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  • The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

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    The Nobelist’s latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas

    September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis … [more below]

    • Author: Tokarczuk, Olga
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: September 24 2024
    • ISBN10: 0593712943
    • Language: English
  • Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

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    How states are making their legal systems more equitable, seen through the story of a Black man falsely imprisoned for thirty years for murder.

    In 1987, Ben Spencer, a twenty-two-year-old Black man fr

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    • Author: Hagerty, Barbara Bradley
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: August 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 059342008X
    • Language: English
  • Ascension

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    NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE!

    “You’ve gotta read Ascension by Nicholas Binge. Old-school creepy. . .five-star horror.”Stephen King

    “Smartly paced, deploying twists and turns strategicall

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    • Author: Binge, Nicholas
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: April 23 2024
    • ISBN10: 0593539591
    • Language: English
  • Song Yet Sung

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    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, Five-Carat Soul, and Kill ‘Em and Leave

    In the days before the

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    • Author: McBride, James
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: January 06 2009
    • ISBN10: 1594483507
    • Language: English
  • Holding Pattern

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    NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, VOGUE, VULTURE, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, AND ELECTRIC LITERATURE

    A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION “5 UNDER 35” HONOREE

    “Exquisite and wise.” New York Times

    “There is so

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    • Author: Xie, Jenny
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: June 18 2024
    • ISBN10: 0593539710
    • Language: English
  • Feh: A Memoir

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    From the acclaimed author of Foreskin’s Lament, a memoir of the author’s attempt to escape the biblical story he’d been raised on and his struggle to construct a new story for himself and his family

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    • Author: Auslander, Shalom
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: July 23 2024
    • ISBN10: 0735213267
    • Language: English
  • The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World

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    Borders draw one map of the world; money draws another. A journalist’s riveting account exposes a parallel universe that has become a haven for the rich and powerful.

    A globe shows the world we think

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    • Author: Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: October 08 2024
    • ISBN10: 0593329856
    • Language: English
  • The Vaster Wilds

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    AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023

    NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, TIME, ESQUIRE, VOGUE, LA TIMES, SLATE, HARPER’S BAZAAR and others

    “Part histori

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    • Author: Groff, Lauren
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: September 10 2024
    • ISBN10: 0593418409
    • Language: English
  • Aflame: Learning from Silence

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    From the bestselling author of The Art of Stillness, a revelatory exploration of the abiding clarity and calm to be found in quiet retreat

    Pico Iyer has made more than one hundred retreats over the pa

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    • Author: Iyer, Pico
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: January 14 2025
    • ISBN10: 0593420284
    • Language: English
  • Dark Night of the Soul

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    While imprisoned in a tiny prison cell for his attempts to reform the Church, sixteenth-century Spanish mystic John of the Cross composed many of his now classic poems of the soul’s longing for God. W… [more below]

    • Author: John of the Cross
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: February 04 2003
    • ISBN10: 1573229741
    • Language: English
  • Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity

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    Crossing the Unknown Sea is about reuniting the imagination with our day to day lives. It shows how poetry and practicality, far from being mutually exclusive, reinforce each other to give every aspec… [more below]

    • Author: Whyte, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: April 02 2002
    • ISBN10: 1573229148
    • Language: English
  • God Is a Verb

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    Since medieval times, the mystical tradition of Kabbalah was restricted to qualified men over forty–because it was believed that only the most mature and pious could grasp its complexity and profound… [more below]

    • Author: Cooper, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: September 01 1998
    • ISBN10: 1573226947
    • Language: English
  • Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer’s Life

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    The extraordinary New York Times bestselling masterpiece from “one of the most eloquent yet earthbound spiritual writers of our time” (San Francisco Chronicle).

    Kathleen Norris had written several m

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    • Author: Norris, Kathleen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: March 02 2010
    • ISBN10: 1594484384
    • Language: English
  • Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

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    From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an insightful and unconventional account of George Washington’s trusted officer and friend, that swashbuckling teen

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    • Author: Vowell, Sarah
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: October 04 2016
    • ISBN10: 0399573100
    • Language: English
  • Dying Well

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    From Ira Byock, prominent palliative care physician and expert in end of life decisions, a lesson in Dying Well.

    Nobody should have to die in pain. Nobody should have to die alone.

    This is Ira Byoc

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    • Author: Byock, Ira
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: March 01 1998
    • ISBN10: 1573226572
    • Language: English
  • The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers

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    The Forest for the Trees should become a permanent part of any writer’s or editor’s personal library.The Seattle Times

    Quickly established as an essential and enduring companion for aspiring write

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    • Author: Lerner, Betsy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: October 05 2010
    • ISBN10: 159448483X
    • Language: English
  • Clean: The New Science of Skin and the Beauty of Doing Less

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    Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR and Vanity Fair

    One of Smithsonian‘s Ten Best Science Books of 2020

    “A searching and vital explication of germ theory, social norms, and what the modern era is really d

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    • Author: Hamblin, James
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: July 20 2021
    • ISBN10: 0525538321
    • Language: English
  • The Braindead Megaphone

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    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

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    • Author: Saunders, George
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: September 04 2007
    • ISBN10: 159448256X
    • Language: English
  • The Man Who Quit Money

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    Grand Prize Winner of the 2015 Green Book Festival

    Mark Sundeen’s new book, The Unsettlers, is coming in January 2017 from Riverhead Books

    In 2000, Daniel Suelo left his life savings-all thirty dollar

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    • Author: Sundeen, Mark
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: March 06 2012
    • ISBN10: 1594485690
    • Language: English
  • Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair

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    The New York Times bestseller from the author of Dusk, Night, Dawn, Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost Everything

    “Lamott’s …most insightful book yet, Stitches offers plenty of her charact

    • Author: Lamott, Anne
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: October 29, 2013
    • ISBN10: 1594632588
    • Language: English
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