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The Body

A Guide for Occupants

by Bill Bryson

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 15 Oct 2019

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Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As addictive as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for everybody.

Bill Bryson once again proves himself to be an incomparable companion as he guides us through the human...

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The Body Double

A Novel

by Emily Beyda

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 03 Mar 2020

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A dark, glittering debut novel, The Body Double is the suspenseful story of a young woman who is recruited by a stranger to give up her old life and identity to impersonate a reclusive Hollywood star.

A strange man discovers our nameless narrator selling popcorn at a decrepit small-town movie theater and offers her an odd and lucrative position: she will...

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Bubblegum

A Novel

by Adam Levin

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 14 Apr 2020

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The astonishing new novel by the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award-winning author of The Instructions.

Bubblegum is set in an alternate present-day world in which the Internet does not exist, and has never existed. Rather, a wholly different species of interactive technology--a "flesh-and-bone robot" called the Curio--has dominated both the market and the...

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Soot

A Novel

by Dan Vyleta

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 25 Feb 2020

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The electrifying sequel to the national bestseller Smoke - bringing back readers to a world that Entertainment Weekly called "Part Dickens, part dystopia, and totally immersive."

It has been ten years since Thomas Argyle, Charlie Cooper and Livia Naylor set off a revolution by releasing Smoke upon the world. But the consequences were far greater than they...

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The Illness Lesson

A Novel

by Clare Beams

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 11 Feb 2020

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"Brilliant, suspenseful, beautifully executed...Beams has somehow crafted a tale that feels like both classical ghost story and like a modern (and very timely) scream of female outrage. A masterpiece."--Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls

"Stunningly good--a brainy page-turner that's gorgeous and frightening in equal measure. The Illness Lesson...

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The Starless Sea

A Novel

by Erin Morgenstern

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 05 Nov 2019

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world--a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.

Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales...

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Summerlings

A Novel

by Lisa Howorth

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 06 Aug 2019

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An Amazon Best of the Month pick

"As a boy my first literary hero was Tom Sawyer, and ever since I've enjoyed the misadventures and romps of kids loose in the summertime. Summerlings is a story rich in local color, humor, outrageous characters, and with a wicked plot."--John Grisham

A Cold War coming-of-age story in which three best friends confront their...

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The Warlow Experiment

A Novel

by Alix Nathan

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 20 Aug 2019

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An utterly transporting and original historical novel about an eighteenth-century experiment in personal isolation that yields unexpected--and deeply, shatteringly human--results.

"The best kind of historical fiction. Alix Nathan is an original, with a virtuoso touch."
--Hilary Mantel

Herbert Powyss lives in an estate in the Welsh Marches, with enough...

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Night Boat to Tangier

A Novel

by Kevin Barry

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 17 Sep 2019

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From the acclaimed author of the international sensations City of Bohane and Beatlebone, a striking and gorgeous new novel of two aging criminals at the butt ends of their damage-filled careers. A superbly melancholic melody of a novel full of beautiful phrases and terrible men.

In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of...

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The Janes

An Alice Vega Novel

by Louisa Luna

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 21 Jan 2020

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The electric follow-up to Louisa Luna's acclaimed thriller Two Girls Down, featuring private investigators Alice Vega and Max Caplan.

On the outskirts of San Diego, the bodies of two young women are discovered. They have no names, no IDs, and no family looking for them. Fearing the possibility of a human trafficking ring, the police and FBI reach out to...

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Zed

A Novel

by Joanna Kavenna

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 14 Jan 2020

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From the winner of the Orange Award for New Writing comes a blistering, satirical novel about life under a global media and tech corporation that knows exactly what we think, what we want, and what we do—before we do.

One corporation has made a perfect world based on a perfect algorithm . . . now what to do with all these messy people?
Lionel Bigman is...

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The Innocents

A Novel

by Michael Crummey

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 12 Nov 2019

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"Gripping."--Emma Donoghue, author of Room
"Dazzling."--Smith Henderson, author of Fourth of July Creek
"Fantastic."--Kevin Powers, author of Yellow Birds and A Shout in the Ruins
"Brilliant."--Ron Rash, author of Serena

From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother and sister confront the limits of human...

