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Pub Date 02 Apr 2019
A shocking crime triggers a media firestorm for a controversial talk show host in this provocative novel—a story of redemption, a nostalgic portrait of New York City, and a searing indictment of our culture of spectacle.
Talk show host Matthew Miller has made his fame by shining a spotlight on the most unlikely and bizarre secrets of society, exposing them...
Talk show host Matthew Miller has made his fame by shining a spotlight on the most unlikely and bizarre secrets of society, exposing them...
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The Spectators
Jennifer duBois
Pub Date 02 Apr 2019
A shocking crime triggers a media firestorm for a controversial talk show host in this provocative novel—a story of redemption, a nostalgic portrait of New York City, and a searing indictment of our culture of spectacle.
Talk show host Matthew Miller has made his fame by shining a spotlight on the most unlikely and bizarre secrets of society, exposing them...
Talk show host Matthew Miller has made his fame by shining a spotlight on the most unlikely and bizarre secrets of society, exposing them...
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Pub Date 05 Feb 2019
A fearless writer confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love.
The narrator of Where Reasons End writes, “I had but one delusion, which I held on to with all my willpower: We once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I’m doing it over again, this time by words.”
Yiyun Li meets life’s deepest sorrows as she...
The narrator of Where Reasons End writes, “I had but one delusion, which I held on to with all my willpower: We once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I’m doing it over again, this time by words.”
Yiyun Li meets life’s deepest sorrows as she...
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Where Reasons End
Yiyun Li
Pub Date 05 Feb 2019
A fearless writer confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love.
The narrator of Where Reasons End writes, “I had but one delusion, which I held on to with all my willpower: We once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I’m doing it over again, this time by words.”
Yiyun Li meets life’s deepest sorrows as she...
The narrator of Where Reasons End writes, “I had but one delusion, which I held on to with all my willpower: We once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I’m doing it over again, this time by words.”
Yiyun Li meets life’s deepest sorrows as she...
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Pub Date 07 May 2019
Would you trade nine months of freedom for a better life?
Nestled in the Hudson Valley is a sumptuous retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, private fitness trainers, daily massages--and all of it for free. In fact, you get paid big money--more than you've ever dreamed of--to spend a few seasons in this luxurious locale. The catch? For nine months...
Nestled in the Hudson Valley is a sumptuous retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, private fitness trainers, daily massages--and all of it for free. In fact, you get paid big money--more than you've ever dreamed of--to spend a few seasons in this luxurious locale. The catch? For nine months...
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The Farm
Joanne Ramos
Pub Date 07 May 2019
Would you trade nine months of freedom for a better life?
Nestled in the Hudson Valley is a sumptuous retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, private fitness trainers, daily massages--and all of it for free. In fact, you get paid big money--more than you've ever dreamed of--to spend a few seasons in this luxurious locale. The catch? For nine months...
Nestled in the Hudson Valley is a sumptuous retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, private fitness trainers, daily massages--and all of it for free. In fact, you get paid big money--more than you've ever dreamed of--to spend a few seasons in this luxurious locale. The catch? For nine months...
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Dreyer's English
An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
by Benjamin Dreyer
Pub Date 22 Jan 2019
A witty, informative guide to writing from Random House’s longtime copy chief and one of Twitter’s leading language gurus—in the tradition of The Elements of Style
We all write, all the time: books, blogs, emails. Lots and lots of emails. And we all want to write better. Benjamin Dreyer is here to help.
As Random House’s copy chief, Dreyer has upheld the...
We all write, all the time: books, blogs, emails. Lots and lots of emails. And we all want to write better. Benjamin Dreyer is here to help.
As Random House’s copy chief, Dreyer has upheld the...
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Dreyer's English
Benjamin Dreyer
Dreyer's English
An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
by Benjamin Dreyer
Pub Date 22 Jan 2019
A witty, informative guide to writing from Random House’s longtime copy chief and one of Twitter’s leading language gurus—in the tradition of The Elements of Style
We all write, all the time: books, blogs, emails. Lots and lots of emails. And we all want to write better. Benjamin Dreyer is here to help.
As Random House’s copy chief, Dreyer has upheld the...
We all write, all the time: books, blogs, emails. Lots and lots of emails. And we all want to write better. Benjamin Dreyer is here to help.
As Random House’s copy chief, Dreyer has upheld the...
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Pub Date 19 Mar 2019
An irresistible debut that follows a Russian American girl’s bumpy path to adulthood as she longs for a homeland she never knew
When Oksana’s family begin their new American life in Florida after emigrating from Ukraine, her physicist father delivers pizza at night to make ends meet, her depressed mother sits home all day worrying, and her flamboyant...
When Oksana’s family begin their new American life in Florida after emigrating from Ukraine, her physicist father delivers pizza at night to make ends meet, her depressed mother sits home all day worrying, and her flamboyant...
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Oksana, Behave!
Maria Kuznetsova
Pub Date 19 Mar 2019
An irresistible debut that follows a Russian American girl’s bumpy path to adulthood as she longs for a homeland she never knew
When Oksana’s family begin their new American life in Florida after emigrating from Ukraine, her physicist father delivers pizza at night to make ends meet, her depressed mother sits home all day worrying, and her flamboyant...
