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High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life

by Tiffany Jenkins

Published: 2019-06-18

Paperback: 384 pages

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An up-close portrait of the mind of an addict and a life unraveled by narcotics—a memoir of captivating urgency and surprising humor that puts a human face on the opioid crisis. “Raw, brutal, and shocking. Move over, Orange Is the New Black.”—Amy Dresner, ...

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Eleven Miles to Oshkosh

by Jim Guhl

Published: 2018-10-02

Hardcover: 312 pages

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As the Vietnam War grinds on and the Nixon presidency collapses, Del "Minnow" Finwick's small world in Wisconsin has blown apart. His father, a deputy sheriff, has been murdered by the unknown "Highway 41 Killer." His mom has unraveled. And a goon named Larry Buskin has been pummeling Minn...

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As I Lay Dying (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

by William Faulkner

Published: 2000-11-28

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeFrom the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner—also available are Snopes, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Selected Short StoriesOn...

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Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women

by Elizabeth Wurtzel

Published: 1999-05-18

Paperback: 448 pages

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From the author of the bestselling Prozac Nation comes one of the most entertaining feminist manifestos ever written. In five brilliant extended essays, she links the lives of women as demanding and disparate as Amy Fisher, Hillary Clinton, Margaux Hemingway, and Nicole Brown Simpson. Wur...

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The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz

by Jack Fairweather

Published: 2019-06-25

Hardcover: 528 pages

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“Superbly written and breathtakingly researched, The Volunteer smuggles us into Auschwitz and shows us—as if watching a movie—the story of a Polish agent who infiltrated the infamous camp, organized a rebellion, and then snuck back out. We are squarely confronted with the other hum...

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Moloka'i

by Alan Brennert

Published: 2003-10-21

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Young Rachel Kalama, growing up in idyllic Honolulu in the 1890s, is part of a big, loving Hawaiian family, and dreams of seeing the far-off lands that her father, a merchant seaman, often visits. But at the age of seven, Rachel and her dreams are shattered by the discovery that she has le...

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The Family that Lies

by Lakisha Johnson, LaQuisha Rucker

Published: 2016-10-31

Paperback: 330 pages

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Born only months apart, Merci and Grayce Alexander were as close as sisters could get. With a father who thought the world of them, life was good. Until one day everything changed.While Grayce got love and attention, Merci got all the hell, forcing her to leave home. She never looks back, putting the...

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The Vineyard: A Novel

by Maria Duenas

Published: 2017-10-03

Hardcover: 544 pages

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New York Times bestselling author Maria Dueñas returns with The Vineyard, a magnificent story of ambition, heartbreak, and desire set in the 1860s Mexico, Cuba, and Spain—perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Kristin Hannah.Mauro Larrea’s fortune, the result of years of hardship and toi...

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The Wild Realm: Animals of East Africa

by Louis S.B. Leakey

Published: 1969

Hardcover: 199 pages

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illustrated with photos and drawings

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* * * * Beautiful,
Brilliant,
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One Night in Georgia: A Novel

by Celeste O. Norfleet

Published: 2019-06-18

Paperback: 304 pages

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One of “The 17 Best Summer Reads of 2019” by Harper’s Bazaar!Set in the summer of 1968, a provocative and devastating novel of individual lives caught in the grips of violent history—a timely and poignant story that reverberates with the power of Alice Walker’s Meridian and Ntoza...