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Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber By Andy Borowitz Cover Image
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Published: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster - September 13th, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER *WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER *

Andy Borowitz, “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly “chronicles our embrace of anti-intellectualism” (Walter Isaacson) in American politics, from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle, from George W.


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When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice By Terry Tempest Williams Cover Image
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Published: Picador - February 26th, 2013

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year

"Brilliant, meditative, and full of surprises, wisdom, and wonder."—Ann Lamott, author of Imperfect Birds


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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir By Ai Weiwei, Allan H. Barr (Translated by) Cover Image
By Ai Weiwei, Allan H. Barr (Translated by)
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Published: Crown - September 13th, 2022

The “intimate and expansive” (Time) memoir of “one of the most important artists working in the world today” (Financial Times), telling a remarkable history of China over the last hundred years while also illuminating his artistic process
 


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Tracy Flick Can't Win: A Novel By Tom Perrotta Cover Image
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Published: Scribner - June 7th, 2022

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Reese Witherspoon

“Tom Perrotta is…one of the great writers that we have today.


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The Violin Conspiracy: A Novel By Brendan Slocumb Cover Image
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Published: Vintage - December 6th, 2022

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! • Ray McMillian is a Black classical musician on the rise—undeterred by the pressure and prejudice of the classical music worldwhen a shocking theft sends him on a desperate quest to recover his great-great-grandfather’s heirloom violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world.


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Solito: A Memoir By Javier Zamora Cover Image
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Published: Hogarth - September 6th, 2022

New York Times Bestseller • Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography • Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award


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The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women's Self Portraits By Jennifer Higgie Cover Image
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Published: Pegasus Books - September 13th, 2022

A dazzlingly original and ambitious book on the history of female self-portraiture by one of today's most well-respected art critics.

Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo, Loïs Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher-Gil en route to Mexico City, Paris or Bombay.


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All the Lonely People By Mike Gayle Cover Image
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - August 2nd, 2022

In this "warm, funny" novel (Good Housekeeping), Jamaican immigrant Hubert Bird rediscovers the world he'd once turned his back on as he learns to find happiness after staying in isolation for so long.

In weekly phone calls to his daughter in Australia, widower Hubert Bird paints a picture of the perfect retirement, packed with fun, friendship, and fulfillment.


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The Council of Animals: A Novel By Nick McDonell, Steven Tabbutt (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Nick McDonell, Steven Tabbutt (Illustrator)
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Published: Holt Paperbacks - July 19th, 2022

From national bestselling author Nick McDonell, The Council of Animals is a captivating fable for humans of all ages—dreamers and cynics alike—who believe (if nothing else) in the power of timeless storytelling.


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The Roxy Letters: A Novel By Mary Pauline Lowry Cover Image
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Published: Simon & Schuster - April 6th, 2021

Meet Roxy. For fans of Where’d You Go, Bernadette and Bridget Jones’s Diary comes “just the kind of comic novel we need right now” (The Washington Post) about an Austin artist trying to figure out her life one letter to her ex-boyfriend at a time.

Bridget Jones penned a diary; Roxy writes letters.


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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion By Jia Tolentino Cover Image
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - July 14th, 2020

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—Esquire
 


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Beach Read By Emily Henry Cover Image
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Published: Berkley - May 19th, 2020

FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION AND BOOK LOVERS!

A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.


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Jellicoe Road By Melina Marchetta Cover Image
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Published: HarperTeen - April 27th, 2021

Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award * ALA Best Book for Young Adults * Kirkus Best Book


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Tokyo Ever After: A Novel By Emiko Jean Cover Image
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Published: Flatiron Books - May 18th, 2021

Emiko Jean’s New York Times bestseller and Reese Book Club Pick Tokyo Ever After is the “refreshing, spot-on” (Booklist, starred review) story of an ordinary Japanese American girl who discovers that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan!


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Homeland Elegies: A Novel By Ayad Akhtar Cover Image
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Published: Back Bay Books - May 25th, 2021

This "beautiful novel . . .


