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Boy Swallows Universe: A Novel
Trent Dalton · Harper
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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An utterly wonderful debut novel of love, crime, magic, fate and a boy's coming of age, set in 1980s Australia and infused with the originality, charm, pathos, and heart of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.The mind can take you anywhere... |
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Diary of a Dead Man on Leave
David Downing · Soho Crime
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
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From bestselling author David Downing, master of historical espionage, comes a heart-wrenching depiction of Germany in the days leading up to World War II and the difficult choices of one man of conviction. In April 1938, a man calling himself Josef Hofmann arrives at a boarding house in Hamm,... |
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Let's Play Two: The Legend of Mr. Cub, the Life of Ernie Banks
Ron Rapoport · Hachette Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive and revealing biography of Chicago Cubs legend Ernie Banks, one of America's most iconic, beloved, and misunderstood baseball players, by acclaimed journalist Ron Rapoport.Ernie Banks, the first-ballot Hall of Famer and All-Century Team shortstop, played in fourteen All-Star... |
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Lost and Wanted: A novel
Nell Freudenberger · Knopf
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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An emotionally engaging, suspenseful new novel from the best-selling author, told in the voice of a renowned physicist: an exploration of female friendship, romantic love, and parenthood--bonds that show their power in surprising ways.Helen Clapp's breakthrough work on black holes in five-dimensional... |
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Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
Ruth Reichl · Random House
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the risk (and the job) of a lifetime when she entered the glamorous, high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now, for the first time, she chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of Gourmet, during... |
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Women Talking
MIRIAM TOEWS · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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"This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid's Tale." Margaret Atwood, on TwitterOne evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women,... |
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American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
Douglas Brinkley · Harper
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy's inspiring challenge, and America's race to the moon."We choose to go to the Moon... |
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Lights All Night Long: A Novel
Lydia Fitzpatrick · Penguin Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping and deftly plotted narrative of family and belonging, Lights All Night Long is a dazzling debut novel from an acclaimed young writer"Lights All Night Long is utterly brilliant and completely captivating. . . . One of the most propulsive, un-put-downable literary novels I've... |
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Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
Mary Norris · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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The beloved Comma Queen returns with a buoyant and charming book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea.In her New York Times best-selling Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils, punctuation, and punctiliousness over three decades in The New Yorker's... |
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The Spectators: A Novel
Jennifer duBois · Random House
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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A shocking crime triggers a media firestorm for a controversial talk show host in this provocative novel - a story of redemption, a nostalgic portrait of New York City, and a searing indictment of our culture of spectacle. Talk show host Matthew Miller has made his fame by shining a spotlight... |
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