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Series: The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls Paperback Mona Eltahawy 9780807002582 $23.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 15, 2020

A bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they’ve been trained to avoid.Seizing upon the energy of the #MeToo movement, feminist activist Mona Eltahawy advocates a muscular, out-loud approach to teaching women and girls to harness their power through what she calls the “seven necessary sins” that women and girls are not supposed to commit: to be angry, ambitious, profane, violent, attention-seeking, lustful, and powerful. All the necessary ... + Read More
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Series: The Porpoise Paperback Mark Haddon 9780385692663 $21.00 FICTION May 12, 2020

A fantastical new novel—a modern-day retelling of Shakespeare’s Pericles—from the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-TimeWhen his pregnant wife is killed in a plane crash, the unimaginably wealthy Philippe becomes obsessed with the safety of his surviving daughter, Angelica. Over time, his concern morphs into something more sinister and grotesque, until a young man named Darius, visiting Philippe with a business proposition, encounters Angelica and intuits their secret. As Angelica comes to terms with ... + Read More
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Series: A Mind Spread Out on the Ground Paperback Alicia Elliott 9780385692403 $21.00 HISTORY Jun 02, 2020

Finalist for the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction#1 National BestsellerA bold and profound work by Haudenosaunee writer Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground is a personal and critical meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America. In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about the treatment of Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia Elliott offers indispensable insight and unde... + Read More
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Series: The Secrets We Kept Paperback Lara Prescott 9780385693288 $19.95 FICTION Jun 30, 2020

A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice—the real-life story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago.At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dares publish it, and help Pasternak’s magnum opus make its way into print around ... + Read More
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Series: The Nickel Boys Paperback Colson Whitehead 9780385693981 $19.95 FICTION Jun 30, 2020

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Florida, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: he is “as good as anyone.” Abandoned by his parents, ... + Read More
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Series: The Starless Sea A Novel Paperback Erin Morgenstern 9780385686242 $22.00 FICTION Aug 04, 2020

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus comes a timeless love story set in a secret underground world—a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered and desperate to make sense of what he’s reading, Zac... + Read More
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Series: A Delhi Obsession A Novel Paperback M.G. Vassanji 9780385692878 $21.00 FICTION Aug 11, 2020

Two-time Giller Prize-winner M.G. Vassanji’s powerful novel about grief and second chances, tradition and rebellion, set in vibrant present-day Delhi.Munir Khan, a recent widower from Toronto, on a whim decides to visit Delhi, the city of his forbears. Born in Kenya, he has lost all family connections, and has never visited India before. While sitting in the bar of the Delhi Recreational Club where he’s staying, an attractive woman joins his table to await her husband. The two are from different worlds: Munir is a westernized agnostic of Muslim... + Read More
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Series: The Innocents Paperback Michael Crummey 9780385685436 $21.00 FICTION Sep 29, 2020

FINALIST FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE ROGERS WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom bestselling, award-winning author Michael Crummey comes a sweeping, heart-wrenching, deeply immersive novel about a brother and sister alone in a small world.A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland’s northern coastline. Still children with only the barest notion of the outside world, they have nothing but the family’s boat and the little knowledge pa... + Read More
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Series: Life Undercover Coming of Age in the CIA Paperback Amaryllis Fox 9780385692434 $21.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 29, 2020

An Amazon Best BookA Library Journal Best BookAmaryllis Fox’s riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world’s most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries.Amaryllis Fox was in her last year as an undergraduate at Oxford, studying theology and international law when her writing mentor Daniel Pearl was captured and beheaded. Galvanized by this brutality, Fox applied to a master’s program in conflict and terrorism at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, where she created ... + Read More
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Series: Grown Ups Paperback Marian Keyes 9780385695893 $24.00 FICTION Jun 30, 2020

A brand-new book from the #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Woman Who Stole My Life.They’re a glamorous family, the Caseys. Johnny Casey, his two brothers Ed and Liam, their beautiful, talented wives and all their kids spend a lot of time together—birthday parties, anniversary celebrations, weekends away. And they’re a happy family. Johnny’s wife, Jessie—who has the most money—insists on it.Under the surface, though, conditions are murkier. While some people clash, other people like each other far too much…Still, everything manages to ... + Read More
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Series: Waiting for a Star to Fall A Novel Paperback Kerry Clare 9780385695473 $22.95 FICTION Oct 27, 2020

“A love story at its core, though one without an ending written in the stars…. Timely and insightful.”—Karma Brown, #1 bestselling author of Recipe for a Perfect WifeFor fans of Joanne Ramos, Josie Silver, and Emily Giffin, a gripping and powerful story that asks: Just how much are you willing to forgive in the name of love? Brooke has long been caught in the orbit of Derek, a rising political superstar. First he was her boss, then they were friends and she became his confidant, the one person he shared everything with. And even though she had... + Read More
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Series: The Most Fun We Ever Had Paperback Claire Lombardo 9780525564232 $22.95 FICTION Apr 06, 2021

