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Intermezzo: A Novel

Sally Rooney · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. . Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. . Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties -- successful, competent, and apparently unassailable....
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The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, From the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement

Sharon McMahon · Thesis
Format: Hardcover

From America's favorite government teacher, a heartfelt, inspiring portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country.. In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn't...
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Colored Television: A Novel

Danzy Senna · Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"A riveting and exhilarating novel about making art and selling out ... Senna is one of this country's most thrilling writers." -Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind. A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial- identity-industrial...
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Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden

Bill O'Reilly · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Every American president, from Washington to Biden: Their lives, policies, foibles, and legacies, assessed with clear-eyed authority and wit.. Authors of the acclaimed Killing books, the #1 bestselling narrative history series in the world, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard begin a new direction...
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Counting Miracles: A Novel

Nicholas Sparks · Random House
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Longest Ride and The Notebook comes an emotional, powerful novel about wondering if we can change - or even make our peace with - the path we've taken. Tanner Hughes was raised by his grandparents, following in his grandfather's military footsteps...
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Targeted: Beirut: The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror

Jack Carr · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Format: Hardcover

The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that changed the course of history from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott, beginning with the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut.. 1983:...
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Here One Moment

Liane Moriarty · Crown
Format: Hardcover

If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate?Aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed. Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight,...
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Yuval Noah Harari · Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite allour discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find...
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Playground: A Novel

Richard Powers · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory and Bewilderment.Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height...
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The Forever War: America's Unending Conflict With Itself

Nick Bryant · Bloomsbury Continuum
Format: Hardcover

From the author of When America Stopped Being Great, an insightful and urgent reassessment of America's past, present and future - as a country which is forever at war with itself.. The Forever War tells the story of how America's extreme polarisation is 250 years in the making,...
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