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  • Winter Street

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    Cozy up with New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand’s first Christmas novel, hailed “a diverting tale… filled with humor, romance, and realism” by USA Today, in which a family gathers on

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    • Series: Winter Street
    • Author: Hilderbrand, Elin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: September 26 2023
    • ISBN10: 0316564559
    • Language: English
  • Brideshead Revisited (75th Anniversary Edition)

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    The gorgeous 75th-anniversary edition of Brideshead Revisited, the novel selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best of the century and called “Evelyn Waugh’s finest achievement” by the New York

    • Author: Waugh, Evelyn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: November 03, 2020
    • ISBN10: 0316242101
    • Language: English
  • Little Weirds

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    Step into Jenny Slate’s wild imagination in this “magical” (Mindy Kaling), “delicious” (Amy Sedaris), and “poignant” (John Mulaney) New York Times bestseller about love, heartbreak, and being alive —[more below]

    • Author: Slate, Jenny
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: November 24, 2020
    • ISBN10: 0316485365
    • Language: English
  • Rebecca

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    The multi-million-copy bestseller that has enthralled generations of readers. A haunting tale of obsessive love. A mesmerizing psychological thriller.

    In Monte Carlo, our heroine is swept off her feet… [more below]

    • Author: Du Maurier, Daphne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 448
    • Publish Date: September 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 0316575208
    • Language: English
  • How to Be Eaten

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    One of NPR’s Best Books of the Year: This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma.

    In present-day New York City, five

    • Author: Adelmann, Maria
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: July 25, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0316450855
    • Language: English
  • Happy-Go-Lucky

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    David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” (Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso

    Back when restaurant menus were still printed on p… [more below]

    • Author: Sedaris, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: May 30 2023
    • ISBN10: 031639243X
    • Language: English
  • Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States

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    LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST
    A transgender reporter’s “powerful, profoundly moving” narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states (New York Times Book R[more below]

    • Author: Allen, Samantha
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: June 16 2020
    • ISBN10: 0316516023
    • Language: English
  • Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

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    Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe’s leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today.

    “A more politically ra

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    • Author: Bregman, Rutger
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: March 27 2018
    • ISBN10: 0316471917
    • Language: English
  • The Winter Soldier

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    The epic story of war and medicine from the award-winning author of North Woods and The Piano Tuner is “a dream of a novel…part mystery, part war story, part romance” (Anthony Doerr, author of All t[more below]

    • Author: Mason, Daniel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: September 17 2019
    • ISBN10: 316477591
    • Language: English
  • Franny and Zooey

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    “Perhaps the best book by the foremost stylist of his generation” (New York Times), J. D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey collects two works of fiction about the Glass family originally published in The N[more below]

    • Author: Salinger, J. D.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: November 06, 2018
    • ISBN10: 0316450723
    • Language: English
  • Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley

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    Written with grace, humor, and affection, Last Train to Memphis has been hailed as the definitive biography of Elvis Presley. It is the first to set aside the myths and focus on Elvis’ humanity in a w[more below]

    • Author: Guralnick, Peter
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 576
    • Publish Date: September 01 1995
    • ISBN10: 0316332259
    • Language: English
  • Haven

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    In this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their l

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    • Author: Donoghue, Emma
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: May 23 2023
    • ISBN10: 0316414131
    • Language: English
  • How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

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    A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN Open Book Award, and winner of the 2020 Giller Prize, this revelatory story collection honors characters struggling to find their bear[more below]

    • Author: Thammavongsa, Souvankham
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: April 27 2021
    • ISBN10: 0316422126
    • Language: English
  • The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert

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    Deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to seasoned explorers.

    Craig Childs has spent years in the deserts of the American West, and his treks through arid lands in search of water rev

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    • Author: Childs, Craig
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: May 01 2001
    • ISBN10: 0316610690
    • Language: English
  • Michael Jordan: The Life

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    The definitive biography of a legendary athlete.

    The Shrug. The Shot. The Flu Game. Michael Jordan is responsible for sublime moments so ingrained in sports history that they have their own names. Wh

    • Author: Lazenby, Roland
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 720
    • Publish Date: May 19, 2015
    • ISBN10: 031619476X
    • Language: English
  • I Am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks: Poems

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    A “fascinating, terrifying” (JJ Abrams) cautionary tale about the destructive power of AI–an autobiographical thriller written in verse by an AI itself, with context from top writers and scientists,

    • Author: Code-Davinci-002
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: August 01, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0316560065
    • Language: English
  • Barefoot

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    From marriage, infidelity, and the mayhem of motherhood to scandal, tragedy, and illness–three women seek peace and comfort in Nantucket as they cope with life’s challenges.

    Three women–burdened with

    • Author: Hilderbrand, Elin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: April 19, 2022
    • ISBN10: 0316407968
    • Language: English
  • Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta

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    Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award

    In this “dangerously hilarious” novel (Los Angeles Times), a trans woman reenters life on the outside after more than twenty years in a men’s prison, over on

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    • Author: Hannaham, James
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: August 08 2023
    • ISBN10: 0316286281
    • Language: English
  • A Summer Affair

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    The perfect wife and mother finds the perfect temptation in this “perfect summer cocktail of sex, sun, and scandal” (Kirkus Reviews).

    Claire has a problem with setting limits. All her life she has tak

    • Author: Hilderbrand, Elin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: June 01, 2009
    • ISBN10: 0316018619
    • Language: English
  • Grace

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    From the Booker Prize-winning author of Prophet Song, a sweeping, Dickensian story of a young girl on a life-changing journey across nineteenth-century Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine.

    Early

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    • Author: Lynch, Paul
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: June 26 2018
    • ISBN10: 0316316288
    • Language: English
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