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To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse By Howard Fishman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780593187364
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Published: Dutton - May 2nd, 2023

Have you ever been captivated by a piece of music you've never heard that still feels intensely and intimately familiar? You'll know then how Howard Fishman felt the night he heard Connie Converse's voice for the first time. Almost six decades earlier, young Elizabeth Converse had tried to shed her repressed New England upbringing by moving to New York City and taking up the bohemian life of the early 1950s. With no place yet in the world for the "singer-songwriter", her music fell on deaf ears. She finally left New York and ultimately disappeared, having taped just a small number of private recordings for friends. Yet these recordings took on their own life, finding sympathetic ears every time they needed to. Howard Fishman now tells the moving story of Connie Converse's tragic life in this haunting, fascinating book.


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The Paris Bookseller By Kerri Maher Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780593102190
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Published: Berkley - December 6th, 2022

What must life have been like for Sylvia Beach? Most of us know her now, if at all, as the proprietor of the renowned Shakespeare & Co., or as the first person brave enough to publish a complete edition of James Joyce’s controversy-laden Ulysses. Let Kerri Maher take you inside Sylvia’s life – as a friend, sister, daughter, businesswoman, and lover – with her wonderful new book, The Paris Bookseller. This February marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of that first edition, and The Paris Bookseller is a fitting tribute to the person who made it possible.


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Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire By Lizzie Johnson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780593136409
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Published: Crown - August 16th, 2022

Expanding on her award-winning reporting on the 2018 Camp Fire in northern California, Johnson focuses on the near total destruction of the town of Paradise amid the desperate evacuation efforts of its inhabitants. Visceral accounts of overwhelmed first responders, parents struggling to save their families, and everyday citizens fighting against the odds, alternate with damning evidence of the fire’s origins in aging, poorly-maintained infrastructure. As the Dixie Fire is showing, these threats to our communities are becoming a terrifying and heartbreaking norm. This book is a must-read.


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Unsettled Ground By Claire Fuller Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781953534170
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Published: Tin House Books - April 26th, 2022

The quiet tone of Unsettled Ground belies the utter calamity at its heart. Despite their having been isolated from the world by an unusual set of circumstances, what happens to two middle-aged siblings after their mother dies could happen to anyone with just a little bad timing and a few wrong steps. One of the marvels of Claire Fuller's writing is that she leads us not only to empathize with Jeanie and Julius in their plight, but to identify with them--their fears, their pride, and their bond with each other are real and human, and wonderfully realized.


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Raft of Stars: A Novel By Andrew J. Graff Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780063031913
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Published: Ecco - January 11th, 2022

This harrowing tale of two boys barely on the cusp of young manhood is conveyed with the quiet assurance of a seasoned storyteller. Their bond of friendship is put to the test as they flee the consequences of a rash act of loyalty, and you will be on the edge of your seat as you follow them into the unknowns of the northern Wisconsin forest. It is likewise impossible not to be charmed by the grownups who set out to save the two young boys from the terrible course they’ve set out on. With such strong characters and sensitive writing, it’s hard to believe this is a debut novel!


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150 Glimpses of the Beatles By Craig Brown Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781250800145
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Published: Picador - October 12th, 2021

150 Glimpses is not a straight Beatles biography and holds no great revelations, all of which is just fine. Craig Brown instead offers new perspectives on much of what we already know about the Fab Four and those who found themselves in their orbit. With well more than 150 laugh-out-loud moments, it's clear he has eyes and ears for the absurdity of Beatlemania. But he also captures the tragedy, and that's not too strong a word; this is the first book about The Beatles to bring me to tears. If, like me, you grew up on the group with the worst name in the history of popular music, 150 Glimpses is essential reading.


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The House on Vesper Sands By Paraic O'Donnell Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781951142988
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Published: Tin House Books - January 11th, 2022

Paraic O'Donnell leavens the dark foreboding of a truly sinister, otherworldly mystery with distinctively clever storytelling and a decidedly marvelous cast of characters. You are in the best of hands with the odd couple of Inspector Cutter and Gideon Bliss on the case, along with the intrepid and resourceful reporter Octavia Hillingdon. Beautifully done!