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Big Girl, Small Town By Michelle Gallen Cover Image
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Published: Algonquin Books - December 1st, 2020

“An immensely lovable debut novel . .


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Mostly Dead Things By Kristen Arnett Cover Image
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Published: Tin House Books - April 21st, 2020

The celebrated New York Times Bestseller

A Best Book of the Year pick at the New York TimesNPRThe New YorkerTIMEWashington PostOprahmag.comThrillistShelf Awareness, Good Housekeeping and more.


The Salt Path: A Memoir By Raynor Winn Cover Image
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Published: Penguin Books - March 5th, 2019

"Polished, poignant... an inspiring story of true love."Entertainment Weekly

A BEST BOOK OF 2019, NPR's Book Concierge
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARD
OVER 400,000 COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE

The true story of a couple who lost everything and embarked on a transformative journey walking the South West Coast Path in England


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Notes to Self: Essays By Emilie Pine Cover Image
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Published: Dial Press Trade Paperback - June 11th, 2019

The international sensation that illuminates the experiences women are supposed to hide—from addiction, anger, sexual assault, and infertility to joy, sensuality, and love.


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Ariadne: A Novel By Jennifer Saint Cover Image
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Published: Flatiron Books - May 4th, 2021

A mesmerizing debut novel for fans of Madeline Miller's Circe.

Ariadne, Princess of Crete, grows up greeting the dawn from her beautiful dancing floor and listening to her nursemaid’s stories of gods and heroes. But beneath her golden palace echo the ever-present hoofbeats of her brother, the Minotaur, a monster who demands blood sacrifice.


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Circe By Madeline Miller Cover Image
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Published: Back Bay Books - April 14th, 2020

This #1 New York Times bestseller is a "bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story" that brilliantly reimagines the life of Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey (Alexandra Alter, TheNew York Times).

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born.


Utopia Avenue: A Novel By David Mitchell Cover Image
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - May 4th, 2021

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks.


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Picnic In the Ruins By Todd Robert Petersen Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781640093225
Published: Counterpoint - January 5th, 2021

Named Best Mystery Thriller in the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards
 
"Part mystery; part quirky, darkly funny, mayhem-filled thriller; and part meditation on what it means to 'own' land, artifacts, and the narrative of history in the West . . . A fast-paced, highly entertaining hybrid of Tony Hillerman and Edward Abbey." --Kirkus Reviews


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Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change By Maggie Smith Cover Image
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Published: Atria/One Signal Publishers - October 6th, 2020

The NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the author of YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL

“A meditation on kindness and hope, and how to move forward through grief.” —NPR
“A shining reminder to learn all we can from this moment, rebuilding ourselves in the darkness so that we may come out wiser, kinder, and stronger on the other side.”


Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention By Ben Wilson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780385543460
Published: Doubleday - November 10th, 2020

In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind's greatest innovations.
 
“A towering achievement.... Reading this book is like visiting an exhilarating city for the first time—dazzling.” —The Wall Street Journal


Underland: A Deep Time Journey By Robert Macfarlane Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780393358094
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - August 18th, 2020

National Bestseller • New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year" • NPR "Favorite Books of 2019" • Guardian "100 Best Books of the 21st Century" • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award

"Mesmerizing…Underland is a portal of light in dark times." —Terry Tempest Williams, New York Times Book Review


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Southern Lady Code: Essays By Helen Ellis Cover Image
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Published: Anchor - April 28th, 2020

A collection of essays that are "like being seated beside the most entertaining guest at a dinner party" (Atlanta Journal Constitution)—from the New York Times bestselling author of American Housewives


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The Travelers: A Novel By Regina Porter Cover Image
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Published: Hogarth - September 1st, 2020

“American history comes to vivid, engaging life in this tale of two interconnected families (one white, one black) that spans from the 1950s to Barack Obama’s first year as president. . . . The complex, beautifully drawn characters are unique and indelible.”—Entertainment Weekly


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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires: A Novel By Grady Hendrix Cover Image
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Published: Quirk Books - April 7th, 2020

