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Out of Darkness, Shining Light

A Novel

by Petina Gappah

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Pub Date 10 Sep 2019

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A powerful, moving, and revelatory novel set in nineteenth-century Africa—the captivating story of the loyal men and women who carried the body of explorer and missionary David Livingstone from Zambia to Zanzibar so that his remains could be returned home to England.

Dawn, 1 May 1873, on the outskirts of Chitambo’s village, near Lake Bangweulu in modern-day...

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Four Hours of Fury

The Untold Story of World War II's Largest Airborne Invasion and the Final Push into Nazi Germany

by James M. Fenelon

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Pub Date 21 May 2019

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In this viscerally exciting account, a paratrooper-turned-historian reveals the details of World War II’s largest airborne operation—one that dropped 17,000 Allied paratroopers deep into the heart of Nazi Germany.

On the morning of March 24, 1945, more than two thousand Allied aircraft droned through a cloudless sky toward Germany. Escorted by swarms of...

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The Island of Sea Women

A Novel

by Lisa See

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Pub Date 05 Mar 2019

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A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island.

Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with...

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The Peach Truck Cookbook

100 Delicious Recipes for All Things Peach

by Stephen K. Rose; Jessica N. Rose

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Pub Date 25 Jun 2019

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A warm and stylish Southern cookbook, from the owners of the beloved Nashville-based The Peach Truck, celebrating all things peach in 100 fresh and flavorful recipes.

When Stephen and Jessica Rose settled in Nashville, they fell in love with their new city. Their only reservation: Where were the luscious peaches that Stephen remembered from his childhood in...

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The Crowded Hour

Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

by Clay Risen

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Pub Date 04 Jun 2019

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The dramatic story of the most famous regiment in American history: the Rough Riders, a motley group of soldiers led by Theodore Roosevelt, whose daring exploits marked the beginning of American imperialism in the 20th century.

When America declared war on Spain in 1898, the US Army had just 26,000 men, spread around the country—hardly an army at all. In...

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Flight or Fright

17 Turbulent Tales

by Stephen King; Bev Vincent

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Pub Date 04 Jun 2019

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#1 New York Times bestselling author and master of horror Stephen King teams up with Bev Vincent of Cemetery Dance to present a terrifying collection of sixteen short stories (and one poem) that tap into one of King’s greatest fears—air travel—featuring brand-new stories by King and Joe Hill, “an expertly compiled collection of tales that entertain and...

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Maternal Desire

On Children, Love, and the Inner Life

by Daphne de Marneffe

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Pub Date 14 May 2019

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Esteemed psychoanalyst Daphne de Marneffe examines women’s desire to care for children in an updated reissue of her “fascinating analysis that’s a welcome addition to the dialogues about motherhood” (Publishers Weekly).

If a century ago it was women’s sexual desires that were unspeakable, today it is the female desire to mother that has become taboo. One...

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Lie With Me

A Novel

by Philippe Besson

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Pub Date 30 Apr 2019

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The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson—“the French Brokeback Mountain” (Elle)—about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internationally acclaimed actress/writer Molly Ringwald.

We drive at high speed along back roads, through woods, vineyards, and...

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Ask Again, Yes

A Novel

by Mary Beth Keane

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Pub Date 28 May 2019

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A profoundly moving novel about two neighboring families in a suburban town, the friendship between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades, and the power of forgiveness.

Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope are two NYPD rookies assigned to the same Bronx precinct in 1973. They aren’t close friends on the job, but end up living next door...

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Vacuum in the Dark

A Novel

by Jen Beagin

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Pub Date 26 Feb 2019

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From the Whiting Award-winning author of Pretend I’m Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voices in fiction, a new hilarious, edgy, and brilliant one-of-a-kind novel about a cleaning lady named Mona and her struggles to move forward in life.

Mona is twenty-six and cleans houses for a living in Taos, New Mexico. She moved there mostly because of a bad...

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Feast Your Eyes

A Novel

by Myla Goldberg

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Pub Date 16 Apr 2019

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The first novel in nearly a decade from Myla Goldberg, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Bee Season—a compelling and wholly original story about a female photographer grappling with ambition and motherhood, a balancing act familiar to women of every generation.

Feast Your Eyes, framed as the catalogue notes from a photography show at...

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Stay Up with Hugo Best

A Novel

by Erin Somers

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Pub Date 02 Apr 2019

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An incredibly timely, terrifically witty and moving debut about a young writers’ assistant on a late night comedy show and what transpires when she accepts an invitation from its enigmatic host to spend a long weekend at his mansion in Connecticut.

June Bloom is a broke, cynical twenty-nine-year-old writers’ assistant on the late-night comedy show, Stay Up...

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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books

Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library

by Edward Wilson-Lee

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Pub Date 12 Mar 2019

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In the tradition of Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve and Dava Sobel’s Galileo’s Daughter, a vividly rendered account of the forgotten quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world—“a perfectly pitched poetic drama” (Financial Times) and an amazing tour through 16th century Europe.

The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books tells the...

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Sing to It

New Stories

by Amy Hempel

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Pub Date 26 Mar 2019

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“All the tawdry details I’m dying for are in these stories, but they’re given out like old sweaters—without shame, without guile. Amy Hempel is the writer who makes me feel most affiliated with other humans; we are all living this way—hiding, alone, obsessed—and that’s ok.” —Miranda July

From legendary writer Amy Hempel, one of the most celebrated and...