When Oksana’s family begin their new American life in Florida after emigrating from Ukraine, her physicist father delivers pizza at night to make ends meet, her depressed mother sits home all day worrying, and her flamboyant...
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Pub Date 12 Mar 2019
The residents of a sleepy mountain town are rocked by troubling visions of an alternate reality in this dazzling debut that combines the family-driven suspense of Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere with the inventive storytelling of The Immortalists.
In the quiet haven of Clearing, Oregon, four neighbors find their lives upended when they begin to see...
In the quiet haven of Clearing, Oregon, four neighbors find their lives upended when they begin to see...
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If, Then
Kate Hope Day
Pub Date 12 Mar 2019
The residents of a sleepy mountain town are rocked by troubling visions of an alternate reality in this dazzling debut that combines the family-driven suspense of Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere with the inventive storytelling of The Immortalists.
In the quiet haven of Clearing, Oregon, four neighbors find their lives upended when they begin to see...
In the quiet haven of Clearing, Oregon, four neighbors find their lives upended when they begin to see...
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A People's Future of the United States
Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
by Edited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams
Pub Date 05 Feb 2019
A glittering landscape of twenty-five speculative stories that challenge oppression and imagine new futures for America—from N. K. Jemisin, Charles Yu, Jamie Ford, G. Willow Wilson, Charlie Jane Anders, Hugh Howey, and more.
In these tumultuous times, in our deeply divided country, many people are angry, frightened, and hurting. Knowing that imagining a...
In these tumultuous times, in our deeply divided country, many people are angry, frightened, and hurting. Knowing that imagining a...
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A People's Future of the United States
Edited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams
A People's Future of the United States
Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
by Edited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams
Pub Date 05 Feb 2019
A glittering landscape of twenty-five speculative stories that challenge oppression and imagine new futures for America—from N. K. Jemisin, Charles Yu, Jamie Ford, G. Willow Wilson, Charlie Jane Anders, Hugh Howey, and more.
In these tumultuous times, in our deeply divided country, many people are angry, frightened, and hurting. Knowing that imagining a...
In these tumultuous times, in our deeply divided country, many people are angry, frightened, and hurting. Knowing that imagining a...
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Pub Date 02 Apr 2019
Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collection—a powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands.
Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s magnetic story collection breathes life into her Indigenous Latina characters and the land they inhabit. Set...
Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s magnetic story collection breathes life into her Indigenous Latina characters and the land they inhabit. Set...
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Sabrina & Corina
Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Pub Date 02 Apr 2019
Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collection—a powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands.
Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s magnetic story collection breathes life into her Indigenous Latina characters and the land they inhabit. Set...
Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s magnetic story collection breathes life into her Indigenous Latina characters and the land they inhabit. Set...
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Pub Date 12 Mar 2019
In the tradition of Wild and H Is for Hawk, a former Outside magazine writer tells her story—of fathers and daughters, grief and renewal, adventure and obsession, and the power of running to change your life.
I’m running to forget, and to remember.
Katie Arnold learned early how her legs had the ability to carry her away to where no one could catch her...
I’m running to forget, and to remember.
Katie Arnold learned early how her legs had the ability to carry her away to where no one could catch her...
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Running Home
Katie Arnold
Pub Date 12 Mar 2019
In the tradition of Wild and H Is for Hawk, a former Outside magazine writer tells her story—of fathers and daughters, grief and renewal, adventure and obsession, and the power of running to change your life.
I’m running to forget, and to remember.
Katie Arnold learned early how her legs had the ability to carry her away to where no one could catch her...
I’m running to forget, and to remember.
Katie Arnold learned early how her legs had the ability to carry her away to where no one could catch her...
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Underground
A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
by Will Hunt
Pub Date 29 Jan 2019
A panoramic investigation of the subterranean landscape, from sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuclear bunkers and ancient underground cities—an exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the worlds beneath our feet
When Will Hunt was sixteen years old, he discovered an abandoned tunnel that ran beneath his house in...
When Will Hunt was sixteen years old, he discovered an abandoned tunnel that ran beneath his house in...
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Underground
Will Hunt
Underground
A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
by Will Hunt
Pub Date 29 Jan 2019
A panoramic investigation of the subterranean landscape, from sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuclear bunkers and ancient underground cities—an exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the worlds beneath our feet
When Will Hunt was sixteen years old, he discovered an abandoned tunnel that ran beneath his house in...
When Will Hunt was sixteen years old, he discovered an abandoned tunnel that ran beneath his house in...
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Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss
A Novel
by Rajeev Balasubramanyam
Pub Date 26 Mar 2019
Follow the completely infuriating, utterly charming Professor Chandra as he tries to answer the biggest question of all: What makes us happy?
“Professor Chandra is as acerbic and unbending a curmudgeon as one could wish to find scowling from the pages of a novel. Brilliant, pompous, and baffled by the world outside his Cambridge study, Chandra is forced on...
