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All This Could Be Yours

Jami Attenberg · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a sharp, funny, and emotionally powerful novel about a family reuniting at the deathbed of its patriarch. In reckoning with his secret past, can they rebuild and begin anew?

"If I know why he is the way he is then...
 
 
The Peanuts Papers: Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life: A Library of America Special Publication

Andrew Blauner · Library of America
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A one-of-a-kind celebration of America's greatest comic strip--and the life lessons it can teach us--from a stellar array of writers and artists

Peanuts, Charles Schulz's beloved comic strip, has given the world a cast of characters for the ages--Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and Lucy...
 
 
The Deserter

Nelson DeMille · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

A taut, psychologically suspenseful military thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille - writing with his son, screenwriter Alex DeMille - about two army investigators on the hunt in Venezuela for an army deserter who might know too much about a secret Pentagon...
 
 
Janis: Her Life and Music

Holly George-Warren · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

This blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was.

Janis Joplin's first transgressive act was to be a white girl who gained an early sense of the power...
 
 
The Family Upstairs: A Novel

Lisa Jewell · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author and master of "bone-chilling suspense" (People) comes another page-turning look inside one family's past as buried secrets threaten to come to light.

Gifted musician Clemency Thompson is playing for tourists...
 
 
God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop

Kathy Iandoli · Dey Street Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Can't Stop Won't Stop meets Girls to the Front in this essential and long overdue history of hip-hop's female pioneers and its enduring stars.

Every history of hip-hop previously published, from Jeff Chang's Can't Stop Won't Stop to Shea Serrano's The Rap Yearbook, focuses primarily...

 
 
Famous in Cedarville

Erica Wright · Polis Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From one of the most original writers in crime fiction comes a diabolical mystery wrapped in Hollywood tinsel.

When reclusive, retired silver screen actress Barbara Lace dies in her bed, only the young widower of Cedarville suspects a crime. But Samson Delaware has always been something...
 
 
The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History

Nathalia Holt · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls, the untold story of the women of Walt Disney Studios, who shaped the iconic films that have enthralled generations Behind the beloved animated films of Walt Disney Studios, which have moved and entertained millions of viewers, was an incredibly...
 
 
There You Are

Mathea Morais · Amberjack Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Growing up in the '80s and '90s in St. Louis, Octavian Munroe and Mina Rose found a future in music. Between the stacks at Rahsaan's Records, the two fell in love to the sounds of Prince and A Tribe Called Quest. But in the wake of grief and heartbreak, they drifted apart, ultimately leaving...
 
 
Edison

Edmund Morris · Random House
Pages: 800
Format: Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.

Although Thomas Alva Edison was the most famous American of his time, and remains an international name today, he is mostly remembered...
 
 
For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World

Sasha Sagan · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Part memoir, part guidebook, and part social history, For Small Creatures Such as We is the first book from the daughter of Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan--a luminous exploration of Earth's marvels that require no faith in order to be believed.

"What is the meaning of life?...