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Constellations: Reflections from Life
Sinéad Gleeson · Mariner Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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"These brilliant essays read as if Gleeson has made a vow to her readers to illuminate what it means to live in a human body - for better or for worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health - all the days of her life. Come for the dark jokes and existential dread. Stay for the beauty... |
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The Illness Lesson: A Novel
Clare Beams · Doubleday
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"Brilliant, suspenseful, beautifully executed...Beams has somehow crafted a tale that feels like both classical ghost story and like a modern (and very timely) scream of female outrage. A masterpiece."--Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls
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The Department of Sensitive Crimes: A Detective Varg Novel
Alexander McCall Smith · Anchor
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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In the Swedish criminal justice system, certain cases are considered especially strange and difficult, in Malmo, the dedicated detectives who investigate these crimes are members of an elite squad known as the Sensitive Crimes Division.
These are their stories.
The first case:... |
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Lost and Wanted: A Novel
Nell Freudenberger · Vintage
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
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As a professor of physics at MIT, Helen Clapp disdains notions of the supernatural in favor of rational thought and proven ideas. So it's perhaps especially vexing when, on an otherwise unremarkable... |
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The Yellow Bird Sings: A Novel
Jennifer Rosner · Flatiron Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The girl is forbidden from making a sound, so the yellow bird sings. He sings whatever the girl composes in her head: high-pitched trills of piccolo; low-throated growls of contrabassoon. The bird chirps all the musical parts save percussion, because the barn rabbits obligingly thump... |
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Into the Jungle
Erica Ferencik · Gallery/Scout Press
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
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In this "hypnotic, violent, unsparing" (A.J. Banner, USA TODAY bestselling author) thriller from the author of the "haunting, twisting thrill ride" (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author) The River at Night, a young woman leaves... |
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Barn 8
Deb Olin Unferth · Graywolf Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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Two auditors for the U.S. egg industry go rogue and conceive a plot to steal a million chickens in the middle of the night?an entire egg farm’s worth of animals. Janey and Cleveland?a spirited former runaway and the officious head of audits?assemble a precarious, quarrelsome team... |
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The Winemaker's Wife
Kristin Harmel · Gallery Books
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
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Champagne, 1940: Inès has just married Michel, the owner of storied champagne house Maison Chauveau, when the Germans invade. As the danger mounts, Michel turns his back on his marriage to begin hiding munitions for the Resistance. Ines fears they'll be exposed, but for Celine, the French-Jewish... |
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