“Professor Chandra is as acerbic and unbending a curmudgeon as one could wish to find scowling from the pages of a novel. Brilliant, pompous, and baffled by the world outside his Cambridge study, Chandra is forced on...
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Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss
Rajeev Balasubramanyam
Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss
A Novel
by Rajeev Balasubramanyam
Pub Date 26 Mar 2019
Follow the completely infuriating, utterly charming Professor Chandra as he tries to answer the biggest question of all: What makes us happy?
“Professor Chandra is as acerbic and unbending a curmudgeon as one could wish to find scowling from the pages of a novel. Brilliant, pompous, and baffled by the world outside his Cambridge study, Chandra is forced on...
“Professor Chandra is as acerbic and unbending a curmudgeon as one could wish to find scowling from the pages of a novel. Brilliant, pompous, and baffled by the world outside his Cambridge study, Chandra is forced on...
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Pub Date 29 Jan 2019
A bold, provocative debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, about a father’s obsessive quest to protect his son—even if it means turning him white
“An incisive and necessary work of brilliant satire.”—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist
“You can be beautiful, even more beautiful than before.” This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga’s...
“An incisive and necessary work of brilliant satire.”—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist
“You can be beautiful, even more beautiful than before.” This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga’s...
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We Cast a Shadow
Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Pub Date 29 Jan 2019
A bold, provocative debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, about a father’s obsessive quest to protect his son—even if it means turning him white
“An incisive and necessary work of brilliant satire.”—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist
“You can be beautiful, even more beautiful than before.” This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga’s...
“An incisive and necessary work of brilliant satire.”—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist
“You can be beautiful, even more beautiful than before.” This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga’s...
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Pub Date 12 Feb 2019
What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love? One woman struggles to choose between her honor and her heart in this enthralling espionage drama that deftly hops between New York and West Africa.
It’s 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She’s brilliant, but she’s also a young...
It’s 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She’s brilliant, but she’s also a young...
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American Spy
Lauren Wilkinson
Pub Date 12 Feb 2019
What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love? One woman struggles to choose between her honor and her heart in this enthralling espionage drama that deftly hops between New York and West Africa.
It’s 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She’s brilliant, but she’s also a young...
It’s 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She’s brilliant, but she’s also a young...
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The Unwinding of the Miracle
A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
by Julie Yip-Williams
Pub Date 08 Jan 2019
As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more—a powerful exhortation to the living.
That Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle. Born blind in Vietnam, she narrowly escaped euthanasia at the...
That Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle. Born blind in Vietnam, she narrowly escaped euthanasia at the...
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The Unwinding of the Miracle
Julie Yip-Williams
The Unwinding of the Miracle
A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
by Julie Yip-Williams
Pub Date 08 Jan 2019
As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other. What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more—a powerful exhortation to the living.
That Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle. Born blind in Vietnam, she narrowly escaped euthanasia at the...
That Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle. Born blind in Vietnam, she narrowly escaped euthanasia at the...
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Impeachment
An American History
by Jon Meacham; Timothy Naftali; Peter Baker; Jeffrey A. Engel
Pub Date 16 Oct 2018
Four experts on the American presidency examine the three times impeachment has been invoked—against Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton—and explain what it means today.
Impeachment is a double-edged sword. Though it was designed to check tyrants, Thomas Jefferson also called impeachment “the most formidable weapon for the purpose of a dominant...
Impeachment is a double-edged sword. Though it was designed to check tyrants, Thomas Jefferson also called impeachment “the most formidable weapon for the purpose of a dominant...
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Impeachment
Jon Meacham; Timothy Naftali; Peter Baker; Jeffrey A. Engel
Impeachment
An American History
by Jon Meacham; Timothy Naftali; Peter Baker; Jeffrey A. Engel
Pub Date 16 Oct 2018
Four experts on the American presidency examine the three times impeachment has been invoked—against Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton—and explain what it means today.
Impeachment is a double-edged sword. Though it was designed to check tyrants, Thomas Jefferson also called impeachment “the most formidable weapon for the purpose of a dominant...
Impeachment is a double-edged sword. Though it was designed to check tyrants, Thomas Jefferson also called impeachment “the most formidable weapon for the purpose of a dominant...
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Pub Date 13 Nov 2018
The feel-good book of the year: a delightful novel of friendship, community, and the way small acts of kindness can change your life, by the bestselling author of The Story of Arthur Truluv
Lucille Howard is getting on in years, but she stays busy. Thanks to the inspiration of her dearly departed friend Arthur Truluv, she has begun to teach baking...
Lucille Howard is getting on in years, but she stays busy. Thanks to the inspiration of her dearly departed friend Arthur Truluv, she has begun to teach baking...
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Night of Miracles
Elizabeth Berg
Pub Date 13 Nov 2018
The feel-good book of the year: a delightful novel of friendship, community, and the way small acts of kindness can change your life, by the bestselling author of The Story of Arthur Truluv
Lucille Howard is getting on in years, but she stays busy. Thanks to the inspiration of her dearly departed friend Arthur Truluv, she has begun to teach baking...
