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The Women: A Novel

Kristin Hannah · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The missing. The forgotten. The brave ... The women. . From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, comes the story of a turbulent, transformative era in America: the 1960s. The Women is that rarest of novels -- at once...
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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton · Legacy Lit
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation's last segregated asylums, told by an award-winning journalist on her decade-long search for sanity in America's mental healthcare system. . On a cold...
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Good Material: A novel

Dolly Alderton · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and friendship and how to survive both. Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he can't work out why she stopped.. Now he is. . .. Without a home. Waiting for his stand-up career...
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Energy Follows Thought: The Stories Behind My Songs

Willie Nelson · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

For the first time ever, and to help celebrate his 90th birthday in 2023, American icon Willie Nelson provides the stories behind the lyrics of 160 of his favorite songs, along with a dynamic assortment of never-before-seen photos and ephemera.From his earliest work in the 1950s to today,...
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The Teacher

Freida McFadden · Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Paperback

A mind-bending, psychological thriller from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Housemaid!Lesson #1: trust no oneEve has a good life. She gets up each day, gets a kiss from her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should...
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The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

Michael Wolraich · Union Square & Co.
Format: Hardcover

The riveting story of how the murder of femme fatale Vivian Gordon in 1931 brought about the downfall of the mayor of New York City and led to the end of Tammany Hall's dominance. Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning...
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The Ghost Orchid: An Alex Delaware Novel

Jonathan Kellerman · Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

Psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis confront a baffling, vicious double homicide that leads them to long-buried secrets worth killing for in the riveting thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling "master of suspense" (Los Angeles Times) .. LAPD homicide...
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5 Ingredients Mediterranean: Simple Incredible Food [American Measurements]

Jamie Oliver · Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

With over 125 utterly delicious, easy-to-follow recipes, it’s all about making everyday cooking super-exciting, with minimal fuss – all while transporting you to sunnier climes. You'll find recipes to empower you to make incredibly delicious food, but without copious amounts of ingredients,...
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Leaving: A Novel

Roxana Robinson · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again?"I never thought I'd see you here," Sarah says. Then she adds, "But I never thought I'd see you anywhere."Sarah and Warren's college love story ended in a single moment. Decades later, when a chance...
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November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of World War II

Peter Englund · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

An intimate history of the most important month of World War II, completely based on the diaries, letters and memoirs of the people who lived through it. At the beginning of November 1942, it looked as if the Axis powers could still win the Second World War; at the end of that month, it was obviously...
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We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience

Lyndsey Stonebridge · Hogarth
Format: Hardcover

A timely guide on how to live - and think - through the challenges of our century drawn from the life and thought of political theorist Hannah Arendt, one of the twentieth century's foremost opponents of totalitarianism. "We are free to change the world and to start something new in it."...
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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta · Harper
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning journalist and staff writer for The Atlantic follows up his New York Times bestseller American Carnage with this timely, rigorously reported, and deeply personal examination of the divisions that threaten to destroy the American evangelical movement.Evangelical Christians...
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