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The Idiot
The Idiot

Elif Batuman · Penguin Press
Pages: 423
Format: Hardcover

A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends...
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The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir
The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir

Ariel Levy · Random House
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

A gorgeous, darkly humorous memoir for readers of Cheryl Strayed about a woman overcoming dramatic loss and finding reinvention When thirty-eight-year-old New Yorker writer Ariel Levy left for a reporting trip to Mongolia in 2012, she was pregnant, married, financially secure, and successful...
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Oath of Honor: A Thriller
Oath of Honor: A Thriller

Matthew Betley · Atria Books
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

A break-neck, edge-of-your-seat thriller that moves from the Aleutian Islands to North Korean spy ships to secret Sudanese prisons as former Marines Logan West and John Quick, now members of an FBI special task force, uncover a global conspiracy that threatens America's position in the current...
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The Cutthroat
The Cutthroat

Clive Cussler · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 393
Format: Hardcover

Isaac Bell may be on the hunt for the greatest monster of all time in the newest action-adventure novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Clive Cussler. The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none...
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Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961
Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961

Nicholas Reynolds · William Morrow
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A former CIA officer and curator of the CIA Museum unveils the shocking, untold story of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway's secret life as a spy for both the Americans and the Soviets before and during World War II.While he was the curator of the CIA Museum, Nicholas Reynolds,...
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The Book of Polly: A Novel
The Book of Polly: A Novel

Kathy Hepinstall · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

With a kick like the best hot sauce, this is the laugh-out-loud story of a girl determined to keep up with her aging, crazy-as-a-fox mother"If you ever pined for a mother who would take a hunting falcon as her wingman to a parent-teacher conference, Polly is the gal for you. Delicious."...
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Eggshells
Eggshells

Caitriona Lally · Melville House
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

- Irish Book of the Year Finalist!A whimsical, touching debut about loneliness, friendship and hope... Vivian doesn't feel like she fits in - and never has. As a child, she was so whimsical that her parents told her she was "left by fairies." Now, living alone in Dublin, the neighbors...
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The Wanderers
The Wanderers

Meg Howrey · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Station Eleven meets The Martian in this brilliantly inventive novel about three astronauts training for the first-ever mission to Mars, an experience that will push the boundary between real and unreal, test their relationships, and leave each of them - and their families - changed forever...
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Himself: A Novel
Himself: A Novel

Jess Kidd · Atria Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

"A highly unusual tale set in a highly unusual Irish village full of dark secrets ... Lushly imagined, delightfully original, and very, very funny, it hurtles along from the very first page" (M.L. Stedman, author of The Light Between Oceans) .Having been abandoned on the steps...
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Asteroid Hunters
Asteroid Hunters

Carrie Nugent · Simon & Schuster/ TED
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

For the first time, scientists could have the knowledge to prevent a natural disaster epic in scale - an asteroid hitting the earth and in this exciting, adventuresome book, Carrie Nugent explains how.What are asteroids, and where do they come from? And, most urgently: Are they going to hit the Earth?...
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One of the Boys: A Novel
One of the Boys: A Novel

Daniel Magariel · Scribner
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

A riveting and emotionally harrowing debut about two young brothers and their physically and psychologically abusive father - One of the Boys is 176 perfect, stunning pages by a major new talent.The three of them - a twelve-year-old boy, his older brother, their father - have won the war:...
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Never Let You Go
Never Let You Go

Chevy Stevens · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Eleven years ago, Lindsey Nash escaped into the night with her young daughter and left an abusive relationship. Her ex-husband, Andrew, was sent to jail and Lindsey started over with a new life. Now, Lindsey is older and wiser, with her own business and a teenage daughter who needs her more...
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In This Grave Hour: A Maisie Dobbs Novel
In This Grave Hour: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

Jacqueline Winspear · Harpercollins
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

"A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander." - Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air, on Maisie Dobbs Sunday September 3rd 1939. At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britain's declaration of war with Germany,...
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Good Grief: Heal Your Soul, Honor Your Loved Ones, and Learn to Live Again
Good Grief: Heal Your Soul, Honor Your Loved Ones, and Learn to Live Again

THERESA CAPUTO · ATRIA BOOKS
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

The star of TLC's Long Island Medium and New York Times bestselling author Theresa Caputo provides a guide to overcoming grief, filled with inspiring lessons from Spirit and astonishing stories from the clients who have been empowered by Theresa's spiritual readings.After more than a decade...
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The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human
The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human

Adam Piore · Ecco
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

For millennia, humans have tried - and often failed - to master nature and transcend our limits. But this has started to change. The new scientific frontier is the human body: the greatest engineers of our generation have turned their sights inward, and their work is beginning to revolutionize...
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