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Fiction
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The Four Winds / Kristin Hannah
An epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America’s most defining eras — the Great Depression.
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The Crash / Freida McFadden
A gut-wrenching story of motherhood, survival, and twisted expectations, #1 New York Times bestselling author McFadden delivers a snowbound thriller that will chill you to the bone.
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1984 / George Orwell
Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece, “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s novel remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.
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Great and Precious Things / Rebecca Yarros
How do you define yourself when others have already decided who you are? When Camden Daniels came back from war without his younger brother, no one in the small town of Alba, Colorado, would forgive him—especially his father. He left, swearing never to return. But a desperate message from his father brings it all back. The betrayal. The pain. And the need to go home again. But home is where the one person he still loves is waiting. Willow. The one woman he can never have. Because there are secrets buried in Alba that are best left in the dark.
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The Impossible Thing / Belinda Bauer — new release!
From the exceptionally original mind of CWA Gold Dagger Award winner and Booker longlisted author Belinda Bauer comes this sweeping tale of obsession, greed, ambition, and a crime that has remained unsolved for a hundred years.
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Listen for the Lie / Amy Tintera
What would you do if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thinks so too? What if the truth doesn’t matter? As Lucy Chase’s Texas hometown begins to tell versions of what happened and who Lucy is to a nationwide, true crime–obsessed audience, at the bequest of her grandmother, she returns to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend’s murder, even if she is the one that did it
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Artificial Condition / Martha Wells
The follow-up to the hugely popular science fiction action-adventure All Systems Red, this is the continuation of The Murderbot Diaries, a science fiction series that tackles questions of the ethics of sentient robotics. Sci-fi author Kameron Hurley calls it, “Endearing, funny, action-packed, and murderous.”
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This Book Will Bury Me / Ashley Winstead
A chilling, compulsive story of five amateur sleuths, whose hunt for an elusive killer catapults them into danger as the world watches.
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Nonfiction
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We Will Be Jaguars / Nemonte Nenquimo
From a fearless, internationally acclaimed activist, an impassioned memoir about an indigenous childhood, a clash of cultures, and the fight to save the Amazon rainforest and protect her people.
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Careless People / Sarah Wynn-Williams — new release!
An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them.
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