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  • Edmonia: A Novel of a Boundary-Breaking American Sculptress

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    • Author: Baker, Brianne
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: April 28 2026
    • ISBN10: 1496754875
    • Language: English
  • A Beautiful Loan

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    My name is Anna, and for some time now, I have been trying to account for certain events in my life–my adult life, that is–which, from this vantage point of forty-five years, I often find baffling.

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    • Author: Costello, Mary
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: March 24 2026
    • ISBN10: 1324106174
    • Language: English
  • Harlem Rhapsody

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    Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR!

    “A gripping narrative, don’t miss this historical fiction about the woman who kicked off the Harlem Renaissance.”–People Magazine

    “A page turner and history less

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    • Author: Murray, Victoria Christopher
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: February 03 2026
    • ISBN10: 0593638506
    • Language: English
  • The Copywriter

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    A portrait of the poet as an office worker, plumbing the depths of the spiritual gulf between art and work.

    It’s the summer of 2017 and D__, a poet working by day as a copywriter at a retail start-up,

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    • Author: Poppick, Daniel
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: February 03 2026
    • ISBN10: 1668090007
    • Language: English
  • Hasta Que Empieza a Brillar / Until It Begins to Shine

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    EL GANADOR DEL PREMIO ALFAGUARA VUELVE A LA NOVELA CON LA VIDA DE MAR?A MOLINER EN EL 125 ANIVERSARIO DE SU NACIMIENTO

    «Mar?a Moliner hizo una proeza con muy pocos precedentes: escribi? sola, en

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    • Author: Neuman, Andrés
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 308
    • Publish Date: June 17 2025
    • ISBN10: 8410496275
    • Language: Spanish
  • Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet

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    A vividly-rendered portrait of both the rise of Impressionism and of the artist at the center of the movement, Claude and Camille is above all a love story of the highest romantic order.

    In the mid-ni

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    • Author: Cowell, Stephanie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: April 05 2011
    • ISBN10: 0307463222
    • Language: English
  • Close to Home

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    “Michael Magee’s dead-on debut novel is universal.” The New York Times Book Review

    While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he’s supposed to do. He works hard, he studies, and he–most

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    • Author: Magee, Michael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: May 14 2024
    • ISBN10: 1250335787
    • Language: English
  • Power & Way

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    In the shadows of Appalachia, Granite Point has been turned upside down when a fatal train derailment fractures the town’s fragile peace.

    Frank Campbell is a man worn thin by time, guilt, and unspoken

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    • Author: Locander, Paul
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 364
    • Publish Date: October 02 2025
    • ISBN10: 1960865366
    • Language: English
  • The Poet of Tolstoy Park

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    “The more you transform your life from the material to the spiritual domain, the less you become afraid of death.” Leo Tolstoy spoke these words, and they became Henry Stuart’s raison d’etre. The Poet[more below]

    • Series: Reader’s Circle
    • Author: Brewer, Sonny
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: March 28 2006
    • ISBN10: 0345476328
    • Language: English
  • Meridian Rising

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    Known for “Blue Yodel (T for Texas),” “Waiting for a Train,” and “In the Jailhouse Now,” Jimmie Rodgers’s impact on American music is incalculable. Paul Burch’s bio-fictional tale of the short and poi

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    • Author: Burch, Paul
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 296
    • Publish Date: September 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 1588385558
    • Language: English
  • The Austens

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    With no money of her own and little hope of selling any of her unfinished manuscripts, Jane Austen accepts a marriage proposal from the heir to an estate in her beloved Hampshire, only to break her en

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    • Author: Emsley, Sarah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 286
    • Publish Date: August 13 2025
    • ISBN10: 1990770878
    • Language: English
  • The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe: A True Crime Thriller

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    “Electrifying… A spellbinding new account of the star’s final days by the world’s greatest thriller writer.” — Daily Mail

    The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe is a true crime thriller about a woman who

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    • Author: Patterson, James
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: December 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 0316584630
    • Language: English
  • The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe: A True Crime Thriller

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    “Electrifying… A spellbinding new account of the star’s final days by the world’s greatest thriller writer.” — Daily Mail

    The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe is a true crime thriller about a woman who

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    • Author: Patterson, James
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: December 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 0316580511
    • Language: English
  • Maria La Divina

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    An intimate portrait of the world’s most iconic opera singer

    Maria Callas, called La Divina, is widely recognized as the greatest diva who ever lived. Jerome Charyn’s Callas springs to life as the head

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    • Author: Charyn, Jerome
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: September 16 2025
    • ISBN10: 1954276486
    • Language: English
  • The Man in the Stone Cottage

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    In 1846 Yorkshire, the Bront? sisters– Charlotte, Anne, and Emily– navigate precarious lives marked by heartbreak and struggle. Charlotte faces rejection from the man she loves, while their blind fa… [more below]

    • Author: Cowell, Stephanie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 266
    • Publish Date: September 16 2025
    • ISBN10: 1646036247
    • Language: English
  • To Sir, with Love

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    This schoolroom drama that inspired the classic Sidney Poitier film is “a microcosm of the racial issues . . . A dramatic picture of discrimination” (Kirkus Reviews).
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    • Author: Braithwaite, E. R.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 232
    • Publish Date: January 14 2014
    • ISBN10: 1480457515
    • Language: English
  • Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories

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    A Natalie Portman Book Club Pick

    “Sinewy, tough, sharp . . . Even though Schneck works at a scale that is deliberately small, insistently concrete, and extremely lean, her writing somehow exposes whol

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    • Author: Schneck, Colombe
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: May 13 2025
    • ISBN10: 0593833937
    • Language: English
  • In the Sea There Are Crocodiles: Based on the True Story of Enaiatollah Akbari

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    What would you do if, when you were ten, you were left to fend for yourself, and, in order to survive, you had to undertake a harrowing journey all the way from Afghanistan to Italy?

    In early 2002, En

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    • Author: Geda, Fabio
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: June 12 2012
    • ISBN10: 0307743829
    • Language: English
  • Harlem Rhapsody

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    “A gripping narrative, don’t miss this historical fiction about the woman who kicked off the Harlem Renaissance.”–People Magazine

    “A page turner and history lesson at once, Harlem Rhapsody reminds us[more below]

    • Author: Murray, Victoria Christopher
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: February 04 2025
    • ISBN10: 0593638484
    • Language: English
  • The Queen’s Faithful Companion: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth II and Her Beloved Corgi, Susan

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    From USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight comes an endearing and vivid novel told from the unique multi-narrative viewpoints of a young Queen Elizabeth; Hanna Penwyck, the fictionalized Keeper of

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    • Author: Knight, Eliza
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: June 11 2024
    • ISBN10: 006338650X
    • Language: English
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