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The Final Score
by Don Winslow
Don Winslow—America’s King of Crime Fiction—is back and he’s better than ever in this intense, deeply felt, gripping collection of six all-new, never-before-published short novels.
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The Hadacol Boogie
by James Lee Burke
Dave Robicheaux, James Lee Burke's iconic detective, returns to investigate the death of an unidentified woman, pulling him into a vortex of corruption and violence in the Louisiana bayou.
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The Last Hitman
by Robin Yocum
Marked for death, a hitman must figure out how to save himself and exact a final revenge before his past catches up to him.
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Brawler: Stories
by Lauren Groff
Ranging from the 1950s to the present day and moving across age, class, and region-from New England to Florida to California-these nine stories reflect and expand upon a shared theme: the ceaseless battle between humans' dark and light angels.
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Clutch
by Emily Nemens
Follows a group of five women, friends for twenty years, as they go through the biggest challenges of their lives, asking: When you’re hanging on by your fingernails, how can you extend a hand to the ones you love?
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Kin
by Tayari Jones
A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage--Tayari Jones has written an unforgettable novel that sparkles with wit and intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy.
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Defiance: A Memoir of Awakening, Rebellion, and Survival in Syria
by Loubna Mrie
Every day at school, Loubna Mrie pledged allegiance to Bashar al-Assad. His portrait hung over every blackboard, and her textbooks reminded her that without the president, Syria would fall into chaos. In her world, loyalty was survival. Dissent was betrayal. But everything changed in 2011, when the Arab Spring reached Syria and Loubna stumbled into an anti-government protest. What she witnessed ignited something in her that would not be extinguished. She joined the resistance, fearlessly proclaiming her Alawite identity to show that unity was possible and risking her life as a photojournalist.
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The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg--And the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema
by Paul Fischer
Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg revolutionized American cinema, creating the most iconic films in history while risking everything, redefining friendship, and shaping Hollywood as we know it. The Last Kings of Hollywood tells the dramatic inside story of how the three filmmakers rivalled and supported each other, fell out and reconciled, and struggled to reinvent popular American cinema. By the early 1980s, they were the richest, best-known filmmakers in the world, each with an empire of their own. This is an unprecedented chronicle of their rise, their dreams and demons, their triumphs and their failures - intimate, extraordinary, and supremely entertaining.
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A Far-Flung Life
by M. L. Stedman
Remote Western Australia, 1958: here, for generations, the MacBrides have lived on a vast sheep station, Meredith Downs. It is a million acres, an ocean of arid land. On an ordinary day, on a lonely road, under the unending blue sky, patriarch Phil MacBride swerves to avoid a kangaroo. In seconds the lives of the entire MacBride family are shattered. And then, tragedy revisits when a twist of consequences claims the life of one sibling, and leads another to give up everything for the sake of an innocent child. Matt, the youngest MacBride, is plunged into a moral and emotional journey for which there is no map, no guide--forcing him to choose between love and duty, sacrifice and happiness.
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A Good Person
by Kirsten King
Lillian and Henry have been enjoying each other's company, particularly in bed. Even though Lillian's best (and only) friend calls it a "situationship," Lillian knows better. And she has a plan to lock Henry down. She'll be the best, most accommodating version of herself until he falls in love with her. But when Henry blindsides Lillian with a breakup instead of a love declaration, Lillian is left with no choice but to exact revenge with a hex. Lillian expects Henry to grovel and come crawling back to her. What she doesn't anticipate is becoming a prime suspect in his murder case when he's found dead.
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Lake Effect
by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Nest and Good Company comes a wry and tender portrait of two families forever changed by one love-struck decision that will reverberate for decades.
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Now I Surrender
by Álvaro Enrigue
In the contested borderlands between Mexico and the United States, a woman flees into the desert after a devastating raid on her dead husband's ranch. A lieutenant colonel in service to the fledgling Republica, sent in pursuit of cattle rustlers, discovers he's on the trail of a more dramatic abduction. Decades later, with political ambitions on the line, the American and Mexican militaries try to maneuver Geronimo, the most legendary of Apache warriors, into surrender. In our own day, a family travels through the region in search of a truer version of the past.
