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Dreadful young ladies and other stories
by Kelly Regan Barnhill
A first collection of short stories by the Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon includes the World Fantasy Award-winning novella, The Unlicensed Magician, in which an invisible girl once left for dead pursues a secret, magical life.
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Educated : a memoir
by Tara Westover
Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn an acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.
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The Tuscan child
by Rhys Bowen
Joanna Langley embarks on a healing journey to Tuscany to learn about her British-bomber-pilot father's hidden past. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Royal Spyness and the Molly Murphy Mysteries.
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A long way from home : a novel
by Peter Carey
The award-winning author of Amnesia finds a speed-loving woman, her car salesman husband and a thrill-seeking quiz-show champion entering a dangerous race that circumnavigates the natural obstacles of 1954 Australia.
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Asymmetry
by Lisa Halliday
A first novel by an award-winning writer explores the imbalances that spark and sustain dramatic human relations, tracing the overlapping stories of a young American editor's relationship with a famous older writer, an unexpected New York romance during the early years of the Iraq War and an Iraqi-American man who is detained by immigration officers in Heathrow.
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Girl unknown : a novel
by Karen Perry
A strong marriage that has endured parenthood, aging grandparents, job stresses and a brief infidelity is put to a difficult test when a beautiful young girl arrives in the husband's university office, declaring that she is his daughter. By the award-winning authors of The Innocent Sleep.
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Feel free : essays
by Zadie Smith
In a collection of essays arranged into five sections—In the World, In the Audience, In the Gallery, On the Bookshelf, and Feel Free—the best-selling author of Swing Time discusses important questions about our world that readers will immediately recognize.
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The gone world
by Tom Sweterlitsch
Time-travel secret agent Shannon Moss visits future time periods for clues about a Navy SEAL astronaut's murdered family and the disappearance of his teenage daughter, a case that is complicated by the SEAL's and Shannon's own impact on the timeline. By the author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow.
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Rosie Colored Glasses
by Brianna Wolfson
Enraged by her parents' joint-custody arrangement after she expressed a preference to live exclusively with her mother, 11-year-old Willow struggles to make sense of her changing world and loneliness when her mother's demons begin to surface and overtake her. A first novel.
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