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We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence By Becky Cooper Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781538746851
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - September 14th, 2021

While studying at Harvard, Becky Cooper hears about the unsolved 1969 murder of Jane Britton, a grad student in anthropology. Unable to shake the story, Cooper is ultimately driven to learn everything she can about the victim, the suspects, the investigation, and the competitive milieu at Harvard in the late sixties. The result is in its own right a unique anthropological study, and the most compelling account of a murder investigation since I’ll Be Gone in the Dark.


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Here We Are: A novel (Vintage International) By Graham Swift Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781984899521
Published: Vintage - August 10th, 2021

Jack Robinson the renowned stagemaster, and his showstopping magic act The Great Pablo and Eve, bring innocent escape to the vacationers in their drab English seaside resort. This deceptively slim volume -- almost a novella -- holds its own magical, yet haunting, story. Graham Swift conveys the deepest emotion with the simplest strokes of the pen.


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Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir By Natasha Trethewey Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780062248589
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Published: Ecco - June 1st, 2021

Decades after her stepfather shot and killed her mother, Natasha Trethewey finally turned to look back at the past she'd buried and to learn more about her mother’s final days. Memorial Drive is a moving account of growing up first as the child of an inter-racial marriage, then as the single child of a single mother, and finally as the tormented daughter of a woman caught in a toxic relationship. It is also a profound and poetic act of love and remembrance for the mother who was so suddenly taken from her.


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Love: A Novel By Roddy Doyle Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781984880475
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Published: Penguin Books - June 22nd, 2021

Two old friends meet for a night out in the pubs. Joe has left his wife, but can’t really explain why, since he clearly still loves her. Davy is back in Dublin to care for his dying father, and hasn’t much sympathy for Joe’s predicament. Over countless pints they revisit the glory days of their youth. Old resentments flare up; several times, Davy almost leaves. But through the fits and starts of drunken conversation, Roddy Doyle reveals the beating heart of what binds these two aging souls, even after years apart, and rewards the reader with a rich and deeply felt story of male friendship.


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On Lighthouses By Jazmina Barrera, Christina Macsweeney (Translator) Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781949641349
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Published: Two Lines Press - May 3rd, 2022

The author's lifelong fascination with lighthouses bears rich fruit in this extended meditation on solitude, the collector's urge, and the lure of the beacon keeper's life. For Barrera, lighthouses are a source of solace against life's vicissitudes, and On Lighthouses is itself a balm, a book to keep near and return to. Beautifully done!


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Simon the Fiddler: A Novel By Paulette Jiles Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780062966759
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - April 6th, 2021

Simon Boudlin’s passion is to be the best fiddle player there is, following his muse wherever it takes him and beholden to no one. But when he meets the beautiful Doris Aherne, his plans change. Paulette Jiles once again captures the great promise and sweeping beauty of the Texas frontier, during a time of upheaval at the end of the Civil War, in cinematic prose as poetic and lyrical as the tunes that pour forth from the fiddler himself. Simon joins that great pantheon of strivers after a better life, and readers will root for him every step of the way. Fans of News of the World can rejoice - with Simon the Fiddler, Paulette Jiles has done it again!


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Valentine: A Read with Jenna Pick By Elizabeth Wetmore Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780062913272
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Published: Harper Perennial - March 2nd, 2021

An immigrant teenager tries to break out from the torpor of small-town adolescence. A young mother faces down the price she’ll have to pay for doing the right thing. A middle-aged widow struggles to find a reason to keep living. And a young girl, abandoned by her mother and looked-down on in her neighborhood, finds someone to whom she can matter. Their lives become entwined in the aftermath of a brutal assault, in ways both haunting and heartbreaking. Elizabeth Wetmore’s excellent debut novel pulses with the dry heat of West Texas oil country, and will stay with you long after you’ve turned the last page.


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When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains By Ariana Neumann Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781982106386
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Published: Scribner - November 3rd, 2020

As a young child playing spies with her neighborhood friends, Ariana Neumann stumbled on a small box tucked away deep inside a closet in her house. Inside was a document written in a strange language, with a photo of her father as a young man. Thus began a journey of discovery that brought the adult Ariana face-to-face with the young man in the picture and his gripping story of survival during wartime. Ariana Neumann artfully balances the historical and the personal, casting a fresh light on the plight of Czech Jewry in the years before and during WW2.