“This funny and fresh take on a classic tale manages to comment on gender roles, racial disparities, and white privilege all while creeping me all the way out. So good.”—Zakiya Dalila Harris, author of The Other Black Girl


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The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep: A Novel By H. G. Parry Cover Image
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Published: Redhook - January 21st, 2020

The ultimate book-lovers fantasy, this sparkling debut is a "delight of magic and literature, love and adventure" (Kat Howard) featuring a young scholar with the power to bring literary characters into the world. For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can't quite control: He can bring characters from books into the real world. But


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Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was A Girl: A Memoir By Jeannie Vanasco Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781951142032
Published: Tin House Books - August 11th, 2020

A New York Times Editors’ Choice and Best Book of the Year at TIME, Esquire, Amazon, Kirkus, and Electric Literature


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If You Cross the River By Geneviève Damas, Jody Gladding (Translator) Cover Image
By Geneviève Damas, Jody Gladding (Translator)
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Published: Milkweed Editions - May 14th, 2019

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE

From celebrated Belgian author Genevi ve Damas, a modern fable about friendship, self-determination, and the power of words.


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Dear Reader: A Novel By Mary O'Connell Cover Image
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Published: Flatiron Books - December 4th, 2018

“Imaginative, exhilarating, genre-bending, and one of the best YA novels of the year.” —BookRiot

“An audacious tale. Like much classic literature and like growing up, reading this immersive novel is all about the experience.The Horn Book

An IndieNext Pick!


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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art By James Nestor Cover Image
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Published: Riverhead Books - May 26th, 2020

A New York Times Bestseller

A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020

Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR
 


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A Year in the Merde By Stephen Clarke Cover Image
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Published: Bloomsbury USA - May 1st, 2006

Based on Stephen Clarke's own experiences and with names changed to "avoid embarrassment, possible legal action, and to prevent the author's legs being broken by someone in a Yves Saint Laurent suit," A Year in the Merde provides perfect entertainment for Francophiles and Francophobes alike.


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Down Along with That Devil's Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy By Connor Towne O'Neill Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781616209100
Published: Algonquin Books - September 29th, 2020

ESSENTIAL ANTIRACIST READING

“We can no longer see ourselves as minor spectators or weary watchers of history a­fter finishing this astonishing work of nonfiction.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy

 
Connor Towne O’Neill’s journey onto the battlefield of white supremacy began with a visit to Selma, Alabama, in 2015.


Larry Miller Time: The Story of the Lost Legend Who Sparked the Tar Heel Dynasty By Stephen Demorest, Larry Miller Cover Image
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Published: BookBaby - September 7th, 2020

LARRY MILLER is the tough-as-nails, fun-loving, working class bad boy who in the 1960s saved young North Carolina coach Dean Smith's job by winning his first two ACC titles and a trip to the National Championship game. A two-time All American, Miller is still the only Tar Heel ever named ACC Player of the Year twice.


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Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures By Nick Pyenson Cover Image
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Published: Penguin Books - June 25th, 2019

“A palaeontological howdunnit…[Spying on Whales] captures the excitement of…seeking answers to deep questions in cetacean science.” —Nature
 


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Transcription: A Novel By Kate Atkinson Cover Image
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Published: Back Bay Books - April 23rd, 2019

A dramatic story of WWII espionage, betrayal, and loyalty, by the #1 bestselling author of Life After Life


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Blue Marlin By Lee Smith Cover Image
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Published: Blair - April 21st, 2020

On a patched-up family vacation to Key West, a young girl seeks out movie stars and redemption for her fractured family.

Lee Smith brings her masterful storytelling magic to this jewel of a novella that follows Jenny, an adventurous thirteen-year-old, down to Key West for a patched-up family vacation following the discovery of her father's illicit affair.


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The Hotel Neversink By Adam O'Fallon Price Cover Image
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Published: Tin House Books - August 6th, 2019

A 2020 Edgar Award Winner!