Lucille Howard is getting on in years, but she stays busy. Thanks to the inspiration of her dearly departed friend Arthur Truluv, she has begun to teach baking...
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Pub Date 08 Jan 2019
Six friends. One killer. Who do you trust? A teen girl goes missing after a night of partying; thirty years later, the discovery of her body reopens a cold case in a gripping thriller for readers of Tana French, The Woman in Cabin 10, and the Lynley series.
On a scorching July night in 1983, a group of teenagers goes camping in the forest. Bright and...
On a scorching July night in 1983, a group of teenagers goes camping in the forest. Bright and...
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She Lies in Wait
Gytha Lodge
Pub Date 08 Jan 2019
Six friends. One killer. Who do you trust? A teen girl goes missing after a night of partying; thirty years later, the discovery of her body reopens a cold case in a gripping thriller for readers of Tana French, The Woman in Cabin 10, and the Lynley series.
On a scorching July night in 1983, a group of teenagers goes camping in the forest. Bright and...
On a scorching July night in 1983, a group of teenagers goes camping in the forest. Bright and...
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Pub Date 15 Jan 2019
An ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Miracles.
“This book is stunning.”—Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven
One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles...
“This book is stunning.”—Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven
One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles...
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The Dreamers
Karen Thompson Walker
Pub Date 15 Jan 2019
An ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Miracles.
“This book is stunning.”—Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven
One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles...
“This book is stunning.”—Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven
One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles...
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Pub Date 27 Nov 2018
A couple (now separated), plus their daughter, plus their new partners, all on an epic Christmas vacation. What could go wrong? This razor-sharp novel puts a darkly comic twist on seasonal favorites like Love Actually and The Holiday.
“This debut is the whole package: realistic, flawed characters placed in an increasingly tense situation, resulting in a...
“This debut is the whole package: realistic, flawed characters placed in an increasingly tense situation, resulting in a...
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The Adults
Caroline Hulse
Pub Date 27 Nov 2018
A couple (now separated), plus their daughter, plus their new partners, all on an epic Christmas vacation. What could go wrong? This razor-sharp novel puts a darkly comic twist on seasonal favorites like Love Actually and The Holiday.
“This debut is the whole package: realistic, flawed characters placed in an increasingly tense situation, resulting in a...
“This debut is the whole package: realistic, flawed characters placed in an increasingly tense situation, resulting in a...
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Pub Date 04 Sep 2018
“Spectacular.”—NPR • “Uproariously funny.”—The Boston Globe • “An artistic triumph.”—San Francisco Chronicle • “A novel in which comedy and pathos are exquisitely balanced.”—The Washington Post • “Shteyngart’s best book.”—The Seattle Times
The bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story returns with a biting, brilliant, emotionally resonant novel very...
The bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story returns with a biting, brilliant, emotionally resonant novel very...
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Lake Success
Gary Shteyngart
Pub Date 04 Sep 2018
“Spectacular.”—NPR • “Uproariously funny.”—The Boston Globe • “An artistic triumph.”—San Francisco Chronicle • “A novel in which comedy and pathos are exquisitely balanced.”—The Washington Post • “Shteyngart’s best book.”—The Seattle Times
The bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story returns with a biting, brilliant, emotionally resonant novel very...
The bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story returns with a biting, brilliant, emotionally resonant novel very...
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Pub Date 21 Aug 2018
The love between a daughter and her mother—and the dark secrets they keep from each other—are at the heart of this wildly imaginative novel that combines elements of The Handmaid’s Tale, Stranger Things, and Twin Peaks.
An isolated town.
The remains of a mysterious cult.
And a woman who disappears.
It’s 1985. Pony Darlene Fontaine has lived all her fifteen...
An isolated town.
The remains of a mysterious cult.
And a woman who disappears.
It’s 1985. Pony Darlene Fontaine has lived all her fifteen...
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Heartbreaker
Claudia Dey
Pub Date 21 Aug 2018
The love between a daughter and her mother—and the dark secrets they keep from each other—are at the heart of this wildly imaginative novel that combines elements of The Handmaid’s Tale, Stranger Things, and Twin Peaks.
An isolated town.
The remains of a mysterious cult.
And a woman who disappears.
It’s 1985. Pony Darlene Fontaine has lived all her fifteen...
An isolated town.
The remains of a mysterious cult.
And a woman who disappears.
It’s 1985. Pony Darlene Fontaine has lived all her fifteen...
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Pub Date 04 Sep 2018
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today’s most pressing issues.
“Fascinating . . . a crucial global conversation about how to take on the problems of the twenty-first century.”—Bill Gates, The New...
“Fascinating . . . a crucial global conversation about how to take on the problems of the twenty-first century.”—Bill Gates, The New...
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
Pub Date 04 Sep 2018
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today’s most pressing issues.
“Fascinating . . . a crucial global conversation about how to take on the problems of the twenty-first century.”—Bill Gates, The New...
“Fascinating . . . a crucial global conversation about how to take on the problems of the twenty-first century.”—Bill Gates, The New...