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Celestial Bodies By Jokha Alharthi, Marilyn Booth (Translated by) Cover Image
By Jokha Alharthi, Marilyn Booth (Translated by)
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ISBN: 9781948226943
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Published: Catapult - October 8th, 2019

The members of an extended family from a rural village confront life in a changing society in Omani writer Jokha Alharthi's exceptional novel, winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize (the first book translated from Arabic to do so) and her first to be translated into English. Throughout all of these intertwined stories run threads of tension between traditional and modern roles, between rural ways and city life, and between generational expectations. This deeply moving novel deserves every accolade it has received.


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Night Boat to Tangier By Kevin Barry Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781101911341
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Published: Anchor - July 7th, 2020

Old pals Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond reminisce while waiting at the Algeciras ferry terminal, hoping to track down Maurice's estranged daughter Dilly on her way to, or maybe from, Morocco. With a style light as air but sharp as a knife, Kevin Barry explores love, family, friendship, and the gravitational pull of memory. Night Boat to Tangier is a soft-spoken masterpiece.
 


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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee By Casey Cep Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781101972052
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Published: Vintage - September 29th, 2020

Casey Cep's hybrid true crime/biography hits the mark in every way. Not only does she corral multiple narratives--the stories of "the Reverend" Willie Maxwell, the lawyer/politician Tom Radney, and of course the enigmatic Harper Lee--into a single text that works (no mean feat), but she does so with style and panache. The result is an example of narrative non-fiction at its best. There's no doubt Furious Hours will be on more than one best-of-the-year list for 2019.


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Bowlaway: A Novel By Elizabeth McCracken Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780062862860
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Published: Ecco - November 5th, 2019

At the heart of Bowlaway is the mysterious Bertha Truitt and the gravitational pull she exerts on the eccentric residents of Salford, Massachusetts (think Somerville) around the turn of the last century, over a hundred years ago. Her women-only candlepin bowling alley becomes the heart of a community full of fascinating characters. With delicious prose and a colorful cast, this is a welcome return from one of our best novelists. 


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The Parisian By Isabella Hammad Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780802148803
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Published: Grove Press - December 17th, 2019

Set mainly in Palestine between the wars, the title character in this breathtaking debut novel aspires to a life of culture and refinement, while surrounded by the forces of upheaval unleashed by the fall of the Ottoman Empire after WW1. Hammad's sensitivity toward all of her characters imbues her writing with power and grace.


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When Spring Comes to the DMZ By Uk-Bae Lee, Uk-Bae Lee (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Uk-Bae Lee, Uk-Bae Lee (Illustrator)
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ISBN: 9780874869729
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Published: Plough Publishing House - March 8th, 2019

Grandfather has not returned to his homeland in the north since before the war, but he knows that nature's resilience knows no boundaries. So when he returns to the border every year he doesn't just see the barbed wire and the soldiers marching, he sees the birds, the fish, and the other animals. This beautifully illustrated tale has a wonderful ending and a hopeful spirit to match.


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The Trial of Lizzie Borden By Cara Robertson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781501168390
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Published: Simon & Schuster - March 10th, 2020

The Lizzie Borden story is so well-known, it's hard to believe there is much new that can be said about it. In this masterful account of the legal maneuverings that followed the two brutal murders, Cara Robertson refracts the impact of these heinous crimes through the prism of a late-nineteenth-century society that was even more concerned with social status than we are now. Put simply, this was the O.J. Simpson trial of its day. Robertson has added a fascinating new dimension to the story of the Borden murders, and The Trial Of Lizzie Borden leaps to the front rank of books about this uniquely American crime. 


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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster By Adam Higginbotham Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781501134630
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Published: Simon & Schuster - February 4th, 2020

The scale of devastation inflicted in the Chernobyl disaster is still almost impossible to fathom, but Higginbotham does a great job describing what led up to what is still the world's worst nuclear accident. What's best here, though, are the personal stories of the workers on the front lines, who sacrificed themselves in the effort to contain the damage and prevent an even worse disaster. Despite the inevitably confusing tangle of Soviet bureaucratic acronyms, this was a very hard book to put down.  


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Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A. By Lili Anolik Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781501125805
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Published: Scribner - September 3rd, 2019

If this book does nothing else but drive you to read the great Eve Babitz herself, it will have done its job. Anolik's obsession with the enigmatic L.A. writer/artist knows no bounds--much like Babitz in her heyday--and the result is a fascinatingly well-rounded account of the highs and lows of life in and around Hollywood in the 60s and 70s. 


