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American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures
· Gallery Books
Pages: 336
Format: Book
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In American Like Me, America invites thirty-one of her friends, peers, and heroes to share their stories about life between cultures. We know them as actors, comedians, athletes, politicians, artists, and writers. However, they are also immigrants, children or grandchildren... |
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Transcription: A Novel
KATE ATKINSON · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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A dramatic story of WWII espionage, betrayal, and loyalty, by the #1 bestselling author of Life After Life
In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings... |
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The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee
SAM KASHNER · Harper
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A poignant, evocative, and wonderfully gossipy account of the two sisters who represented style and class above all else - Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill - from the authors of Furious Love. When sixty-four-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in her Fifth Avenue apartment,... |
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An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: A Novel
HANK GREEN · Dutton
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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In his much-anticipated debut novel, Hank Green - cocreator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and SciShow - spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly... |
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Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution
BEN FOUNTAIN · Ecco
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisis Twice before in its history, the United States has been faced with a crisis... |
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PAULO COELHO · Knopf
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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If you want to learn about yourself, start by exploring the world around you.
Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, best-selling author Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to relive the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established... |
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The Caregiver
Samuel Park · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Book
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Mara Alencar's mother Ana is the moon, the sun, the stars. Ana, a struggling voice-over actress, is an admirably brave and recklessly impulsive woman who does everything in her power to care for her little girl. With no other family or friends her own age, Ana eclipses Mara's... |
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The Testament of Harold's Wife
LYNNE P HUGO · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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From award-winning author Lynne Hugo comes a witty, insightful, refreshingly unsentimental novel about one woman's unconventional path from heartbreak to hope . . .
After losing her husband, Harold, and her beloved grandson, Cody, within the past year, Louisa has two choices.... |
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Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
Jake Knapp · Currency
Pages: 304
Format: Book
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Nobody ever looked at an empty calendar and said, "The best way to spend this time is by cramming it full of meetings!" or got to work in the morning and thought, Today I'll spend hours on Facebook! Yet that's exactly what we do. Why?
In a world... |
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The Shape of the Ruins: A Novel
Juan Gabriel Va?squez · Riverhead Books
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping tale of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions -- the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vásquez.
The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and literary investigation. When a man is arrested... |
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Money Rock: A Family's Story of Cocaine, Race, and Ambition in the New South
Pam Kelley · The New Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Meet Money Rock -- young, charismatic, and Charlotte's flashiest coke dealer -- in a riveting social history with echoes of Ghettoside and Random Family Meet Money Rock. He's young. He's charismatic. He's generous, often to a fault. He's one of Charlotte's most successful cocaine dealers,... |
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