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Alias Grace: A Novel
Margaret Atwood - Anchor
Format: Paperback
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Now a 6-part Netflix original mini-series: in Alias Grace, the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale takes readers into the life of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century.It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious... |
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Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Thorndike Press, 2016. 2015
Format: Large Print Hardcover
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Separated by respective ambitions after falling in love in occupied Nigeria, beautiful Ifemelu experiences triumph and defeat in America while exploring new concepts of race, while Obinze endures an undocumented status in London until the pair is reunited in their homeland 15 years later,... |
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And Then There Were None LP
Agatha Christie - HarperLuxe
Format: Large Print
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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickOne of the most famous and beloved mysteries from The Queen of Suspense - Agatha Christie - now a Lifetime TV movie."Ten . . ."Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U. N. Owen.""Nine... |
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Angel Time: The Songs of the Seraphim, Book One
Anne Rice - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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Anne Rice returns to the mesmerizing storytelling that has captivated readers for more than three decades in a tale of unceasing suspense set in time past - a metaphysical thriller about angels and assassins.The novel opens in the present. At its center: Toby O'Dare - a contract killer... |
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The Bees
Laline Paull - Thorndike Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Handmaid's Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut. |
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Binti
Nnedi Okorafor - Tor.com
Format: Paperback
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"Prepare to fall in love with Binti." -- Neil GaimanWinner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novella!Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy.... |
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Black Sun
Rebecca Roanhorse - Gallery / Saga Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Resistance Reborn comes the first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy, inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and woven into a tale of celestial prophecies, political intrigue, and forbidden magic.A god will... |
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The Casual Vacancy
J. K. Rowling - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback
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A big novel about a small town...When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock.Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty faade is a town at war.Rich at war with poor,... |
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The Complete Poetry
Maya Angelou - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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The beauty and spirit of Maya Angelous words live on in this complete collection of poetry, including her inaugural poem "On the Pulse of Morning". Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her words. Now the beauty... |
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alison Bechdel - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback
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A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like... |
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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000
Alice Walker
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From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker's fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights |
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House of Earth and Blood
Sarah J. Maas
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Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life -- working hard all day and partying all night -- until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce finds herself at the heart o |
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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke - Bloomsbury USA; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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The international bestseller, finally in paperback!Time magazine's #1 book of the year 11 weeks and counting on the New York Times bestseller list Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award Longlisted for the Booker prize A Book Sense pick People Top Ten Books of the year Salon.com... |
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Lady Susan.
Jane Austen - Penguin
Format: Book
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A collection of three lesser-known works by one of the nineteenth century's greatest authorsThese three short works show Austen experimenting with a variety of different literary styles, from melodrama to satire, and exploring a range of social classes and settings. The early epistolary... |
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Leadership in Turbulent Times
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership.Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does... |
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Mad Honey: A Novel
Jodi Picoult - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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A soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past and what we choose to leave behind, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here and the bestselling author of She's Not ThereOlivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect... |
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The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom
Toni Morrison - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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At once the ideal introduction to Toni Morrison and a lovely and moving keepsake for her devoted readers: a treasury of quotations from her work. With a foreword by Zadie Smith."She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truthteller." --Oprah WinfreyThis inspirational book juxtaposes... |
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Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Its Lovecraft meets the Brontes in Latin America, and after a slow-burn start Mexican Gothic gets seriously weird." - The Guardian ONE OF TIMES 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME * WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD * NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM... |
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Mrs. Dalloway
Woolf, Virginia
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Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway-a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the suicide of a young man she has never met. In giving an apparently ordi |
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My Life as a Rat: A Novel
Joyce Carol Oates - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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"A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant. You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs?" --Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a RatWhich should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling... |
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The New Annotated Frankenstein
Mary Shelley - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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Two centuries after its original publication, Mary Shelley's classic tale of gothic horror comes to vivid life in "what may very well be the best presentation of the novel" to date (Guillermo del Toro) ."Remarkably, a nineteen-year-old, writing her first novel, penned a tale... |
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The Night Watchman
Louise Erdrich - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death... |
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Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler - Grand Central Publishing; Updated edition
Format: Paperback
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When unattended environmental and economic crises lead to social chaos, not even gated communities are safe. In a night of fire and death Lauren Olamina, a minister's young daughter, loses her family and home and ventures out into the unprotected American landscape. But what begins... |
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Play It As It Lays: A Novel
Joan Didion - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 2nd edition
Format: Paperback
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A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas,... |
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The Secret History
Donna Tartt - Alfred A Knopf
Format: Paperback
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Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch, established herself as a major talent with The Secret History, which has become a contemporary classic.Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever,... |
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Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories
Shirley Jackson - Library of America; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable," writes A. M. Homes. "It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming, of things taking a turn for the worse." Jackson's... |
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The Soul of a Woman
Isabel Allende
Format: Hardcover
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"When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating," begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children without "resources or voice." Isabel became a fierce and defiant little... |
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Sundial
Catriona Ward
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"DO NOT MISS THIS BOOK. Authentically terrifying." - Stephen King A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick! STARRED review from Publishers Weekly! Anticipated and Recommended by Bustle, USA Today, CNN, i09, The Nerd Daily, LitReactor, GoodReads, LitHub, and more!Sundial is a new, twi |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel
Zora Neale Hurston - Harper Perennial Modern Classics; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth... |
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To Paradise: A Novel
Hanya Yanagihara
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From the author of the classic A Little Life - a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia.In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of |
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Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir
AMY TAN - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AMY TAN, A MEMOIR ON HER LIFE AS A WRITER, HER CHILDHOOD, AND THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FICTION AND EMOTIONAL MEMORYIn Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate... |
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Whereabouts: A novel
Jhumpa Lahiri
Format: Hardcover
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Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home, an engaging backdrop to her days,... |
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Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political powerEngland in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war.... |
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Yellowface: A Novel
R. F Kuang
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White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences ... Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American - in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from R.F. Kuang, the #1 New |
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