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Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange, the Woman Who Revealed the Real America

Elise Hooper · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

At a time when women were supposed to keep the home fires burning, Dorothea Lange, creator of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century, dares to be different. Now, in this riveting new novel by the author of The Other Alcott, we see the world through her eyes ... In 1918, a fearless...
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Golden Child: A Novel

CLAIRE ADAM · SJP for Hogarth
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad, following the lives of a family as they navigate impossible choices about scarcity, loyalty, and loveRural Trinidad: a brick house on stilts surrounded by bush; a family, quietly surviving, just trying to live a decent life. Clyde, the father,...
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Good Riddance

ELINOR LIPMAN · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The delightful new romantic comedy from Elinor Lipman, in which one woman's trash becomes another woman's treasure, with deliriously entertaining results. Daphne Maritch doesn't quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother, who held...
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How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship

Eva Hagberg Fisher · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A luminous memoir about how friendship saved one woman's life, for anyone who has loved a friend who was sick, grieving, or lost - and for anyone who has struggled to seek or accept help Eva Hagberg Fisher spent her lonely youth looking everywhere for connection: drugs, alcohol, therapists,...
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In the Shadow of Croft Towers

Abigail Wilson · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

From debut author Abigail Wilson comes a shadowy Regency tale of secrets and spies, love and treachery. "Mysterious . . . Melodic . . . Thrilling and original . . . Abigail Wilson has crafted a debut that shines." - Kristy Cambron, bestselling author of Castle on the Rise Croft...
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The Heavens

Sandra Newman · Grove Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

New York, late summer, 2000. A party in a spacious Manhattan apartment, hosted by a wealthy young activist. Dozens of idealistic twenty-somethings have impassioned conversations over takeout dumplings and champagne. The evening shines with the heady optimism of a progressive new millennium....
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The Night Tiger: A Novel

Yangsze Choo · Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

This program is read by the author.A sweeping historical audiobook about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle over an old Chinese superstition about men who turn into tigers.Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall...
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Cherokee America

Margaret Verble · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Maud's Line, an epic novel that follows a web of complex family alliances and culture clashes in the Cherokee Nation during the aftermath of the Civil War, and the unforgettable woman at its center.It's the early spring of 1875 in the Cherokee...
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All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer

Karen Babine · Milkweed Editions
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback

"My sister is pregnant with a Lemon this week, Week 14, and this is amusing. My mother's uterine tumor, the size of a cabbage, is Week 30, and this is terrifying." When her mother is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, Karen Babine -- a cook, collector of thrifted vintage...
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Unreasonable Doubts: A Novel

Reyna Marder Gentin · She Writes Press
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Jaded New York City Public Defender Liana Cohen would give anything to have one client in whom she can believe. Dozens of hardened criminals and repeat offenders have chipped away at her faith in both herself and the system. Her boyfriend Jakob's high-powered law firm colleagues see her do-gooder...
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