"A gripping, atmospheric, heart-breaking, almost-ghost story. Not since Stephen King's Overlook has a hotel hiding a secret been brought to such vivid life." —Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden State


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My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel By Oyinkan Braithwaite Cover Image
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Published: Anchor - July 30th, 2019

WINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR MYSTERY/THRILLER • BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE “A taut and darkly funny contemporary noir that moves at lightning speed, it’s the wittiest and most fun murder party you’ve ever been invited to.” —MARIE CLAIRE


Running with Sherman: How a Rescue Donkey Inspired a Rag-tag Gang of Runners to Enter the Craziest Race in America By Christopher McDougall Cover Image
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Published: Vintage - July 28th, 2020

From the bestselling author of Born to Run, a heartwarming story about training a rescue donkey to run one of the most challenging races in America, and, in the process, discovering the life-changing power of the human-animal connection.


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The Half-Drowned King: A Novel (The Golden Wolf Saga #1) By Linnea Hartsuyker Cover Image
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Published: Harper Paperbacks - June 26th, 2018

"Linnea Hartsuyker brings myth and legend roaring to life in this superbly good page-turning saga of Viking-era Norway. The book’s fiercest magic shines in the characters of Ragnvald and Svanhild, as unforgettable a brother and sister duo as I can remember.


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All This Could Be Yours By Jami Attenberg Cover Image
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Published: Ecco - September 15th, 2020

From critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a novel of family secrets: think the drama of Big Little Lies set in the heat of a New Orleans summer.

“If I know why they are the way they are, then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am,” says Alex Tuchman of her parents.


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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland By Patrick Radden Keefe Cover Image
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Published: Anchor - February 25th, 2020

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Empire of Pain—a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions.


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The Silence of the Girls: A Novel By Pat Barker Cover Image
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Published: Anchor - August 27th, 2019

A Washington Post Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, The Economist, Financial Times
 
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award
Finalist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction


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Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters By Mark Dunn Cover Image
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Published: Anchor - September 17th, 2002

A hilarious and moving story of one girl’s fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere


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Parakeet: A Novel By Marie-Helene Bertino Cover Image
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Published: Picador - June 1st, 2021

A Best Book of 2020 at Lit Hub, Electric Literature, and Refinery29
A Best Book of Summer at Vulture, Refinery29, Yahoo! Life, Alma, Subway Book Review, and Lit Hub
A Best Book of the Month at Entertainment Weekly, Hello Giggles, and PopSugar


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The Knockout Queen: A novel (Vintage Contemporaries) By Rufi Thorpe Cover Image
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Published: Vintage - March 2nd, 2021

A Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
An InStyle Best Book of the Year
A Refinery29 Best Book of the Year


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Greenwood: A Novel By Michael Christie Cover Image
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Published: Hogarth - February 9th, 2021

A magnificent generational saga that charts a family’s rise and fall, its secrets and inherited crimes, from one of Canada’s most acclaimed novelists


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Topics of Conversation: A novel By Miranda Popkey Cover Image
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Published: Vintage - March 9th, 2021

A compact tour de force about sex, violence, and self-loathing from a ferociously talented new voice in fiction, perfect for fans of Sally Rooney, Rachel Cusk, Lydia Davis, and Jenny Offill.

“Shrewd and sensual, Popkey's debut carries the scintillating charge of a long-overdue girls' night." —O, The Oprah Magazine
 


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Unlikely Animals: A Novel By Annie Hartnett Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780593160220
Published: Ballantine Books - April 12th, 2022

“This tragicomic novel is heartfelt, touching, and delightfully quirky. You’ll fall in love with the offbeat cast of characters (both living and dead) and find yourself rooting for them right through the last page.”—Good Housekeeping (Book Club pick)


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Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel By Bonnie Garmus Cover Image
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Published: Doubleday - April 5th, 2022

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GMA BOOK CLUB PICK Meet Elizabeth Zott: “a gifted research chemist, absurdly self-assured and immune to social convention” (The Washington Post) in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show.


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City of Thieves: A Novel By David Benioff Cover Image
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Published: Penguin Books - March 31st, 2009

From the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour and When the Nines Roll Over and co-creator of the HBO series Game of Thrones, a captivating novel about war, courage, survival — and a remarkable friendship that ripples across a lifetime.