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In a House of Lies (A Rebus Novel #22) By Ian Rankin Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780316479226
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Published: Back Bay Books - September 24th, 2019

John Rebus may be retired, but that doesn't stop him sticking his nose into police business (much to the chagrin of the current crop of DIs). But the murder in this case suggests a years-old police cover-up, one in which Rebus himself may have played a role, so it only makes sense he wants to stay on top of the trail of evidence. Old loyalties are newly tested and rivalries resumed - and Rebus' music tastes continue to fascinate - as Rankin delivers another propulsive Edinburgh thriller. 


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Milkman: A Novel By Anna Burns Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781644450000
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Published: Graywolf Press - December 4th, 2018

Middle sister navigates the rumors, gossip, codes, silences, and hidden meanings of daily life during civil war with a wonderfully unique voice that fills Milkman with character, intelligence, and sly wit. Anna Burns' third novel, her first to be published in the U.S., is a deserving winner of this year's Man Booker prize. 


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The Diary of a Bookseller By Shaun Bythell Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781612198163
Published: Melville House - July 16th, 2019

Shaun Bythell is the perennially exasperated proprietor of what has to be the most delightful used bookshop in the UK, if not the world. If it's not the clueless or downright rude customers, it's his staff and their tendency to do things their own way, no matter what the boss says. At heart, though, you can tell he has a tremendous soft spot for the people in his life -- none more than Nicky, his obstreperous assistant/nemesis. This diary is not just for us bookstore geeks, though; anyone who loves a good anecdote and tales of small-town life will find nourishment here.


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Whiskey When We're Dry: A Novel By John Larison Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780735220454
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Published: Penguin Books - July 2nd, 2019

Jess Harney will stop at nothing to track down her ne'er-do-well brother and bring him back to the homestead where he belongs, despite her resolve being put to the test time and again. It's a good thing she has nerves of steel, great instincts, and even better aim. John Larison has given us an unforgettable cast of characters and a three-dimensional American west that defies stereotypes and mythmaking. This is gritty, honest writing and a story that grips you early and doesn't let go.


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Sunburn: A Novel By Laura Lippman Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780062389985
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - July 31st, 2018

Why would a woman on vacation with her husband and young daughter decide to walk away and take up a new life as a waitress in a small-town dive bar? What happens when she falls for the man who's been sent to track her down? Laura Lippman returns with her most compelling story yet, featuring a slow dance between two of her most unforgettable characters. Savor it now, or take it with you on your own vacation. This is a great beach read in more ways than one.


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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer By Michelle McNamara, Gillian Flynn (Introduction by), Patton Oswalt (Afterword by) Cover Image
By Michelle McNamara, Gillian Flynn (Introduction by), Patton Oswalt (Afterword by)
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ISBN: 9780062319791
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Published: Harper Perennial - February 26th, 2019

When true-crime expert Michelle McNamara comes across the cold case of a prolific serial killer, she becomes fatally obsessed with catching him. It's no spoiler to say she never does. But her legacy is this fascinating, one-of-a-kind insider's account of the hunt, crafted with all the skill of a born writer/detective.


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Only Killers and Thieves: A Novel By Paul Howarth Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780062690982
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Published: Harper Perennial - December 4th, 2018

Paul Howarth has set an exceptionally high standard for himself with his first novel. Set during a drought in the 1870s on the frontier of Queensland, in a hardscrabble environment where settlers are taking over the land and pushing natives out, this is a gripping story with an unforgettable cast. Although a mystery lies at its heart, the greatest satisfaction comes from the quality of the storytelling and the development of the characters. A breathtaking debut!


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Magpie Murders: A Novel By Anthony Horowitz Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780062645234
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Published: Harper Perennial - March 27th, 2018

Horowitz gives us two for the price of one in this cleverly constructed story-within-a-story. Are clues to the curious death of famed mystery writer Alan Conway encoded in the manuscript of his final Atticus Pund novel? Trust Susan Ryeland, editor-turned-sleuth, to find the truth. Devotees of the golden age of English detective fiction will delight in Horowitz's obvious affection for the genre.