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Enchantments
A Modern Witch's Guide to Self-Possession
by Mya Spalter
Pub Date 09 Oct 2018
A wise, witchy, and welcoming guide to living life magically
Mya Spalter has spent years among candles, herbs, cats, and spells as an employee at New York City’s oldest occult shop, Enchantments. Since it would get crowded in there if all of you visited, this beautifully illustrated book will be your guide to its secrets and stories; in the process, Mya...
Mya Spalter has spent years among candles, herbs, cats, and spells as an employee at New York City’s oldest occult shop, Enchantments. Since it would get crowded in there if all of you visited, this beautifully illustrated book will be your guide to its secrets and stories; in the process, Mya...
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Enchantments
Mya Spalter
Enchantments
A Modern Witch's Guide to Self-Possession
by Mya Spalter
Pub Date 09 Oct 2018
A wise, witchy, and welcoming guide to living life magically
Mya Spalter has spent years among candles, herbs, cats, and spells as an employee at New York City’s oldest occult shop, Enchantments. Since it would get crowded in there if all of you visited, this beautifully illustrated book will be your guide to its secrets and stories; in the process, Mya...
Mya Spalter has spent years among candles, herbs, cats, and spells as an employee at New York City’s oldest occult shop, Enchantments. Since it would get crowded in there if all of you visited, this beautifully illustrated book will be your guide to its secrets and stories; in the process, Mya...
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How Fascism Works
The Politics of Us and Them
by Jason Stanley
Pub Date 04 Sep 2018
“A vital read for a nation under Trump.”—The Guardian
“By placing Trump in transnational and transhistorical perspective, Stanley sees patterns that others miss. . . . Twenty months into Trump’s presidency, the evidence is mounting that he’s right.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
Fascist politics are running rampant in America today—and...
“By placing Trump in transnational and transhistorical perspective, Stanley sees patterns that others miss. . . . Twenty months into Trump’s presidency, the evidence is mounting that he’s right.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
Fascist politics are running rampant in America today—and...
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How Fascism Works
Jason Stanley
How Fascism Works
The Politics of Us and Them
by Jason Stanley
Pub Date 04 Sep 2018
“A vital read for a nation under Trump.”—The Guardian
“By placing Trump in transnational and transhistorical perspective, Stanley sees patterns that others miss. . . . Twenty months into Trump’s presidency, the evidence is mounting that he’s right.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
Fascist politics are running rampant in America today—and...
“By placing Trump in transnational and transhistorical perspective, Stanley sees patterns that others miss. . . . Twenty months into Trump’s presidency, the evidence is mounting that he’s right.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
Fascist politics are running rampant in America today—and...
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Dear Los Angeles
The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018
by Edited by David Kipen
Pub Date 04 Dec 2018
A rich mosaic of diary entries and letters from Marilyn Monroe, Cesar Chavez, Susan Sontag, Albert Einstein, and many more, this is the story of Los Angeles as told by locals, transplants, and some just passing through.
The City of Angels has played a distinct role in the hearts, minds, and imaginations of millions of people, who see it as the ultimate...
The City of Angels has played a distinct role in the hearts, minds, and imaginations of millions of people, who see it as the ultimate...
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Dear Los Angeles
Edited by David Kipen
Dear Los Angeles
The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018
by Edited by David Kipen
Pub Date 04 Dec 2018
A rich mosaic of diary entries and letters from Marilyn Monroe, Cesar Chavez, Susan Sontag, Albert Einstein, and many more, this is the story of Los Angeles as told by locals, transplants, and some just passing through.
The City of Angels has played a distinct role in the hearts, minds, and imaginations of millions of people, who see it as the ultimate...
The City of Angels has played a distinct role in the hearts, minds, and imaginations of millions of people, who see it as the ultimate...
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The Dark Interval
Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Pub Date 14 Aug 2018
This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
From the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, collected and published here in one volume for the first time.
“A great poet’s reflections on our greatest mystery.”—Billy Collins
“A treasure . . . The solace Rilke offers is uncommon, uplifting and necessary.”––The Guardian
Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke’s voluminous...
“A great poet’s reflections on our greatest mystery.”—Billy Collins
“A treasure . . . The solace Rilke offers is uncommon, uplifting and necessary.”––The Guardian
Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke’s voluminous...
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The Dark Interval
Rainer Maria Rilke
The Dark Interval
Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Pub Date 14 Aug 2018
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From the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, collected and published here in one volume for the first time.
“A great poet’s reflections on our greatest mystery.”—Billy Collins
“A treasure . . . The solace Rilke offers is uncommon, uplifting and necessary.”––The Guardian
Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke’s voluminous...
“A great poet’s reflections on our greatest mystery.”—Billy Collins
“A treasure . . . The solace Rilke offers is uncommon, uplifting and necessary.”––The Guardian
Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke’s voluminous...
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ATTENTION
Dispatches from a Land of Distraction
by Joshua Cohen
Pub Date 14 Aug 2018
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“The nonfiction novel of our moment” (Jonathan Lethem): a wide-ranging, rule-bending collection reclaiming the power of attention in an age of constant distraction
“Joshua Cohen may be America’s greatest living writer.”—The Washington Post
One of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists, Joshua Cohen arrives with his first collection of nonfiction, the...
