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Love and Ruin: A Novel
PAULA MCLAIN · Ballantine Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of The Paris Wife returns to the subject of Ernest Hemingway in a novel about his passionate, stormy marriage to Martha Gellhorn - a fiercely independent, ambitious young woman who would become one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century In 1937,... |
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Song of blood and stone
L Penelope · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 384
Format: Book
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A treacherous, thrilling, epic fantasy about an outcast drawn into a war between two powerful rulers. Orphaned and alone, Jasminda lives in a land where cold whispers of invasion and war linger on the wind. Jasminda herself is an outcast in her homeland of Elsira, where her gift of Earthsong... |
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The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50
JONATHAN RAUCH · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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This book will change your life by showing you how life changes. Why does happiness get harder in your 40s? Why do you feel in a slump when you're successful? Where does this malaise come from? And, most importantly, will it ever end? Drawing on cutting-edge research, award-winning... |
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The Map of Salt and Stars: A Novel
Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar · Touchstone
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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This rich, moving, and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart - a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and a medieval adventurer apprenticed to a legendary mapmaker - places today's headlines... |
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Life After Darkness: My Journey to Happiness
MICHELLE KNIGHT · Weinstein Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From an unruly childhood to a torturous eleven years of captivity, Michelle Knight's story of resilience and hope in Finding Me captivated readers. Now, in Life After Darkness, she tells the story of how she emerged into a new world and wrestled with her past in order to claim the life... |
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Welcome to Lagos: A Novel
Chibundu Onuzo · Catapult
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A provocative portrait of a rapidly-changing Nigeria by a "tremendous" young novelist who is "energizing the form." (William Boyd, The Guardian)
When army officer Chike Ameobi is ordered to kill innocent civilians, he knows it is time to desert... |
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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
ROXANE GAY · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays tackles rape, assault, and harassment head-on. "Roxane Gay is the brilliant girl-next-door: your best friend and your... |
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The Mars Room: A Novel
RACHEL KUSHNER · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called "the best, most brazen, most interesting book of the year" (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine) , comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails... |
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Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
Alan Stern · Picador
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The up close, inside story of the greatest space exploration project of our time, New Horizons' mission to Pluto, as shared with David Grinspoon by mission leader Alan Stern and other key players.On July 14, 2015, something amazing happened. More than 3 billion miles from Earth, a small... |
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