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The How & the Why

Cynthia Hand - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

"Cynthia Hand is the master of pulling at your heartstrings. The How & the Why tells both sides of an adoption story with love, compassion, and care." - Brigid Kemmerer, New York Times bestselling author of Letters to the LostA poignant exploration of family and the ties...
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Don't Take Yes for an Answer

Steve Herz - Harper Business
Format: Hardcover

One of the nation's premier talent agents and career advisors shows you how to catapult your career and your life forward with three key communication strategiesAuthority, Warmth, and Energy.
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The End of the Ocean: A Novel

Maja Lunde - HarperVia
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the number-one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating story of the power of nature and the human spirit that explores the threat of a devastating worldwide drought, witnessed through the lives of a father, a daughter, and a woman who will risk her life...
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The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World

Amanda Little - Harmony
Format: Hardcover

In this fascinating look at the race to secure the global food supply, environmental journalist and professor Amanda Little tells the defining story of the sustainable food revolution as she weaves together stories from the world's most creative and controversial innovators on the front...
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Internment

Samira Ahmed - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Rebellions are built on hope.Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens.With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend...
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The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna: A Novel

Juliet Grames - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella's childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents - moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella's own mother is convinced that her daughter...
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Good Things Happen to People You Hate: Essays

Rebecca Fishbein
Format: Hardcover


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The Sacrament: A Novel

Olaf Olafsson - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

The haunting, vivid story of a nun whose past returns to her in unexpected ways, all while investigating a mysterious death and a series of harrowing abuse claimsA young nun is sent by the Vatican to investigate allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland. During her time...
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The Shape of Family: A Novel

Shilpi Somaya Gowda - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

From the international bestselling author of Secret Daughter and The Golden Son comes a poignant, unforgettable novel about a family's growing apart and coming back together in the wake of tragedy.The Olander family embodies the modern American Dream in a globalized world. Jaya, the cultured...
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The Lemon Sisters: A Novel

Jill Shalvis - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

The New York Times bestselling author of Rainy Day Friends and Lost and Found Sisters returns to Wildstone, California, where two completely opposite sisters - who are still nursing wounds from the past - realize they need each other more than they think.When Brooke's older sister,...
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There's a Word for That

Sloane Tanen - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

"Engrossing, hilarious, and tender... I couldn't put it down." ---Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness ProjectA hilarious and moving chronicle of a wildly flawed family that comes together--in rehab, of all places--even as each member is on the verge...
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Constellations: Reflections from Life

Sinéad Gleeson - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback

"These brilliant essays read as if Gleeson has made a vow to her readers to illuminate what it means to live in a human body - for better or for worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health - all the days of her life. Come for the dark jokes and existential dread. Stay for the beauty...
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Dominicana: A Novel

Angie Cruz - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

"Gorgeous writing, gorgeous story." -- Sandra Cisneros"An essential read for our times." -- Cristina GarciaFifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes...
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The Time Collector

Gwendolyn Womack - Picador
Format: Paperback

A thrilling page-turner from Gwendolyn Womack, the USA Today bestselling author of The Fortune Teller Travel through time with the touch of a hand.Roan West was born with an extraordinary gift: he can relive memories across centuries and glean history first-hand. A highly...
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How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom

Matt Ridley - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Building on his national bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our thinking on the subject.Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards...
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Happiness: A Novel

Aminatta Forna - Grove Press
Format: Paperback

"Throughout Happiness, Forna stops in our tracks . . . Reminiscent at times of Michael Ondaatje's novel Anil's Ghost . . . Happiness is a meditation on grand themes: Love and death, man and nature, cruelty and mercy. But Forna folds this weighty matter into her buoyant creation...
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The Girl Who Reads on the Mtro: A Novel

Christine Feret-Fleury - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

"With a cast of characters reminiscent of the French film Amlie, Fret-Fleury creates a world that is delightful and enchanting ... Light and sweet as a bonbon, this little confection of a book is delicious." -- Kirkus ReviewsFor fans of Amlie and The Little Paris...
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Miracle Creek: A Novel

