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Don't Tell Me Not to Ask Why: Poetry & Prose

King Holmes, Samantha · Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

Maybe all the answers to all your questions are living within you, waiting to be discovered after finding more of yourself.Don't Tell Me Not to Ask Why, Samantha King Holmes's second solo poetry collection following her bestselling Born to Love, Cursed to Feel, is a mirror that...
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The Undying: Pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care

Boyer, Anne · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms 'the ideological regime of cancer,' Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable...
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The German Midwife

Robotham, Mandy · Avon
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

'A powerful, haunting debut' -- Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice NetworkFor readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Kate Furnivall comes a gritty tale of courage, betrayal and survival in the hardest of circumstances.Germany, 1944. A prisoner in the camps,...
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A Dog's Promise

Cameron, W. Bruce · Forge Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A Dog's Promise continues the story of Bailey, the good dog whose journey started in A Dog's Purpose (the international hit film) and continued in A Dog's Journey (soon to be a major motion picture in May 2019) . This time, Bailey...
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Tinfoil Butterfly: A Novel

Moulton, Rachel Eve · MCD x FSG Originals
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

The Shining meets About a Boy in this electrifying debut about a troubled young woman and a lonely boy facing their demons in the frozen Black Hills.Emma is hitchhiking across the United States, trying to outrun a violent, tragic past, when she meets Lowell, the hot-but-dumb driver she hopes...
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The Twisted Ones

Kingfisher, T. · Gallery / Saga Press
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother's home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods in this chilling novel that reads like The Blair Witch Project meets The Andy Griffith Show.When Mouse's dad asks her to clean...
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The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories

Jhumpa Lahiri · Penguin Classics
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

A landmark collection of stories--nearly half appearing in English for the first time--selected and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri, who now lives in Italy and reads exclusively in ItalianA Penguin Classics HardcoverWhen Jhumpa Lahiri decided to read exclusively in Italian,...
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An American Sunrise: Poems

Harjo, Joy · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land.In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part...
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Letters from an Astrophysicist

Tyson, Neil DeGrasse · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The natural follow-up to the phenomenal bestseller Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world's largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to go behind...
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Campusland: A Novel

Scott Johnston · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"This high-spirited, richly imagined, and brave novel is a delight to read... Smart and hilarious." -- Kirkus Reviews Joyous, fast and funny, Scott Johnston's Campusland is a satiric howl at today's elite educational institutions -- from safe spaces to tribal infighting...
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