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July 10 - Enchanted Islands: A Novel

Allison Amend - Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Format: Book

Inspired by the mid-century memoirs of Frances Conway, Enchanted Islands is the dazzling story of an independent American woman whose path takes her far from her native Minnesota when she and her husband, an undercover intelligence officer, are sent to the Galápagos Islands on the brink...
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Aug. 7 - Commonwealth

Ann Patchett - Harper
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times BestsellerThe acclaimed, bestselling author - winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize - tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives.One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows...
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Oct. 2 - The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Timothy Egan - Mariner Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Paperback

The Worst Hard Time is an epic story of blind hope and endurance almost beyond belief it is also, as Tim Egan has told it, a riveting tale of bumptious charlatans, conmen, and tricksters, environmental arrogance and hubris, political chicanery, and a ruinous ignorance of natures ways. Egan...
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Nov. 6 - Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

J D Vance - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Book

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN" "You will not read a more important book about America this year." - The Economist "A riveting book." - The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."...
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Dec. 4 - The Little Paris Bookshop: A Novel

Nina George - Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Format: Book

Monsieur Perdu can prescribe the perfect book for a broken heart. But can he fix his own? Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book...
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