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Smashed: Junji Ito Story Collection By Junji Ito Cover Image
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Published: VIZ Media LLC - April 16th, 2019

Thirteen chilling nightmares, presented by the master of horror.

Try not to be noticed when you eat the secret nectar, otherwise you’ll get smashed… What horrific events happened to create the earthbound—people tied to a certain place for the rest of their short lives?


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Stitches: A Memoir By David Small Cover Image
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 13th, 2010

The #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist that "breaks new ground for graphic novels" (Francois Mouly, art editor, The New Yorker).


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The Swimmers: A novel By Julie Otsuka Cover Image
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Published: Knopf - February 22nd, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE WINNER From the award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel that "starts as a catalogue of spoken and unspoken rules for swimmers at an aquatic center but unfolds into a powerful story of a mother’s dementia and her daughter’s love" (The Wa


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Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don't Know What You're Eating and What You Can Do About It By Larry Olmsted Cover Image
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Published: Algonquin Books - October 3rd, 2017

“Olmsted makes you insanely hungry and steaming mad--a must-read for anyone who cares deeply about the safety of our food and the welfare of our planet.” —Steven Raichlen, author of the Barbecue! Bible series

“The world is full of delicious, lovingly crafted foods that embody the terrain, weather, and culture of their origins.


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The Sentence By Louise Erdrich Cover Image
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Published: Harper - November 9th, 2021

"Dazzling. . . . A hard-won love letter to readers and to booksellers, as well as a compelling story about how we cope with pain and fear, injustice and illness. One good way is to press a beloved book into another's hands. Read The Sentence and then do just that."—USA Today, Four Stars


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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture By Roxane Gay Cover Image
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Published: Harper Perennial - May 1st, 2018

New York Times Bestseller

Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays from writers including Gabrielle Union, Brandon Taylor, and Lyz Lenz tackles rape, assault, and harassment head-on.


New and Selected Poems, Volume Two By Mary Oliver Cover Image
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Published: Beacon Press - April 15th, 2007

Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-two new poems-an entire volume in itself-along with works chosen by Oliver from six of the books she has published since New and Selected Poems, Volume One.


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And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories and Other Revenges By Amber Sparks Cover Image
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Published: Liveright - April 6th, 2021

Amber Sparks holds her crown in the canon of the weird with this fantastical collection of “eye-popping range” (John Domini, Washington Post).


Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) By Jonathan Lethem Cover Image
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Published: Vintage - October 24th, 2000

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America's most inventive novelist.


The Sugar Queen: A Novel By Sarah Addison Allen Cover Image
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Published: Bantam - April 14th, 2009

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this irresistible novel, Sarah Addison Allen, author of the bestselling debut, Garden Spells, tells the tale of a young woman whose family secrets—and secret passions—are about to change her life forever.


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The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel By Adam Johnson Cover Image
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - August 7th, 2012

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling novel of North Korea: an epic journey into the heart of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship.

“Imagine Charles Dickens paying a visit to Pyongyang, and you see the canvas on which [Adam] Johnson is painting here.”—The Washington Post


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Finlay Donovan Is Killing It: A Novel (The Finlay Donovan Series #1) By Elle Cosimano Cover Image
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Published: Minotaur Books - January 4th, 2022

"Getting the job done" for one single mom takes on a whole new meaning in Finlay Donovan is Killing It.

A USA Today bestseller!
One of Suspense Magazine's "Best Thrillers of 2021"
One of New York Public Library's Best Books of 2021
Nominated for the Left Coast Crime 2022 Lefty Award for the Best Humorous Mystery


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A Certain Hunger By Chelsea G. Summers Cover Image
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Published: Unnamed Press - October 18th, 2021

One of Vanity Fair's Books That Will Get You Through This Winter
"One of the most uniquely fun and campily gory books in my recent memory... A Certain Hunger has the voice of a hard-boiled detective novel, as if metaphor-happy Raymond Chandler handed the reins over to the sexed-up femme fatale and really let her fly. --The New York Times


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Memento Mori By Muriel Spark Cover Image
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Published: New Directions - May 27th, 2014

Poignant, hilarious, and spooky, Memento Mori addresses old age

In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone reminds each: Remember you must die. Their geriatric feathers are soon thoroughly ruffled, and many an old unsavory secret is dusted off.


