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Sins of Survivors
by Joe McClean
With his fierce and protective older brother Jasper, Ben escapes Alabama, joining the Great Migration to Black Bottom, Detroit's flourishing Black neighborhood. There, the brothers rise from the ashes to become kingpins of this new community, owning businesses, playing politics, and diving into Detroit's violent criminal underbelly. Through their wit and grit, Ben and Jasper establish the Carter dynasty, securing a prosperous future for their families. But seeing their children come of age, the brothers clash over which direction to steer the Carter empire.
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Jane and Dan at the End of the World
by Colleen Oakley
While celebrating their anniversary at La Fin du Monde, unhappy couple Jane and Dan find themselves taken hostage by bumbling climate activists whose actions are eerily similar to those in Jane's failed novel, so only they know what will happen and how to stop it.
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Foreign Fruit : a Personal History of the Orange
by Katie Goh
"What begins as curiosity about the origins of the orange soon becomes a far-reaching odyssey of citrus for Katie Goh. This investigation parallels Goh's powerful search into her own heritage. Growing up queer in a Chinese-Malaysian-Irish household in the north of Ireland, Goh felt herself at odds with the culture and politics around her. The story that unfolds is Goh's incredible endeavor to flesh out these contradictions, to unpeel the layers of personhood; a reflection on identity through the cipher of the orange."
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Coram House : a novel
by Bailey Seybolt
"In this debut that's perfect for fans of Tana French and Gillian Flynn, a true crime writer risks becoming the next chapter of a crumbling orphanage's dark legacy as she unravels the mystery of two deaths, decades apart."
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Dinner With King Tut : How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
by Sam Kean
"History often neglects the tastes, textures, sounds, and smells that were an intimate part of our ancestors’ lives, but a new generation of researchers is resurrecting those hidden details, pioneering an exciting new discipline called experimental archaeology. These are scientists gone rogue: They make human mummies. They investigate the unsolved murders of ancient bog bodies. They carve primitive spears and go hunting, then knap their own obsidian blades to skin the game. They build perilous boats and plunge out onto the open sea—all in the name of experiencing history as it was, with all its dangers, disappointments, and unexpected delights."
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Fun for the Whole Family : a novel
by Jennifer E. Smith
Four formerly close but now estranged siblings reunite at their famous sister's house and are forced to confront their shared past and hidden truths, in the new novel from the best-selling author of The Unsinkable Greta James.
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Phantom Fleet : The Hunt for Nazi Submarine U-505 and World War II's Most Daring Heist
by Alexander Rose
"Shortly before noon on June 4, 1944, the sonar operator on a destroyer prowling off the coast of West Africa heard a sharp, metallic ping. The sound could mean only one thing: the German U-boat that their hunter-killer group had long been tracking, U-505, was lurking somewhere in the darkness beneath them. The ensuing fight between exhausted hunter and venomous prey would make history when American sailors boarded an enemy warship at sea for the first time since the War of 1812. That day's victory was the culmination of a tireless campaign against the Nazi submarine threat by 'Tenth Fleet'--a mysterious unit possessing the oracular ability to predict the locations and movement of Hitler's U-boats. Run by Commander Kenneth Knowles, Tenth Fleet had guided Captain Dan Gallery to U-505 and to repay the favor Gallery was going to steal an Enigma machine for him. Now all they had to do was to make an entire U-boat, its crew, and its secrets vanish into thin air . . . In this swashbuckling adventure story, bestselling historian Alexander Rose draws on long-classified encrypted documents and intercepted German transmissions to reveal in full, for the first time, how an owlish egghead and a glory-seeking buccaneer teamed up to score the richest prize on the high seas."
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