Angie Kim - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling debut novel for fans of Liane Moriarty and Celeste Ng about how far we'll go to protect our families -- and our deepest secretsMy husband asked me to lie. Not a big lie. He probably didn't even consider it a lie, and neither did I, at first . . .In rural...
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The German House

Annette Hess - HarperVia
Format: Hardcover

As seen in the New York Times Book Review. A December 2019 Indie Next Pick! Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963, Annette Hess's international bestseller is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator - caught between societal and familial...
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A Perfect Explanation

Eleanor Anstruther - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Finalist for the Desmond Elliott PrizeA "superb debut"* novel - based on the story of the author's grandmother - following an aristocratic woman who abandons her family and her money in search of a life she can claim as her own. (*The Guardian) Enid Campbell, granddaughter...
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The Bookshop on the Shore: A Novel

Jenny Colgan - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

A grand baronial house on Loch Ness, a quirky small-town bookseller, and a single mom looking for a fresh start all come together in this witty and warm-hearted novel by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan.Desperate to escape from London, single mother Lottie wants to build a new life...
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The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers

Elizabeth Cobbs - Harvard University Press
Format: Paperback

In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France at General Pershing's explicit request. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. While suffragettes picketed the White House and President Wilson struggled to persuade a segregationist Congress...
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The Illness Lesson: A Novel

Clare Beams - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

"Brilliant, suspenseful, beautifully executed...Beams has somehow crafted a tale that feels like both classical ghost story and like a modern (and very timely) scream of female outrage. A masterpiece."--Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls"Stunningly good--a...
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The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age

Leopold Damrosch - Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Format: Audiobook

Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of "the Club", a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern.In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join...
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The Guest Book: A Novel

Sarah Blake - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

A novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout generations, The Guest Book examines not just a privileged American family, but a privileged America. It is a literary triumph.The Guest Book follows three generations of a powerful American family, a family...
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Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir

Hindman, Jessica Chiccehitto - W W NORTON & CO

Hailed as "outrageously funny" (O, The Oprah Magazine) and "deeply moving" (Los Angeles Review of Books) , Sounds Like Titanic tells the story of how Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman became a fake violinist. Raised in rural Appalachia and struggling to pay college...
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The Last Book Party

Karen Dukess - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

*A July 2019 Indie Next List Great Read* *One of Parade's Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2019* *An O Magazine Best Beach Read of 2019**A New York Post Best Beach Read of 2019* "The Last Book Party is a delight. Reading this story of a young woman trying...
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The Department of Sensitive Crimes: A Detective Varg Novel

Alexander McCall Smith - Anchor
Format: Paperback

In the Swedish criminal justice system, certain cases are considered especially strange and difficult, in Malmo, the dedicated detectives who investigate these crimes are members of an elite squad known as the Sensitive Crimes Division.These are their stories.The first case: the small matter...
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The Flight Portfolio: A novel

Julie Orringer - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

"Bighearted, gorgeous, historical, suspenseful, everything you want a novel to be" ( - Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less) , a new book inspired by the World War II story you've never heard - the real-life quest of an unlikely...
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Secrets of the Chocolate House

Paula Brackston - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The second novel in a bewitching series "brimming with charm and charisma" that will make "fans of Outlander rejoice!" (Woman's World Magazine) New York Times bestselling author Paula Brackston's The Little Shop of Found Things...
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Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis

Ada Calhoun - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too?Calhoun decided to find...
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How to Treat People: A Nurse's Notes

Molly Case - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating and poignant memoir of the body and its care, told through the experiences of a young nurse.As a teenager, Molly Case underwent an operation that saved her life. Nearly a decade later, she finds herself in the operating room again -- this time as a trainee nurse. She learns...
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Ecstasy: A Novel