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Girls Write Now: Two Decades of True Stories from Young Female Voices By Girls Write Now (Contributions by) Cover Image
By Girls Write Now (Contributions by)
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Published: Tin House Books - October 16th, 2018

"Important work . . . A beautiful example of what happens when you let girls write and share it with the world." — Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Teen Vogue


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Appleseed: A Novel By Matt Bell Cover Image
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Published: Mariner Books - July 5th, 2022

“Woven together out of the strands of myth, science fiction, and ecological warning, Matt Bell’s Appleseed is as urgent as it is audacious.” —Kelly Link, Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestselling author of Get in Trouble


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A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost By Frye Gaillard Cover Image
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Published: NewSouth Books - August 28th, 2018

"There are many different ways to remember the sixties," Frye Gaillard writes, "and this is mine. There was in these years the sense of a steady unfolding of time, as if history were on a forced march, and the changes spread to every corner of our lives. As future generations debate the meaning of the decade, I hope to offer a sense of how it felt to have lived it.


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Having and Being Had By Eula Biss Cover Image
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Published: Riverhead Books - August 31st, 2021

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS CHOICE

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME , NPR, INSTYLE, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING


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Envelope Poems By Emily Dickinson, Jen Bervin (Editor), Marta Werner (Editor) Cover Image
By Emily Dickinson, Jen Bervin (Editor), Marta Werner (Editor)
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Published: New Directions - October 4th, 2016

Another gorgeous copublication with the Christine Burgin Gallery, Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems is a compact clothbound gift book, a full-color selection from The Gorgeous Nothings. 


A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail By Bill Bryson Cover Image
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Published: Crown - May 4th, 1999

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body
 


Razzmatazz: A Novel By Christopher Moore Cover Image
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Published: William Morrow - May 17th, 2022

New York Times Bestseller

“Smart and funny and all sorts of raunchy in the best way.” — San Francisco Chronicle


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Bombshell: A Hell's Belles Novel By Sarah MacLean Cover Image
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Published: Avon - August 24th, 2021

New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean returns with a blazingly sexy, unapologetically feminist new series, Hell’s Belles, beginning with a bold, bombshell of a heroine, able to dispose of a scoundrel—or seduce one—in a single night.


The Cello Suites: J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece By Eric Siblin Cover Image
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Published: Grove Press - January 4th, 2011

One evening, journalist Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites and began an epic quest that would unravel three centuries of intrigue, politics, and passion.


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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland By Patrick Radden Keefe Cover Image
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Published: Anchor - February 25th, 2020

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Empire of Pain—a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions.


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No One Is Talking About This: A Novel By Patricia Lockwood Cover Image
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Published: Riverhead Books - February 15th, 2022

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE & A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2021
WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE
  
“A book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, witty and, eventually, deeply moving.”New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice


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My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy #1) By Stephen Graham Jones Cover Image
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Published: Gallery / Saga Press - March 29th, 2022

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel

In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest chilling novel that “will give you nightmares.


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Sad Janet: A Novel By Lucie Britsch Cover Image
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Published: Riverhead Books - June 15th, 2021

Named one of the Best Books of the Summer by Lit Hub, The Millions, Refinery29, and Hey Alma.

“Hilarious, wise, wicked, and tender.” —Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, The New York Timesbestselling author of The Nest


Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang By Ken Croke, Dave Wedge Cover Image
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Published: William Morrow - March 15th, 2022

Sons of Anarchy meets The Departed in this fast-paced, high-wire act memoir from former ATF agent Ken Croke, the first federal agent in history to go undercover and successfully infiltrate the infamous—and infamously violent—Pagan Motorcycle Club, a white supremacist biker gang.  


