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Happiness: A Novel

Aminatta Forna · Grove Press
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

"Throughout Happiness, Forna stops in our tracks . . . Reminiscent at times of Michael Ondaatje's novel Anil's Ghost . . . Happiness is a meditation on grand themes: Love and death, man and nature, cruelty and mercy. But Forna folds this weighty matter into her buoyant creation...
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Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis

Ada Calhoun · Grove Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too?Calhoun decided to find...
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Writers & Lovers

Lily King · Grove Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Euphoria, Lily King returns with an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a young woman.Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts...
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999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz

Heather Dune Macadam · Citadel
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory...
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American Dirt: A Novel

Jeanine Cummins · Flatiron Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

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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You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

Kate Murphy · Celadon Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you?

"An essential book for our times."
-Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

"A captivating and enlightening...

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Normal: A Mother and Her Beautiful Son

Magdalena Newman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A moving memoir from the mother of a child with Treacher Collins Syndrome, with a foreword by R.J. Palacio, author of Wonder For Magda Newman, normal was a goal - she wanted her son Nathaniel to be able to play on the playground, swim at the beach, enjoy the moments of childhood that are often...
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