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1 - American Dirt: A Novel
Jeanine Cummins · Flatiron Books
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También de este lado hay sueños. On this side too, there are dreams.Already being hailed as "a Grapes of Wrath for our times" and "a new American classic", American Dirt is a rare exploration into the inner hearts of people willing to sacrifice everything for a glimmer... |
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2 - Weather: A novel
Jenny Offill · Knopf
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From the author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation--one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year--a shimmering tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisisLizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this... |
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3 - Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote
Craig Fehrman · Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
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In the tradition of The Gatekeepers and The Presidents Club, historian Craig Fehrman offers a surprising new look into both the public and private lives of America's presidents. Most Americans are familiar with Lincoln's famous words in the Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation... |
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5 - When We Were Vikings
Andrew David MacDonald · Gallery/Scout Press
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A heart-swelling debut for fans of The Silver Linings Playbook and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.Sometimes life isn't as simple as heroes and villains. For Zelda, a twenty-one-year-old Viking enthusiast who lives with her older brother, Gert, life is best lived... |
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6 - Homie: Poems
Danez Smith · Graywolf Press
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Danez Smith is our presidentHomie is Danez Smith's magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith's close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer.... |
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7 - Things in Jars
Jess Kidd · Canongate Books Ltd
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London, 1863. Bridie Devine, the finest female detective of her age, is taking on her toughest case yet. Reeling from her last job and with her reputation in tatters, a remarkable puzzle has come her way. Christabel Berwick has been kidnapped. But Christabel is no ordinary child. She is not supposed... |
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8 - Verge: Stories
Lidia Yuknavitch · Riverhead Books
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A fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction. I tell you, do not go near that place. Do not go near it. Graywolves guard the ground there. Girls are growing from guts, enough for a body... |
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9 - The Mercies
Kiran Millwood Hargrave · Little, Brown and Company
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"Every once in a while, a modern day parable, perfectly told, reflects all that could happen in a world gone mad."-Adriana Trigiani Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm.... |
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10 - My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir
Jenn Shapland · Tin House Books
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My Autobiography of Carson McCullers is an audacious new form of nonfiction that remakes the boundaries between criticism, biography, and autobiography in search of two identities.While working as an intern in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center, Jenn Shapland encounters the love letters... |
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11 - The Authenticity Project: A Novel
Clare Pooley · Pamela Dorman Books
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A story about a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and even love--think Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine meets Love, Actually"Everybody lies about their lives. What would happen if you shared the truth?"This is the question... |
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14 - Run Me to Earth
Paul Yoon · Simon & Schuster
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From award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a beautiful, aching novel about three kids orphaned in 1960s Laos - and how their destinies are entwined across decades, anointed by Hernan Diaz as, "one of those rare novels that stays with us to become a standard with which we measure other... |
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15 - Everywhere You Don't Belong
Gabriel Bump · Algonquin Books
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"This book is astonishing. You'll be smiling even as your heart is breaking, and you'll tip willingly into this world Bump offers you, because what appears again and again are spectacular beams of light also called love, also called hope, also called family. Gabriel Bump has established... |
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16 - When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father, Survival and What Remains
Neumann, Ariana · SCRIBNER BOOKS CO
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In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father's past: years spent hiding in plain sight in war-torn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew. In 1941, the first Neumann family... |
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17 - The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
Emma Copley Eisenberg · Hachette Books
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A stunningly written investigation of the murder of two young women--showing how a violent crime casts a shadow over an entire community. In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19, were... |
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18 - The Unspoken Name
A. K. Larkwood · Tor Books
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A. K. Larkwood's The Unspoken Name is a stunning debut fantasy about an orc priestess turned wizard's assassin.What if you knew how and when you will die?Csorwe does -- she will climb the mountain, enter the Shrine of the Unspoken, and gain the most honored title: sacrifice. But on the day of her foretold... |
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19 - Cartier's Hope: A Novel
M. J. Rose · Atria Books
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From M.J. Rose, New York Times bestselling author of Tiffany Blues, "a lush, romantic historical mystery" (Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale) , comes a gorgeously wrought novel of ambition and betrayal set in the Gilded Age. New York, 1910: A city of extravagant balls in Fifth... |
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20 - The Resisters: A novel
Gish Jen · Knopf
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"The Resisters is palpably loving, smart, funny, and desperately unsettling. The novel should be required reading for the country both as a cautionary tale and because it is a stone-cold masterpiece. This is Gish Jen's moment. She has pitched a perfect game." --Ann PatchettThe... |
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