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Turbulence

A Novel

by David Szalay

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Pub Date 16 Jul 2019

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From the acclaimed, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of All That Man Is, a stunning, virtuosic novel about twelve people, mostly strangers, and the surprising ripple effect each one has on the life of the next as they cross paths while in transit around the world.

A woman strikes up a conversation with the man sitting next to her on a plane after some...

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Survival Math

Notes on an All-American Family

by Mitchell Jackson

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Pub Date 05 Mar 2019

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In a thrillingly alive, candid new work, award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson takes us inside the drug-ravaged neighborhood and struggling family of his youth, while examining the cultural forces—large and small—that led him and his family to this place.

With a poet’s gifted ear, a novelist’s sense of narrative, and a journalist’s unsentimental eye...

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The Art of Dying Well

A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life

by Katy Butler

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Pub Date 19 Feb 2019

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A reassuring and thoroughly researched guide to maintaining a high quality of life—from resilient old age to the first inklings of a serious illness to the final breath—by the New York Times bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door.

The Art of Dying Well is about living as well as possible for as long as possible and adapting successfully to change...

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The Behavior of Love

A Novel

by Virginia Reeves

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Pub Date 14 May 2019

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An incredibly compulsive, poignant exploration of marriage, lust, and ambition from one of America's great young literary talents, the Man-Booker Prize longlisted author of Work Like Any Other.

Doctor Ed Malinowski believes he has realized most of his dreams. A passionate, ambitious behavioral psychiatrist, he is now the superintendent of a mental...

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Blockchain: The Next Everything

by Stephen P. Williams

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Pub Date 26 Mar 2019

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An experienced tech writer fully explains blockchain technology and how it will radically transform the world as we know it in this accessible, reader-friendly, illuminating guide.

What is blockchain? Why does everyone from tech experts to business moguls to philanthropists believe it is a paradigm-shifting technology, bound to revolutionize society as...

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Fire in the Sky

Cosmic Collisions, Killer Asteroids, and the Race to Defend Earth

by Gordon L. Dillow

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Pub Date 04 Jun 2019

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Combining history, pop science, and in-depth reporting, a fascinating account of asteroids that hit Earth long ago, and those streaming toward us now, as well as how we are preparing against asteroid-caused catastrophe.

One of these days, warns Gordon Dillow, the Earth will be hit by a comet or asteroid of potentially catastrophic size. The only question is ...


Out of Darkness, Shining Light 10 Sep 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Four Hours of Fury 21 May 2019 History	The Island of Sea Women 05 Mar 2019 Historical Fiction	The Peach Truck Cookbook 25 Jun 2019 Cooking, Food & Wine	The Crowded Hour 04 Jun 2019 History

Flight or Fright 04 Jun 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Maternal Desire 14 May 2019 Parenting & Families	Lie With Me 30 Apr 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Ask Again, Yes 28 May 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Vacuum in the Dark 26 Feb 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

Feast Your Eyes 16 Apr 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Stay Up with Hugo Best 02 Apr 2019 Literary Fiction	The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books 12 Mar 2019 Biographies & Memoirs	Sing to It 26 Mar 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Turbulence 16 Jul 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

Survival Math 05 Mar 2019 Biographies & Memoirs	The Art of Dying Well 19 Feb 2019 Self-Help	The Behavior of Love 14 May 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Blockchain: The Next Everything 26 Mar 2019 Business & Investing	Fire in the Sky 04 Jun 2019 Science


Out of Darkness, Shining Light 10 Sep 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Four Hours of Fury 21 May 2019 History	The Island of Sea Women 05 Mar 2019 Historical Fiction	The Peach Truck Cookbook 25 Jun 2019 Cooking, Food & Wine

The Crowded Hour 04 Jun 2019 History	Flight or Fright 04 Jun 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Maternal Desire 14 May 2019 Parenting & Families	Lie With Me 30 Apr 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

Ask Again, Yes 28 May 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Vacuum in the Dark 26 Feb 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Feast Your Eyes 16 Apr 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Stay Up with Hugo Best 02 Apr 2019 Literary Fiction

The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books 12 Mar 2019 Biographies & Memoirs	Sing to It 26 Mar 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Turbulence 16 Jul 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Survival Math 05 Mar 2019 Biographies & Memoirs

The Art of Dying Well 19 Feb 2019 Self-Help	The Behavior of Love 14 May 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Blockchain: The Next Everything 26 Mar 2019 Business & Investing	Fire in the Sky 04 Jun 2019 Science


Out of Darkness, Shining Light 10 Sep 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Four Hours of Fury 21 May 2019 History

The Island of Sea Women 05 Mar 2019 Historical Fiction	The Peach Truck Cookbook 25 Jun 2019 Cooking, Food & Wine

The Crowded Hour 04 Jun 2019 History	Flight or Fright 04 Jun 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

Maternal Desire 14 May 2019 Parenting & Families	Lie With Me 30 Apr 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

Ask Again, Yes 28 May 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Vacuum in the Dark 26 Feb 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

Feast Your Eyes 16 Apr 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Stay Up with Hugo Best 02 Apr 2019 Literary Fiction

The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books 12 Mar 2019 Biographies & Memoirs	Sing to It 26 Mar 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

Turbulence 16 Jul 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Survival Math 05 Mar 2019 Biographies & Memoirs

The Art of Dying Well 19 Feb 2019 Self-Help	The Behavior of Love 14 May 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

Blockchain: The Next Everything 26 Mar 2019 Business & Investing	Fire in the Sky 04 Jun 2019 Science

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