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Friday Black
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah · Mariner Books
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
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"These stories are an excitement and a wonder: strange, crazed, urgent and funny, yet classical in the way they take on stubborn human problems: the depravities of capitalism, love struggling to assert itself within heartless systems. The wildly talented Adjei-Brenyah has made these... |
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The Fox
Frederick Forsyth · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A new and timely thriller from the legendary Frederick Forsyth, "truly the world's reigning master of suspense" (Los Angeles Times) .The Fox is a riveting thriller that begins with separate disasters striking the Pentagon, the NSA, and the CIA. A massive cybercrime has been... |
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Pulse: A Novel
Michael T Harvey · Ecco
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The story of a Boston murder that defies all expectations - optioned for film by 21 Laps, the company behind Stranger Things and ArrivalBoston, 1976. In a small apartment above Kenmore Square, sixteen-year-old Daniel Fitzsimmons is listening to his landlord describe a seemingly insane theory... |
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The Last Pass: Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End
Gary M Pomerantz · Penguin Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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Out of the greatest dynasty in American professional sports history, an intimate story of race, mortality, and regretAbout to turn ninety, Bob Cousy, the Hall of Fame Boston Celtics captain who led the team to its first six championships on an unparalleled run, has much to look back on in contentment.... |
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Little: A Novel
Edward Carey · Riverhead Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud. In 1761, a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents,... |
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Beastie Boys Book
Adam Horovitz · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover
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A panoramic experience that tells the story of Beastie Boys, a book as unique as the band itself - by band members AD-ROCK and Mike D, with contributions from Amy Poehler, Colson Whitehead, Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Luc Sante, and more. Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981,... |
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Go to My Grave
CATRIONA MCPHERSON · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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From the Agatha-award winning author of Quiet Neighbors comes a clever, spine-tingling standalone that reads like Agatha Christie's take on a Gothic thriller. "Go to My Grave is both a classic 'country house mystery' and a thriller. Atmospheric, with mind-bending twists, a narrator... |
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Paper Gods: A Novel of Money, Race, and Politics
Goldie Taylor · All Points Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The mayor of Atlanta and a washed-up reporter investigate a series of assassinations, and uncover a conspiracy that reaches into the heart of the city's political machine.Mayor Victoria Dobbs Overstreet is a Harvard-trained attorney and Spelman alum, married to a celebrated heart surgeon,... |
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The Rain Watcher: A Novel
TATIANA DE ROSNAY · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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The first new novel in four years from the beloved superstar author of Sarah's Key, a heartbreaking and uplifting story of family secrets and devastating disaster, set against a Paris backdrop, fraught with revelations, and resolutions."Hypnotic, passionate, ominous and tender -- unforgettable."... |
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A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl
JEAN THOMPSON · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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From National Book Award finalist and the New York Times bestselling author of The Year We Left Home comes a moving family saga about three generations of women who struggle to find freedom and happiness in their small Midwestern college town.A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl is a poignant... |
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