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Rules for Visiting

A Novel

by Jessica Francis Kane

PENGUIN GROUP The Penguin Press

Pub Date 14 May 2019

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A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on an odyssey to reconnect with four old friends over the course of a year.

At forty, May Attaway is more at home with plants than people. Over the years, she's turned inward, finding pleasure in language, her work as a gardener, and keeping her neighbors at...

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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

A Novel

by Ocean Vuong

PENGUIN GROUP The Penguin Press

Pub Date 04 Jun 2019

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Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Oprah.com, Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, Nylon, The Week, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more.

Poet Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive...

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What You Have Heard Is True

A Memoir of Witness and Resistance

by Carolyn Forché

PENGUIN GROUP The Penguin Press

Pub Date 19 Mar 2019

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The powerful story of a young poet who becomes an activist through a trial by fire

What You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman's brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others. Written by one of the most gifted poets of her generation, this is the story of a woman's radical act of empathy, and...

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Coders

The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

by Clive Thompson

PENGUIN GROUP The Penguin Press

Pub Date 26 Mar 2019

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Hello, world.

Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of code--and coders are the ones who built it for us. From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today...

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Places and Names

On War, Revolution, and Returning

by Elliot Ackerman

PENGUIN GROUP The Penguin Press

Pub Date 11 Jun 2019

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From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award Finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.

"War hath determined us ..." - John Milton, Paradise Lost

Toward the beginning of Places and Names, Elliot Ackerman sits in a refugee camp in southern Turkey, across the table...

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The Volunteer

A Novel

by Salvatore Scibona

PENGUIN GROUP The Penguin Press

Pub Date 05 Mar 2019

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"His sentences are perfect but not merely; a surplus of dark and tender wisdom, who knows its source, makes his language--and the world--glow with meaning." -- Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars Room

A long-awaited new novel from a National Book Award Finalist, the epic story of a restless young man who is captured during the Vietnam War and pressed into...

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The Cost of These Dreams

Sports Stories and Other Serious Business

by Wright Thompson

PENGUIN GROUP The Penguin Press

Pub Date 02 Apr 2019

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From one of America's most beloved sportswriters, a collection of true stories about the dream of greatness and its cost in the world of sports.

"Wright Thompson's stories are so full of rich characters, bad actors, heroes, drama, suffering, courage, conflict, and vivid detail that I sometimes thinks he's working my side of the street - the world of...

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How to Disappear

Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency

by Akiko Busch

PENGUIN GROUP The Penguin Press

Pub Date 12 Feb 2019

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Vivid, surprising, and utterly timely, Akiko Busch's HOW TO DISAPPEAR explores the idea of invisibility in nature, art, and science, in search of a more joyful and peaceful way of living in today's increasingly surveilled and publicity-obsessed world

In our increasingly networked and image-saturated lives, the notion of disappearing has never been both more...

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Cribsheet

A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

by Emily Oster

PENGUIN GROUP The Penguin Press

Pub Date 23 Apr 2019

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From the author of EXPECTING BETTER, an economist's guide to the early years of parenting

With Expecting Better, award-winning economist Emily Oster spotted a need in the pregnancy market for advice that gave women the information they needed to make the best decision for their own pregnancies. By digging into the data, Oster found that much of the...

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American Cipher

Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan

by Matt Farwell; Michael Ames

PENGUIN GROUP The Penguin Press

Pub Date 12 Mar 2019

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The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America's foundering war in Afghanistan

"A riveting journalistic account of Bowe Bergdahl's disastrous--and weirdly poignant--choice to walk off his military base in Afghanistan. . . . A...

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The Heartland

An American History

by Kristin L. Hoganson

PENGUIN GROUP The Penguin Press

Pub Date 23 Apr 2019

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A history of a quintessentially American place - the rural and small town heartland -- that uncovers deep yet hidden currents of connection with the world.

When Kristin L. Hoganson arrived in Champaign, Illinois, after teaching at Harvard, studying at Yale, and living in the D.C. metro area with various stints overseas, she expected to find her new home...

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So Much Longing in So Little Space

The Art of Edvard Munch

by Karl Ove Knausgaard

PENGUIN GROUP The Penguin Press

Pub Date 26 Mar 2019

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A brilliant and personal examination by sensational and bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard of his Norwegian compatriot Edvard Munch, the famed artist best known for his iconic painting The Scream

In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard sets out to understand the enduring and awesome power of Edvard Munch’s work by training his gaze on...

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Lights All Night Long

A Novel

by Lydia Fitzpatrick

PENGUIN GROUP The Penguin Press

Pub Date 02 Apr 2019

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A gripping and deftly plotted narrative of family and belonging, Lights All Night Long is a dazzling debut novel from an acclaimed young writer

"Lights All Night Long is utterly brilliant and completely captivating. . . . One of the most propulsive, un-put-downable literary novels I've read in ages."--Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital...

