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Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table

Boris Fishman · Harper
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The acclaimed author of A Replacement Life shifts between heartbreak and humor in this gorgeously told, recipe-filled memoir. A family story, an immigrant story, a love story, and an epic meal, Savage Feast explores the challenges of navigating two cultures from an unusual angle. A revealing...
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After She's Gone: A Novel

Camilla Grebe · Ballantine Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Brought together by a brutal murder, a psychological profiler who's lost her memory and a teenage boy with a fiercely guarded secret become unwitting, unlikely partners in this race to stop a killer - from a writer at the "front rank . . . of Nordic noir" (Kirkus Reviews) . Named...
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The Raven Tower

Ann Leckie · Orbit
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Following her record-breaking run in science fiction, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus Awards, brings her immense talent to a new novel and new world.
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Mother Country: A Novel

Irina Reyn · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 288
Format: Book

Award-winning author Irina Reyn explores what it means to be a mother in a world where you can't be with your child.

Nadia's daily life in south Brooklyn is filled with small indignities: as a senior home attendant, she is always in danger of being fired; as a part-time...

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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe · Doubleday
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

"Meticulously reported, exquisitely written, and grippingly told, Say Nothing is a work of revelation."- David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon"[This] gripping account of the Troubles is equal parts true-crime, history, and tragedy...
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The Priory of the Orange Tree

Samantha Shannon · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 896
Format: Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of The Bone Season, a trailblazing, epic high fantasy about a world on the brink of war with dragons--and the women who must lead the fight to save it.

A world divided.
A queendom without an heir.
An ancient enemy awakens.

The...

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The Lost Night: A Novel

Andrea Bartz · Crown
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

What really happened the night Edie died? Years later, her best friend Lindsay will learn how unprepared she is for the truth.

In 2009, Edie had New York's social world in her thrall. Mercurial and beguiling, she was the shining star of a group of recent graduates living in a Brooklyn...
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The Lost Prince: A Search for Pat Conroy

Michael Mewshaw · Counterpoint
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"In The Lost Prince Michael Mewshaw sets down one of the most gripping stories of friendship I've ever read." -- Daniel Menaker, author of My Mistake: A Memoir Pat Conroy was America's poet laureate of family dysfunction. A larger-than-life character and the author of such...
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Cherokee America

Margaret Verble · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Maud's Line, an epic novel that follows a web of complex family alliances and culture clashes in the Cherokee Nation during the aftermath of the Civil War, and the unforgettable woman at its center.It's the early spring of 1875 in the Cherokee...
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Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side

Julia Shaw · Abrams Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

What is it about evil that we find so compelling? From our obsession with serial killers to violence in pop culture, we seem inescapably drawn to the stories of monstrous acts and the aberrant people who commit them. But evil, Dr. Julia Shaw argues, is all relative, rooted in our unique...
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The White Book

Han Kang · Hogarth
Pages: 160
Format: Book

Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize. From Booker Prize-winner and literary phenomenon Han Kang, a lyrical and disquieting exploration of personal grief, written through the prism of the color white. While on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the twin...

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