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When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown

Kenan Thompson · HarperAudio
Format: Book

When I Was Your Age is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and luck, life, and learning from the school of hard knocks, from SNL's longest-serving actor, Kenan Thompson.

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The Other Mothers

Katherine Faulkner · Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

The author of the "twisty, fast-paced" (The Sunday Times, London) Greenwich Park returns with a fresh and deftly paced thriller about murder, class, and motherhood in an exclusive London community.. When a young nanny is found dead in mysterious circumstances, new mom, Tash,...
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Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

Shahnaz Habib · Catapult
Format: Hardcover

This witty personal and cultural history of travel from the perspective of a Third World-raised woman of color, Airplane Mode, asks: what does it mean to be a joyous traveler when we live in the ruins of colonialism, capitalism and climate change?. The conditions of travel have long been...
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Rebecca, Not Becky: A Novel

Christine Platt · Amistad
Format: Hardcover

In the vein of Such a Fun Age, a whip-smart, compulsively readable novel about two upper-class stay-at-home mothers - one white, one Black - living in a "perfect" suburb that explores motherhood, friendship, and the true meaning of sisterhood amidst the backdrop of America's...
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The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

Douglas Preston · Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God, presents this collection of the most jaw-dropping true stories from his career as a journalist and explorer. . What's it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that's been sealed for thousands...
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Murder Crossed Her Mind: A Pentecost and Parker Mystery

Stephen Spotswood · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

The latest action-packed installment in the Nero Award-winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series follows Lillian and Will tracking the suspicious disappearance of a woman who might have known too much. From the author of Fortune Favors the Dead and Murder Under Her Skin.. Vera Bodine, an elderly...
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Your Journey to Financial Freedom: A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving Wealth and Happiness

Jamila Souffrant · Hanover Square Press
Format: Hardcover

Podcaster Jamila Souffrant shows how to skyrocket your savings, blast through debt and ultimately accelerate your unique and truly epic journey to financial freedom and independence. Our fast-paced world prioritizes the productive busybody - financial security alwaysseems to rule over the insatiable...
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The Curse of Penryth Hall: A Mystery

Jess Armstrong · Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

An atmospheric gothic mystery that beautifully brings the ancient Cornish countryside to life, Armstrong introduces heroine Ruby Vaughn in her Minotaur Books & Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning debut, The Curse of Penryth Hall. . After the Great War, American heiress...
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Where the Dead Wait: A Novel

Ally Wilkes · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Format: Hardcover

An eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate and his own redemption - from the author of the "vivid, immersive" (The Guardian) horror novel All the White Spaces.. William Day should be an acclaimed Arctic explorer. But after...
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The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court

Mr. Gareth Russell · Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

The popular and "scrupulous historian" (Daily Mail, London) Gareth Russell presents five hundred years of British history - from King Henry VIII to Queen Elizabeth II - as seen through the doorways of the exquisite Hampton Court Palace.. Architecturally breathtaking and rich...
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