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  • LOVE, DEATH & RARE BOOKS
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    LOVE, DEATH & RARE BOOKS
    ROBERT HELLENGA
    As times change for the book business, a rare book dealer lives through appraisals, auctions, danger, drama, love, and loss, in this thoughtful novel.   Chas. Johnson & Sons, a rare bookstore in Chicago’s Hyde Park, has been in Gabe Johnson’s family for generations. It’s where he learned to love Romantic poetry, and where he found a romance of his own with Olivia. Geared toward...

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  • THE WHISTLEBLOWER'S DILEMMA
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    THE WHISTLEBLOWER'S DILEMMA
    RICHARD RASHKE
    A look at Edward Snowden, Karen Silkwood, and government and corporate whistleblowing, by an author praised for his “first-rate reporting” (Kirkus Reviews). In June of 2013, Edward Snowden, a twenty-nine-year-old former CIA employee, leaked thousands of top secret National Security Agency (NSA) documents to journalist Glen Greenwald. Branded as a whistleblower, Snowden reignite...

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  • A SEASON FOR MARTYRS
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    A SEASON FOR MARTYRS
    BINA SHAH
    A harrowing account of the last three months of Benazir Bhutto’s life October, 2007. Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto returns home after eight years of exile to seek political office once more. Assigned to cover her controversial arrival is TV journalist Ali Sikandar, the estranged son of a wealthy landowner from the interior region of Sindh. While her presence i...

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  • THE PATH TO AWAKENING
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    THE PATH TO AWAKENING
    SHAMAR RINPOCHE
    A guide to the transformative practice that has been a part of Tibetan Buddhism for centuries. Mind Training is a comprehensive practice that is suitable for all types of students. It contains the entire path and does not depend on a person’s background. Mind Training nurses and cultivates the Buddha Nature, that pure seed of awakening that is at the very heart of every sentien...

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  • THE KILLING OF KAREN SILKWOOD
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    THE KILLING OF KAREN SILKWOOD
    RICHARD RASHKE
    Karen Silkwood, an employee of the Kerr-McGee plutonium processing plant, was killed in a car crash on her way to deliver important documents to a newspaper reporter in 1974. Silkwood was a union activist concerned about health and safety issues at the plant, and her death at age 28 was considered by many to be highly suspicious. Was it Kerr-McGee's revenge on a troublesome whi...

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  • MODERN ART
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    MODERN ART
    EVELYN TOYNTON
    New York Times Notable Book: “The life of Jackson Pollock’s widow, Lee Krasner, provides the raw material for this strong, assured debut novel.” —Publishers Weekly   Belle Prokoff is the last of a famous generation of painters for whom art was a secular religion—worth any amount of struggle and sacrifice for its promise of redemption. She is also the widow of Clay Madden, who r...

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  • SHE READ TO US IN THE LATE AFTERNOONS
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    SHE READ TO US IN THE LATE AFTERNOONS
    KATHLEEN HILL
    This memoir takes readers around the world, from New York to Nigeria, exploring a life illuminated by novels.   As a child in music class, Kathleen Hill comes upon Willa Cather’s Lucy Gayheart, and the novel prepares her for a drowning death that soon occurs in her own life. Later, recently married and working as a teacher in a newly independent Nigeria, Hill assigns Chinua Ach...

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  • AMERICAN STRANGER
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    AMERICAN STRANGER
    DAVID PLANTE
    A daughter of Jewish refugees searches for love and a spiritual home in this novel by the National Book Award–nominated author of Difficult Women.   Brought up in a secular household on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Nancy Green knows suspiciously little about her parents’ past. She knows they escaped Germany, avoiding the fate of so many of their fellow Jews during World War II,...

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  • QUEEN FOR A DAY
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    QUEEN FOR A DAY
    MAXINE ROSALER
    With “intelligence and sympathy,” this compassionate and darkly humorous debut tells the stories of mothers of children with disabilities (Alison Lurie, Pulitzer Prize–winning author).   After Mimi Slavitt’s three-year-old son, Danny, is diagnosed with autism, she finds herself in a world nearly as isolating as her son’s. It is a position she shares only with mothers like herse...

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  • BEFORE SHE SLEEPS
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    BEFORE SHE SLEEPS
    BINA SHAH
    “A haunting dystopian thriller” from the acclaimed author of A Season for Martyrs— “Fans of The Handmaid’s Tale won’t want to miss this one” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   In modern, beautiful Green City, the capital of Southwest Asia, gender selection, war, and disease have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmingly low levels. The government uses terror and techn...