“Joshua Cohen may be America’s greatest living writer.”—The Washington Post
One of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists, Joshua Cohen arrives with his first collection of nonfiction, the...
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ATTENTION
Joshua Cohen
ATTENTION
Dispatches from a Land of Distraction
by Joshua Cohen
Pub Date 14 Aug 2018
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“The nonfiction novel of our moment” (Jonathan Lethem): a wide-ranging, rule-bending collection reclaiming the power of attention in an age of constant distraction
“Joshua Cohen may be America’s greatest living writer.”—The Washington Post
One of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists, Joshua Cohen arrives with his first collection of nonfiction, the...
“Joshua Cohen may be America’s greatest living writer.”—The Washington Post
One of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists, Joshua Cohen arrives with his first collection of nonfiction, the...
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Pub Date 07 Aug 2018
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Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls captures her experience as a Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America, while exploring identity, violence, and healing.
“A debut poetry collection showcasing both a fierce and tender new voice.”—Booklist
an aunt teaches me how to tell
an edible flower
from a poisonous one.
just in case, I...
“A debut poetry collection showcasing both a fierce and tender new voice.”—Booklist
an aunt teaches me how to tell
an edible flower
from a poisonous one.
just in case, I...
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If They Come for Us
Fatimah Asghar
Pub Date 07 Aug 2018
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Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls captures her experience as a Pakistani Muslim woman in contemporary America, while exploring identity, violence, and healing.
“A debut poetry collection showcasing both a fierce and tender new voice.”—Booklist
an aunt teaches me how to tell
an edible flower
from a poisonous one.
just in case, I...
“A debut poetry collection showcasing both a fierce and tender new voice.”—Booklist
an aunt teaches me how to tell
an edible flower
from a poisonous one.
just in case, I...
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Conan Doyle for the Defense
The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer
by Margalit Fox
Pub Date 26 Jun 2018
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“A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock Holmes . . . Like all the best historical true crime books, it’s about so much more than crime.”—Tana French, author of In the Woods
One of USA Today’s “Five new books you won’t want to miss!”
For all the scores of biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous detective in the world...
One of USA Today’s “Five new books you won’t want to miss!”
For all the scores of biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous detective in the world...
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Conan Doyle for the Defense
Margalit Fox
Conan Doyle for the Defense
The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer
by Margalit Fox
Pub Date 26 Jun 2018
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“A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock Holmes . . . Like all the best historical true crime books, it’s about so much more than crime.”—Tana French, author of In the Woods
One of USA Today’s “Five new books you won’t want to miss!”
For all the scores of biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous detective in the world...
One of USA Today’s “Five new books you won’t want to miss!”
For all the scores of biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous detective in the world...
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Pub Date 07 Aug 2018
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“[Paula] Saunders skillfully illuminates how time heals certain wounds while deepening others. . . . A mediation of the violence of American ambition.”—The New York Times Book Review
“A deeply involving portrait of the American postwar family” (Jennifer Egan) about sibling rivalry, dark secrets, and a young girl’s struggle with freedom and artistic desire
...
“A deeply involving portrait of the American postwar family” (Jennifer Egan) about sibling rivalry, dark secrets, and a young girl’s struggle with freedom and artistic desire
...
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The Distance Home
Paula Saunders
Pub Date 07 Aug 2018
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“[Paula] Saunders skillfully illuminates how time heals certain wounds while deepening others. . . . A mediation of the violence of American ambition.”—The New York Times Book Review
“A deeply involving portrait of the American postwar family” (Jennifer Egan) about sibling rivalry, dark secrets, and a young girl’s struggle with freedom and artistic desire
...
“A deeply involving portrait of the American postwar family” (Jennifer Egan) about sibling rivalry, dark secrets, and a young girl’s struggle with freedom and artistic desire
...
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The Light Between Us
Stories from Heaven. Lessons for the Living.
by Laura Lynne Jackson
Pub Date 27 Oct 2015
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For readers of Proof of Heaven, the astonishing story of a woman with an extraordinary psychic gift—and a powerful message from the Other Side that can help us to live more beautifully in the here and now.
Laura Lynne Jackson is a wife, a mother, a high school English teacher—and a psychic medium. Where most believe an impenetrable wall divides...
Laura Lynne Jackson is a wife, a mother, a high school English teacher—and a psychic medium. Where most believe an impenetrable wall divides...
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The Light Between Us
Laura Lynne Jackson
The Light Between Us
Stories from Heaven. Lessons for the Living.
by Laura Lynne Jackson
Pub Date 27 Oct 2015
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For readers of Proof of Heaven, the astonishing story of a woman with an extraordinary psychic gift—and a powerful message from the Other Side that can help us to live more beautifully in the here and now.
Laura Lynne Jackson is a wife, a mother, a high school English teacher—and a psychic medium. Where most believe an impenetrable wall divides...
