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Trust Exercise: A Novel

Susan Choi · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"Brilliant and challenging . . . An uncanny evocation of the not-so-distant past." -- Tom Perrotta, New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. FletcherPulitzer finalist Susan Choi's multipart, narrative-upending novel in which what happens in high school does not stay in high school...
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The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit in

Ayser Salman · Skyhorse
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

An Immigrant Love-Hate Story of What it Means to Be American You know that feeling of being at the wrong end of the table? Like you're at a party but all the good stuff is happening out of earshot (#FOMO) ? That's life - especially for an immigrant. What happens when a shy, awkward Arab...
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Confessions of an Innocent Man: A Novel

David R. Dow · Dutton
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A thrillingly suspenseful debut novel, and a fierce howl of rage that questions the true meaning of justice.Rafael Zhettah relishes the simplicity and freedom of his life. He is the owner and head chef of a promising Houston restaurant. A pilot with open access to the boundless Texas horizon....
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Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir

Kwame Onwuachi · Knopf
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking memoir about the intersection of race, fame, and food, from the Top Chef star and Forbes and Zagat 30 Under 30 honoreeBy the time he was twenty-seven, Kwame Onwuachi had competed on Top Chef, cooked at the White House, and opened and closed one of the most talked about...
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Hallie Rubenhold · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London - the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge,...
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When We Left Cuba

Chanel Cleeton · Berkley
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

In 1960s Florida, a young Cuban exile will risk her life--and heart--to take back her country in this exhilarating historical novel from the author of Next Year in Havana, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick.Beautiful. Daring. Deadly. The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress...
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

Sonia Purnell · Viking
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World WarIn 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." This spy was Virginia Hall, a young American woman--rejected...
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The Book of Dreams: A Novel

Nina George · Crown
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The next novel from Nina George, author of the blockbuster bestsellers The Little Paris Bookshop and The Little French Bistro, about the spaces between lives and realities and loves both lost and coming homeWhen Henri ends up in a coma after rescuing a young girl from the Thames, his ex-girlfriend,...
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All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir

Erin Lee Carr · Ballantine Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

An acclaimed documentary filmmaker comes to terms with her larger-than-life father, the late New York Times journalist David Carr, in this fierce memoir of addiction and sobriety, work and family. Dad: What will set you apart is not talent but will and a certain kind of humility. A willingness...
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They All Fall Down

Rachel Howzell Hall · Forge Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A surprise invitation to a luxurious private islandSeven strangers, each harboring a secretOdd accidents stir suspicionAs one by one . . .They all fall down
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In the Cradle of Storms: The Epic Story of One Diary, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of WWII

Mark Obmascik · Simon & Schuster Audio
Pages: 256
Format: Audiobook

The heart-wrenching but ultimately redemptive story of two World War II soldiers - a Japanese surgeon and an American sergeant - during a brutal Alaskan battle in which the sergeant discovers the medic's revelatory and fascinating diary that changed our war-torn society's perceptions of Japan.May...
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The Parisian

Isabella Hammad · Grove Press
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

In this masterful debut novel, Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad delivers a sweeping, brilliantly crafted portrait of a young man's coming-of-age alongside the embattled development of a nation.Midhat Kamal is the son of a wealthy textile merchant from Nablus, a town in Ottoman...
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