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The Third Pillar

How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind

by Raghuram Rajan

PENGUIN GROUP The Penguin Press

Pub Date 26 Feb 2019

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From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backlash against globalization.

Raghuram Rajan, distinguished University of Chicago professor, former IMF chief economist, head of India's central bank, and author of the 2010 FT-Goldman-Sachs Book of the Year Fault Lines, has an...

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Possible Minds

Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI

by John Brockman

PENGUIN GROUP The Penguin Press

Pub Date 19 Feb 2019

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Science world luminary John Brockman assembles twenty-five of the most important scientific minds, people who have been thinking about the field artificial intelligence for most of their careers, for an unparalleled round-table examination about mind, thinking, intelligence and what it means to be human.

"Artificial intelligence is today's story--the story...

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The Last Pass

Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End

by Gary M. Pomerantz

PENGUIN GROUP The Penguin Press

Pub Date 23 Oct 2018

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The New York Times Bestseller

Out of the greatest dynasty in American professional sports history, an intimate story of race, mortality, and regret

About to turn ninety, Bob Cousy, the Hall of Fame Boston Celtics captain who led the team to its first six championships on an unparalleled run, has much to look back on in contentment. But he has one last piece...

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Astral Weeks

A Secret History of 1968

by Ryan H. Walsh

PENGUIN GROUP The Penguin Press

Pub Date 06 Mar 2018

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A mind-expanding dive into a lost chapter of 1968, featuring the famous and forgotten: Van Morrison, folkie-turned-cult-leader Mel Lyman, Timothy Leary, James Brown, and many more

Van Morrison's Astral Weeks is an iconic rock album shrouded in legend, a masterpiece that has touched generations of listeners and influenced everyone from Bruce Springsteen to...


Rules for Visiting 14 May 2019 General Fiction (Adult), Women's Fiction	On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous 04 Jun 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	What You Have Heard Is True 19 Mar 2019 Biographies & Memoirs	Coders 26 Mar 2019 Professional & Technical	Places and Names 11 Jun 2019 History

The Volunteer 05 Mar 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	The Cost of These Dreams 02 Apr 2019 Sports	How to Disappear 12 Feb 2019 Outdoors & Nature	Cribsheet 23 Apr 2019 Parenting & Families	American Cipher 12 Mar 2019 Biographies & Memoirs

The Heartland 23 Apr 2019 History	So Much Longing in So Little Space 26 Mar 2019 Arts & Photography	Lights All Night Long 02 Apr 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	The Third Pillar 26 Feb 2019 Business & Investing	Possible Minds 19 Feb 2019 Computers & Internet, Science

The Last Pass 23 Oct 2018 Sports	Astral Weeks 06 Mar 2018 Biographies & Memoirs


Rules for Visiting 14 May 2019 General Fiction (Adult), Women's Fiction	On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous 04 Jun 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	What You Have Heard Is True 19 Mar 2019 Biographies & Memoirs	Coders 26 Mar 2019 Professional & Technical

Places and Names 11 Jun 2019 History	The Volunteer 05 Mar 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	The Cost of These Dreams 02 Apr 2019 Sports	How to Disappear 12 Feb 2019 Outdoors & Nature

Cribsheet 23 Apr 2019 Parenting & Families	American Cipher 12 Mar 2019 Biographies & Memoirs	The Heartland 23 Apr 2019 History	So Much Longing in So Little Space 26 Mar 2019 Arts & Photography

Lights All Night Long 02 Apr 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	The Third Pillar 26 Feb 2019 Business & Investing	Possible Minds 19 Feb 2019 Computers & Internet, Science	The Last Pass 23 Oct 2018 Sports

Astral Weeks 06 Mar 2018 Biographies & Memoirs


Rules for Visiting 14 May 2019 General Fiction (Adult), Women's Fiction	On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous 04 Jun 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

What You Have Heard Is True 19 Mar 2019 Biographies & Memoirs	Coders 26 Mar 2019 Professional & Technical

Places and Names 11 Jun 2019 History	The Volunteer 05 Mar 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

The Cost of These Dreams 02 Apr 2019 Sports	How to Disappear 12 Feb 2019 Outdoors & Nature

Cribsheet 23 Apr 2019 Parenting & Families	American Cipher 12 Mar 2019 Biographies & Memoirs

The Heartland 23 Apr 2019 History	So Much Longing in So Little Space 26 Mar 2019 Arts & Photography

Lights All Night Long 02 Apr 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	The Third Pillar 26 Feb 2019 Business & Investing

Possible Minds 19 Feb 2019 Computers & Internet, Science	The Last Pass 23 Oct 2018 Sports

Astral Weeks 06 Mar 2018 Biographies & Memoirs

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