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The Wonder By Emma Donoghue Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780316393867
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Published: Back Bay Books - September 5th, 2017

Emma Donoghue refines the element of confinement so central to The Room in this powerful  and haunting story, set in rural Ireland in the years following the potato famine. Anna is a young girl from a poor family, who seems to thrive without food; Lib is the English nurse who has been brought in to help determine whether the girl's fast is fraud or miracle. But Anna's condition worsens, and Lib is faced with standing up to an intensely devout family and community in order to save the girl's life. At heart is the power of faith, both religious and personal, to guide one's heart to the right course.


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Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop By Marc Myers Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780802127181
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Published: Grove Press - November 21st, 2017

Based on his long-running Wall Street Journal column, Myers has compiled a history of 45 classic songs, spanning the period from the early 50s to the early 90s. Featuring "you are there" interviews with the composers, the producers, and the musicians themselves, Myers teases out little-known and surprising details that will send you back to your hi-fi for a fresh listen. At the very least, you will never again be able to listen to the opening riff of Proud Mary without thinking of a certain German composer and his most famous symphony!


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News of the World: A Novel By Paulette Jiles Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780062409218
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - June 20th, 2017

This is simply a beautifully written story. Within Paulette Jiles' precise and economical prose lies a rich world brought to full life and color, and I was riveted by the tale of Capt. Jefferson Kidd and Joanna Leonberger. Though not familiar with Paulette Jiles before reading News Of The World, I will now be eagerly seeking out her previous novels, some of which feature related characters in a similar setting.


White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide By Carol Anderson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781632864130
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Published: Bloomsbury USA - September 5th, 2017

Expanding on a newspaper article she wrote in the aftermath of the riots in Ferguson, Mo., Carol Anderson flips the narrative of "black rage" to show how "white rage" has worked to extend the corrupt legacy of slavery throughout the years and decades beyond the end of the Civil War, right up to the present day. Anderson's economic prose cuts to the chase in a cogent and concerted style that provides an excellent overview of a continuing darkness in the heart of our society.


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Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series #2) By Nathaniel Philbrick Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780143110194
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Published: Penguin Books - May 9th, 2017

This is a trenchant account of the difficult middle period of the Revolutionary War. While focusing on Benedict Arnold's twin betrayals of both the revolutionary cause and his close relationship with George Washington, Philbrick also illuminates several broader webs of intrigue that drove much of the action during this period, including second-guessing subordinates and a meddlesome Continental Congress. As always, Philbrick's lively writing makes for riveting reading.


LaRose: A Novel By Louise Erdrich Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780062277039
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Published: Harper Perennial - April 11th, 2017

When a hunting accident results in the death of his neighbor's son, Landreaux Iron follows native tradition and offers his own son LaRose to the bereaved family. Thus begins a powerful story set among a group of families in a small community in the North Dakota hinterland. Erdrich's luminous prose captures each character's struggle to overcome their worst impulses, whether it's a handicapped man's long-nurtured quest for revenge or the pain of a mother withholding her love from her daughter.  Muted on the surface, but with a  heart that beats strong, Erdrich's latest novel is a book to be treasured.


As a student, Sarah Bakewell was fascinated by the writings of the great existentialist philosophers. Later, as a seasoned writer, she was drawn to know more about who they were and how they engaged with their world (and each other). In her latest book, she brings Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus, and many others wonderfully to life and shows how their thought developed through the prolonged experience of 20th-century European conflict. This is not just a lively book about some dead philosophers; without question, the issues they engaged with in their day are just as relevant now.


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The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape By James Rebanks Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781250060266
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Published: Flatiron Books - September 27th, 2016

Rebanks (known to thousands by his Twitter handle @herdyshepherd1) takes us through a year in his life as a working shepherd in northern England, going deep into the history of the land, the close ties between farmer and flock, and the special knowledge that is passed from generation to generation. You are with him through all the highs and lows of the farming year – from the births of the newborn lambs, to the seasonal auctions that form the social high point of the year, to the joy of turning the flock out to the common grazing fields. This is a rich and delightful book, full of the warmth of the summer sun on the high Lake District fells.


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The Green Road: A Novel By Anne Enright Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780393352801
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - May 3rd, 2016

Their mother's threat to sell the family home pulls the four grown children of Rosaleen Madigan back to their western Ireland home for Christmas, where they must face each other and the force of her fierce love. While spinning out to such far flung places as western Africa and New York City during the 80s AIDs scare, Booker-winner Enright's latest novel possesses a spirit as wild as the primal Green Road of the title.