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Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Read with Jenna Pick By Shelby Van Pelt Cover Image
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Published: Ecco - May 3rd, 2022

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF SUMMER by: Chicago Tribune * The View * Southern Living * USA Today


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The Candy House: A Novel By Jennifer Egan Cover Image
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Published: Scribner - April 5th, 2022

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

ONE of the TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR by THE NEW YORK TIMES * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * SLATE* THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER *

Also named one of the BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by Vanity Fair, Time, NPR, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Self, Vogue, The New Yorker, BBC, Vulture, and many more!

OLIVIA


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Beyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt By Phoebe Zerwick Cover Image
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Published: Atlantic Monthly Press - March 8th, 2022

A deeply reported, gripping narrative of injustice, exoneration, and the lifelong impact of incarceration, Beyond Innocence is the poignant saga of one remarkable life that sheds vitally important light on the failures of the American justice system at every levelIn June 1985, a young Black man in Winston-Salem, N.C.


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Book Lovers By Emily Henry Cover Image
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Published: Berkley - May 3rd, 2022

“One of my favorite authors.”—Colleen Hoover

An insightful, delightful, instant #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation.


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Super Host By Kate Russo Cover Image
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - April 5th, 2022

“Get ready to smile….[A] sweet story and the perfect antidote to the chaos that’s been 2021.” –the Skimm

A deeply funny and shrewdly observed debut novel about being lost in the very place you know by heart.


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A Good Neighborhood: A Novel By Therese Anne Fowler Cover Image
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - March 2nd, 2021

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * One of NPR's Best Books of 2020

"A provocative, absorbing read."
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Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship By Catherine Raven Cover Image
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Published: Spiegel & Grau - June 28th, 2022

Winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award * 2022 Nautilus Book Awards Gold Winner * Shortlisted for the John Burroughs Medal * Finalist for the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize * Shortlisted for a Reading the West Book Award


Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel By Maria Semple Cover Image
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Published: Back Bay Books - April 2nd, 2013

A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this "whip-smart and divinely funny" novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times).


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Men Explain Things to Me By Rebecca Solnit Cover Image
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Published: Haymarket Books - September 1st, 2015

"This slim book--seven essays, punctuated by enigmatic, haunting paintings by Ana Teresa Fernandez--hums with power and wit."--Boston Globe

"The antidote to mansplaining."--The Stranger

"Feminist, frequently funny, unflinchingly honest and often scathing in its conclusions."--Salon


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The Sentence By Louise Erdrich Cover Image
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Published: Harper - November 9th, 2021

"Dazzling. . . . A hard-won love letter to readers and to booksellers, as well as a compelling story about how we cope with pain and fear, injustice and illness. One good way is to press a beloved book into another's hands. Read The Sentence and then do just that."—USA Today, Four Stars


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Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In By Phuc Tran Cover Image
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Published: Flatiron Books - April 5th, 2022

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.


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Don't Know Tough By Eli Cranor Cover Image
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Published: Soho Crime - March 22nd, 2022

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD
WINNER OF THE PETER LOVESEY FIRST CRIME NOVEL CONTEST

Friday Night Lights gone dark with Southern Gothic; Eli Cranor delivers a powerful noir that will appeal to fans of Wiley Cash and Megan Abbott.


Only Killers and Thieves: A Novel By Paul Howarth Cover Image
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Published: Harper Perennial - December 4th, 2018

"Powerful. . . . Paul Howarth brings early Australia to life, bloody warts and all, in an epic tale of murder, revenge, and colonial oppression, with very little room for redemption. The story and his words will stay with you, long after you have finished the book.” — New York Review of Books


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The Song of Achilles: A Novel By Madeline Miller Cover Image
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Published: Ecco - August 28th, 2012

A New York Times Bestseller

“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art….A book I could not put down.” —Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House


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A Thousand Ships: A Novel By Natalie Haynes Cover Image
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Published: Harper Perennial - November 9th, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

An NPR Best Book of the Year

“Gorgeous.... With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War.”—Madeline Miller, author of Circe


