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All This Could Be Yours

Attenberg, Jami · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a sharp, funny, and emotionally powerful novel about a family reuniting at the deathbed of its patriarch. In reckoning with his secret past, can they rebuild and begin anew? "If I know why he is the way he is then maybe I can learn...
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The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

Higashino, Keigo · Yen On
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

When three delinquents hole up in an abandoned general store after their most recent robbery, to their great surprise, a letter drops through the mail slot in the store's shutter. This seemingly simple request for advice sets the trio on a journey of discovery as, over the course of a single...
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Twisted Twenty-Six

Janet Evanovich · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

This isn't just another case. This is family.How far will Stephanie Plum go to protect the one person who means the most to her? The stakes have never been higher in this #1 New York Times bestseller from Janet Evanovich.Grandma Mazur has decided to get married again - this time to a local...
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To the Land of Long Lost Friends: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Smith, Alexander McCall · Pantheon
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

In the latest book in the widely beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Precious Ramotswe takes on a case for a childhood acquaintance but her inquiries will require an even more delicate touch than usual.Mma Ramotswe reconnects with an old friend who has been having problems...
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Sitcommentary: Television Comedies That Changed America

Mark A. Robinson · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From I Love Lucy to Black-ish, sitcoms have often paved the way for social change.Television comedy has long been on the frontline in how America evolves on social issues. There is something about comedy that makes difficult issues more palatable - with humor an effective device for presenting...
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Honey, I Killed the Cats

Maslowska, Dorota · Deep Vellum Publishing
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback

From bestselling, internationally acclaimed author Dorota Mas?owska comes a hilarious and devastating satire of consumer culture. Set in a bizarro, all-too-real imaginarium of American pop culture, Honey, I Killed the Cats introduces us to two independent young women struggling to live...
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The Nobodies: A Novel

Liza Palmer · Flatiron Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"Liza Palmer's voice is fresh, exciting, and necessary. She's a must-read author." -- Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones & the SixCharmingly candid, hilarious, and deeply moving, The Nobodies is a novel about failing but never losing the core of yourself,...
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Bryson, Bill · Doubleday
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As compulsively readable as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for everybody.Bill Bryson once again...
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Metropolitan Stories: A Novel

Coulson, Christine · Other Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

"Only someone who deeply loves and understands the Metropolitan Museum could deliver such madcap, funny, magical, tender, intimate fables and stories." - Maira Kalman, artist and bestselling author of The Principles of Uncertainty From a writer who worked at the Metropolitan...
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