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Annihilation: A Novel
Jeff VanderMeer - Farrar Straus & Giroux
Format: Book
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Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition consisting of four women hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being... |
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Bel Canto
Ann Patchett - HarperCollins
Format: Paperback
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Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in and takes the entire party hostage.
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Between Shades of Gray
Ruta Sepetys - Philomel Books; 1 edition
Format: Book
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She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home. Lina, her mother, and her brother slowly make their way north, crossing the Arctic Circle, to a work camp in the coldest reaches of Siberia under Stalin's orders.
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Catch-22
Joseph Heller - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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Set in the closing months of World War II, in an American bomber squadron on a small island off Italy. Its hero is a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasnt even met keep trying to kill him. He has decided to live forever even if he has to die in the attempt.
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Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan - Doubleday
Format: Book
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Crazy Rich Asians is an outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his American-born Chinese girlfriend to the wedding of the season.
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First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
James R. Hansen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
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On 20 July 1969, the world stood still to watch 38-year-old astronaut Neil Armstrong become the first person ever to walk on the Moon. FIRST MAN vividly re-creates Armstrong's life and career in flying.
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel
Annie Barrows - The Dial Press
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NOW A NETFLIX FILM * A remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German Occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. "Treat yourself to this book, please - I can't recommend it highly enough." - Elizabeth Gilbert,... |
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Leisure Seeker, The: A Novel
Michael Zadoorian - William Morrow
Format: Book
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Michael Zadoorian's poignant, funny, and unforgettable novel, The Leisure Seeker, is a story of two seniors who escape from their retirement home and embark upon a hilarious and touching end-of-life road trip.
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The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters - Riverhead Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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One postwar summer a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall -- home to the Ayres family for over two centuries. Its owners are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, as well as with conflicts of their own. But are they haunted by something more sinister than... |
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott - Puffin Books
Format: Hardcover
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Louisa May Alcott's classic tale of four sisters in a deluxe hardcover edition, with beautiful cover illustrations by Anna Bond, the artist behind world-renowned stationery brand Rifle Paper Co.Grown-up Meg, tomboyish Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. The four March sisters couldn't be more... |
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The Long Home
William Gay - MacMurray & Beck
Format: Book
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In a literary voice that is both original and powerfully unsettling, William Gay tells the story of Nathan Winer, a young and headstrong Tennessee carpenter who lost his father years ago to a human evil that is greater and closer at hand than anyone can imagine.
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Red Sparrow: A Novel
Jason Matthews - Scribner; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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Written with the insider detail that only a veteran CIA operative could know, Officer Dominika Egorova struggles to survive in the cast-iron bureaucracy of post-Soviet intelligence and drafted against her will to become a "Sparrow," a trained seductress in the service
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A Simple Favor: A Novel
Darcey Bell - Harper
Format: Book
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Riveting and brilliantly structured, A Simple Favor is an edge-of-your seat domestic thriller about a missing wife and mother that relies on a rotating cast of unreliable narrators to ingeniously examine the cost of competitive mom-friends.
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel
Maria Semple - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this whip-smart and "divinely funny" novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times) . Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband,... |
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The Wife, A Novel
Meg Wolitzer
Format: Book
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The Wife is the story of the long and stormy marriage between a world-famous novelist, Joe Castleman, and his wife Joan, and the secret they’ve kept for decades.
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A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Book
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It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.
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