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Perfect Little Children: A Novel

Sophie Hannah · William Morrow
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Monogram Murders and Woman with a Secret returns with a sharp, captivating, and expertly plotted tale of psychological suspense.All Beth has to do is drive her son to his soccer game, watch him play, and then return home. Just because she knows...
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When My Time Comes: Conversations About Whether Those Who Are Dying Should Have the Right to Determine When Life Should End

Diane Rehm · Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From Diane Rehm, renowned radio host--one of the most trusted voices in the nation--and best-selling author: a book of candor and compassion, addressing the urgent, hotly contested cause of the Right-to-Die movement, of which she is one of our most inspiring champions.Soon to be a public...
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The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read:

Philippa Perry · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"A beautifully comprehensive look at what it might mean to be a sane and emotionally intelligent parent . . . hugely warm, wise, hopeful and encouraging."--Alain de Botton, author of How Proust Can Change Your LifeInstant #1 Sunday Times BestsellerEvery parent wants their child...
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The Authenticity Project: A Novel

Clare Pooley · Pamela Dorman Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A story about a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and even love--think Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine meets Love, Actually"Everybody lies about their lives. What would happen if you shared the truth?"This is the question...
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The Girl with the Louding Voice: A Novel

Abi Dare
Format: Book

Daré's captivating first novel opens with 14-year-old Adunni hearing the devastating news from her father that, instead of returning to school as she has longed to for three years, she has been sold in marriage to a much-older neighbor in their Nigerian village. Adunni is distraught,...

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Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line: A Novel

Deepa Anappara · Random House
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In this transporting debut novel, three friends venture into the most dangerous corners of a sprawling Indian city to find their missing classmate. Down market lanes crammed with too many people, dogs, and rickshaws, past stalls that smell of cardamom and sizzling oil, below a smoggy sky that...
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Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

Kathleen West · Berkley
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Where'd You Go, Bernadette and Small Admissions, a wry and cleverly observed debut novel about the privileged bubble that is Liston Heights High - the micro-managing parents, the overworked teachers, and the students caught in the middle - and the fallout for each...
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The Last Day: A Novel

Andrew Hunter Murray · Dutton
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

A visionary and powerful debut thriller set in a terrifyingly plausible dystopian near-future - with clear parallels to today's headlines - in which the future of humanity lies in the hands of one woman, a scientist who has stumbled upon a secret that the government will go to any lengths...
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Everywhere You Don't Belong

Gabriel Bump · Algonquin Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"This book is astonishing. You'll be smiling even as your heart is breaking, and you'll tip willingly into this world Bump offers you, because what appears again and again are spectacular beams of light also called love, also called hope, also called family. Gabriel Bump has established...
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Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era

Jerry Mitchell · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

An award-winning investigative reporter shares the real-life detective story of how Klansmen came to justice in notorious unsolved civil rights cold cases - decades after they had gotten away with murder.On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings,...
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The Toni Morrison Book Club

Juda Bennett · University of Wisconsin Press
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

In this startling group memoir, four friends - black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born - use Toni Morrison's novels as a springboard for intimate and revealing conversations about the problems of everyday racism and living whole in times of uncertainty. Tackling...
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