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Chicagoland Bestsellers! The Top Recent Listings
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Fabio's 30-minute Italian : Over 100 Fabulous, Quick and Easy Recipes
by Fabio Viviani
A Top Chef star provides inspiration, stories from his childhood in Florence and tips and recipes to make fantastic and fast Italian food at home, including Mascarpone and Ricotta-Stuffed Peaches, 15-Minute Seafood Cioppino, and Salted Caramel Chocolate Cake.
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse TysonThe notable host of StarTalk reveals just what people need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes, from quarks to quantum mechanics, and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe.
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Into the Water
by Paula Hawkins
When a single mom and a teen girl are found murdered at the bottom of a river in a small town weeks apart, an ensuing investigation dredges up a complicated local history involving human instincts and the damage they can inflict. By the best-selling author of The Girl on the Train. Simultaneous.
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Anything Is Possible
by Elizabeth Strout
Two sisters, one who trades self-respect for a wealthy husband and one who discovers a kindred spirit in the pages of a book, struggle with intimate human dramas at the sides of their community members and a returned Lucy Barton. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge.
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret W. Atwood
Offred, a Handmaid, describes life in what was once the United States, now the Republic of Gilead, a shockingly repressive and intolerant monotheocracy, in a satirical tour de force set in the near future, in a classic work that is soon to be a 10-part Hulu series. An Arthur C. Clarke Award winner and Booker Prize nominee. TV tie-in. (dystopian).
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Lilac Girls : a Novel
by Martha Hall Kelly
The lives of three women converge at the Ravensbrück concentration camp as one resolves to help from her post at the French consulate, one becomes a courier in the Polish resistance, and one takes a German government medical position
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A Gentleman In Moscow : A Novel
by Amor Towles
Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he endures life in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold. By the best-selling author of Rules of Civility.
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Lincoln In the Bardo
by George Saunders
A long-awaited first novel by the National Book Award-nominated, New York Times best-selling author of Tenth of December traces a night of solitary mourning and reflection as experienced by the 16th President after the death of his 11-year-old son at the dawn of the Civil War. Simultaneous.
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Sweetbitter
by Stephanie Danler
Tess spends a year working in a famous downtown New York restaurant in an effort to become someone of importance through a backwaiter job that enables her indulgences in culinary and intellectual interests
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The Women In the Castle
by Jessica Shattuck
In a novel set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, three widows' lives and fates become intertwined. By the author of The Hazards of Good Breeding.
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Big Little Lies
by Liane Moriarty
Follows three mothers, each at a crossroads, and their potential involvement in a riot at a school trivia night that leaves one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but which evidence shows might have been premeditated
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