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What We Will Become: A Mother, a Son, and a Journey of Transformation

Mimi Lemay · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A mother's memoir of her transgender child's odyssey, and her journey outside the boundaries of the faith and culture that shaped her.

From the age of two-and-a-half, Jacob, born "Em," adamantly told his family he was a boy. While his mother Mimi struggled to understand...
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Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs

Keena Roberts · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight meets Mean Girls in this funny, insightful fish-out-of-water memoir about a young girl coming of age half in a "baboon camp" in Botswana, half in a ritzy Philadelphia suburb.
Keena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds...
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The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History

Kassia St. Clair · Liveright
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The best-selling author of The Secret Lives of Color returns with this rollicking narrative of the 30,000-year history of fabric, briskly told through thirteen charismatic episodes.

From colorful 30,000-year-old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes...

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Nothing More Dangerous

Allen Eskens · Mulholland Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A coming-of-age novel in the tradition of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter: In a small town where loyalty to family and to "your people" carries the weight of a sacred oath, defying those unspoken rules can be a deadly proposition.
After fifteen years of growing...
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The Innocents: A Novel

Michael Crummey · Doubleday
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother and sister confront the limits of human endurance and their own capacity for loyalty and forgiveness.


A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern...
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Not the Girl You Marry

Andie J. Christopher · Berkley
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days gets a millennial makeover in this romantic comedy by USA Today bestselling author Andie J. Christopher.Jack Nolan is a gentleman, a journalist, and unlucky in love. His viral success has pigeon-holed him as the how-to guy for a buzzy, internet media company...
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The Andromeda Evolution

Michael Crichton · Harper
Pages: 448
Format: Book

Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name - and spawned a new genre, the technothriller - the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant.

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Realm of Ash

Tasha Suri · Orbit
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback

A spellbinding fantasy novel set in the Mughal India-inspired world of Empire of Sand, perfect for readers of City of Brass and The Wrath & the Dawn.Some believe the Ambhan Empire is cursed. But Arwa doesn't simply believe it -- she knows it's true. Widowed by the infamous,...
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