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  • THE OBEDIENT ASSASSIN
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    THE OBEDIENT ASSASSIN
    JOHN P. DAVIDSON
    A dark and riveting thriller that reimagines the life and mission of the Spanish nationalist enlisted to murder Leon Trotsky: Based on a true chapter of world history and ten years of research, here is the story of the real-life reluctant soldier and killer, Ramón Mercader—the obedient assassin Ramón Mercader was plucked from the front of the Spanish Civil War by the Soviets an...

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  • OVERCONNECTED
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    OVERCONNECTED
    WILLIAM H. DAVIDOW
    “Shows how the unanticipated effects of the Internet are distorting economics, politics, international relations, and individual lives” (James Fallows). In Overconnected, Bill Davidow, a former Silicon Valley executive, explains how the almost miraculous success of the Internet has also created a unique set of hazards, in effect overconnecting us, with the direst of consequence...

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  • ESCAPE FROM SOBIBOR
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    ESCAPE FROM SOBIBOR
    RICHARD RASHKE
    This true story of a revolt at a Nazi death camp, newly updated, is “a memorable and moving saga, full of anger and anguish, a reminder never to forget” (San Francisco Chronicle). On October 14, 1943, six hundred Jews imprisoned in Sobibor, a secret Nazi death camp in eastern Poland, revolted. They killed a dozen SS officers and guards, trampled the barbed wire fences, and race...

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  • ESCAPE FROM SOBIBOR
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    ESCAPE FROM SOBIBOR
    RICHARD RASHKE
    This true story of a revolt at a Nazi death camp, newly updated, is “a memorable and moving saga, full of anger and anguish, a reminder never to forget” (San Francisco Chronicle). On October 14, 1943, six hundred Jews imprisoned in Sobibor, a secret Nazi death camp in eastern Poland, revolted. They killed a dozen SS officers and guards, trampled the barbed wire fences, and race...

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  • FACTS AND FANCIES
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    FACTS AND FANCIES
    PAUL TAYLOR
    Witty and whimsical writings about the dance of life by the legendary choreographer.   This wonderful new book by one of the preeminent dancers and choreographers consists of a range of pieces of fact and fiction that run from thoughts on friendliness and country living to animosity and city life. Taylor’s first book since his autobiography (Private Domain, 1995, Alfred A. Knop...

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  • THE GIRLS
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    THE GIRLS
    HELEN YGLESIAS
    Meet the four Witkovsky sisters in this “fierce, hopeful” novel about growing old, “lightened by a wicked sense of humor” (Newsday). A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year Eighty-year-old Jenny—the baby of the family—has flown down to Miami, Florida—that gaudy, pastel-hued haven of the elderly—to look after her two oldest sisters: Eva, still going strong at ninety-five, and ...

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  • THE HALLELUJAH SIDE
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    THE HALLELUJAH SIDE
    RHODA HUFFEY
    “It had been a Second Coming sky all day, which meant they might be in heaven by this evening.” So begins the uproarious and tender tale of Roxanne Fish, daughter of Sister Zelda Fish and Pastor Winston Fish of the First Assembly of God Church of Ames, Iowa, who believe fervently in the imminent return of Jesus to take the Christians up to heaven. The Fishes’ older daughter, Co...

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  • THE HOUSE ON MOON LAKE
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    THE HOUSE ON MOON LAKE
    FRANCESCA DURANTI
    In a novel both “lively [and] dreamlike,” a translator’s obsession leads him into the literary spotlight—and toward the line between fantasy and reality (Los Angeles Times).   Fabrizio Garrone is an impoverished but aristocratic translator who has been living a life of quiet desperation in Milan. He feels underappreciated and tormented by a persistent sense of having been cheat...

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  • LEFT-HANDED DREAMS
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    LEFT-HANDED DREAMS
    FRANCESCA DURANTI
    An Italian professor seeks to understand her own mind—and heart: “An elegant and engaging writer who treats serious questions with wit and grace” (The Wall Street Journal).   Martina Satriano, an Italian professor of cultural history at New York University, observes the great American city with admiration and gratitude, but from an outsider’s perspective. She is a sublime cook,...

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  • THE RABBI IN THE ATTIC
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    THE RABBI IN THE ATTIC
    EILEEN POLLACK
    “Never sentimental or simplistic, these low-key stories, written with a contemporary flair and humor, are a rich blend of moral and artistic sensibility.” —Kirkus Reviews   In an age of minimalists, Eileen Pollack is a writer of rare generosity. The women and men in The Rabbi in the Attic are complex, vivid people to whom something happens. Their stories take place in small tow...

