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Five Days Gone

The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

by Laura Cumming

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Pub Date 27 Aug 2019

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Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez Laura Cumming shares the riveting story of her mother’s mysterious kidnapping as a toddler in a small English coastal village—and how that event reverberated her own family and her art for decades.

In the fall of 1929, when Laura Cumming’s mother was three years old, she was kidnapped...

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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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Good Girl, Bad Girl

A Novel

by Michael Robotham

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Pub Date 23 Jul 2019

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From the bestselling author of The Secrets She Keeps, the writer Stephen King calls “an absolute master…with heart and soul,” a fiendishly clever suspense novel about a dangerous young woman with a special ability to know when someone is lying—and the criminal psychologist who must outwit her to survive.

A girl is discovered hiding in a secret room in the...

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Wildhood

The Epic Journey from Adolescence to Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals

by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz; Kathryn Bowers

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Pub Date 17 Sep 2019

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A revelatory investigation of human and animal adolescence and young adulthood from the New York Times bestselling authors of Zoobiquity.

With Wildhood, Harvard evolutionary biologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and award-winning science writer Kathryn Bowers have created an entirely new way of thinking about the crucial, vulnerable, and exhilarating phase of...

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Savage Appetites

Four True Stories of Women, Crime and Obsession

by Rachel Monroe

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Pub Date 20 Aug 2019

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A provocative and original investigation of our cultural fascination with crime, linking four archetypes—Detective, Victim, Defender, Killer—to four true stories about women driven by obsession.

In this illuminating exploration of women, violence, and obsession, Rachel Monroe interrogates the appeal of true crime through four narratives of fixation. In the...

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Selected Poems of Edith Wharton

by Edith Wharton; Irene Goldman-Price

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Pub Date 09 Jul 2019

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Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with her novel The Age of Innocence, was also a brilliant poet. This revealing collection of 134 poems brings together a fascinating array of her verse—including fifty poems that have never before been published.

The celebrated American novelist and short story writer Edith Wharton, author...

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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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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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All the Water in the World

A Novel

by Karen Raney

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Pub Date 06 Aug 2019

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A stunning debut novel about a teenage girl and her mother as they grapple with first love, family secrets, and tragedy.

Maddy is sixteen. Smart, funny, and profound, she has loyal friends, a mother with whom she’s unusually close, a father she’s never met, devoted grandparents, and a crush on a boy named Jack. Maddy also has cancer. Living in the shadow of...

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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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The Patient Assassin

A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence

by Anita Anand

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Pub Date 25 Jun 2019

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The dramatic true story of a celebrated young survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, and his ferocious twenty-year campaign of revenge that made him a hero to hundreds of millions—and spawned a classic legend.

When Sir Michael O’Dwyer, the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, ordered Brigadier General Reginald Dyer to Amritsar, he wanted Dyer to bring the...

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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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Out of Darkness, Shining Light

A Novel

by Petina Gappah

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Pub Date 10 Sep 2019

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“Engrossing, beautiful, and deeply imaginative, Out of Darkness, Shining Light is a novel that lends voice to those who appeared only as footnotes in history, yet whose final, brave act of loyalty and respect changed the course of it. An incredible and important book by a masterful writer.” —Yaa Gyasi, author of Homegoing

“This is how we carried out of...

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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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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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The World's Fastest Man

The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First Black Sports Hero

by Michael Kranish

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Pub Date 07 May 2019

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In the tradition of The Boys in the Boat and Seabiscuit, a fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking but forgotten figure—the remarkable Major Taylor, the black man who broke racial barriers by becoming the world’s fastest and most famous bicyclist at the height of the Jim Crow era.

In the 1890s, the nation’s promise of equality had failed spectacularly...

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How to Build a Boat

A Father, His Daughter, and the Unsailed Sea

by Jonathan Gornall

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Pub Date 07 May 2019

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Part ode to building something with one’s hands in the modern age, part celebration of the beauty and function of boats, and part moving father-daughter story, How to Build a Boat is a bold adventure.

Once an essential skill, the ability to build a clinker boat, first innovated by the Vikings, can seem incomprehensible today. Yet it was the clinker, with its...


Five Days Gone 27 Aug 2019 Biographies & Memoirs	Ask Again, Yes 28 May 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Good Girl, Bad Girl 23 Jul 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Wildhood 17 Sep 2019 Science	Savage Appetites 20 Aug 2019 True Crime

Selected Poems of Edith Wharton 09 Jul 2019 Poetry	The Peach Truck Cookbook 25 Jun 2019 Cooking, Food & Wine	Flight or Fright 04 Jun 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	All the Water in the World 06 Aug 2019 Women's Fiction	Lie With Me 30 Apr 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

The Patient Assassin 25 Jun 2019 Biographies & Memoirs	Four Hours of Fury 21 May 2019 History	Out of Darkness, Shining Light 10 Sep 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	The Crowded Hour 04 Jun 2019 History	Turbulence 16 Jul 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

The World's Fastest Man 07 May 2019 History	How to Build a Boat 07 May 2019 Biographies & Memoirs


Five Days Gone 27 Aug 2019 Biographies & Memoirs	Ask Again, Yes 28 May 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Good Girl, Bad Girl 23 Jul 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Wildhood 17 Sep 2019 Science

Savage Appetites 20 Aug 2019 True Crime	Selected Poems of Edith Wharton 09 Jul 2019 Poetry	The Peach Truck Cookbook 25 Jun 2019 Cooking, Food & Wine	Flight or Fright 04 Jun 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

All the Water in the World 06 Aug 2019 Women's Fiction	Lie With Me 30 Apr 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	The Patient Assassin 25 Jun 2019 Biographies & Memoirs	Four Hours of Fury 21 May 2019 History

Out of Darkness, Shining Light 10 Sep 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	The Crowded Hour 04 Jun 2019 History	Turbulence 16 Jul 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	The World's Fastest Man 07 May 2019 History

How to Build a Boat 07 May 2019 Biographies & Memoirs


Five Days Gone 27 Aug 2019 Biographies & Memoirs	Ask Again, Yes 28 May 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

Good Girl, Bad Girl 23 Jul 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Wildhood 17 Sep 2019 Science

Savage Appetites 20 Aug 2019 True Crime	Selected Poems of Edith Wharton 09 Jul 2019 Poetry

The Peach Truck Cookbook 25 Jun 2019 Cooking, Food & Wine	Flight or Fright 04 Jun 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

All the Water in the World 06 Aug 2019 Women's Fiction	Lie With Me 30 Apr 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

The Patient Assassin 25 Jun 2019 Biographies & Memoirs	Four Hours of Fury 21 May 2019 History

Out of Darkness, Shining Light 10 Sep 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	The Crowded Hour 04 Jun 2019 History

Turbulence 16 Jul 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	The World's Fastest Man 07 May 2019 History

How to Build a Boat 07 May 2019 Biographies & Memoirs

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