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Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of Sam Shepard
by Robert M. Dowling
Sam Shepard was a true American original. A theater and film icon who lived life on a mythic scale, Shepard became an embodiment of the fierce independence and wild freedom of the American West. Taking us from the creative explosion of downtown New York City in the 1960s to Bob Dylan's legendary Rolling Thunder Revue tour, from Hollywood backlots and film shoots in the Mojave Desert to the horse ranches where Shepard went to escape it all, Robert M. Dowling's biography reveals this playwright, actor, and filmmaker as we've never known him before--
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Cape Fever
by Nadia Davids
From award-winning South African author Nadia Davids comes a gothic psychological thriller set in the 1920s, where a young maid finds herself entangled with the spirits of a decaying manor and the secrets of its enigmatic owner.
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Television
by Lauren Rothery
An aging, A-list movie star lotteries off the entirety of his mega-million blockbuster salary to a member of the general viewing public before taking up with a much younger model. His non-famous best friend (and often lover) looks on impassively, while recollecting their twenty-odd years of unlikely connection.
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This Is Where the Serpent Lives
by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Moving from Pakistan's sophisticated cities to its most rural farmlands, This is Where the Serpent Lives captures the extraordinary proximity of extreme wealth to extreme poverty in a land where fate is determined by class and social station.
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Watching Over Her
by Jean-Baptiste Andrea
In an Italian monastery, a sculptor named Mimo lays on his deathbed. For decades, he has lived among the monks who watch over his masterpiece, an arresting statue that haunts all who see it. During his final hours, he reveals his life story: his impoverished childhood, brutal apprenticeship, and, most important, his meeting with Viola Orsini, the only daughter of a powerful and dangerous aristocratic family.
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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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American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate
by Eric Lichtblau
A deeply reported exploration of the violent resurgence of hatred and white supremacy through the lens of Orange County, California--ground zero for racial extremism--and the story of one brutal murder there that revealed the deep roots of violent bigotry as a bellwether for the country.
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Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times
by Tracy K. Smith
A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet reveals how poetry is a powerful tool of connection and understanding in a fractured world.
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The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Mutiny, Love, and Adventure at the Bottom of the World
by Tilar J. Mazzeo
Nineteen-year-old Mary Ann Patten and her husband, Joshua, were young and ambitious members of New England seafaring families. In 1856, they entered a clipper ship race to San Francsico, the winnings of which would put their dream of building a farm and a family might be within reach. As their ship sailed down the jagged Atlantic coast of South America, Joshua fell deathly ill and was confined to his bunk. As factions among the crew agitated for mutiny, Mary Ann stepped into the breach and convinced them to support her, just as they slammed into a gale that would last 18 days. Determined to save the ship, the crew, and their future, she faces down the deadly waters of Drake’s Passage.
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Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
by Belle Burden
Immigration lawyer Burden traces the exhilarating start and excruciating dissolution of her two-decade marriage.
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Dead and Alive: Essays
by Zadie Smith
Blending sharp observation with deep humanity, this compelling essay collection explores artists, authors, films, cities and cultural icons, while reflecting on community, political shifts, loss and the meaning of shared spaces, capturing the complex spirit of our troubled times.
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All the Little Houses
by May Cobb
It's the mid-1980s in the tiny town of Longview, Texas. Nellie Anderson, the beautiful daughter of the Anderson family dynasty, has burst onto the scene. She always gets what she wants. What she can't get for herself… well, that's what her mother is for. When a prairie-kissed family moves to town, all trad wife, woodworking dad, wholesome daughter vibes, Charleigh's entire self-made social empire threatens to crumble.