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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants By Robin Wall Kimmerer Cover Image
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Published: Milkweed Editions - August 11th, 2015

A New York Times bestseller
A Washington Post bestseller
A Los Angeles Times bestseller
Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary Hub
A Book Riot "Favorite Summer Read of 2020"


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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest By Suzanne Simard Cover Image
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Published: Knopf - May 4th, 2021

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery


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Matrix: A Novel By Lauren Groff Cover Image
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Published: Riverhead Books - September 7th, 2021

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

WINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION

One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021


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Hamnet By Maggie O'Farrell Cover Image
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Published: Vintage - May 18th, 2021

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait delivers a luminous portrait of a marriage, a family ravaged by grief, and a boy whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time.


Wilmington's Lie (Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize): The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy By David Zucchino Cover Image
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Published: Grove Press - January 19th, 2021

WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION

From Pulitzer Prize-winner David Zucchino comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup of 1898, an extraordinary event unknown to most Americans.


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Life After Windows By Inez Ribustello Cover Image
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Published: Redwood Publishing, LLC - September 11th, 2021

What happens when the life you've always dreamed of disappears in the blink of an eye?


For Inez Ribustello, that day came twenty years ago on September 11th, 2001.



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Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong (Indigenous Americas) By Paul Chaat Smith Cover Image
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Published: Univ Of Minnesota Press - April 14th, 2009

In this sweeping work of memoir and commentary, leading cultural critic Paul Chaat Smith illustrates with dry wit and brutal honesty the contradictions of life in “the Indian business.” 

Raised in suburban Maryland and Oklahoma, Smith dove head first into the political radicalism of the 1970s, working with the American Indian Movement until it dissolved into dysfunction and


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How Beautiful We Were: A Novel By Imbolo Mbue Cover Image
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - February 1st, 2022

A fearless young woman from a small African village starts a revolution against an American oil company in this sweeping, inspiring novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers.


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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel By Robin Sloan Cover Image
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Published: Picador - September 24th, 2013

The New York Times Bestseller

A Winner of the Alex Award, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco Chronicle


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Parakeet: A Novel By Marie-Helene Bertino Cover Image
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Published: Picador - June 1st, 2021

A Best Book of 2020 at Lit Hub, Electric Literature, and Refinery29
A Best Book of Summer at Vulture, Refinery29, Yahoo! Life, Alma, Subway Book Review, and Lit Hub
A Best Book of the Month at Entertainment Weekly, Hello Giggles, and PopSugar


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People We Meet on Vacation By Emily Henry Cover Image
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Published: Berkley - May 11th, 2021

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers and Beach Read comes a sparkling novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations.

Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.


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The Book of Accidents: A Novel By Chuck Wendig Cover Image
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Published: Del Rey - March 15th, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A family returns to their hometown—and to the dark past that haunts them still—in this masterpiece of literary horror by the New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers


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Tuff: A Novel By Paul Beatty Cover Image
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Published: Picador - July 13th, 2021

From Paul Beatty, the author of the Man Booker Prize winner The Sellout, comes Tuff, a novel as fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays.


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Down Along with That Devil's Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy By Connor Towne O'Neill Cover Image
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Published: Algonquin Books - September 28th, 2021

“We can no longer see ourselves as minor spectators or weary watchers of history a­fter finishing this astonishing work of nonfiction.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy
 
Connor Towne O’Neill’s journey onto the battlefield of white supremacy began with a visit to Selma, Alabama, in 2015.


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The Liquor Vicar By Vince R. Ditrich Cover Image
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Published: Dundurn Press - September 14th, 2021

Meet Tony Vicar: failed rockstar-turned-DJ, small-town curmudgeon, and ... miracle worker?


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All This Could Be Yours By Jami Attenberg Cover Image
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Published: Ecco - September 15th, 2020

From critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a novel of family secrets: think the drama of Big Little Lies set in the heat of a New Orleans summer.

“If I know why they are the way they are, then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am,” says Alex Tuchman of her parents.