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Chemistry: A novel

by Weike Wang

Published: 2017-05-23

Hardcover: 224 pages

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Named by The Washington Post as a Notable Work of Fiction in 2017 and by Entertainment Weekly as a Best Debut Novel of 2017Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Ann Patchett on PBS NewsHour, Minnesota Public Radio, Maris Kreizman, and The Morning NewsNational Book Foundation “5 Under 3...

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The Red Coat - A Novel of Boston

by Dolley Carlson

Published: 2014-11-11

Paperback: 480 pages

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Think Downton Abbey, but set in the heart of Boston. . . Irish domestic worker Norah King's decision to ask her wealthy employer, Caroline Parker, for an elegant red coat the Beacon Hill matriarch has marked for donation ignites a series of events that neither woman could have fathomed. Th...

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Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Published: 2017-02-07

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction “A fascinating and moving account of a courageous and resourceful woman. Beautifully written and utilizing previously untapped sources it sheds new light both on the father of our country and on the intersections of slavery and freedom...

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The Virus

by Janelle Diller

Published: 2015-01-15

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2016 Colorado Humanities for the Book Finalist 2016 Book Pipeline Competition Semifinalist. "[Ms. Diller created] a taut, well-paced narrative that not only meets the expectations of the genre, but comes across as stylistically sound." 2015 Silver Medal EVVY award for Literary and ...

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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

by Peter Frankopan

Published: 2017-03-07

Paperback: 672 pages

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Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stret...

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If the Creek Don't Rise: A Novel

by Leah Weiss

Published: 2017-08-22

Paperback: 320 pages

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"[A] striking debut..." ? BUSTLE  "...masterful use of language....Weiss' novel is a great suggestion for fans of the Big Stone Gap books, by Adriana Trigiani, and Mitford series, by Jan Karon."?Booklist, STARRED ReviewHe's gonna be sorry he ever messed with me and Loretta LynnSadie Blue ...

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The Singing Wilderness (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage)

by Sigurd F. Olson

Published: 1997-08-13

Paperback: 256 pages

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The Singing Wilderness is Sigurd Olson's first and best-selling book, with over 70,000 copies sold in hardcover since its release in 1956. Now available in paperback for the first time, this volume established Olson as a major writer renowned for the beauty of his prose and the clarity of ...

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Peaceful Neighbor: Discovering the Countercultural Mister Rogers

by Michael Long

Published: 2015-03-13

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Fred Rogers was one of the most radical pacifists of contemporary history. We do not usually think of him as radical, partly because he wore colorful, soft sweaters made by his mother. Nor do we usually imagine him as a pacifist; that adjective seems way too political to describe the host ...

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Fat Chance

by Nick Spalding

Published: 2014-10-07

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Meet Zoe and Greg Milton, a married couple who have let themselves go a bit. Zoe was a stunner in her college days, but the intervening decades have added five stone, and removed most of her self-esteem. Greg's rugby-playing days are well and truly behind him, thanks to countless pints of ...

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Nature Poem

by Tommy Pico

Published: 2017-05-09

Paperback: 128 pages

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Most Anticipated Book of 2017 at Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, and more. A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can’t bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, ur...