Mary Sharratt - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback

Coming of age in the midst of a creative and cultural whirlwind in Vienna, young, beautiful Alma Schindler yearns to make her mark as a composer. A new era of possibility for women is dawning, and she is determined to make the most of it. But Alma loses her heart to the great composer Gustav...
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A Dog Named Beautiful: A Marine, a Dog, and a Long Road Trip Home

Rob Kugler - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

An uplifting and unforgettable story of a US Marine, his extraordinary dog, and the road trip of a lifetime.When US Marine Rob Kugler returns from war he had given up not only a year of his life in service to his country, but he had also lost a brother in the fighting as well. Lost in grief,...
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Hannah's War

Jan Eliasberg - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback

Berlin, 1938. Groundbreaking physicist Dr. Hannah Weiss is on the verge of the greatest discovery of the 20th century: splitting the atom. She understands that the energy released by her discovery can power entire cities or destroy them. Hannah believes the weapon's creation will secure...
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Right after the Weather

Carol Anshaw - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

The author of the "graceful and compassionate" (People) New York Times bestseller Carry the One presents a new and long-awaited novel exploring what happens when untested people are put to a hard test, and in its aftermath,...
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Southern Lady Code: Essays

Helen Ellis - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

"I loved it." - Ann Patchett The bestselling author of American Housewife ("Dark, deadpan and truly inventive." --The New York Times Book Review) is back with a fiercely...
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Shuggie Bain

Douglas Stuart
Format: Hardcover


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Silent hearts

Gwen Florio - Atria Books
Format: Print book

"For fans of A Thousand Splendid Suns comes a stirring novel set in Afghanistan & about two women--an American aid worker and her local interpreter--who form an unexpected friendship despite their utterly different life experiences and the ever-increasing violence that surrounds them...
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Writers & Lovers

Lily King - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Euphoria, Lily King returns with an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a young woman.Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts...
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

Lori Gottlieb - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Now being developed as a television series with Eva Longoria and ABC!*An O, The Oprah Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of 2019* *A People Magazine Book of the Week**An Apple Best Books Pick for April**An April IndieNext Pick**A Book of the Month...
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Good Husbandry: A Memoir

Kristin Kimball - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

From the celebrated author of the beloved bestseller The Dirty Life, a "beguiling memoir about the simple life" (Elle) , Kristin Kimball describes the delicious highs and sometimes excruciating lows of life on Essex Farm - a 500-acre farm that produces a full diet for a community...
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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

Zachary D. Carter - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A page-turning biography of world-changing economist John Maynard Keynes and the big ideas that outlived him.In the spring of 1934, Virginia Woolf sketched an affectionate biographical portrait of her great friend John Maynard Keynes. Writing a full two years before Keynes would revolutionize...
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Kopp Sisters on the March

Amy Stewart - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

In the fifth installment of Amy Stewart's clever and original Kopp Sisters series, the sisters learn some military discipline - whether they're ready or not - as the U.S. prepares to enter World War I. It's the spring of 1917 and change is in the air. American women have done something...
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If You Cross the River: A Novel

Geneviève Damas - Milkweed Editions
Format: Paperback

From celebrated Belgian author Genevive Damas, a modern fable about friendship, self-determination, and the power of words. Illiterate, isolated, and held at arm's length by a bitter father, Franois Sorrente has spent his seventeen years within narrow confines. By day he tends the family...
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Body Leaping Backward: Memoir of a Delinquent Girlhood

Maureen Stanton - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

The "mesmerizing . . . daring and important"* story of a risk-taking girlhood spent in a working-class prison town *Andre Dubus IIIFor Maureen Stanton's proper Catholic mother, the town's maximum security prison was a way to keep her seven children in line ("If you don't...
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Ghosts of the Missing

Kathleen Donohoe - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback

In the vein of The Lovely Bones and The Little Friend, Ghosts of the Missing follows the mysterious disappearance of a twelve-year-old girl during a town parade and the reverberations of this tragedy throughout the town. On Saturday, October 28, 1995, a girl vanished....
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Cape May: A Novel