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The Bodyguard Affair
by Amy Lea
Andi Zeigler lives a double life. By day, she's the no-nonsense, steadfast personal assistant to the Prime Minister of Canada's wife. By night, she slips out of her heels and writes romance novels under a top-secret pen name. But when her steamiest book, The Prime Minister & Me, unexpectedly becomes a bestseller, rumors of a real-life affair between her and the PM start swirling out of control. Enter Nolan Crosby, the PM's new close protection officer (aka bodyguard)--and Andi's failed one-night stand from three years ago. Nolan's in town very temporarily to care for his mother, who's battling early-onset Alzheimer's. But when the scandal erupts, Andi ropes him into a plan: as loyal employees, they'll pretend to date for the summer--
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The Book of Luke
by Lovell Holder
This fast-paced debut novel shines an unflinching light on the drama of reality TV when a gay man returns to the cut-throat show he won in his youth after his adult life begins to unravel.
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Crux
by Gabriel Tallent
In this story of intense friendship and grit, two down-and-out teens escape the hopelessness of their lives and chase a different future through rock climbing.
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Everyone in the Group Chat Dies
by L. M. Chilton
Kirby Cornell needs a break from everything: - Her crumbling apartment in the sleepy town of Crowhurst (famous for its bucolic countryside and a second-rate serial killer from the '90s). - Her dead-end job. - Her sleazy landlord - Her messy roommates. - And, most of all, the terrible thing they all did. Luckily, that hasn't caught up with her just yet. Until a new message on their old group chat pops up: Everyone in the group chat dies. It's the first text her ex-roommate Esme has sent for ages, but that's not the really weird thing. The really weird thing is, Esme died twelve months ago...
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Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
by Bob the Drag Queen
In an age of miracles where our greatest heroes from history have magically, unexplainably returned to shake us out of our confusion and hate, Harriet Tubman is back, and she has a lot to say. [She] and four of the enslaved persons she led to freedom want to tell their story in a unique way: Harriet wants to create a hip-hop album and live show about her life, and she needs a songwriter to help her. She calls upon Darnell Williams, a once successful hip-hop producer who was topping the charts before being outed on a BET talk show. Darnell has no idea what to expect when he steps into the studio with Harriet, only that they have a short period of time to write a legendary album she can take on the road. Over the course of their time together, they not only create music that will take the country by storm, but confront the horrors of both their pasts and learn to find a way to a better future--
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Persephone's Curse
by Katrina Leno
Are the four Farthing sisters really descended from Persephone? This is what their aunt has always told them: that the women in their family can trace their lineage right back to the Goddess of the Dead. And maybe she's right, because the Farthing girls do have a ghost in the attic of their New York City brownstone--a kind and gentle ghost named Henry, who only they can see. When one of the sisters falls in love with the ghost, and another banishes him to the Underworld, the sisters are faced with even bigger questions about who they are. If they really are related to Persephone, and they really are a bit magic, then perhaps it's up to them to save Henry, to save the world, and to save each other--
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Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books
by Hwang Bo-Reum
From the author of the international bestseller Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, a heartfelt invitation to reflect on your relationship with reading and celebrate the joys of books.
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Half His Age
by Jennette McCurdy
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I'm Glad My Mom Died comes a sad, funny, thrilling novel about sex, consumerism, class, desire, loneliness, the internet, rage, intimacy, power, and the (oftentimes misguided) lengths we'll go to in order to get what we want.
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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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The Last Death of the Year
by Sophie Hannah
New Year's Eve, 1932. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool arrive on the tiny Greek island of Lamperos to celebrate the holiday with what turns out to be a rather odd community of locals living in a dilapidated house. A dark sense of foreboding overshadows the beautiful island getaway when the guests play a New Year's Resolutions game after dinner and one written resolution gleefully threatens to perform 'the last and first death of the year.' Hours later, one of the home's residents is found dead on the terrace--
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Augustine the African
by Catherine Conybeare
An extraordinary work of revisionist history that centers Africa in the life of one of our greatest philosophers.
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Canticle
by Janet Rich Edwards
A masterful debut novel following a spirited young woman's explorations of faith, agency, and love in thirteenth-century Bruges.
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Who Knows You by Heart
by C. J. Farley
Part social thriller, part modern love story, Who Knows You by Heart is a sly, witty, and endlessly discussable tale of Big Tech, new money, relationships, race, and discovering what's real in an age of artificial intelligence--
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