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On the House: A Washington Memoir

John Boehner · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

-John Boehner is the last of a breed. At a time when the arbiters of American culture were obsessing over organic kale, cold-pressed juice, and SoulCycle, the man who stood second in line to the presidency was unapologetically smoking Camels, quaffing a glass of red, and hitting the golf...
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The Paper Palace: A Novel

Miranda Cowley Heller · Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

- Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club July '21 Pick) "Nail-biting." - Town & Country "A magnificent page-turner." - Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author "Beguiling." - Vogue, The Best Books to Read This Summer...
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What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

Oprah Winfrey · Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book
Format: Hardcover

"Through this lens we can build a renewed sense of personal self-worth and ultimately recalibrate our responses to circumstances, situations, and relationships. It is, in other words, the key to reshaping our very lives." -- Oprah WinfreyHave you ever wondered "Why did I do that?"...
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The Plot

Jean Hanff Korelitz · Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover

Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his self-respect; he hasn't written -- let alone published -- anything decent in years....
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The Anthropocene Reviewed

John Green · Dutton; Signed edition
Format: Hardcover

The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, bestselling author John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered...
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The Housewives: The Real Story Behind the Real Housewives

Brian Moylan · Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

In the spring of 2006, a new kind of show premiered on Bravo: The Real Housewives of Orange County. Its stars were tanned, taut, and bedazzled; their homes were echoey California villas; and their drama was gossip-fueled, wine-drenched, and absolutely exquisite. Fifteen seasons on, RHOC...
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The Madness of Crowds: A Novel

Louise Penny · ‎Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

You're a coward.Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache. It starts innocently enough. While the residents of the Québec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan, to drink hot chocolate in the bistro...
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The Other Black Girl: A Novel

Zakiya Dalila Harris · Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

​Urgent, propulsive, and sharp as a knife, The Other Black Girl is an electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing.Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being...
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Afterparties: Stories

Anthony Veasna So · ‎Ecco
Format: Hardcover

A Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club Pick!Named a Best Book of Summer by: Wall Street Journal * Thrillist * Vogue * Lit Hub * Refinery29 * New York Observer * The Daily Beast * Time * BuzzFeed * Entertainment Weekly A vibrant story collection about Cambodian-American life - immersive...
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Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America

Bill O'Reilly · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

KillingKilling the Mob is the tenth book in Bill O'Reilly's #1 New York Times bestselling series of popular narrative histories, with sales of nearly 18 million copies worldwide, and over 320 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.O'Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace...
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