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  • The Book of Lost and Found

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    From London to Corsica to Paris as a young woman pursues the truth about her late mother, two captivating love stories unfurl in this captivating novel from the author of the New York Times bestsel

    • Author: Foley, Lucy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: August 25, 2015
    • ISBN10: 0316375055
    • Language: English
  • Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement

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    Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this “gratifying, generous, and lush” true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York T

    • Author: Gabriel, Mary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 944
    • Publish Date: September 24, 2019
    • ISBN10: 0316226173
    • Language: English
  • A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America

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    Ronald Takaki’s beloved revisionist history of America, praised by Howard Zinn as “a bold and refreshing new approach to our national history,” now featuring a foreword from Clint Smith, author of the

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    • Author: Takaki, Ronald
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 576
    • Publish Date: March 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 0316499072
    • Language: English
  • Winter Stroll

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    Reunite with the Quinn family on Nantucket for the holidays and catch up on all the drama that Kirkus Reviews calls “juicy,” in New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand’s sequel to Winter St[more below]

    • Series: Winter Street
    • Author: Hilderbrand, Elin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: October 24 2023
    • ISBN10: 0316564567
    • Language: English
  • The House of Broken Angels

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    In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approache

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    • Author: Urrea, Luis Alberto
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: January 01, 1970
    • ISBN10: 031615489X
    • Language: English
  • Endless Summer: Stories from Days That Last Forever

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    Bask in the brilliance of the “queen of beach reads” (New York Magazine) with nine captivating stories of summer on Nantucket–and days that last forever–to carry us through when those warm sandy day

    • Author: Hilderbrand, Elin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: May 02, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0316461024
    • Language: English
  • Golden Girl

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    In this #1 bestselling page-turner from “the queen of beach reads” (New York Magazine), a Nantucket novelist has one final summer to protect her secrets while her loved ones on earth learn to live wit

    • Author: Hilderbrand, Elin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: February 08, 2022
    • ISBN10: 0316420077
    • Language: English
  • A Salty Piece of Land

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    Wander to “where the song of the ocean / Meets the salty piece of land” with Tully Mars, washed up from Margaritaville and in the mood for monkeyshines, in a shimmering Caribbean epic by the late king

    • Author: Buffett, Jimmy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: November 07, 2005
    • ISBN10: 031605996X
    • Language: English
  • The Luminaries

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    The winner of the Man Booker Prize, this “expertly written, perfectly constructed” bestseller (The Guardian) is now a Starz miniseries.

    It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in Ne

    • Author: Catton, Eleanor
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 864
    • Publish Date: October 07, 2014
    • ISBN10: 0316074292
    • Language: English
  • Summer of ’69

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    Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of the ’60s summer when everything changed in Elin Hilderbrand’s #1 New York Times bestselling historical novel.
    Welcome to the most tumultuou

    • Author: Hilderbrand, Elin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 448
    • Publish Date: February 11, 2020
    • ISBN10: 031642000X
    • Language: English
  • The Catcher in the Rye

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    The “brilliant, funny, meaningful novel” (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature–and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a li[more below]

    • Author: Salinger, J. D.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: November 06 2018
    • ISBN10: 0316450863
    • Language: English
  • Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir

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    In this New York Times bestseller, Rolling Stone founder, co-editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offers a “touchingly honest” and “wonderfully deep” memoir from the beating heart of classic rock and rol

    • Author: Wenner, Jann S.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 592
    • Publish Date: June 27, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0316415294
    • Language: English
  • The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

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    Finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism

    From a New York Times investigative reporter, this “authoritative and devastating account of the impacts of social media” (New

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    • Author: Fisher, Max
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: October 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 316703303
    • Language: English
  • What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

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    Delve into this “delightful” (Bloomberg News) collection of Malcolm Gladwell’s writings from The New Yorker, in which the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on “minor geniuses” and idiosyn[more below]

    • Author: Gladwell, Malcolm
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 448
    • Publish Date: December 14 2010
    • ISBN10: 0316076201
    • Language: English
  • One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder

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    From a “born storyteller” (Seattle Times), this playful and moving bestselling book of essays invites us into the miraculous and transcendent moments of everyday life.

    When Brian Doyle passed away at

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    • Author: Doyle, Brian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: December 08, 2020
    • ISBN10: 0316492884
    • Language: English
  • American Primitive

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    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
    Mary Oliver’s most acclaimed volume of poetry, American Primitive contains fifty visionary poems about nature, the humanity in love, and the wilderness of Americ

    • Author: Oliver, Mary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: April 30, 1983
    • ISBN10: 0316650048
    • Language: English
  • How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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    A fascinating tour of creatures from the surface to the deepest ocean floor: this “miraculous, transcendental book” invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way

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    • Author: Imbler, Sabrina
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: January 09 2024
    • ISBN10: 0316540501
    • Language: English
  • Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America

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    The “remarkable” story of America’s secret post-WWII science programs (The Boston Globe), from the New York Times bestselling author of Area 51.

    In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. governme

    • Author: Jacobsen, Annie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 624
    • Publish Date: January 20, 2015
    • ISBN10: 0316221031
    • Language: English
  • On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

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    The revised and updated edition of Lt. Col. Dave Grossman’s modern classic about the psychology of combat, hailed by the Washington Post as “an illuminating account of how soldiers learn to kill and h[more below]

    • Author: Grossman, Dave
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: June 01 2009
    • ISBN10: 0316040932
    • Language: English
  • The Perfect Couple

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    Soon to be a Netflix limited series, from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand comes a “quintessential summer read” (People) about the many ways family can fill our lives with love — if

    • Author: Hilderbrand, Elin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: February 12, 2019
    • ISBN10: 031637525X
    • Language: English
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