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LEAVING SEASON: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS

Written by McMasters, Kelly
Kelly McMasters found herself in her midthirties living her fantasy: she'd moved with her husband, a painter, from New York City to rural Pennsylvania, where their children roamed idyllic acres in rainboots and diapers. The pastoral landscape and the bookshop they opened were restorative at first, for her and her marriage. But soon, she was quietly plotting her escape.
May 9, 2023 | Hardcover | W. W. Norton & Company | 304 Pages |
$29.95
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THINNING BLOOD: A MEMOIR OF FAMILY, MYTH, AND IDENTITY

Written by Myers, Leah
Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe's strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers excavates the stories of four generations of women in order to leave a record of her family.
May 16, 2023 | Hardcover | W. W. Norton & Company | 176 Pages |
$25.95
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RED MEMORY: THE AFTERLIVES OF CHINA'S CULTURAL REVOLUTION

Written by Branigan, Tania
"It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution," Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two million people died for their supposed political sins, while tens of millions were hounded, ostracized, and imprisoned.
May 9, 2023 | Hardcover | W. W. Norton & Company | 304 Pages |
$29.95
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GENEALOGY OF A MURDER: FOUR GENERATIONS, THREE FAMILIES, ONE FATEFUL NIGHT

Written by Belkin, Lisa
Independence Day weekend, 1960: a young cop is murdered, shocking his close-knit community in Stamford, Connecticut. The killer remains at large, his identity still unknown. But on a beach not far away, a young Army doctor, on vacation from his post at a research lab in a maximum-security prison, faces a chilling realization. He knows who the shooter is.
May 30, 2023 | Hardcover | W. W. Norton & Company | 432 Pages |
$29.95
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BRAVE THE WILD RIVER: THE UNTOLD STORY OF TWO WOMEN WHO MAPPED THE BOTANY OF THE GRAND CANYON

Written by Sevigny, Melissa L
In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world.
May 23, 2023 | Hardcover | W. W. Norton & Company | 304 Pages |
$30.00
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BELONGING: A DAUGHTER'S SEARCH FOR IDENTITY THROUGH LOSS AND LOVE

Written by Miller, Michelle
"[An] outstanding debut."--Publisher's Weekly (starred review)The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid, and deeply personal story of her mother's abandonment and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own identity and the secrets that shaped her family for five decades.
March 14, 2023 | Hardcover | Harper | 320 Pages |
$32.00
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BABY BOOMER REWIND: GROWING UP IN THE 60'S

Written by Russo, Mario
This is the story of the Boomer Generation and what it was like growing up during the 1960s, arguably the most exciting and momentous time in our nation's history. Over 77 million Baby Boomers witnessed the Cold War, the threat of nuclear war, the moon landing, Vietnam, the civil rights movement, the women's movement, the sexual revolution and so much more!
November 24, 2022 | Paperback | Archway Publishing | 292 Pages |
$18.99
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STAND OUT OF OUR LIGHT: FREEDOM AND RESISTANCE IN THE ATTENTION ECONOMY

Written by Williams, James
Former Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every day does not distract us from pursuing our true goals in life. As information becomes ever more plentiful, the resource that is becoming more scarce is our attention.
May 31, 2018 | Paperback | Cambridge University Press |
$18.95
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UNCOMMON STORY

Written by Goncharov, Ivan
Goncharov was the leading Russian writer of the 1850s and, as the author of The Same Old Story, was regarded as "the real heir to Nikolai Gogol". But the publication of Turgenev's first full-length novel, A Nest of the Gentry, in 1859, at around the same time as Goncharov's Oblomov, which had been more than ten years in the making, suddenly changed the public's perception.
August 29, 2023 | Paperback | Alma Books | 256 Pages |
$12.00
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JACKIE: PUBLIC, PRIVATE, SECRET

Written by Taraborrelli, J Randy
From New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling look at the life of the legendary former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
July 18, 2023 | Hardcover | St. Martin's Press | 528 Pages |
$35.00

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