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Sisters in Yellow
by Mieko Kawakami
Hana has nothing--she's fifteen years old and living in a tiny apartment in a suburb of Tokyo with her young mother, a hostess at a local dive bar. They have no money, no security. Then Kimiko appears. Kimiko is older, a bright light in Hana's dark world. Together they set up Lemon, a bar that, despite its shabby setting and seedy clientele, becomes a haven for Hana. Suddenly Hana has a job she loves, friends to share her days with, and the glittering promise of money. She feels invincible. But in the narrow alleys of Sangenjaya, nothing is as it seems. Soon all of Hana's hope, her optimism, and her drive will be pushed to the limit.
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Son of Nobody
by Yann Martel
A brilliant retelling of the Trojan War from the perspective of two commoners: an ancient soldier and a modern scholar.
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We Would Have Told Each Other Everything
by Judith Hermann
When Judith Hermann runs into her psychoanalyst in the middle of the night on Berlin's Kastanienallee, the meeting sparks an exploration of the moments and memories that have made a life: an intense friendship with another young mother; an unconventional childhood with long summers spent on the German coast; and the ties of familial trauma that echo through generations. In three interconnected sections at once confessional and lyrical, We Would Have Told Each Other Everything explores how the life and work of the writer converge and depart from each other when memory is no longer reliable and dreams intrude on reality.
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Judy Blume: A Life
by Mark Oppenheimer
To know the name Judy Blume is to know and love literature. Her influential novels turned classics touched the lives of tens of millions of readers, while rewiring the world's expectations of what literature for young people can be--frank, candid, earthy, and unafraid to show the messier sides of humanity. But little is known about the real woman behind the iconic persona until now. Journalist, historian, and longtime Blume aficionado Mark Oppenheimer pens a multidimensional portrait of the acclaimed author through extensive interviews with Blume herself, invaluable access to her papers and correspondence, and thoughtful analysis of Blume's beloved novels.
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Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!
by Liza Minnelli
Kids, Wait Till You Hear This is the autobiography of EGOT icon Liza Minnelli. This fascinating, untold story reveals the intimate truth of the only child born to Hollywood legends Vincente Minnelli and Judy Garland. For the first time, here is Liza up close: Raw, strong, sexy, hilarious and heartbreaking.
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A Scandal in Königsberg
by Christopher Clark
In 1835, Johannes Ebel and Georg Heinrich Diestel were tried for having started a cult. Worse: It was a cult that encouraged scandalous sexual behavior in women, including the daughters of prestigious Prussian families--causing the deaths of two young women from sexual exhaustion. The trial would absorb and polarize the city of Königsberg for half a decade and ruin the lives and careers of its defendants, despite their eventual legal exoneration. A Scandal in Königsberg articulates an unsettling antecedent for our most fiercely litigated contemporary questions of sexual identity, freedom of thought, and who gets to decide what constitutes the truth.
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Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945
by Ian Buruma
An astonishing account of life under a murderous regime amid a great city's descent into utter annihilation.
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You with the Sad Eyes: A Memoir
by Christina Applegate
Christina Applegate came of age on sets and stages, expected to be on time, with lines learned, ready for lights-camera-action. Performing began as a financial necessity and became an emotional escape from a tumultuous home life. She first gained stardom playing Kelly Bundy in the sitcom Married...with Children and went on to captivate a vast fandom during her five-decade long career. Then it all stopped. A Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis in 2021 confined her to a king-sized bed and the company of memories she’d rather forget. Now, at her most intimate and vulnerable, she unveils a story not even those closest to her fully know.
