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Emma Donoghue · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes a young great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets in the next masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author Emma Donoghue.Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor...
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Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope into Action; A Memoir

David Fajgenbaum · Ballantine Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The powerful memoir of a young doctor and former college athlete diagnosed with a rare disease who spearheaded the search for a cure - and became a champion for a new approach to medical research."An extraordinary memoir . . . It belongs with Atul Gawande's writings and When Breath...
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Live a Little: A Novel

Howard Jacobson · Hogarth
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question and J, and one of 'our funniest writers alive' (Allison Pearson) : a wickedly observed novel of old age and new love. At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her own children....
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What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics

Rachael Denhollander · Tyndale Momentum
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Recipient of Sports Illustrated's Inspiration of the Year Award and one of Time's 100 Most Influential People (2018) "Who is going to tell these little girls that what was done to them matters? That they are seen and valued, that they are not alone and they are not unprotected?"Rachael...
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Where the Light Enters

Sara Donati · Berkley
Pages: 672
Format: Hardcover

From the international bestselling author of The Gilded Hour comes Sara Donati's enthralling epic about two trailblazing female doctors in nineteenth-century New York Obstetrician Dr. Sophie Savard returns home to the achingly familiar rhythms of Manhattan in the early spring of 1884...
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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

Malcolm Gladwell · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and What the Dog Saw, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers---and why they often go wrong.How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation?...
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Out of Darkness, Shining Light: A Novel

Petina Gappah · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Engrossing, beautiful, and deeply imaginative, Out of Darkness, Shining Light is a novel that lends voice to those who appeared only as footnotes in history, yet whose final, brave act of loyalty and respect changed the course of it. An incredible and important book by a masterful...
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Country Music: An Illustrated History

Dayton Duncan · Knopf
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

The rich and colorful story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the twentieth century--based on the upcoming eight-part film series to air on PBS in September 2019This gorgeously illustrated and hugely...
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The Nanny: A Novel

Gilly Macmillan · William Morrow
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of What She Knew conjures a dark and unpredictable tale of family secrets that explores the lengths people will go to hurt one another.When her beloved nanny, Hannah, left without a trace in the summer of 1988, seven-year-old Jocelyn Holt was devastated....
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The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us

Paul Tough · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The best-selling author of How Children Succeed returns with a devastatingly powerful, mind-changing inquiry into higher education in the United States Does college work? Does it provide real opportunity for young people who want to improve themselves and their prospects? Or is it simply...
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