viewpoints centered...
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