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Shifty's Boys
by Chris Offutt
When he is asked by the mother of a recently deceased heroin dealer to look into her sons case, Army-CID-officer/unofficial PI Mick Hardin is pitted against his sister, the local sheriff, and drawn into a dark underworld where unseen forces will stop at nothing to get what they want.
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The Flag, The Cross, and the Station Wagon
by Bill McKibben
Combining his reflections on growing up in a middle-class suburb with the latest scholarship on race and inequality in America, the rise of the religious right and our environmental crisis, the author reveals how reclaiming the good parts of our shared legacy will tell a truer American story.
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Any Other Family
by Eleanor Brown
Three sets of parents become intertwined after adopting four biological siblings and making a commitment to keep the children connected.
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Dirtbag, Massachusetts
by Isaac Fitzgerald
The founding editor of BuzzFeed Books explores a more expansive vision of masculinity in a series of personal essays that chronicle his journey growing up in a Boston homeless shelter and efforts to take control of his own story.
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Honey and Spice
by Bolu Babalola
A young black British woman with a popular student radio show that dishes out relationship advice finds her show and her reputation on the line after she makes out with a man she publicly denounced.
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Other Names for Love
by Taymour Soomro
Sent to the family's rural estate in upcountry Pakistan, where his father hopes to make him a man, 16-year-old Fahad finds himself seduced by the wildness of the land and its inhabitants especially a local boy with whom he falls in love, learning the consequences of desire.
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Mercury Pictures Presents
by Anthony Marra
After Americas entry into WWII, Maria Lagana, an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, rises through a maze of conflicting politics, divided loyalties and jockeying positions until a man from her imprisoned fathers past threatens her carefully constructed facade.
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Mr. President
by Miguel Angel Asturias
In an unnamed country, an egomaniacal dictator schemes to dispose of a political adversary and maintain his grip on power. As tyranny takes hold, everyone is forced to choose between compromise and death. Inspired by life under the regime of President Manuel Estrada Cabrera of Guatemala, where it was banned for many years, and infused with exuberant lyricism, Mayan symbolism, and Guatemalan vernacular, Nobel Prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias’s magnum opus is at once a surrealist masterpiece, a blade-sharp satire of totalitarianism, and a gripping portrait of psychological terror.
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The Pink Hotel
by Liska Jacobs
As wildfires rage around them, newlyweds Keith and Kit Collins are confined to the iconic, opulent Pink Hotel where they are caught in the middle of escalating tensions between the disgruntled staff and eccentric, ultra-wealthy and dangerously idle guests.
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Properties of Thirst
by Marianne Wiggins
Set against the background of World War II, this novel about the meaning of family and the limitations of the American dream follows rancher Rocky Rhodes as he is faced with a threat greater than the LA Water Corporation hes battled for yearsthe building of a Japanese-American internment camp next to his ranch.
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
by Sangu Mandanna
Breaking all the rules, Mika Moon travels to the mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic and, as she gets close to the Houses residents, must decide whether to risk everything to protect a found family she didn't know she was looking for.
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On Critical Race Theory: Why it Matters and Why You Should Care
by Victor Ray
Drawing on the radical thinking of Dr. Martin Luther King, Hr., Ida B. Wells and W.E.B. Du Bois, among others, a renowned scholar, through thoughtful essays, traces the foundations of Critical Race Theory, showing why it matters and why we all should care.
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Toxic Positivity: Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy
by Whitney Goodman
The radically honest psychotherapist behind the popular Instagram account @sitwithwhit shares the latest research along with everyday examples and client stories that reveal how damaging toxic positivity is to ourselves and our relationships, and presents simple ways to experience and work through difficult emotions.
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Briefly, A Delicious Life
by Nell Stevens
Four hundred years after she died in a monastery in Mallorca, a perpetually 14-year-old ghost, Blanca, becomes completely in love and obsessed with George Sand, a 19th-century writer living an unconventional life and attracting the ire of the local villages.
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Illegally Yours: A Memoir
by Rafael Agustin
This heartwarming and comical memoir looks at how a successful TV writer accidentally discovered that he was an undocumented immigrant in his teenage years and how it turned his entire world upside down.
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Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings
by Chrysta Bilton
In this unputdownable story of nature, nurture and coming to terms with ones true inheritance, the author, introducing her deeply dysfunctional yet fiercely loving family that is anything but normal, reveals how a colorful cast of characters were thrown together by chance and DNA.
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The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
by Jamie Ford
The New York Times best-selling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet returns with a powerful exploration of the love that binds one family across the generations.
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The Princess and the Scoundrel
by Beth Revis
Spending their honeymoon on a luxury vessel journeying to the most wondrous worlds in the galaxy, Han Solo and Princess Leia soon discover that the war is not over as the remnants of the Empire still cling to power, bringing the fight to them.
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Take No Names
by Daniel Nieh
A riveting thriller about a young man on the run from a furtive past, in search of a quick payday in Mexico City, who finds himself in the crosshairs of a dangerous international scheme.
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Sister Mother Warrior
by Vanessa Riley
When a war breaks out on Saint Domingue, two extraordinary womenthe first Empress of Hair and a West African-born warrior finally meet and play pivotal roles in the revolution that will eventually lead to full independence for Haiti and its people.
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I'm Glad My Mom Died
by Jennette McCurdy
The iCarly and Sam & Cat star, after her controlling mother dies, gets the help she needs to overcome eating disorders, addiction and unhealthy relationships and finally decides what she really wants for the first time in her life.
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Tanqueray
by Stephanie Johnson
Expanding on one of the Humans of New Yorks most-followed stories, this book filled with never-before-told tales, personal photos from her own collection and glimpses of NYC in the 1970s follows Tanqueray an indefatigable woman who was once one of the best-known burlesque dancers in the city.
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