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Empty Hearts

A Novel

by Juli Zeh

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 20 Aug 2019

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A prescient political and psychological thriller ripped from tomorrow's headlines, by one of Germany's most celebrated contemporary novelists

A few short years from now, the world is an even more uncertain place than it is today, and politics everywhere is marching rightward: Trump is gone, but Brexit is complete, as is Frexit. There's a global financial...

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Sandworm

A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers

by Andy Greenberg

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 05 Nov 2019

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From Wired senior writer Andy Greenberg comes the true story of the desperate hunt to identify and track an elite team of Russian agents bent on digital sabotage

In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen...

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Gods of the Upper Air

How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

by Charles King

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 06 Aug 2019

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“Elegant and kaleidoscopic . . . This looks to be the perfect moment for King’s resolutely humane book.”
—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times

“Captivating.”
—NPR.org

From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology and the adventurous scientists who pioneered it—a sweeping chronicle of discovery and the fascinating...

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Parisian Lives

Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir

by Deirdre Bair

Doubleday Books

Pub Date 12 Nov 2019

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National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art.

In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted Ph.D. who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning...


The Body 15 Oct 2019 Nonfiction (Adult), Science	The Body Double 03 Mar 2020 General Fiction (Adult)	Bubblegum 14 Apr 2020 General Fiction (Adult), Sci Fi & Fantasy	Soot 25 Feb 2020 General Fiction (Adult), Sci Fi & Fantasy	The Illness Lesson 11 Feb 2020 General Fiction (Adult), Historical Fiction

The Starless Sea 05 Nov 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Summerlings 06 Aug 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	The Warlow Experiment 20 Aug 2019 General Fiction (Adult), Historical Fiction	Night Boat to Tangier 17 Sep 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	The Janes 21 Jan 2020 Mystery & Thrillers

Zed 14 Jan 2020 Humor, Sci Fi & Fantasy	The Innocents 12 Nov 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Empty Hearts 20 Aug 2019 General Fiction (Adult), Mystery & Thrillers	Sandworm 05 Nov 2019 Computers & Internet, Nonfiction (Adult)	Gods of the Upper Air 06 Aug 2019 Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction (Adult)

Parisian Lives 12 Nov 2019 Biographies & Memoirs


The Body 15 Oct 2019 Nonfiction (Adult), Science	The Body Double 03 Mar 2020 General Fiction (Adult)	Bubblegum 14 Apr 2020 General Fiction (Adult), Sci Fi & Fantasy	Soot 25 Feb 2020 General Fiction (Adult), Sci Fi & Fantasy

The Illness Lesson 11 Feb 2020 General Fiction (Adult), Historical Fiction	The Starless Sea 05 Nov 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	Summerlings 06 Aug 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	The Warlow Experiment 20 Aug 2019 General Fiction (Adult), Historical Fiction

Night Boat to Tangier 17 Sep 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	The Janes 21 Jan 2020 Mystery & Thrillers	Zed 14 Jan 2020 Humor, Sci Fi & Fantasy	The Innocents 12 Nov 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

Empty Hearts 20 Aug 2019 General Fiction (Adult), Mystery & Thrillers	Sandworm 05 Nov 2019 Computers & Internet, Nonfiction (Adult)	Gods of the Upper Air 06 Aug 2019 Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction (Adult)	Parisian Lives 12 Nov 2019 Biographies & Memoirs


The Body 15 Oct 2019 Nonfiction (Adult), Science	The Body Double 03 Mar 2020 General Fiction (Adult)

Bubblegum 14 Apr 2020 General Fiction (Adult), Sci Fi & Fantasy	Soot 25 Feb 2020 General Fiction (Adult), Sci Fi & Fantasy

The Illness Lesson 11 Feb 2020 General Fiction (Adult), Historical Fiction	The Starless Sea 05 Nov 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

Summerlings 06 Aug 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	The Warlow Experiment 20 Aug 2019 General Fiction (Adult), Historical Fiction

Night Boat to Tangier 17 Sep 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	The Janes 21 Jan 2020 Mystery & Thrillers

Zed 14 Jan 2020 Humor, Sci Fi & Fantasy	The Innocents 12 Nov 2019 General Fiction (Adult)

Empty Hearts 20 Aug 2019 General Fiction (Adult), Mystery & Thrillers	Sandworm 05 Nov 2019 Computers & Internet, Nonfiction (Adult)

Gods of the Upper Air 06 Aug 2019 Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction (Adult)	Parisian Lives 12 Nov 2019 Biographies & Memoirs

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