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Swimming Lessons

by Claire Fuller

Published: 2017-01-28

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Elle's Most Anticipated Books by WomenA Most Anticipated Book at Buzzfeed, Goodreads, NYLON, Bustle, and Reader's DigestFrom the author of the award-winning and word-of-mouth sensation Our Endless Numbered Days comes an exhilarating literary mystery that will keep readers guessing ...

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Large Animals: Stories

by Jess Arndt

Published: 2017-05-09

Paperback: 144 pages

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A Buzzfeed Best Fiction Book of 2017 • An Entropy magazine Best Book of 2017 “Jess Arndt’s Large Animals is wildly original, even as it joins in with the classics of loaded, outlaw literature. Acerbic, ecstatic, hilarious, psychedelic, and affecting in turn, this is an electric debu...

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When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (20th Anniversary Edition)

by Pema Chodron

Published: 2016-06-07

Paperback: 176 pages

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Pema Chödrön's perennially best-selling classic on overcoming life's difficulties cuts to the heart of spirituality and personal growth--now in a newly designed 20th-anniversary edition with a new afterword by Pema--makes for a perfect gift and addition to one's spiritual library. How c...

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For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago

by Simon Baatz

Published: 2009-04-28

Paperback: 541 pages

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It was a crime that shocked the nation: the brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child by two wealthy college students who killed solely for the thrill of the experience. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were intellectuals—too smart, they believed, for the police to catch them. When they...

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Difficult Women

by Roxane Gay

Published: 2017-01-03

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial). Gay returns with Difficult Women, a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, p...

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Stone Arabia: A Novel

by Dana Spiotta

Published: 2012-07-10

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From a National Book Award nominee, “a smart, subtle, moving story about the complicated business of knowing the people you love” (Book Forum). In the sibling relationship, “there are no first impressions, no seductions, no getting to know each other,” says Denise Kranis. For Denis...

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Cracks

by Sheila Kohler

Published: 2006-06-13

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"Riveting…while evocative of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Picnic at Hanging Rock, Kohler's writing is so smoothly confident and erotic that she has produced a tale resonant with a chilling power all its own."—ElleIn Sheila Kohler's brilliant 1999 novel, a beautiful schoolgirl myst...

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Little, Big

by John Crowley

Published: 2006-10-17

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John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood—not found on any map—to marry Daily Alice Drinkawater, as was prophesied. It is the story of four generations of a singu...

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But You Did Not Come Back: A Memoir

by Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Published: 2017-01-10

Paperback: 112 pages

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?You might come back, because you’re young, but I will not come back.”?Marceline Loridan-Ivens’ father, speaking to her at the Drancy internment camp, April 1944A runaway international bestseller, But You Did Not Come Back garnered rave reviews and features on hardcover publication, ...

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Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America

by Laura Shapiro

Published: 2005-03-29

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In this captivating blend of culinary history and popular culture, the award-winning author of Perfection Salad shows us what happened when the food industry elbowed its way into the kitchen after World War II, brandishing canned hamburgers, frozen baked beans, and instant piecrusts. Big B...