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The Dante Chamber
by Matthew Pearl
The year is 1870. Five years after a series of Dante-inspired killings disrupted Boston, a man is found murdered in the public gardens of London with an enormous stone around his neck etched with a verse from the Divine Comedy. When more mysterious murders erupt across the city, all in the style of the punishments Dante memorialized in Purgatory, poet Christina Rossetti fears her brother, the Dante-obsessed artist and writer Gabriel Rossetti, will be the next victim. Christina enlists poets Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and famous scholar Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, to assist in deciphering the literary clues.
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The last watchman of Old Cairo : a novel
by Michael David Lukas
A Berkeley literature student from a mixed-faith family receives a mysterious package that draws him into a quest to uncover his ancestors' tangled history as watchmen for Old Cairo's storied Ibn Ezra Synagogue. By the award-winning author of The Oracle of Stamboul.
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Go Ask Ali : Half-baked Advice and Free Lemonade
by Ali Wentworth
At once endearing and hilarious, thoughtful and far-fetched, this third collection offers Ali at her wisest and wittiest as she delivers tips, pointers, and quips on a host of life’s conundrums and sticky situations, including the funny, sometimes embarrassing yet unforgettable situations that have shaped her inimitable world view as a wife, mother, actress, comedian, and all around bon vivant.Book Annotation
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The Oracle Year
by Charles Soule
Awakening from a dream with 108 predictions about the future in his head, an unassuming Manhattan bassist catapults to one of the world's most powerful men and hides his identity behind an online persona that is targeted by greedy corporations and dangerous enemies who would change the playing field by recruiting or eliminating him. 60,000 first printing.
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Your Home, Your Style : How to Find Your Look & Create Rooms You Love
by Donna Garlough
Your Home, Your Style is not just a guide to decorating, but a guide to understanding your style strengths, identifying and overcoming your design weaknesses, and figuring out how to put the furniture, decor, and details you love into your home in a way that works for you. Enriched with easy takeaways (how to style a bookshelf four different ways; how to create a gallery wall), and illustrated with polished attainable spaces styled by the author as well as other home decorators, this is a guide rich with real-life know-how that deserves a place on every home decorator’s shelf.
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If We Had Known
by Elise Juska
A mother and daughter struggle with guilt, fear and the dangerous bonds of family in the aftermath of a mass shooting in their small New England town.
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The parking lot attendant : a novel
by Nafkote Tamirat
A reviled member of a dysfunctional Ethiopian immigrant community in Boston reflects on the experiences that brought her and her introverted father to America and traces her growing bond with the community's charismatic con-man leader, whose schemes embroil her in a plot with unanticipated repercussions.
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"A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels" by George North : A Newly Uncovered Manuscript Source for Shakespeare's Plays
by Dennis McCarthy
A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels is the only uniquely existent, unpublished manuscript that can be shown to have been a source for Shakespeare's plays. George North wrote the treatise in 1576 while at Kirtling Hall, the North family estate in Cambridgeshire. His manuscript, newly uncovered by the authors at the British Library, has many implications for our understanding of Shakespeare's plays. The opening chapters of the book investigate such connections; the volume also contains both a transcript and a facsimile of "A Brief Discourse", making this previously unknown document readily available.
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Every Other Weekend
by Zulema Renee Summerfield
In the year following her parents' divorce, highly imaginative 8-year-old Nenny has a creeping premonition that something terrible will happen, and when this hunch comes true in the most unexpected of ways, she must deal with the fallout.
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Rebel Talent : Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life
by Francesca Gino
Gino argues that the future belongs to the rebel and that theres a rebel in each of us. We live in turbulent times, when competition is fierce, reputations are easily tarnished on social media, and the world is more divided than ever before. In this cutthroat environment, cultivating rebel talent is what allows businesses to evolve and to prosper. And rebellion has an added benefit beyond the workplace: it leads to a more vital, engaged, and fulfilling life.
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Stray city : a novel
by Chelsey Johnson
"A hilarious and heartfelt coming-of-age and modern family drama, set in the queer underground of late 90s Portland, that explores the complications of belonging--to a city, a culture, and a family--and what happens when those forms can't quite contain who you really are"
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Plant Style : How to Greenify Your Space
by Alana Langan
From the founders of coveted plant-wares studio, Ivy Muse, comes this charming guide on how to turn your home into a jungle-like retreat. With design-savvy tips and expert advice, you'll learn all there is to know about decorating with plants and botanical styling.
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The Lost Family
by Jenna Blum
Resigning himself to solitude, chef and Auschwitz survivor, Peter Rashkin, in 1965 Manhattan, devotes himself to running Masha’s restaurant, until he meets and marries June, but the horrors of his past soon overshadow him, June and their daughter.
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