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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Barbara Demick · Spiegel & Grau; 1 edition
Format: Book

Recommended by Karen in Riverside

A National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle finalist, Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy is a remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens Nothing to Envy follows...

 
 
The German Girl: A Novel
The German Girl: A Novel

Armando Lucas Correa · Atria Books
Pages: 343
Format: Book

Recommended by Dena in Edgewood

A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel, perfect for fans of The Nightingale, Schindler's List, and All the Light We Cannot See, about twelve-year-old Hannah Rosenthal's harrowing experience...

 
 
Ink and Bone: A Novel
Ink and Bone: A Novel

Lisa Unger · Touchstone
Pages: 342
Format: Book

Recommended by Katie in Riverside

An instant page-turner (Lisa Gardner) that straddles the line between thriller and horror...sure to appeal to a wide range of readers, including Stephen King fans. (BOOKLIST , starred) A young woman's mysterious gift forces...

 
 
Just One Damned Thing After Another: The Chronicles of St. Mary's Book One
Just One Damned Thing After Another: The Chronicles of St. Mary's Book One

Jodi Taylor · Night Shade Books
Pages: 335
Format: Book

Recommended by Barb in Bel Air

The first book in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone s cup of tea. History is just one damned thing after another. Arnold Toynbee Behind the seemingly innocuous...

 
 
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds

Michael Lewis · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 362
Format: Book

Recommended by Kristina in Edgewood

How a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.

Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions...

 
 
Lisette's List: A Novel
Lisette's List: A Novel

Susan Vreeland · Random House Inc
Pages: 414
Format: Book

Recommended by Beth in Fallston

From Susan Vreeland, bestselling author of such acclaimed novels as Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Luncheon of the Boating Party, and Clara and Mr. Tiffany, comes a richly imagined story of a woman's awakening in the south of Vichy...

 
 
Truly Madly Guilty
Truly Madly Guilty

Liane Moriarty · Flatiron Books
Pages: 432
Format: Book

 

Recommended by Linda in Abingdon

In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty turns her unique, razor-sharp eye towards three seemingly happy families.

Sam and Clementine have a wonderful, albeit, busy life: they have two little girls,...

 
 
Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

Margot Lee Shetterly · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Book

Recommended by Shelley in Riverside

The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer,...