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  • Summer

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    The fourth novel in the Seasonal Quartet by Man Booker Prize Finalist Ali Smith is “a prose poem in praise of memory, forgiveness, getting the joke, and seizing the moment” (The New York Times).

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    • Series: Seasonal Quartet
    • Author: Smith, Ali
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: May 11 2021
    • ISBN10: 1101969970
    • Language: English
  • How to Be Both

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    MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST – A novel all about art’s versatility, borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take.

    “Cements Smith’s reputation as one of the finest a

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    • Author: Smith, Ali
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: October 13 2015
    • ISBN10: 0307275256
    • Language: English
  • Tears of the Giraffe

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    Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe–with [more below]

    • Series: No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency #2
    • Author: McCall Smith, Alexander
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: September 03 2002
    • ISBN10: 1400031354
    • Language: English
  • The Wedding

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    In her final novel, “a beautiful and devastating examination of family, society and race” (The New York Times), Dorothy West offers an intimate glimpse into the Oval, a proud, insular community made u

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    • Author: West, Dorothy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: January 01 1996
    • ISBN10: 0385471440
    • Language: English
  • On Chesil Beach

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    NATIONAL BESTSELLER – The Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement brilliantly illuminates the collision of sexual longing, deep-seated fears, and romantic fantasy on a young couple’s w[more below]

    • Author: McEwan, Ian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: June 10 2008
    • ISBN10: 0307386171
    • Language: English
  • The Cement Garden

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    In this “irresistibly readable” (New York Review of Books) tour de force of psychological unease, the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement excavates the ruins of childhood and uncov[more below]

    • Series: Vintage International
    • Author: McEwan, Ian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: January 13 1994
    • ISBN10: 0679750185
    • Language: English
  • Knockemstiff

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    “More engaging than any new fiction in years.” –Chuck Palahniuk

    An unforgettable work of fiction that peers into the soul of a tough Midwestern American town to reveal the sad, stunted but resilient

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    • Author: Pollock, Donald Ray
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: March 10 2009
    • ISBN10: 076792830X
    • Language: English
  • John Henry Days

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    From the bestselling, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a novel that is “funny and wise and sumptuously written” (Jonathan Franzen, The New York T[more below]

    • Author: Whitehead, Colson
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: May 14 2002
    • ISBN10: 0385498209
    • Language: English
  • Arabian Nights and Days

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    The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets,… [more below]

    • Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: September 15 1995
    • ISBN10: 0385469012
    • Language: English
  • Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind’s Greatest Invention

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    In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind’s greatest innovations.

    “A towerin

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    • Author: Wilson, Ben
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: October 12 2021
    • ISBN10: 0525436332
    • Language: English
  • Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old

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    “A fascinating look at how scientists are working to help doctors treat the aging process itself, helping us all to lead longer, healthier lives.” –Sanjay Gupta, MD

    Aging–not cancer, not heart disea

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    • Author: Steele, Andrew
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: January 04 2022
    • ISBN10: 0525566317
    • Language: English
  • Mount Chicago

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    From the award-winning author of Bubblegum and The Instructions, a daring new novel about the irony, the humor, and the heartbreak of survivorship.

    “Adam Levin is one of our wildest writers and our fu

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    • Author: Levin, Adam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 592
    • Publish Date: August 01 2023
    • ISBN10: 0593466721
    • Language: English
  • The Seaplane on Final Approach

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    A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER – A lusty young woman seeks out experience on a remote Alaskan homestead in this erotic and darkly humorous novel

    “Rukeyser weaves a dreamlike spell–‘Twin Peaks’ by way

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    • Author: Rukeyser, Rebecca
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: June 13 2023
    • ISBN10: 0593314026
    • Language: English
  • Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

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    National Book Award Finalist
    TIME Magazine’s #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012
    A New York Times Notable Book
    A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2012
    Best Nonfiction of 2012: The Wall Street Journal, The Plain De
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    • Author: Applebaum, Anne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 640
    • Publish Date: August 13 2013
    • ISBN10: 140009593X
    • Language: English
  • Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales

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    From the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments–a thrilling, funny, and thought-provoking collection of stories that affirms Atwood as our greatest creator of worlds–and as an [more below]

    • Author: Atwood, Margaret
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: June 23 2015
    • ISBN10: 0804173508
    • Language: English
  • Several People Are Typing: A Novel (Good Morning America Book Club)

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    A Good Morning America Book Club Pick! – A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF. “An absurd, hilarious romp through the haunted house of late-stage capitalism.” –Carmen Maria Machado, author o[more below]

    • Author: Kasulke, Calvin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: September 27 2022
    • ISBN10: 0593313534
    • Language: English
  • Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovering addict, a rare page-turning work of science that draws on personal insights to reveal how drugs work, the dangerous[more below]

    • Author: Grisel, Judith
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: January 14 2020
    • ISBN10: 0525434909
    • Language: English
  • Amsterdam

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    BOOKER PRIZE WINNER – NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A sharp contemporary morality tale, cleverly disguised as a comic novel, Amsterdam is “a dark tour de force, perfectly fashioned” (The New York Times) from [more below]

    • Author: McEwan, Ian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: November 02 1999
    • ISBN10: 0385494246
    • Language: English
  • The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

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    In 1995, Iowa native Bill Bryson took a motoring trip around Britain to explore that green and pleasant land. The uproarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, is one of the most acute por… [more below]

    • Author: Bryson, Bill
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: October 25 2016
    • ISBN10: 0804172714
    • Language: English
  • Olympus, Texas

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    A Good Morning America Book Club Pick! – A bighearted novel with technicolor characters, plenty of Texas swagger, and a powder keg of a plot in which marriages struggle, rivalries flare, and secrets e[more below]

    • Author: Swann, Stacey
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: May 17 2022
    • ISBN10: 1984897403
    • Language: English
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