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Black Buck
Mateo Askaripour
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There's nothing like a black salesman on a mission. An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content working at Starbucks... |
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The Personal Librarian
Marie Benedict - Berkley Books
Format: Hardcover
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In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world,... |
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Milk Fed: A Novel
Melissa Broder
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Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical... |
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The Sentence
Louise Erdrich - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors.Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living,... |
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Of Women and Salt
Garcia, Gabriela
Format: electronic resource
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
THE WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
WINNER of the Isabel Allende Most Inspirational Fiction Award - International Latino Book Awards • WINNER... |
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The Four Winds: A Novel
Kristin Hannah - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Four Winds, by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah, is an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras--the Great Depression. "If I close my eyes, I can still taste the dust..."Texas, 1934. Millions... |
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The Other Black Girl: A Novel
Zakiya Dalila Harris - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A thrilling, edgier Devil Wears Prada that explores privilege and racism." - The Washington Post Urgent, propulsive, and sharp as a knife, The Other Black Girl is an electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop... |
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Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro - Knopf Canada
Format: Hardcover
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. An international literary event, it will be published simultaneously on March 2, 2021, by Knopf Canada, Faber & Faber in the UK and Alfred A. Knopf in the US. Klara and the Sun, the first publication by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a thrilling... |
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The Prophets
Robert Jones - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existenceIsaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. That was the way it was since the beginning,... |
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Under the Whispering Door
TJ Klune - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover
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When a reaper comes to collect Wallace Price from his own funeral, Wallace suspects he really might be dead. Instead of leading him directly to the afterlife, the reaper takes him to a small village. On the outskirts, off the path through the woods, tucked between mountains, is a particular... |
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The Maidens: a Novel
Alex Michaelides - Celadon Books
Format: Book
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Tragedy dogs Mariana's footsteps as she struggles to recover from the deaths of her husband, sister, brother-in-law and father. Then, in her beloved Cambridge, young girls are being killed. Fearing for her niece, Mariana is determined to find the murderer, and in a twisted plot, discovers... |
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She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor Duology, 1)
Shelley Parker-Chan - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover
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Two-time British Fantasy Award WinnerAstounding Award WinnerLambda Literary Award FinalistHugo Award FinalistLocus Award FinalistOtherwise Award Finalist. "Magnificent in every way." -- Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree. "A dazzling new world of fate,... |
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The Lost Apothecary: A Novel
Sarah Penner - Harlequin Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Instant New York Times Best SellerNamed Most Anticipated of 2021 by Newsweek, Good Housekeeping, Hello! magazine, Oprah.com, Bustle, Popsugar, Betches, Sweet July, and GoodReads!March 2021 Indie Next Pick and Number One LibraryReads Pick"A bold, edgy, accomplished debut!" (Kate... |
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Detransition, Baby: A Novel
Torrey Peters - One World
Format: Hardcover
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.Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then... |
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Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel
Sally Rooney - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon... |
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Harlem Shuffle: A Novel
Colson Whitehead - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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"Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked . . ."To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their... |
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