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Abigail Trench
by Randy Overbeck
Set in 1776, it follows a schoolteacher who transforms into a rebel spy to avenge her family and aid General Washington
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Daughters of the Sun and Moon
by Lisa See
The story of three Chinese women whose unexpected friendship helps them survive and, despite the odds, thrive, in the turmoil of post-Civil War Los Angeles.
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Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You
by Julián Delgado Lopera
Explores grief and intergenerational suppression as a teenager attempts to unravel her mother’s drowning while her father wallows in depression, guilt, and repressed queer identity
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Red Sheet
by James Ellroy
A gritty, fast-paced historical crime thriller set in 1962 Los Angeles during the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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The Land and Its People: Essays
by David Sedaris
Sedaris investigates what it means to be a traveler, a brother, a lifelong friend. Throughout these essays--at once acerbic and tender, playful and profound--Sedaris shows how much there is to marvel at when you keep your head up and your eyes open, observing with warmth and curiosity our fascinating human species and the lands we inhabit.
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Country People
by Daniel Mason
A year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown (aka Vermont), leaving all the comforts of home behind--a rollicking, lyrical novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason
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Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep
by Paul Tremblay
Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of offers her a temp job with a payday Julia can't refuse. One sham interview later, she's offered the job: to chaperone a man in a vegetative state--one with proprietary AI implanted in his head--from California to the East Coast.
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The Great Wherever
by Shannon Sanders
Follows 32-year-old Aubrey Lamb, who inherits a stake in a rural Tennessee farm. While navigating debt and grief, she discovers the land is burdened by tragedy and closely watched by her sharp-tongued, gossipy ancestral ghosts
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Helpless
by Jessica Knoll
When a former and beloved college professor suddenly passes away, Faye and Henry find themselves back on campus for the funeral, circling something old and dangerous. But Henry is one of a kind. The kind who delivers a hypnotic apology for the way things ended. The kind who suggests they go back to the hotel for a drink. The kind who drugs and kidnaps her. Faye comes to Henry's remote mountain cabin. Has Henry brought her here to punish her? She did, after all, write and star in a lauded TV episode based on their indelicate appetites and vicious breakup. As her week of captivity unfolds, Henry's wanton demands intensify, and Faye finds herself pulled back into his irresistible gravity.
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The Mortons
by Justine Larbalestier
Meet the Mortons: In this family, murder is currency--and business is booming. They, along with the other crime families, send their progeny to Helshire College, where legacy students learn to exercise control over their wealthy peers. Jessica Morton has always excelled at Helshire, secure in the knowledge that she is the prodigy of her generation. Now, having committed her first kill, it should be Jessica's moment, her honor. But that kill will cut more ways than one, unknotting a series of revelations spanning the Mortons' country estate, the New York City art world, and Helshire itself.
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Fishbone Cinderella
by Elizabeth Lim
1940s Hong Kong. When Japanese soldiers invade her hometown, Ha Yut Ying makes an unlikely escape--by turning invisible. But her miraculous survival is only the beginning. After the war is over, she's sent to Hong Kong to live with her distant father and glamorous stepmother, who end her dreams of becoming a singer and turn her into the family's servant. 1960s San Francisco. Marigold has always had a knack for uncovering secrets, but nothing prepares her for the day she accidentally witnesses her mother vanish before her eyes.
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All That's Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir
by Emilee Hackney
In her luminous debut, Emilee Hackney offers both a love letter to and a reckoning of the place that made her--a story of losing her faith, finding her way back to her Appalachian home, and discovering what endures.
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Catch the Devil
by Pamela Colloff
The riveting true story of an audacious con man weaponized by the justice system who destroys dozens of lives and puts a man on death row for a murder he didn't commit.
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A Pair of Aces
by Marie Benedict
A gripping novel about two trailblazing women on opposite sides of the law--a prosecutor and a madam--who team up to bring down notorious Mob boss Lucky Luciano in 1930s New York.
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America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries
by Eddie S. Glaude
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. presents a groundbreaking analysis of the vicious cycles of American history and the country's enduring refusal to face its true nature--especially at the moments when national anniversaries steer us back toward the mythology meant to disguise the truth. Centered around the major celebrations of America's milestone birthdays across 250 years of history, the book offers a riveting look at the battles over who has a stake in writing the American story.
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The Crooked Places Made Straight
by Raphael G. Warnock
Senator Reverend Raphael G. Warnock is a transformational voice in Congress and the pastor of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Ebenezer Baptist Church, and for the semiquincentennial of America, he exhorts us to reach for the highest and noblest aspects of our national character.