Laura Lynne Jackson is a wife, a mother, a high school English teacher—and a psychic medium. Where most believe an impenetrable wall divides...
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Mary B: A Novel
An untold story of Pride and Prejudice
by Katherine J. Chen
Pub Date 24 Jul 2018
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“Ingenious . . . Mary B is a tribute not just to [Jane] Austen but to defiant women of any era.”—USA Today
The overlooked middle sister in Pride and Prejudice casts off her prim exterior and takes center stage in this fresh retelling of the classic novel.
What is to be done with Mary Bennet? She possesses neither the beauty of her eldest sister, Jane, nor the...
The overlooked middle sister in Pride and Prejudice casts off her prim exterior and takes center stage in this fresh retelling of the classic novel.
What is to be done with Mary Bennet? She possesses neither the beauty of her eldest sister, Jane, nor the...
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Mary B: A Novel
Katherine J. Chen
Mary B: A Novel
An untold story of Pride and Prejudice
by Katherine J. Chen
Pub Date 24 Jul 2018
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“Ingenious . . . Mary B is a tribute not just to [Jane] Austen but to defiant women of any era.”—USA Today
The overlooked middle sister in Pride and Prejudice casts off her prim exterior and takes center stage in this fresh retelling of the classic novel.
What is to be done with Mary Bennet? She possesses neither the beauty of her eldest sister, Jane, nor the...
The overlooked middle sister in Pride and Prejudice casts off her prim exterior and takes center stage in this fresh retelling of the classic novel.
What is to be done with Mary Bennet? She possesses neither the beauty of her eldest sister, Jane, nor the...
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Pub Date 17 Jul 2018
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A daughter’s quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, an immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory—between sanity and madness, science and spirituality, life and death
Winner of the PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Prize • “Expressive and affecting . . . deeply researched and tightly written . . . Crux, at its heart, is [Jean]...
Winner of the PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Prize • “Expressive and affecting . . . deeply researched and tightly written . . . Crux, at its heart, is [Jean]...
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Crux
Jean Guerrero
Pub Date 17 Jul 2018
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A daughter’s quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, an immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory—between sanity and madness, science and spirituality, life and death
Winner of the PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Prize • “Expressive and affecting . . . deeply researched and tightly written . . . Crux, at its heart, is [Jean]...
Winner of the PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Prize • “Expressive and affecting . . . deeply researched and tightly written . . . Crux, at its heart, is [Jean]...
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From the Corner of the Oval
A Memoir
by Beck Dorey-Stein
Pub Date 10 Jul 2018
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[This] breezy page turner is essentially Bridget Jones goes to the White House.”—The New York Times
“Obama administration memoirs are rolling in, but in a refreshing twist From the Corner of the Oval swaps policy for good old-fashioned workplace drama.”—Entertainment Weekly
Recommended for summer reading by theSkimm • Jane Green...
“Obama administration memoirs are rolling in, but in a refreshing twist From the Corner of the Oval swaps policy for good old-fashioned workplace drama.”—Entertainment Weekly
Recommended for summer reading by theSkimm • Jane Green...
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From the Corner of the Oval
Beck Dorey-Stein
From the Corner of the Oval
A Memoir
by Beck Dorey-Stein
Pub Date 10 Jul 2018
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[This] breezy page turner is essentially Bridget Jones goes to the White House.”—The New York Times
“Obama administration memoirs are rolling in, but in a refreshing twist From the Corner of the Oval swaps policy for good old-fashioned workplace drama.”—Entertainment Weekly
Recommended for summer reading by theSkimm • Jane Green...
“Obama administration memoirs are rolling in, but in a refreshing twist From the Corner of the Oval swaps policy for good old-fashioned workplace drama.”—Entertainment Weekly
Recommended for summer reading by theSkimm • Jane Green...
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Pub Date 10 Jul 2018
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A rehearsal dinner brings together two disparate families in this sparkling, witty novel
“This vital novel offers delicious echoes of Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster, and a touch of A Midsummer Night’s Dream—but its magic is unique. The Garden Party is beautiful and full of life.”—Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl and The Woman Upstairs
The Cohens...
“This vital novel offers delicious echoes of Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster, and a touch of A Midsummer Night’s Dream—but its magic is unique. The Garden Party is beautiful and full of life.”—Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl and The Woman Upstairs
The Cohens...
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The Garden Party
Grace Dane Mazur
Pub Date 10 Jul 2018
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A rehearsal dinner brings together two disparate families in this sparkling, witty novel
“This vital novel offers delicious echoes of Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster, and a touch of A Midsummer Night’s Dream—but its magic is unique. The Garden Party is beautiful and full of life.”—Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl and The Woman Upstairs
The Cohens...
“This vital novel offers delicious echoes of Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster, and a touch of A Midsummer Night’s Dream—but its magic is unique. The Garden Party is beautiful and full of life.”—Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl and The Woman Upstairs
The Cohens...
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Pub Date 26 Jun 2018
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A New York Times Editors’ Choice: “A mind-bending romp through a gender-fluid, eighteenth century London . . . a joyous mash-up of literary genres shot through with queer theory and awash in sex, crime, and revolution.”
Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • “A dazzling tale of queer romance and resistance.”—Time
Jack Sheppard and...
Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • “A dazzling tale of queer romance and resistance.”—Time
Jack Sheppard and...
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Confessions of the Fox
Jordy Rosenberg
Pub Date 26 Jun 2018
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A New York Times Editors’ Choice: “A mind-bending romp through a gender-fluid, eighteenth century London . . . a joyous mash-up of literary genres shot through with queer theory and awash in sex, crime, and revolution.”
Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • “A dazzling tale of queer romance and resistance.”—Time
Jack Sheppard and...
Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • “A dazzling tale of queer romance and resistance.”—Time
Jack Sheppard and...
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What the Eyes Don't See
A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
by Mona Hanna-Attisha
Pub Date 19 Jun 2018
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The dramatic story of the Flint water crisis, told “with the gripping intrigue of a Grisham thriller” (O: The Oprah Magazine)—an inspiring tale of scientific resistance by a relentless physician who stood up to power.
Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan—in the name of austerity—shifted the source of its water supply from Lake...
Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan—in the name of austerity—shifted the source of its water supply from Lake...
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What the Eyes Don't See
Mona Hanna-Attisha
What the Eyes Don't See
A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
by Mona Hanna-Attisha
Pub Date 19 Jun 2018
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The dramatic story of the Flint water crisis, told “with the gripping intrigue of a Grisham thriller” (O: The Oprah Magazine)—an inspiring tale of scientific resistance by a relentless physician who stood up to power.
Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan—in the name of austerity—shifted the source of its water supply from Lake...
Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan—in the name of austerity—shifted the source of its water supply from Lake...
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Pub Date 19 Jun 2018
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“A dark beauty of a book, Providence kept me up at night with characters that made my heart a little bigger.”—Jessica Knoll, New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive
A propulsive novel that’s part love story, part detective story, and part supernatural thriller—from the acclaimed author of You, whose work Stephen King describes as “hypnotic...
A propulsive novel that’s part love story, part detective story, and part supernatural thriller—from the acclaimed author of You, whose work Stephen King describes as “hypnotic...
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Providence
Caroline Kepnes
Pub Date 19 Jun 2018
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“A dark beauty of a book, Providence kept me up at night with characters that made my heart a little bigger.”—Jessica Knoll, New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive
A propulsive novel that’s part love story, part detective story, and part supernatural thriller—from the acclaimed author of You, whose work Stephen King describes as “hypnotic...
A propulsive novel that’s part love story, part detective story, and part supernatural thriller—from the acclaimed author of You, whose work Stephen King describes as “hypnotic...
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Pub Date 22 May 2018
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“A mesmerizing, head-spinning—and sometimes madcap-hilarious—take of have and have-nots.”—People (Book of the Week)
The Hamptons hath no fury like a woman scorned.
No matter what the world throws her way, at least Ruthie Beamish has the house. Lovingly renovated, located by the sea in a quiet Long Island village, the house is her nest egg—the retirement...
The Hamptons hath no fury like a woman scorned.
No matter what the world throws her way, at least Ruthie Beamish has the house. Lovingly renovated, located by the sea in a quiet Long Island village, the house is her nest egg—the retirement...
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The High Season
Judy Blundell
Pub Date 22 May 2018
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“A mesmerizing, head-spinning—and sometimes madcap-hilarious—take of have and have-nots.”—People (Book of the Week)
The Hamptons hath no fury like a woman scorned.
No matter what the world throws her way, at least Ruthie Beamish has the house. Lovingly renovated, located by the sea in a quiet Long Island village, the house is her nest egg—the retirement...
The Hamptons hath no fury like a woman scorned.
No matter what the world throws her way, at least Ruthie Beamish has the house. Lovingly renovated, located by the sea in a quiet Long Island village, the house is her nest egg—the retirement...
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The Madonna of the Mountains
A Novel
by Elise Valmorbida
Pub Date 12 Jun 2018
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“A riveting adventure for the soul . . . just the kind of evocative historical fiction I love.”—Sara Gruen, author of At the Water’s Edge and Water for Elephants
An epic, inspiring novel about one woman’s survival in the hardscrabble Italian countryside and her determination to protect her family throughout the Second World War—by any means possible
Maria...
An epic, inspiring novel about one woman’s survival in the hardscrabble Italian countryside and her determination to protect her family throughout the Second World War—by any means possible
Maria...
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The Madonna of the Mountains
Elise Valmorbida
The Madonna of the Mountains
A Novel
by Elise Valmorbida
Pub Date 12 Jun 2018
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“A riveting adventure for the soul . . . just the kind of evocative historical fiction I love.”—Sara Gruen, author of At the Water’s Edge and Water for Elephants
An epic, inspiring novel about one woman’s survival in the hardscrabble Italian countryside and her determination to protect her family throughout the Second World War—by any means possible
Maria...
An epic, inspiring novel about one woman’s survival in the hardscrabble Italian countryside and her determination to protect her family throughout the Second World War—by any means possible
Maria...
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