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Unsheltered: A Novel
BARBARA KINGSOLVER · Harper Pages: 480 Format: Book
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Unsheltered is the compulsively readable story of two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum in Vineland, New Jersey, navigating what seems to be the end of the world as they know it. With history as their tantalizing canvas, these characters... |
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
MAX HASTINGS · Harper Pages: 752 Format: Hardcover
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An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United... |
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The Darkness: A Thriller
RAGNAR JONASSON · Minotaur Books Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkness is an atmospheric thriller from Ragnar Jonasson, one of the most exciting names in Nordic Noir.
The body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic shore. After... |
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The Library Book
SUSAN ORLEAN · Simon & Schuster Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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Susan Orlean, hailed as a "national treasure" by The Washington Post and the acclaimed bestselling author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief, reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling... |
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A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts
THERESE ANNE FOWLER · St. Martin's Press Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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The riveting novel of iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family in as they rule Gilded-Age New York, from the New York Times bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald. Alva Smith, her southern family destitute after the Civil War, married into... |
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Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
Anne Lamott · Riverhead Books Pages: 208 Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Help, Thanks, Wow, comes a new book about the place hope holds in our lives.
"I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill... |
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
DAVID W BLIGHT · Simon & Schuster Pages: 896 Format: Hardcover
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The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.
As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)... |
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Trinity
LOUISA HALL · Ecco Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of Speak comes a kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer - father of the atomic bomb - as told by seven fictional characters J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal causes, and a complex and often contradictory character.... |
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My Love Story: A Memoir
TINA TURNER · Atria Books Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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Tina Turner - the long-reigning queen of rock & roll and living legend - sets the record straight about her illustrious career and complicated personal life in this eye-opening and compelling memoir.
From her early years in Nutbush, Tennessee to her rise to fame alongside Ike Turner... |
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This Will Only Hurt a Little
Busy Philipps · Touchstone Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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A memoir by the beloved comedic actress known for her roles on Freaks and Geeks, Dawson's Creek, and Cougar Town who has become "the breakout star on Instagram stories...imagine I Love Lucy mixed with a modern lifestyle guru" (The New Yorker)... |
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Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History
Blair Imani · Ten Speed Press Pages: 208 Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring and radical celebration of 70 women, girls, and gender nonbinary people who have changed--and are still changing--the world, from the Civil Rights Movement and Stonewall riots through Black Lives Matter and beyond.
With a radical and inclusive approach to history, Modern... |
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