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Transcendent
by Laverne Cox
Four-time Emmy-nominated actress Laverne Cox shares her journey as a transgender woman in Hollywood, confronting childhood trauma, shame, gender identity, her transition, body image issues, her search for romantic love, deep-seated feelings of unworthiness, and ultimately, healing.
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What Conservatives Believe
by Mike Pence
In this powerful and inspiring manifesto, New York Times bestselling author and former Vice President Mike Pence pens a 21st-century version of The Conscience of a Conservative. With candid insights after decades as a happy warrior in the movement, Pence convincingly explains why the Republican Party must choose enduring conservative principles over the temptations of big-government populism.
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Agnes Lives!
by Hallie Elizabeth Newton
A day-in-the-life debut novel about a fading socialite on the hunt for someone to kill her before her next SoulCycle class.
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Fairfield County
by Dameron
In rural Fairfield County, South Carolina, the Bolton family has long worked the same land, breeding horses for derbies and rodeos and passing down their skills. After a tragedy, Dwayne, the next heir, conceals that history from his daughter. Nikki develops as a horsewoman without knowing her lineage. When their land is threatened, Dwayne must confront the past so Nikki can claim her place and future.
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Thrilling Tales of Modern Men: Stories
by Danny McBride
An amateur magician gets in way over his head with a deadly stunt in a local mall. A washed-up sitcom actor takes revenge on the coyote who killed his dog. Two young runaways decide to part ways, but not before embarking on one last big adventure. Hilarious, razor sharp, unexpectedly emotional, and full of wild twists and turns, the stories in The Thrilling Tales of Modern Men are like nothing else. And yet, they have one thing in common—they each probe the fragile masculinity that’s become inherent to modern American culture.
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A Year of Marvelous Ways
by Sarah Winman
Marvelous Ways has lived alone by a winding creek in Cornwall for nearly all her life. She is waiting for something, but she's not sure what. She will know when she sees it and that is good enough. Francis Drake, a young soldier adrift after the death of a fellow comrade, has agreed to deliver a letter to his friend's father in Cornwall. But Francis's journey doesn't go as planned. After a brief reunion with a woman from his past, Francis washes up in Marvelous's creek, broken both in body and spirit. An unlikely friendship grows: Marvelous has lived a long life, with countless stories to tell, and Francis needs a reason to keep going - even just the hope that life still has more to offer.
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The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton
by Jennifer N. Brown
Historian Alison Sage has made a groundbreaking archival discovery--she found a manuscript containing the prophecies of a 16th century nun, Elizabeth Barton. Barton's prophecy condemning Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn led to her execution and the destruction of all copies of her prophecies--or so the world believed. With Alison's discovery, she is catapulted to academic superstardom and scores an invitation to a week of research among a select handful of fellow historians at a crumbling manor in England. What begins as a promising conference turns into a nightmare as the eerie house becomes the site of a murder.
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Purple State
by Dana Perino
Dot Clark, a buttoned-up PR professional from New York City, feels stuck in her career and her love life. Seizing a chance to follow her passion, she's sent to Cedar Falls, Wisconsin, a swing district in a swing state that could decide the next presidential election. Joined by her two best friends, Dot discovers that small-town Midwestern life is far outside her urban comfort zone, and falls for Danny, a man who's her complete opposite. How can Dot find time for Danny when she has a job to do, and what's the point when she's going back to New York City after the election? And who says that two people from opposite sides of the aisle can't eventually walk down one together?
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Cocked and Boozy
by Brooke Barbier
In Cocked and Boozy--two of Benjamin Franklin's two hundred terms for drunkenness--public historian Brooke Barbier examines the role that alcohol played in spurring, binding, and winning the American Revolution and how it shaped the nascent United States. Every chapter concludes with an eighteenth-century cocktail recipe made for modern tastes, so readers can participate in their own historic tippling.
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Lightning Beneath the Sea
by James M. Tabor
The thrilling story of the nineteenth century's Apollo moonshot: an Atlantic-spanning telegraph cable that created the global village and changed the world.
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Tom Paine's War
by Jack Kelly
Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Declaration of Independence marked the birth of the United States. But two essays of that era appealed even more directly to Americans' feelings. In January 1776, Thomas Paine--a recent immigrant to America --published Common Sense. His straightforward argument upended the fraud of monarchy and dismantled the idea of aristocratic privilege that had dominated the world for centuries. His words convinced Americans that the king had no divine right to rule them--they could rule themselves. He turned a rebellion over taxes and representation into a true Revolution.
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