Chip Cheek - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover

"What a treat. Glamorous and nostalgic and very sexy, Cape May is a novel about marriage, lust, shabby seaside towns and lots of gin. Brilliantly unsettling -- one of those books that stays with you." - Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train...
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In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience

Helen Knott - University of Regina Press
Format: Hardcover

Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective. In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds brought on by sexual violence. It is also the story of sisterhood,...
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The Long Flight Home

Alan Hlad - A John Scognamiglio Book
Format: Hardcover

Inspired by fascinating, true, yet little-known events during World War II, The Long Flight Home is a testament to the power of courage in our darkest hours - a moving, masterfully written story of love and sacrifice. It is September 1940 - a year into the war - and as German...
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What God Is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color

Shannon Gibney - Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Paperback

Native women and women of color poignantly share their pain, revelations, and hope after experiencing the traumas of miscarriage and infant loss What God Is Honored Here? is the first book of its kind - and urgently necessary. This is a literary collection of voices of Indigenous women...
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999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz

Heather Dune Macadam - Citadel
Format: Hardcover

On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory...
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Chronicles of a Radical Hag

Lorna Landvik - Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Hardcover

A bittersweet, seriously funny novel of a life, a small town, and a key to our troubled times traced through a newspaper columnist's half-century of taking in, and taking on, the world The curmudgeon who wrote the column "Ramblin's by Walt" in the Granite Creek Gazette...
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The World That We Knew: A Novel

Alice Hoffman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In Berlin in 1941 during humanity's darkest hour, three unforgettable young women must act with courage and love to survive, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Marriage of Opposites Alice Hoffman. In Berlin, at the time when the world...
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Leading Without Authority: How Co-Elevation Is Redefining Collaboration and Transforming Our Teams a Difference

Keith Ferrazzi - Currency
Format: Hardcover

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Never Eat Alone redefines collaboration with a radical new workplace operating system in which leadership no longer demands an office, an official title, or even a physical workplace.
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Today We Go Home: A Novel

Kelli Estes - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback

Seattle, Washington Larkin Bennett has always known her place, whether it's surrounded by her loving family in the lush greenery of the Pacific Northwest or conducting a dusty patrol in Afghanistan. But all of that changed the day tragedy struck her unit and took away everything she held...
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In West Mills

De'Shawn Charles Winslow - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

For readers of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie and The Turner House, an intimately told story about a woman living by her own rules and the rural community that struggles to understand her.Azalea "Knot" Centre is determined to live life as she pleases. Let the people...
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Lost and Wanted: A Novel

Nell Freudenberger - Vintage
Format: Paperback

NATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: VOGUE * FRESH AIRAs a professor of physics at MIT, Helen Clapp disdains notions of the supernatural in favor of rational thought and proven ideas. So it's perhaps especially vexing when, on an otherwise unremarkable Wednesday in June,...
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel

Kim Michele Richardson - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback

The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything -- everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's...
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After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet

Julie Dobrow - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of the extraordinary mother and daughter who brought Emily Dickinson's genius to light.Despite Emily Dickinson's world renown, the story of the two women most responsible for her initial posthumous publication -- Mabel Loomis Todd and her daughter, Millicent Todd...
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In the Night of Memory: A Novel

Linda LeGarde Grover - Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Hardcover

Two lost sisters find family, and themselves, among the voices of an Ojibwe reservation When Loretta surrenders her young girls to the county and then disappears, she becomes one more missing Native woman in Indian Country's long devastating history of loss. But she is also a daughter...
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In Awe: Rediscover Your Childlike Wonder to Unleash Inspiration, Meaning, and Joy

John O'Leary - Currency
Format: Hardcover

The #1 bestselling author of On Fire shows us how to recapture and harness our childlike sense of wonder in order to become more engaged, successful, and fulfilled. There once was a time when we joyfully raised our hands to answer questions, connected easily with others, believed that anything...
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The Daughter's Tale: A Novel

