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My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

STEPHANIE DRAY · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 672
Format: Paperback

"Not since I read Erik Larson's Dead Wake have I had such an edge-of-my-seat immersion into historical events. [...] No study of Alexander Hamilton would be complete without reading this book."-Karen White, New York Times bestselling author From the New York Times bestselling...
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Proust's Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin de Siecle Paris

CAROLINE WEBER · Knopf
Pages: 768
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the acclaimed Queen of Fashion--a brilliant look at the glittering world of turn-of-the-century Paris through the first in-depth study of the three women Proust used to create his supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes.Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus;...
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The Night She Won Miss America

Michael Callahan · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Inspired by a true story, a young woman is swept up in the glamour and excitement of chasing the title of Miss America 1950 - only to vanish the night she wins. Betty Jane Welch reluctantly enters the Miss Delaware contest to make her mother happy, only to surprisingly find herself the judges'...
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The Price Guide to the Occult

LESLYE WALTON · Candlewick
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender comes a haunting maelstrom of magic and murder in the lush, moody Pacific Northwest.When Rona Blackburn landed on Anathema Island more than a century ago, her otherworldly skills might have benefited friendlier neighbors....
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Wonderblood: A Novel

Julia Whicker · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Set 500 years in the future, a mad cow-like disease called "Bent Head" has killed off most of the U.S. population. Those remaining turn to magic and sacrifice to cleanse the Earth.Wonderblood is Julia Whicker's fascinating literary debut, set in a barren United States, an apocalyptic...
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The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery

Barbara K Lipska · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

As a deadly cancer spread inside her brain, leading neuroscientist Barbara Lipska was plunged into madness - only to miraculously survive with her memories intact. In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts her ordeal and explains its unforgettable...
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American by Day

Derek B Miller · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A gripping and timely novel that follows Sigrid - the dry-witted detective from Derek B. Miller's best-selling debut Norwegian by Night - from Oslo to the United States on a quest to find her missing brother Chief Inspector Sigrid Ødegård could be basking in the success of her recent...
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Lost in the Beehive: A Novel

Michele Young-Stone · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

From the author of Above Us Only Sky and The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors, a touching new novel set in the 1960s about the power of friendship, love, and accepting your past in order to find a future.For nearly her entire life, Gloria Ricci has been followed by bees. They're...
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Heads of the Colored People: Stories

Nafissa Thompson-Spires · Atria / 37 INK
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Díaz, this collection of moving, timely, and darkly funny stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era.A stunning new talent in literary fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with black identity...
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Moon Brow

Shahriar Mandanipour · Restless Books
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

From "one of Iran's most important living fiction writers" (The Guardian) comes a fantastically imaginative story of love and war narrated by two angel scribes perched on the shoulders of a shell-shocked Iranian soldier who's searching for the mysterious woman haunting...
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