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Black Widow: A Jack Parlabane Thriller

by Christopher Brookmyre

Published: 2016-11-01

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Winner of the 2016 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish crime book of the yearFrom Scottish crime master Christopher Brookmyre, Black Widow tells the potent story of a woman who thought she was too late for love, the man who falls for her ambition, and the secret selves that are poised, at any mo...

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The Queen's Accomplice: A Maggie Hope Mystery

by Susan Elia MacNeal

Published: 2016-10-04

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Spy and code-breaker extraordinaire Maggie Hope returns to war-weary London, where she is thrust into the dangerous hunt for a monster, as the New York Times bestselling mystery series for fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Charles Todd, and Anne Perry continues. England, 1942. The Nazis’ rele...

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The Blood of Emmett Till

by Timothy B. Tyson

Published: 2017-01-31

Hardcover: 304 pages

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This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till—“and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren’t often enough asked to do with history: learn from it” (The Atlantic).In 1955, white men in t...

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Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS

by Martin Duberman

Published: 2014-03-18

Hardcover: 368 pages

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In December 1995, the FDA approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from what had been a death sentence; for others, it was too late. In the United States alone, over 318,000 people had already die...

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Querelle of Brest

by Jean Genet

Published: 2015-04-11

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'The man who wears the uniform of a sailor is in no way pledged or bound to obey the rules of prudence...'. First published in 1947, revised for Gallimard in 1953, Querelle of Brest is widely considered to be Jean Genet's most accomplished novel, its renown further aided by Rainer Werner Fassbinder's...

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Mothers and Other Strangers

by Gina Sorell

Published: 2017-05-02

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"My father proposed to my mother at gunpoint when she was nineteen, and knowing that she was already pregnant with a dead man’s child, she accepted."Thus begins this riveting story of a woman's quest to understand her recently deceased mother, a glamorous, cruel narcissist who left her o...

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The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria

by Alia Malek

Published: 2017-02-28

Hardcover: 352 pages

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At the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent's decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the people ...

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The Scrying (The Scrying Trilogy) (Volume 1)

by Jaci Miller

Published: 2017-05-25

Paperback: 326 pages

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A modern witch, an ancient warrior, two worlds about to collide.      Dane Watts-Callan's destiny has always been complicated, she has been a witch living in a modern world since her "awakening" at thirteen. Now on her thirty-first birthday an ancient family legacy is...

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Quicksand

by Malin Persson Giolito

Published: 2017-03-07

Hardcover: 512 pages

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SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIESNamed an NPR "BEST BOOKS OF 2017"Named the Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year by the Swedish Crime Writers AcademyAn incisive courtroom thriller and a drama that raises questions about the nature of love, the disastrous side effects of guilt, and th...

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The Answers: A Novel

by Catherine Lacey

Published: 2017-06-06

Hardcover: 304 pages

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NAMED A TOP 10 NOVEL OF 2017 BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AND VOGUE, A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY ESQUIRE, HUFFINGTON POST, POP SUGAR, ELECTRIC LITERATURE AND KIRKUS, AND A 2017 NPR GREAT READ. ONE OF DWIGHT GARNER'S TOP BOOKS OF 2017 IN THE NEW YORK TIMES. A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CH...