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  • SLOTS
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    SLOTS
    DAVID V. FORREST
    A renowned psychiatrist explores the world of slot machine gambling and the almost religious devotion that has turned it into a billion-dollar industry. This astonishing book reveals that there’s a lot more to playing slot machines—one of America’s fastest growing forms of entertainment—than good fun, deep relaxation and the dream of a multi-million-dollar jackpot. Slots tells ...

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  • THE LANGUAGE OF HOUSES
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    THE LANGUAGE OF HOUSES
    ALISON LURIE
    How do the spaces we inhabit affect us—and reflect us? A Pulitzer Prize–winning author explores architecture, in this insightful, “breezy” read (The Washington Post). In 1981, Alison Lurie published The Language of Clothes, a meditation on costume and fashion as an expression of history, social status and individual psychology. Amusing, enlightening and full of literary allusio...

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  • USEFUL ENEMIES
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    USEFUL ENEMIES
    RICHARD RASHKE
    How the United States protected John Demjanjuk: “A richly researched, gripping narrative about war, suffering, survival, corruption, injustice and morality” (Kirkus Reviews, starred). John “Iwan” Demjanjuk was at the center of one of history’s most complex war crimes trials. But why did it take almost sixty years for the United States to bring him to justice as a Nazi collabora...

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  • ONE OF THESE THINGS FIRST
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    ONE OF THESE THINGS FIRST
    STEVEN GAINES
    From New York Times–bestselling author Steven Gaines comes a wry and touching memoir of his trials as a gay teen at the famed Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic. One of These Things First is a poignant reminiscence of a fifteen-year-old gay Jewish boy’s unexpected trajectory from a life behind a rack of dresses in his grandmother’s Brooklyn bra-and-girdle store to Manhattan’s inf...

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  • THE MAPMAKER'S DAUGHTER
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    THE MAPMAKER'S DAUGHTER
    KATHERINE NOURI HUGHES
    A novel of the Venetian girl who became the most powerful woman in the Ottoman Empire—perfect for fans of Netflix’s Magnificent Century.   The Ottoman Empire was at the height of its power during the sixteenth century when Cecilia Baffo Veniero was kidnapped from her Venetian birthplace and chosen to be the wife of Selim II, successor to Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. She wou...

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  • THE LIMITS OF THE WORLD
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    THE LIMITS OF THE WORLD
    JENNIFER ACKER
    A “smart, compassionate and elegant” debut novel about an Asian-Indian immigrant family from Nairobi and the secrets they keep from each other (Lauren Groff, author of Florida).   The Chandaria family—emigrants from the Asian-Indian enclave of Nairobi—has managed to flourish in America. Premchand, the father, is a doctor who has worked doggedly to grow his practice and give his...

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  • WORDS AND WORLDS
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    WORDS AND WORLDS
    ALISON LURIE
    Poignant remembrances and sharp observations from the “most able and witty” Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Foreign Affairs (The New York Times).   This engaging new collection of essays from the New York Times–bestselling novelist gathers together her reflections on the writing life; fond recollections of inspiring friends; and perceptive, playful commentary on preoccupations...

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  • THE BODY OUTSIDE THE KREMLIN
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    THE BODY OUTSIDE THE KREMLIN
    JAMES L. MAY
    A suspenseful new murder mystery set in a crumbling monastery–turned–Soviet prison in the early twentieth century.   In a former monastery on an island in the White Sea, now taken over by the Bolsheviks, young mathematician Tolya Bogomolov is serving a three-year sentence, watched over by a skeleton crew of secret policemen. Some prisoners are consigned to forced labor while ot...

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  • THE GRETCHEN QUESTION
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    THE GRETCHEN QUESTION
    JESSICA TREADWAY
    “One of the most haunting stories I have ever read about the price we pay for the secrets we keep” from the award-winning author of How Will I Know You? (Julia Glass, national bestselling author).   The Gretchen Question recounts a day in the life of Roberta Chase, who does not have much time left to make peace with her son ,who’s punishing her for withholding his father’s true...

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  • YOU WOULD HAVE TOLD ME NOT TO
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    YOU WOULD HAVE TOLD ME NOT TO
    CHRISTOPHER COAKE
    A “gripping, beautiful, emotionally raw” collection of stories about the things that go wrong between men and women from a PEN Award winner.   Arriving in the midst of the #MeToo era, these stories examine the fallout from failed relationships between men and women—partnerships that have crumbled under the weight of betrayal, misplaced hopes, illness, and particularly masculini...

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