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Find Me: A Novel

André Aciman · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting.

No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers...

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The Beautiful Ones

Prince · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time - featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death.

Prince was a musical...
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The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek: A Novel

Rhett McLaughlin · Crown
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality and creators of Good Mythical Morning, a thrilling and darkly funny novel about two best friends fighting the sinister forces at the heart of their Southern town

It's...
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Blood: A Memoir

Allison Moorer · Da Capo Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The Grammy- and Academy Award- nominated singer-songwriter's haunting, lyrical memoir, sharing the story of an unthinkable act of violence and ultimate healing through art

1986, Mobile, Alabama. A fourteen-year-old girl is awakened by the unmistakable sound of gunfire. On the front...
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The Cheffe: A Cook's Novel

Marie NDiaye · Knopf
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the Booker Prize-nominated author of Three Strong Women: an elegant, hypnotic new novel about a legendary French female chef--the facts her life, the nearly ineffable qualities of her cooking, and the obsessive, sometimes destructive desire for purity of taste and experience...
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Classic Krakauer: Essays on Wilderness and Risk

Jon Krakauer · Anchor
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these ten gripping essays show why Jon Krakauer is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. His pieces take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mount Everest to a volcano poised to obliterate a big chunk of Seattle; from...
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Ordinary Girls

Jaquira Diaz · Algonquin Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime." - Julia Alvarez

Ordinary Girls is a fierce, beautiful, and unflinching memoir from a wildly talented debut author. While growing up in housing projects in Puerto...
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Nothing to See Here

Kevin Wilson · Ecco
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Kevin Wilson's best book yet - a moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with remarkable and disturbing abilities

Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite...

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Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers

Natalie Eve Garrett · Black Balloon Publishing
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

"Food binds this book together, and each beautifully told story circles life's truths in ways that are surprising, often revelatory, and always moving. It's impossible not to love Eat Joy, and equally impossible not to want to bake and eat these dishes while reading. It's...

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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

Jung Chang · Knopf
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the international best seller, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, a brilliantly researched and evocative account of the lives of three other daughters of China: the Soong sisters, whose connections to Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek kept them at the very center of Chinese...
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The Name of All Things

Jenn Lyons · Tor Books
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover

"Everything epic fantasy should be: rich, cruel, gorgeous, brilliant, enthralling and deeply, deeply satisfying. I loved it." -- Lev Grossman on The Ruin of KingsYou can have everything you want if you sacrifice everything you believe. Kihrin D'Mon is a wanted man.Since he destroyed...
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Penny for Your Secrets

Anna Lee Huber · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

England, 1919. In Anna Lee Huber's latest mystery, former Secret Service agent Verity Kent is finding that life after wartime offers its own share of danger . . . The Great War may be over, but for many, there are still obstacles on the home front. Reconciling with her estranged husband...
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