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Guilty Not Guilty

Felix Francis · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

It is said that everyone over a certain age can remember distinctly what they were doing when they heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated, or that Princess Diana had been killed in a Paris car crash, but I, for one, could recall all too clearly where I was standing when a policeman...
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Broke: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises

Jodie Adams Kirshner · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"[An] eye-opening and sometimes heartbreaking narrative...A significant work of social sciences and urban studies." -- Kirkus, Starred Review

"What Broke really tells us is how systems of government, law and finance can crush even the hardiest of boot-strap...

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The Confession Club: A Novel

Elizabeth Berg · Random House
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In a captivating novel from the bestselling author of The Story of Arthur Truluv, a group of women in Mason, Missouri discover that best friends are made by sharing secrets.

It all started as a supper club, a group gathering monthly to share homemade dinners, until the night...
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The Season: A Social History of the Debutante

Kristen Richardson · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

In this enthralling history of the debutante ritual, Kristen Richardson sheds new light on contemporary ideas about women and marriage.

Kristen Richardson, from a family of debutantes, chose not to debut. But as her curiosity drove her to research this enduring custom, she learned...

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The Second Sleep: A novel

Robert Harris · Knopf
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a chilling and dark new thriller unlike anything Robert Harris has done before.1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land...
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The Little Book of Big Lies: A Journey into Inner Fitness

Tina Lifford · Amistad
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

An inspiring and illuminating guide to true self care, from the sage teacher and breakout star of the critically acclaimed drama, Queen Sugar, from Executive Producers Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay for OWN.

In all your years of schooling, did you ever take a single class that...

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Queen of Bones

Teresa Dovalpage · Soho Crime
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Set between Cubas twenty years apart, Havana native Teresa Dovalpage's new mystery features an unusual detective - an ex-cop turned Santería priest and a familiar face from her acclaimed crime fiction debut, Death Comes in through the Kitchen.

Juan, a Cuban construction...
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The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era

Gareth Russell · Atria Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

In this original and meticulously researched narrative history, the author of the "stunning" (The Sunday Times) Young and Damned and Fair uses the sinking of the Titanic as a prism through which to examine the end of the Edwardian era and the seismic shift...
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Twenty-one Truths About Love: A Novel

Matthew Dicks · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

From the beloved author of Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend comes a wonderful new novel about a struggling man, written entirely in lists.Daniel Mayrock's life is at a crossroads. He knows the following to be true:1. He loves his wife Jill... more than anything. 2. He only regrets quitting...
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Gwendy's Magic Feather

Richard Chizmar · Cemetery Dance Pubns
Pages: 330
Format: Hardcover

Something evil has swept into the small western Maine town of Castle Rock on the heels of the latest winter storm. Sheriff Norris Ridgewick and his team are desperately searching for two missing girls, but time is running out to bring them home alive. In Washington D.C., thirty-seven-year-old...
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