Armando Lucas Correa - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

The internationally bestselling author of The German Girl delivers an unforgettable family saga of love and redemption during World War II, based on the true story of the Nazi massacre of a French village in 1944.New York City, 2015: Elise Duval, eighty years old, receives a phone call...
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Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America

Nefertiti Austin - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

The story every parent in America needs to readThe path to creating a family is almost never easy or straightforward. As a single African American woman, Nefertiti Austin knew her journey would be more challenging than most. Eager to finally join the motherhood ranks, Nefertiti felt discouraged...
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American Dirt: A Novel

Jeanine Cummins - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

Lydia Quixano Prez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly...
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Where the Dead Sit Talking

Brandon Hobson - Soho Press
Format: Paperback

2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FICTION FINALIST Set in rural Oklahoma during the late 1980s, Where the Dead Sit Talking is a stunning and lyrical Native American coming-of-age story. With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with...
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The Yellow Bird Sings: A Novel

Jennifer Rosner - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

The girl is forbidden from making a sound, so the yellow bird sings. He sings whatever the girl composes in her head: high-pitched trills of piccolo; low-throated growls of contrabassoon. The bird chirps all the musical parts save percussion, because the barn rabbits obligingly thump...
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Queen of the Mountaineers: The Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock Workman

Cathryn J. Prince - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover

Fanny Bullock Workman was a complicated and restless woman who defied the rigid Victorian morals she found as restrictive as a corset. With her frizzy brown hair tucked under a helmet, Workman was a force on and off the mountain. Instrumental in breaking the British stranglehold on Himalayan...
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The Game of Kings: Book One in the Legendary Lymond Chronicles

Dorothy Dunnett - Vintage
Format: Paperback

Combining all the political intrigue of Game of Thrones with the sweeping romanticism of Outlander, Dorothy Dunnett's legendary Lymond Chronicles have enthralled readers for decades and amassed legions of devoted fans. The first book in the series introduces Dunnett's unforgettable...
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Reading behind Bars: A Memoir of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian

Jill Grunenwald - Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover

In December 2008, twentysomething Jill Grunenwald graduated with her master's degree in library science, ready to start living her dream of becoming a librarian. But the economy had a different idea. As the Great Recession reared its ugly head, jobs were scarce. After some searching, however,...
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The Scent Keeper: A Novel

Erica Bauermeister - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

Erica Bauermeister, the author of the February Reese's Book Club pick The Scent Keeper, presents a moving and evocative novel about childhood stories, families lost and found, and how a fragrance conjures memories capable of shaping the course of our lives.Emmeline lives on a remote...
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The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women

Mo Moulton - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A group biography of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the Oxford women who stood at the vanguard of equal rights Dorothy L. Sayers is now famous for her Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane detective series, but she was equally well known during her life for an essay asking "Are...
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You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

Kate Murphy - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover

When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you?"An essential book for our times."-Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone"A captivating and enlightening book that provides...
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Mostly Dead Things

Kristen Arnett - Tin House Books
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller"This book is my song of the summer." -- Parul Sehgal, The New York Times A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at Esquire, The Week, BuzzFeed, NYLON, Bustle, HuffPost, The Boston Globe, and more.One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy...
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The Motherhood Affidavits: A Memoir

LAURA JEAN BAKER - The Experiment
Format: Hardcover

"Laura Jean Baker has written a beautiful and brave memoir of motherhood and its discontents, which are indistinguishable from its joys. This is a warmly intimate yet intellectually provocative personal document of originality and considerable charm." - Joyce Carol Oates With...
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Hurricane Season

Nicole Melleby - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

This debut novel - about taking risks and facing danger, about love and art, and about growing up and coming out - will make its way straight into your heart. Fig, a sixth grader, wants more than anything to see the world as her father does. The once-renowned pianist, who hasn't composed...
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The Opposite of Fate

