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How Long 'til Black Future Month?: Stories

N. K. Jemisin · Orbit
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Three-time Hugo Award winner N. K. Jemisin's first collection of short fiction challenges and enchants with breathtaking stories of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection...
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Hazards of Time Travel: A Novel

JOYCE CAROL OATES · Ecco
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates "Time travel" - and its hazards - are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic...
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Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now

ALAN RUSBRIDGER · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

An urgent account of the revolution that has upended the news business, written by one of the most accomplished journalists of our timeTechnology has radically altered the news landscape. Once-powerful newspapers have lost their clout or been purchased by owners with particular agendas....
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Enchantress of Numbers: A Novel of Ada Lovelace

Jennifer Chiaverini · Dutton
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini illuminates the life of Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace - Lord Byron's daughter and the world's first computer programmer.

The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous...

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The Affliction: A Novel

Beth Gutcheon · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

The New York Times bestselling author of More Than You Know, Leeway Cottage, and Death at Breakfast delivers the second installment in her clever romp of a mystery series combining social comedy and dark-hearted murder - a novel set at a girls' boarding school in a picturesque Hudson...

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The Adults

Caroline Hulse · Random House
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A couple, now separated. Their daughter. Their new partners. One epic Christmas vacation. What could go wrong?

This razor-sharp novel puts a darkly comic twist on seasonal favorites like Love Actually and The Holiday.

Meet The Adults.

Claire and Matt...
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The Plea: A Novel

Steve Cavanagh · Flatiron Books
Pages: 528
Format: Book

Billionaire David Child swears he didn't murder his girlfriend, Clara -- even if the evidence suggests otherwise. Home security video showed no intrusion. The murder weapon was in David's own car. He seems guilty as charged. So why won't he plead guilty?

 

Meanwhile,...

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All the Lives We Never Lived: A Novel

Anuradha Roy · Atria Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the Man Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter, The Folded Earth, and An Atlas of Impossible Longing, a poignant and sweeping novel set in India during World War II and the present-day about a son's quest to uncover the truth about his mother.

In...
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Come with Me: A Novel

Helen Schulman · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From Helen Schulman, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller This Beautiful Life, comes another "gripping, potent, and blisteringly well-written story of family, dilemma, and consequence" (Elizabeth Gilbert) - a mind-bending novel set in Silicon Valley that...

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The Empathy Effect: Seven Neuroscience-Based Keys for Transforming the Way We Live, Love, Work, and Connect Across Differences

Helen Riess · Sounds True
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover

Empathy is undergoing a new evolution. In a global and interconnected culture, we can no longer afford to identify only with people who seem to be a part of our "tribe." As Dr. Helen Riess of Harvard Medical School has learned, our capacity for empathy is not just an innate trait...
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