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  • Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

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    AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!!

    Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Amazon, and The Washington Post

    A Wired Must-Read Book of Summer

    “Gretchen McCulloch is the internet’s favorite linguist, an

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    • Author: McCulloch, Gretchen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: July 21 2020
    • ISBN10: 0735210942
    • Language: English
  • Vagabonds!

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    NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER

    LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE AND THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD

    “If you read one debut novel in 2022, this should be it.

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    • Author: Osunde, Eloghosa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: February 28 2023
    • ISBN10: 059333003X
    • Language: English
  • The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner): How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

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    WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION

    FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS

    WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY’S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD

    NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 B

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    • Author: Gessen, Masha
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 544
    • Publish Date: October 2, 2018
    • ISBN10: 1594634548
    • Language: English
  • Pond

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    “A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut … Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. … [It]reminds us that small things have great depths.”New York Times Book Review

    “Da

    • Author: Bennett, Claire-Louise
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: July 11, 2017
    • ISBN10: 0399575901
    • Language: English
  • Afterlives

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    ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022

    A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ

    A NATIONAL BESTSELLER

    NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, TIME, THE NEW YORKER, BOOKPAG

    • Author: Gurnah, Abdulrazak
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: August 23, 2022
    • ISBN10: 059354188X
    • Language: English
  • The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics

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    From “one of the great (greatest?) contemporary popular writers on economics” (Tyler Cowen) comes a smart, lively, and encouraging rethinking of how to use statistics.

    Today we think statistics are t

    • Author: Harford, Tim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: February 01, 2022
    • ISBN10: 0593084667
    • Language: English
  • Age of Vice: A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel)

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    AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

    Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, Oprah Daily and NPR!

    “Dazzling…Finally free from the book’s grip, now

    • Author: Kapoor, Deepti
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 560
    • Publish Date: January 03, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0593328795
    • Language: English
  • A Death in Malta: An Assassination and a Family’s Quest for Justice

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    “A chronicle of the sort of silencing-by-murder that we might have thought happens only in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. . . . [and] a son’s distraught but beautiful tribute to his journalist-mother. . . .

    • Author: Caruana Galizia, Paul
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: November 07, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0593543734
    • Language: English
  • Girl in Translation

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    From the author of Searching for Sylvie Lee, the iconic, New York Times-bestselling debut novel that introduced an important Chinese-American voice with an inspiring story of an immigrant girl forced [more below]

    • Author: Kwok, Jean
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: May 03 2011
    • ISBN10: 1594485151
    • Language: English
  • Optimal Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization

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    How optimization took over the world and the urgent case for a new approach

    Optimization is the driving principle of our modern world. We now can manufacture, transport, and organize things more chea

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    • Author: Krumme, Coco
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: September 12 2023
    • ISBN10: 0593331117
    • Language: English
  • The Interestings

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    “Remarkable . . . With this book [Wolitzer] has surpassed herself.”–The New York Times Book Review

    “A victory . . . The Interestings secures Wolitzer’s place among the best novelists of her generatio

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    • Author: Wolitzer, Meg
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 560
    • Publish Date: March 25, 2014
    • ISBN10: 1594632340
    • Language: English
  • Desertion

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    A masterwork by the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, in which the consequences of an illicit love affair reverberate from the heyday of the British empire to the aftermath of African independenc[more below]

    • Author: Gurnah, Abdulrazak
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: September 5, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0593541979
    • Language: English
  • Home Fire

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    “Ingenious… Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I’ve read in a novel this century.” —The New York Times

    WINNER OF THE 2018 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION

    FINALIST FOR THE 2019 INTERNATION

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    • Author: Shamsie, Kamila
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: September 4, 2018
    • ISBN10: 0735217696
    • Language: English
  • Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

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    The acclaimed debut short story collection that introduced the world to an arresting and unforgettable new voice in fiction, from multi-award winning author ZZ Packer

    Her impressive range and talent ar

    • Author: Packer, Zz
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: February 03, 2004
    • ISBN10: 1573223786
    • Language: English
  • Unfamiliar Fishes

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    From the author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States comes an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn.

    Of all the countries the United States invaded or colonized

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    • Author: Vowell, Sarah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: March 6, 2012
    • ISBN10: 159448564X
    • Language: English
  • The Kite Runner 20th Anniversary Edition

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    The 20th anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel beloved by readers the world over, with a new afterword by the author

    The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely fri

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    • Author: Hosseini, Khaled
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: October 3, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0593717260
    • Language: English
  • Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius

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    “An ardent fan letter from Hornby that makes you want to re-read Great Expectations while listening to Sign o’ the Times.” —Vogue

    From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fe

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    • Author: Hornby, Nick
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: November 15, 2022
    • ISBN10: 0593541820
    • Language: English
  • The Serendipity Mindset: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck

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    Good luck isn’t just chance–it can be learned and leveraged–and The Serendipity Mindset explains how you can use serendipity to make life better at work, at home–everywhere.

    Many of us believe tha

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    • Author: Busch, Christian
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: June 09 2020
    • ISBN10: 0593086023
    • Language: English
  • Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

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    A New York Times bestseller from the author of Dusk, Night Dawn, Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything.

    Author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to coming t

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    • Author: Lamott, Anne
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: November 13 2012
    • ISBN10: 1594631298
    • Language: English
  • Last Bus to Wisdom

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    Named a Best Book of the Year by the Seattle Times and Kirkus Review

    The final novel from a great American storyteller.

    Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Doubl

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    • Series: Two Medicine Country
    • Author: Doig, Ivan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: August 16 2016
    • ISBN10: 110198256X
    • Language: English
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