Topical/Library Reads

  • You Think It, I’ll Say It: Stories

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    “Every bit as smart, sensitive, funny, and genuine as her phenomenally popular novels,”* a dazzling collection from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible

    “I reall

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    • Author: Sittenfeld, Curtis
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: March 05 2019
    • ISBN10: 0525508708
    • Language: English
  • The Flight Attendant

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A powerful thriller about the ways an entire life can change in one night: A flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man–and no idea wh[more below]

    • Series: Vintage Contemporaries
    • Author: Bohjalian, Chris
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: January 08 2019
    • ISBN10: 052543268X
    • Language: English
  • The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress

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    From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and The Frozen River comes a “genuinely surprising whodunit” (USA Today) that tantalizingly reimagines a scandalous murder mystery that ro[more below]

    • Author: Lawhon, Ariel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: October 07 2014
    • ISBN10: 0345805968
    • Language: English
  • The Hurricane Sisters

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    Hurricane season begins early and rumbles all summer long, well into September. Often people’s lives reflect the weather and The Hurricane Sisters is just such a story.

    Once again New York Times bestse

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    • Author: Frank, Dorothea Benton
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: April 07 2015
    • ISBN10: 0062132547
    • Language: English
  • The Invasion of the Tearling

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    In this riveting, New York Times-bestselling sequel to The Queen of the Tearling, the evil kingdom of Mortmesne invades the Tearling, with dire consequences for Kelsea and her realm.

    With each passing

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    • Series: Queen of the Tearling #2
    • Author: Johansen, Erika
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 544
    • Publish Date: June 28 2016
    • ISBN10: 006229041X
    • Language: English
  • Delancey

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    The New York Times bestseller from the author of A Homemade Life and the blog Orangette about opening a restaurant with her new husband: “You’ll feel the warmth from this pizza oven…cheerfully hones… [more below]

    • Author: Wizenberg, Molly
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: May 26 2015
    • ISBN10: 1451655118
    • Language: English
  • Trip to Echo Spring

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    A New York Times Notable Book of 2014
    A Time Magazine Notable Book of 2014

    Olivia Laing’s widely acclaimed account of how writers in the grip of alcoholism created some of the greatest works of America

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    • Author: Laing, Olivia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: October 28 2014
    • ISBN10: 1250063736
    • Language: English
  • Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

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    Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier’s most challenging adversaries–panic, exhaustion, heat, noise–and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges host

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    • Author: Roach, Mary
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: June 07 2016
    • ISBN10: 0393245446
    • Language: English
  • The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “A brilliant storyteller, a master of sarcasm, and a hallucinatory stylist whose obsession with the impress of the past on the present binds him to Southern literary tradit[more below]

    • Author: Conroy, Pat
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: December 02 2014
    • ISBN10: 0385343523
    • Language: English
  • Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania

    “Both terrifying and enthralling.”–Entertainm

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    • Author: Larson, Erik
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 448
    • Publish Date: March 10 2015
    • ISBN10: 0307408868
    • Language: English
  • Dimestore: A Writer’s Life

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    “A memoir that shines with a bright spirit, a generous heart and an entertaining knack for celebrating absurdity.”–The New York Times Book Review

    “This is Smith at her finest.”–Library Journal, star

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    • Author: Smith, Lee
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: April 04 2017
    • ISBN10: 1616206462
    • Language: English
  • Season of Storms

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    “I’ve loved every one of Susanna’s books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly’s delicate touch with characters–sure recipe for historical fiction that sucks you in and won’t let go!”–DIANA GABA

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    • Author: Kearsley, Susanna
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 512
    • Publish Date: September 02 2014
    • ISBN10: 1402258739
    • Language: English
  • Family Life

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    Hailed as a “supreme storyteller” (Philadelphia Inquirer) for his “cunning, dismaying and beautifully conceived” fiction (New York Times), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice “as hypnotic a… [more below]

    • Author: Sharma, Akhil
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: February 02 2015
    • ISBN10: 0393350606
    • Language: English
  • Wilde Lake

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    A Best Novel nominee for the 2017 Anthony Award!

    An African-American man accused of rape by a humiliated girl. A vengeful father. A courageous attorney. A worshipful daughter. Think you know this story

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    • Author: Lippman, Laura
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: February 14 2017
    • ISBN10: 0062083465
    • Language: English
  • Frog Music

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    From the New York Times bestselling author of Room, a young French burlesque dancer living in San Francisco is ready to risk anything in order to solve her friend’s murder–but only if the killer does

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    • Author: Donoghue, Emma
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: February 24 2015
    • ISBN10: 0316324671
    • Language: English
  • The Almost Sisters

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    With empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of gods in Alabama pens a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the disti

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    • Author: Jackson, Joshilyn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: August 11 2023
    • ISBN10: 0062105728
    • Language: English
  • The Kept

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    “Dark and mysterious. . . . A novel whose daring is found in its bleakness. . . . The plot unfolds with a weighty languor reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy. . . sparse, elegant. . . haunting.” — New Yor

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    • Series: P.S. (Paperback)
    • Author: Scott, James
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: January 06 2015
    • ISBN10: 0062236652
    • Language: English
  • Black Hour

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    For Chicago sociology professor Amelia Emmet, violence was a research topic–until a student she’d never met shot her. He also shot himself. Now he’s dead and she’s back on campus, trying to keep up w… [more below]

    • Author: Rader-Day, Lori
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: July 08 2014
    • ISBN10: 1616148853
    • Language: English
  • Bellman & Black

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    #1 New York Times bestselling author “An astonishing work of genius.” –Bookreporter “Magically transformative.” –Bookpage Can one moment in time haunt you forever? From the instant #1 New York Times… [more below]

    • Author: Setterfield, Diane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: June 10 2014
    • ISBN10: 1476711992
    • Language: English
  • The Forgotten Seamstress

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    “An intriguing patchwork of past and present, upstairs and downstairs, hope and despair.”–Daisy Goodwin, New York Times bestselling author of The American Heiress

    A moving story of two women tied toge

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    • Author: Trenow, Liz
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: May 06 2014
    • ISBN10: 1402282486
    • Language: English
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