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December 12

The Aviator's Wife: A Novel

Melanie Benjamin · Delacorte Press
Pages: 402
Format: Print book

In the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America's most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

"The history [is] exhilarating. . . . The...
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January 30, 2020

Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Celeste Ng · Penguin Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet . . . So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright...
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February 27, 2020

A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel

Amor Towles · Viking
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

"The book is like a salve. I think the world feels disordered right now. The count's refinement and genteel nature are exactly what we're longing for." - Ann Patchett

"How delightful that in an era as crude as ours this finely composed novel stretches out with...
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March 26, 2020

Our Town: A Play in Three Acts

Thornton Wilder · Perennial
Pages: 181
Format: Print book

This beautiful new edition features an eyeopening Afterword written by Tappan Wilder that includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material.Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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