Alison McGhee - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Who gets to choose? When a young woman emerges from a lengthy coma-like state she must face the decisions that were made about her body - without her consent - in this powerful novel of reclamation and hope. Twenty-one-year-old Mallie Williams - scrappy, headstrong, and wise beyond her years...
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The Glittering Hour: A Novel

Iona Grey - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning author Iona Grey's next unforgettable historical about true love found and lost and the secrets we keep from one anotherSelina Lennox is a Bright Young Thing. Her life is a whirl of parties and drinking, pursued by the press and staying on just the right side of scandal,...
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The Freedom Artist

Okri, Ben - Akashic Books
Format: Paperback

"In Okri's dystopian version of our reality, the world is a totalitarian state, ruled by an anonymous but powerful authority known as the Hierarchy. When a woman goes missing after painting a simple question--'Who is the prisoner?'--on a public wall, her lover sets out to find (and...
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Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

Margaret Renkl - Milkweed Editions
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times opinion writer Margaret Renkl comes an unusual, captivating portrait of a family -- and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world. Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads,...
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The Colonel's Wife: A Novel

Rosa Liksom
Format: Paperback


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One Step Ahead: The Counterintuitive Science of Negotiation

David Sally - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Theres been a revolution in negotiating tactics. The worlds best negotiators have moved beyond How to Win Friends & Influence People and Getting to Yes. For over twenty years. David Sally has been teaching the art of negotiation at leading business schools and to executives at top companies....
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Goodbye, My Havana: The Life and Times of a Gringa in Revolutionary Cuba

Anna Veltfort - Redwood Press
Format: Paperback

An eyewitness account of idealism, self-discovery, and loss under one of the twentieth-century's most repressive political regimes Set against a backdrop of world-changing events during the headiest years of the Cuban Revolution, Goodbye, My Havana follows young Connie Veltfort as her once...
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Queenie

Candice Carty-Williams - Gallery/Scout Press
Format: Paperback

NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019 BY WOMAN'S DAY, NEWSDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, BUSTLE, AND BOOK RIOT! "[B]rilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking." - Jojo Moyes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You Bridget Jones's Diary meets Americanah in this...
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Into the Jungle

Erica Ferencik - Gallery/Scout Press
Format: Paperback

In this "hypnotic, violent, unsparing" (A.J. Banner, USA TODAY bestselling author) thriller from the author of the "haunting, twisting thrill ride" (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author) The River at Night, a young woman leaves...
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Twenty-one Truths About Love: A Novel

Matthew Dicks - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

From the beloved author of Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend comes a wonderful new novel about a struggling man, written entirely in lists.Daniel Mayrock's life is at a crossroads. He knows the following to be true:1. He loves his wife Jill... more than anything. 2. He only regrets quitting...
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Real Life

Adeline Dieudonne - World Editions
Format: Paperback

At home there are four bedrooms: one for her, one for her little brother Sam, one for her parents, and one for the carcasses. Her father is a big-game hunter, a powerful predator, and her mother is submissive to her violent husband's demands. The young narrator spends the days with...
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Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In

Phuc Tran - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

For anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong, Sigh, Gone shares an irreverent, funny, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature. In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Phuc Tran immigrates to America...
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Ruby & Roland: A Novel

Faith Sullivan - Milkweed Editions
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Good Night, Mr. Wodehouse and The Cape Ann comes a new tale of resilient womanhood in Harvester, Minnesota. Growing up in early twentieth-century Illinois, Ruby Drake is a happy child. But one winter's night, her beloved parents perish in an accident -- and suddenly...
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House on Fire: A Novel

Bonnie Kistler - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Jodi Picoult and Celeste Ng, a tightly wound and suspenseful novel about a blended family in crisis after a drunk driving accident leaves the daughter of one parent dead - and the son of the other parent charged with manslaughter. Divorce lawyer Leigh Huyett...
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Normal: A Mother and Her Beautiful Son