A heartwarming, expansive saga spanning nearly half a century that examines the peaks and chasms of the familial bond.When Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, they are blithely ignorant of all that’s to come. By 2016, their four radically different daughters are each in a state of unrest: Wendy, widowed young, soothes herself with booze and younger men; Violet, a litigator-turned-stay-at-home-mom, battles anxiety and self-doubt when the darkest part of her past resurfaces; Liza, a neurotic and newly tenured professor,... + Read More
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Series: Furious Hours Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee Paperback Casey Cep 9781101972052 $22.95 TRUE CRIME Sep 29, 2020

The dazzling, New York Times best-selling true story of Harper Lee’s never-finished final work—and the shocking story of the serial killer who inspired it.Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell’s murderer was acquitted—thanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the reverend himself... + Read More
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Series: Love Paperback Roddy Doyle 9780735279889 $24.95 FICTION Jun 23, 2020

Two old friends reconnect in Dublin for a dramatic, revealing evening of confidences—some planned, some spontaneous—in this captivating new book from the author of the Booker Prize-winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.Old friends meet up on a summer’s evening at a Dublin restaurant. Both are now married with grown-up children, and their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he has to tell Davy, and Davy, a grief he wants to keep from Joe. Both are not the men they used to be.Neither Davy nor Joe know what the night has in stor... + Read More
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Series: Hamnet and Judith A novel Paperback Maggie O'Farrell 9780735280175 $24.95 FICTION Jul 21, 2020

WINNER OF THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTIONNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“[An] exceptional winner…. It expresses something profound about the human experience that seems both extraordinarily current and at the same time, enduring.”—Martha Lane Fox, Chair of The Women’s Prize for Fiction judgesTWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A PLAGUE THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART.England, 1580. A young Latin tutor—penniless, bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an eccentric young woman: a wild creature who walks her family’s estat... + Read More
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Series: Night Boat to Tangier A novel Paperback Kevin Barry 9780345810670 $19.95 FICTION Jul 07, 2020

From the acclaimed author of the international sensations City of Bohane and Beatlebone, a striking and gorgeous novel of two aging criminals at the butt ends of their damage-filled careers. A superbly melancholic melody of a novel full of beautiful phrases and terrible men.In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen—Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, longtime partners in the lucrative and dangerous enterprise of smuggling drugs—sit at night, none too patiently. It is October 23, ... + Read More
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Series: The Difference Paperback Marina Endicott 9780735276703 $22.00 FICTION Aug 04, 2020

From one of our most critically acclaimed and beloved storytellers comes a sweeping novel set on board the Morning Light, a Nova Scotian merchant ship sailing through the south pacific in 1912.Kay and Thea are half-sisters, separated in age by almost twenty years, but deeply attached. When their stern father dies, Thea returns to Nova Scotia for her long-promised marriage to the captain of the Morning Light. But she cannot abandon her orphaned young sister, so Kay too embarks on a life-changing voyage to the other side of the world.At the heart... + Read More
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Series: Frankissstein A Love Story Paperback Jeanette Winterson 9780735279711 $22.00 FICTION Oct 06, 2020

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEFrom New York Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson comes an audacious love story about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire.Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, 2019, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI and carrying out some experiments of his own in a vast underground network of tunnels. Meanwh... + Read More
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Series: Before My Time A Memoir of Love and Fate Paperback Ami McKay 9780345809476 $21.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 30, 2021

WINNER OF THE ROBBIE ROBERTSON DARTMOUTH BOOK AWARD and the EVELYN RICHARDSON NON-FICTION AWARDWeaving together touching scenes from her family history and her own life, Ami McKay’s intimate and captivating memoir captures what it means to live fully even when you know your life may be cut short.In 1895, Ami McKay’s great-great aunt, a dressmaker named Pauline Gross, confided to a medical professor that she expected to die young, like many in her family before her. With her help, that doctor launched a family study that eventually led to the id... + Read More
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Series: Hall of Smoke Paperback H.M. Long 9781789094985 $21.95 FICTION Jan 19, 2021

Epic fantasy featuring warrior priestesses, and fickle gods at war, for readers of Brian Staveley’s Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne.IEpic fantasy featuring warrior priestesses and fickle gods at war, for readers of Brian Staveley’s Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne.Hessa is an Eangi: a warrior priestess of the Goddess of War, with the power to turn an enemy’s bones to dust with a scream. Banished for disobeying her goddess’s command to murder a traveller, she prays for forgiveness alone on a mountainside. While she is gone, raiders raze her villa... + Read More