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The Look-Alike

Erica Spindler · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Other Girl and Justice for Sara comes a thrilling psychological drama about a woman who believes she escaped a brutal murder years ago -- but does anyone else believe her? Sienna Scott grew up in the dark shadow of her mother's paranoid...
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Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

Jennie Allen · WaterBrook
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The visionary behind the million-strong IF:Gathering challenges Christian women to transform their outlook and their lives by interrupting their spiraling thoughts and realizing their God-given power to think differently.Speaker and Bible teacher Jennie Allen hears all the time from women...
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Interior Chinatown: A Novel

Charles Yu · Pantheon
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life:...
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Living in Color: What's Funny About Me

Tommy Davidson · Kensington
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

In 1990, Tommy Davidson burst onto the scene in the Emmy Award-winning show In Living Color, a pioneering sketch comedy show, featuring a multi-racial cast of actors and dancers who spoke to an underrepresented new generation created by Hip Hop Nation. In this revealing memoir, Tommy shares...
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Run Me to Earth

Paul Yoon · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a beautiful, aching novel about three kids orphaned in 1960s Laos - and how their destinies are entwined across decades, anointed by Hernan Diaz as, "one of those rare novels that stays with us to become a standard with which we measure other...
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The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War

Fred Kaplan · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the author the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war - and Presidents' actions in nuclear crises - from Truman to Trump.Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as "a rare combination of defense...
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A Beautiful Crime: A Novel

Christopher Bollen · Harper
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From the author of The Destroyers comes another "delicious literary thriller" (People) - a twisty story of deception, set in contemporary Venice and featuring a young American couple who have set their sights on a high-stakes con.When Nick Brink and his boyfriend Clay Guillory...
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Hi Five

Joe Ide · Mulholland Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Isaiah Quintabe, the genius PI who combines book smarts, street smarts, and enough blistering action to melt the pavement of East Long Beach, is back with a new adventure. Fresh off the beating he took at the hands of a gang of ex-Abu Ghraib thugs working as paramilitary contractors, IQ is determined...
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Why We're Polarized

Ezra Klein · Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Discover how today's rigidly partisan politics came to be, why we all participate in it, and what it means for America's future - from star journalist, political commentator, and cofounder of Vox, Ezra Klein. Over the past 50 years, our partisan identities have merged with our racial,...
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The Truants

Kate Weinberg · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Seductive, unsettling, and beautifully written, The Truants is a debut novel of literary suspense perfect for lovers of Agatha Christie and The Secret History--a thrilling exploration of deceit, first love, and the depths to which obsession can drive us."This is a remarkably assured...
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The Affirmative Action Puzzle: A Living History from Reconstruction to Today

Melvin I. Urofsky · Pantheon
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover

A multifaceted history of affirmative action from its inception through the past eight decades.From acclaimed legal historian, author of a biography of Louis Brandeis ("Remarkable"--Anthony Lewis, NYROB; "Definitive"--Jeffrey Rosen, The New Republic) and Dissent in the Supreme...
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