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Katie Roiphe
In Praise of Messy Lives: Essays
This powerful collection of essays ranges from pop culture to politics, from Hillary Clinton to Susan Sontag, from Facebook to Mad Men, from Joan Didion to David Foster Wallace to—most strikingly—the author’s own life. For fans of the essays of John Jeremiah Sullivan and Jonathan Lethem. ...
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Tennessee Hill
Girls with Long Shadows: A Novel
"Tennessee Hill beautifully evokes the sensation of realizing just how many people have a hold on the person you are, the person you hope to become."—Kevin Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of Run for the Hills "What a delicate, hot-blooded tempest of a debut."—Amy Jo Burns, author of...
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Anne Tyler
A Patchwork Planet
In this, her fourteenth novel--and one of her most endearing--Anne Tyler tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order.         Barnaby Gaitlin has been in trouble ever since adolescence. He had this habit of breaking into other people's houses. It wasn't the big ...
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Camille Bégin
Taste of the Nation: The New Deal Search for America's Food (Studies in Sensory History)
During the Depression, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) dispatched scribes to sample the fare at group eating events like church dinners, political barbecues, and clambakes. Its America Eats project sought nothing less than to sample, and report upon, the tremendous range of foods eaten across t...
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Tom Wolfe
The Kingdom of Speech
The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, parad...
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Mignon G. Eberhart
The Mystery of Hunting's End
The Sand Hills of Nebraska, where Mignon G. Eberhart lived as a newlywed, inspired the setting of this 1930 chiller. Smack in the middle of the rolling desolation is Hunting's End, a weekend lodge owned by the rich Kingery family. To that place socialite Matil Kingery invites a strange collection of...
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Nancy Herkness
A Bridge to Love
Widow Kate Chilton bravely raises two young sons alone, drawing on memories of her happy marriage to give her strength. When she discovers that her marriage was not what it seemed, her world is shattered.In her own unique revenge, Kate decides to spend one night with a man and then forget him. She f...
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Laurel Osterkamp
The Side Project
Ten years ago, he shattered her heart. Now they're writing their next chapter... together.   Rylee Lynch is stuck. Still living in the small Minnesota town she swore she'd leave, she spends her days caring for her younger brother and mourning the literary future her late father dreamed for her. Ca...
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Charles Godden
Not in the Best of Health: The forthright and entertaining memoirs of an NHS paediatrician
The NHS is facing the greatest crisis since its inception in 1948. One of the UK’s most beloved institutions has been brought to its knees through underfunding, bad management and political meddling. Morale has slumped so low in 2022 that more than half of advertised consultant physician posts in ...
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Timothy Williams
The Puppeteer (Inspector Trotti)
Northern Italy, 1982: Inspector Piero Trotti is enjoying his breakfast at a café when gunmen drive up and shoot the man sitting at the next table. Was Trotti their intended target? He isn’t sure. The case falls under the jurisdiction of the local Carabinieri, but Trotti decides to make his own in...
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Kiran Desai
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
Winner of the Betty Trask Award, Kiran Desai’s dazzling debut novel is a hilarious story of life, love, and family that tells the surprising and delightful story of a young man’s unusual path to fame in a small Northern Indian city Praised by Salman Rushdie and Junot Diaz, among others, Hullaba...
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Andrea Camilleri
Angelica's Smile
“The novels of Andrea Camilleri breathe out the sense of place, the sense of humor, and the sense of despair that fills the air of Sicily.” —Donna Leon  A rash of burglaries has got Salvo Montalbano stumped. The patterns of the crimes are so similar and so brazen that Montalbano begins to t...
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James Wolcott
Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs
A career-spanning collection of critical essays and cultural journalism from one of the most acute, entertaining, and sometimes acerbic (but in a good way) critics of our time From his early-seventies dispatches as a fledgling critic for The Village Voice on rock ’n’ roll, comedy, movies, an...
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Lisa Robinson
Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls
"Indispensable [reading] about the feminine journey through a man's world" ― USA Today An intimate look at the lives of our most celebrated female musicians ―and their challenges with fame ―from a legendary music journalist Over four decades, Lisa Robinson has made a name for herself as...
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Jill Lepore
The Deadline: Essays
"Jill Lepore is unquestionably one of America’s best historians; it’s fair to say she’s one of its best writers too." ―Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2023: New Yorker, TIME A book to be read and kept for posterity, The Deadline is the art of the essay at it...
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Dr. David Jeremiah
Vanished: A Novel (The Vanished Series)
New York Times bestselling author Dr. David Jeremiah's theological insights are already valued by millions of readers. Now he brings that same depth to novels that explore the end of the world . . . As leader of a special military unit charged with stopping potential pandemics before they spread, J...
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Kirsty Ferry
Spring at Taigh Fallon: An irresistible Scottish romance (Tempest Sisters)
Escape to the Scottish Highlands for page-turning romance, secrets and sunshine this summer. When designer Angel Tempest agrees to help her friend Zac inspect his surprise inheritance, she expects a peaceful break in the Scottish Highlands. Instead, she finds a crumbling estate and Kyle Fallon, Za...
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Kevin Young
Stones: Poems
A book of loss, looking back, and what binds us to life, by a towering poetic talent, called "one of the poetry stars of his generation" ( Los Angeles Times ). "We sleep long, / if not sound," Kevin Young writes early on in this exquisite gathering of poems, "Till the end/ we sing / into the wind....
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Tom Wolfe
The Kingdom of Speech
The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, parad...
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Gary Amdahl
Visigoth: Stories
Visigoth is a portrait of the American male—gritty, violent, and fascinating. The protagonists in this collection of stories come from all walks of life—hockey players, middle managers, political hopefuls, and wayward husbands—but all share a tendency to turn towards violence when life begins...
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