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Oona Out of Order: A Novel

Margarita Montimore · Flatiron Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Just because life may be out of order, doesn't mean it's broken.It's New Year 's Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study...
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

Erik Larson · Crown
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dead Wake and The Devil in the White City delivers a startlingly fresh portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the BlitzOn Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia...
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Trouble Is What I Do

Walter Mosley · Mulholland Books
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

From innovative bestselling novelist Walter Mosley comes the return of the beloved Leonid McGill detective series featuring a morally ambiguous P.I. who solves crimes and whose victims are society's most downtrodden.Leonid McGill's spent a lifetime building up his reputation in the New York...
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Apartment

Teddy Wayne · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Loner and The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, a powerful novel about loneliness and friendship, gender and sexuality, and the political schisms that dominate our times.In 1996, the unnamed narrator of Teddy Wayne's Apartment is attending the MFA writing...
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The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists

Tracy Walder · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A highly entertaining account of a young woman who went straight from her college sorority to the CIA, where she hunted terrorists and WMDs"A thrilling tale...Walder's fast-paced and intense narrative opens a window into life in two of America's major intelligence agencies"...
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Firewatching

Russ Thomas · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"A pitch-perfect blend of the best of the old and the best of the new--all the traditional strengths and charms are here, with a fresh and relevant twenty first-century edge. I loved it."--Lee ChildA taut and ambitious police procedural debut introducing Detective Sergeant Adam...
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Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country

Sierra Crane Murdoch · Random House
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it - an urgent work of literary journalism. "I don't know a more complicated, original protagonist in literature than Lissa Yellow Bird, or a more...
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Greenwood: A Novel

Michael Christie · Hogarth
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

A magnificent generational saga that charts a family's rise and fall, its secrets and inherited crimes, and the conflicted relationship with the source of its fortune - trees - from one of Canada's most acclaimed novelists It's 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller...
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Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote

Ellen Carol DuBois · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, this exciting history explores the full scope of the movement to win the vote for women through portraits of its bold leaders and devoted activists.Distinguished historian Ellen Carol DuBois begins in the pre-Civil...
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Red Letter Days

Sarah-Jane Stratford · Berkley
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

When two brave women flee from the Communist Red Scare, they soon discover that no future is free from the past.Amid the glitz and glamour of 1950s New York, Phoebe Adler pursues her dream of screenwriting. A dream that turns into a living nightmare when she is blacklisted - caught in the Red Menace...
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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall · Viking
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A potent and electrifying critique of today's feminist movement announcing a fresh new voice in black feminismToday's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues...
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