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The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth

by Josh Levin

Published: 2019-05-21

Hardcover: 432 pages

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Critically acclaimed, "reads like a detective story," (Washington Post) "one of the most outlandish true crime capers of the season," (Daily Beast) and the basis for the podcast The Queen, Slate editor Josh Levin's "wild, only-in-America story" (Attica Locke, author of the Edgar Award win...

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Mostly Dead Things

by Kristen Arnett

Published: 2019-06-04

Hardcover: 354 pages

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"One of the strangest and funniest and most surprising first novels I’ve ever read. A love letter to Florida and to family, to half-lit swamps and the 7/11, and to the beasts that only pretend to hold their poses inside us." - Karen Russell A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at Esquire, The...

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The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China's Hidden Mountains

by Choo WaiHong

Published: 2017-05-30

Hardcover: 224 pages

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In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the "Kingdom of Women," where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal societies on earth, where power lies i...

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Clean: A Proven Plan for Men Committed to Sexual Integrity

by Douglas Weiss

Published: 2013-05-06

Paperback: 256 pages

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You have been called to a life of sexual success!Every Christian man is born into a sexual war. The enemy attacks the young, hoping to scar them permanently and leave them ruined. But your past is not enough to keep you from the enduringly clean life you want and deserve.Clean is a pricele...

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Biloxi: A Novel

by Mary Miller

Published: 2019-05-21

Hardcover: 224 pages

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Mary Miller seizes the mantle of southern literature with Biloxi, a tender, gritty tale of middle age and the unexpected turns a life can take. Building on her critically acclaimed novel The Last Days of California and her biting collection Always Happy Hour, Miller transports readers to t...

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Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took On Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime

by Julian Guthrie

Published: 2019-04-30

Hardcover: 304 pages

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An unforgettable story of four women who, through grit and ingenuity, became stars in the cutthroat, high-stakes, male dominated world of venture capital in Silicon Valley, and helped build some of the foremost companies of our time. In Alpha Girls, award-winning journalist Julian Guthrie ...

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Unbecoming: A Memoir of Disobedience

by Anuradha Bhagwati

Published: 2019-03-26

Hardcover: 336 pages

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A raw, unflinching memoir by a former US Marine Captain chronicling her journey from dutiful daughter of immigrants to radical activist effecting historic policy reform.After a lifetime of buckling to the demands of her strict Indian parents, Anuradha Bhagwati abandons grad school in the I...

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The Cactus: A Novel

by Sarah Haywood

Published: 2019-05-07

Paperback: 384 pages

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A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICKNew York Times Bestseller“Fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine will love The Cactus.” —Red magazineIn this charming and poignant debut, one woman’s unconventional journey to finding love means learning to embrace the unexpec...

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Kitchen Confidential Deluxe Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

by Anthony Bourdain

Published: 2018-10-23

Paperback: 416 pages

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A new, deluxe edition of Kitchen Confidential to celebrate the life of Anthony Bourdain. The book will feature a brand new introduction, a Q&A with Ecco publisher and Bourdain’s long-time editor Daniel Halpern. Interior pages are hand-annotated by Anthony Bourdain himself. The interior w...

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Pirkei Avot: A Social Justice Commentary (English and Hebrew Edition)

by Shmuly Yanklowitz

Published: 2018-05-31

Paperback: 468 pages

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Pirkei Avot is the urtext of Jewish practical wisdom. In many ways, the words of Pirkei Avot were the first recorded manifesto of social justice in Western civilization. This commentary explores the text through a lens of contemporary social justice and moral philosophy, engaging both clas...