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The Lincoln Highway: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Amor Towles
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Published: Viking - October 5th, 2021
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By Louise Erdrich
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Never: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Ken Follett
$36.00
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Still Life (Hardcover)

By Sarah Winman
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - November 2nd, 2021
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By Ruth Ozeki
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By Ash Davidson
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Harlem Shuffle: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Colson Whitehead
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The Joy and Light Bus Company: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (22) (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series #22) (Hardcover)

By Alexander McCall Smith
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Published: Pantheon - November 16th, 2021
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By Richard Powers
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 21st, 2021
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Crossroads: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Jonathan Franzen
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - October 5th, 2021

 

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Libertie: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Kaitlyn Greenidge
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Published: Algonquin Books - March 30th, 2021
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Mercy (An Atlee Pine Thriller #4) (Hardcover)

By David Baldacci
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Velvet Was the Night (Hardcover)

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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Great Circle: A novel (Hardcover)

By Maggie Shipstead
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Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Anthony Doerr
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Matrix: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Lauren Groff
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The Every: A novel (Paperback)

By Dave Eggers
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Published: Vintage - November 16th, 2021

 

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A Line to Kill: A Novel (A Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery) (Hardcover)

By Anthony Horowitz
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Published: Harper - October 19th, 2021

 

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Oprah's Book Club Novel Cover Image

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Oprah's Book Club Novel (Hardcover)

By Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
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When Ghosts Come Home: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Wiley Cash
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Published: William Morrow - September 21st, 2021

 

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The Other Black Girl: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Zakiya Dalila Harris
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The Magician: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Colm Toibin
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Burntcoat: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Sarah Hall
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Tenderness (Hardcover)

By Alison Macleod
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The Prophets (Hardcover)

By Robert Jones, Jr.
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - January 5th, 2021
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By Helene Wecker
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Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Wole Soyinka
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Published: Pantheon - September 28th, 2021
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The Dark Hours (A Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch Novel #4) (Hardcover)

By Michael Connelly
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - November 9th, 2021
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Silverview: A Novel (Hardcover)

By John le Carré
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Published: Viking - October 12th, 2021
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The Man Who Died Twice: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery (Hardcover)

By Richard Osman
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Published: Pamela Dorman Books - September 28th, 2021
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The Midnight Library: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Matt Haig
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Published: Viking - September 29th, 2020
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Wild Design: Nature's Architects (Hardcover)

By Kimberly Ridley
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Published: Princeton Architectural Press - November 9th, 2021
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By Rachel Smythe
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By Marissa Meyer
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Collective Wisdom: Lessons, Inspiration, and Advice from Women over 50 (Hardcover)

By Grace Bonney
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Published: Artisan - November 9th, 2021
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Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol (Hardcover)

By Mallory O'Meara
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Published: Hanover Square Press - October 19th, 2021
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Art Day by Day: 366 Brushes with History (Hardcover)

By Alex Johnson
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Published: Thames & Hudson - October 26th, 2021
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How to Live. What to Do: In Search of Ourselves in Life and Literature (Hardcover)

By Josh Cohen
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ISBN: 9780593316207
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Published: Pantheon - October 26th, 2021
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (Hardcover)

By Mary Roach
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ISBN: 9781324001935
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 14th, 2021
Get Untamed: The Journal (How to Quit Pleasing and Start Living) Cover Image

Get Untamed: The Journal (How to Quit Pleasing and Start Living) (Hardcover)

By Glennon Doyle
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Published: Clarkson Potter - November 16th, 2021
The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide Cover Image

The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide (Hardcover)

By Nice Leng'ete
$28.00
ISBN: 9780316463355
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - September 14th, 2021
Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to Ve-Day Cover Image

Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to Ve-Day (Hardcover)

By James Holland
$32.00
ISBN: 9780802159083
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Published: Atlantic Monthly Press - November 16th, 2021
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Orwell's Roses (Hardcover)

By Rebecca Solnit
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ISBN: 9780593083369
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Published: Viking - October 19th, 2021
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Imaginary Peaks: The Riesenstein Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams (Hardcover)

By Katie Ives
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ISBN: 9781680515411
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Published: Mountaineers Books - September 14th, 2021
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Waterlog: A Swimmers Journey Through Britain (Hardcover)

By Roger Deakin, Bonnie Tsui (Introduction by), Robert Macfarlane (Afterword by)
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Published: Tin House Books - May 25th, 2021
Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution Cover Image

Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution (Hardcover)

By H. W. Brands
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Published: Doubleday - November 9th, 2021
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The Story of the Country House: A History of Places and People (Hardcover)

By Clive Aslet
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ISBN: 9780300255058
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Published: Yale University Press - October 19th, 2021
Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival Cover Image

Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival (Hardcover)

By Tom Clavin
$29.99
ISBN: 9781250151261
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Published: St. Martin's Press - November 2nd, 2021
The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts Cover Image

The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts (Hardcover)

By Mary Wellesley
$30.00
ISBN: 9781541675087
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Published: Basic Books - October 12th, 2021
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Will (Hardcover)

By Will Smith, Mark Manson (With)
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ISBN: 9781984877925
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Published: Penguin Press - November 9th, 2021
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside Cover Image

Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside (Hardcover)

By Nick Offerman
$28.00
ISBN: 9781101984697
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Published: Dutton - October 12th, 2021
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The Library: A Fragile History (Hardcover)

By Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen
$35.00
ISBN: 9781541600775
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Published: Basic Books - November 9th, 2021
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American Comics: A History (Hardcover)

By Jeremy Dauber
$35.00
ISBN: 9780393635607
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - November 16th, 2021
The King's Painter: The Life of Hans Holbein Cover Image

The King's Painter: The Life of Hans Holbein (Hardcover)

By Franny Moyle
$35.00
ISBN: 9781419749537
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Published: Abrams Press - October 5th, 2021
A Runner’s High: My Life in Motion Cover Image

A Runner’s High: My Life in Motion (Hardcover)

By Dean Karnazes
$27.99
ISBN: 9780062955500
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Published: HarperOne - April 20th, 2021
The Plant Hunter: A Scientist's Quest for Nature's Next Medicines Cover Image

The Plant Hunter: A Scientist's Quest for Nature's Next Medicines (Hardcover)

By Cassandra Leah Quave
$27.00
ISBN: 9781984879110
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Published: Viking - October 19th, 2021
Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America Cover Image

Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America (Hardcover)

By Michael Eric Dyson
$32.50
ISBN: 9781250135971
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Published: St. Martin's Press - November 2nd, 2021
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War Cover Image

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War (Hardcover)

By Malcolm Gladwell
$27.00
ISBN: 9780316296618
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - April 27th, 2021
World War C: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One Cover Image

World War C: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One (Hardcover)

By Sanjay Gupta, M.D., Kristin Loberg (With)
$28.00
ISBN: 9781982166106
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Published: Simon & Schuster - October 5th, 2021
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On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (Hardcover)

By Maggie Nelson
$27.00
ISBN: 9781644450628
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Published: Graywolf Press - September 7th, 2021

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