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This Is Not about Us
by Allegra Goodman
Was it just a brief skirmish—or the start of a thirty-year feud? In the Rubenstein family, either is possible. When their beloved older sister dies, Sylvia and Helen are left adrift. A misunderstanding over apple cake spirals into decades of silence. Meanwhile, their children—busy with divorces, careers, college apps, bat mitzvahs, and ballet recitals—avoid taking sides. And the grandchildren? Forget it.
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A Hymn to Life
by Gisèle Pelicot
The sexual assault that stunned the world. A courageous woman's rallying call for "shame to change sides." For the very first time, Gisèle Pelicot tells her story.
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A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness
by Michael Pollan
In A World Appears, Michael Pollan traces the unmapped continent that is consciousness, bringing radically different perspectives--scientific, philosophical, literary, spiritual and psychedelic--to see what each can teach us about this central fact of life.
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Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery
by Gavin Newsom
From California Governor Gavin Newsom, an intimate and reflective memoir laying bare the defining moments of his liminal childhood splintered by his parents' divorce that shaped Newsom's visionary and relentless commitment to the state and nation.
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The Hospital at the End of the World
by Justin C. Key
In a year not so far from our own, society is run by the shepherds, a global AI system. The shepherds have controlled every aspect of Pok's twenty years of life—they decided what schools Pok went to, what jobs he was eligible for, what foods he ate, and even his medical care. He's content living a carefree life until his father is killed by a mysterious illness. Searching for answers, Pok decides to follow in his father's footsteps and travel to the very last hold-out city and train at the one hospital that still practices human-led medicine: Hippocrates. Soon he's pulled into the terrifying mystery of a strange illness plaguing immigrants who grew up under shepherd rule.
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Kin
by Tayari Jones
A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage--Tayari Jones has written an unforgettable novel that sparkles with wit and intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy.
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It's Never Too Late: A Memoir
by Marla Gibbs
The star of classic television series, including The Jeffersons and 227, reveals her difficult journey from a tempestuous childhood to becoming a confident Hollywood powerbroker and groundbreaker who paved the way for today's superstar talents.
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Unread: A Memoir of Learning (and Loving) to Read on Tiktok
by Oliver James
As a result of childhood learning disabilities and educational neglect, Oliver James graduated from high school and became one of approximately 45 million functionally illiterate Americans. However, at age 32, with big dreams and few tools to actualize them, he dedicated himself to learning the key skill that had evaded him his entire life: reading.
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Mule Boy
by Andrew Krivak
On New Year’s Day 1929, thirteen-year-old Ondro Prach begins work as a mule boy in Pennsylvania’s coal mines. A collapse kills his crew, leaving Ondro to bear their final words through years of hardship, addiction, and loss. In lyrical prose, Krivak crafts a haunting tale of mortality, memory, and redemption amid the darkness of America’s industrial past.
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Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln
by Matthew Pinsker
An eye-opening portrait of Lincoln behind the scenes: Here is the career-long party politician whose brilliant coalition-building during the Civil War set the political foundation for emancipation and Union victory.
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Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play
by Keza MacDonald
A lifelong gamer and video games journalist, Keza MacDonald digs down to Nintendo's experimental roots, tracking the company's rise with each new revolutionary product. She draws on private interviews with icons like Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario, and takes readers on a trip to the secretive Nintendo HQ--making her one of the few Western journalists to have set foot inside the building. Super Nintendo tells the remarkable story of the people who brought us Super Mario Bros., Zelda, Pok mon, and Animal Crossing--not to mention the SNES, N64, Game Boy, Wii, and Switch--and charts the delights they've offered over the decades.
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White River Crossing
by Ian McGuire
A ragged fur peddler arrives at a remote outpost of the Hudson Bay Company in the winter of 1766 with a lump of gold, claiming that there is plenty more like it further north at a place called Ox Lake. The outpost's chief factor, Magnus Norton, dreams of instant riches and launches a secret and perilous expedition to find the treasure and bring it back. During their long journey north, Shaw's callousness and arrogance lead him to commit an act of sexual violence whose disastrous consequences will only fully emerge once they reach their final destination.
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