Magdalena Newman - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A moving memoir from the mother of a child with Treacher Collins Syndrome, with a foreword by R.J. Palacio, author of Wonder For Magda Newman, normal was a goal - she wanted her son Nathaniel to be able to play on the playground, swim at the beach, enjoy the moments of childhood...
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The Tubman Command: A Novel

Elizabeth Cobbs - Arcade
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Hamilton Affair, a novel based on a thrilling chapter of Civil War history and African American history, how Harriet Tubman lead a Union raid to free 750 slaves. It's May 1863. Outgeneraled and outgunned, a demoralized Union Army has pulled back...
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Women Talking

MIRIAM TOEWS - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

"This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid's Tale." Margaret Atwood, on TwitterOne evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these...
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Light from Other Stars

Erika Swyler - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover

From the author of national bestseller The Book of Speculation, a poignant, fantastical novel about the electric combination of ambition and wonder that keeps us reaching toward the heavens. Eleven-year-old Nedda Papas is obsessed with becoming an astronaut. In 1986 in Easter, a small...
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Little Constructions: A Novel

Anna Burns - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback

The darkly comic second novel from the author of the Man Booker Prize winner Milkman, now available in the United StatesIn the small town of Tiptoe Floorboard, the Doe clan, a close-knit family of criminals and victims, has the run of the place. Yet there are signs that patriarch John Doe's...
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#ENTRYLEVELBOSS: How to Get Any Job You Want

Alexa Shoen - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

An easy-to-follow, nine-step process for how to land your dream job and cut through the noise of job-searching in the 21st century. Banging your head against the wall about the job search? Wondering why nobody's even bothering to send you a rejection letter (much less an interview request)...
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Home After Dark: A Novel

David Small
Format: Paperback


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The Girl with the Leica: Based on the true story of the woman behind the name Robert Capa

Helena Janeczek - Europa Editions
Format: Paperback

WINNER The Strega PrizeGerda Taro was a German-Jewish war photographer, anti-fascist activist, artist and innovator who, together with her partner, the Hungarian Endre Friedmann, was one half of the alias Robert Capa, widely considered to be the twentieth century's greatest war and political...
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A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis

Francoise Frenkel - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

WINNER OF THE JQ-WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE "A beautiful and important book" (The Independent) in the tradition of rediscovered works like Suite Franaise and The Nazi Officer's Wife, the prize-winning memoir of a fearless Jewish bookseller on a harrowing...
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A Change of Time

Ida Jessen - Archipelago
Format: Paperback

A penetrating study of a woman who, in the wake of her domineering husband's death, must embrace her newfound freedom and redefine herself.Set in rural Denmark in the early 20th century, A Change of Time tells the story of a schoolteacher whose husband, the town doctor, has passed away....
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Things that Fall from the Sky

Selja Ahava - Oneworld Publications
Format: Hardcover

One quirk of fate can send life spiralling in the most unexpected direction ... Things that Fall from the Sky is a stunning narrative that explores the unexpected and inexplicable nature of reality. Three lives are changed forever by a series of random events: a young girl loses her mother...
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Barn 8

Deb Olin Unferth - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback

Two auditors for the U.S. egg industry go rogue and conceive a plot to steal a million chickens in the middle of the nightan entire egg farms worth of animals. Janey and Clevelanda spirited former runaway and the officious head of auditsassemble a precarious, quarrelsome team and descend...
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Check In at the Pine Away Motel: A Novel

Katarina Bivald - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback

The Pine Creek Motel has seen better days. Henny would call it charming, but she's always seen the best in things. Like now, when she's just met an untimely end crossing the road. She's not going to let a tiny thing like death stop her from living fullynot when her friends and family need...
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The Winemaker's Wife

Kristin Harmel - Gallery Books
Format: Paperback

Champagne, 1940: Ins has just married Michel, the owner of storied champagne house Maison Chauveau, when the Germans invade. As the danger mounts, Michel turns his back on his marriage to begin hiding munitions for the Resistance. Ines fears they'll be exposed, but for Celine, the French-Jewish...
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