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Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich 1945-1955

Harald Jahner
2022
Many, many books have been written about World War II and if you are a history buff you have probab…
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And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie
1939
Agatha Christie has been called the Queen of Mystery. Even though she published her first book in 1…
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Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

R. F. Kuang
2022
"Babel" is set in 1828, in a world that is powered by the "silver workers" of t…
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Cloud Cuckoo Land

Anthony Doerr
2021
Anthony Doerr is one of the most beautifully lyrical authors writing today. "All the Light We …
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara
2023
In the midst of the excitement surrounding the electric vehicle revolution, Siddharth Kara’s ground…
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Deacon King Kong: A Novel

Deacon King Kong: A Novel

James McBride
2021
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Gotham Book PrizeOne of Barack Ob…
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Editors Pick
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Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver
2023
In writing Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver set out to write her “great Appalachian novel” – an…
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Dinner with the President: Food, Politics and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House

Alex Prud'homme
2023
Alex Prud'homme comes from culinary royalty. His great aunt was Julia Child and he collaborate…
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Dream Town

David Baldacci
2022
David Baldacci has been writing blockbuster novels for twenty years and most I would categorize as …
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Empire of Pain

Patrick Radden Keefe
2021
Decades into the opioid epidemic, once-elusive Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family have become hou…
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Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History

Alex von Tunzelmann
2022
At a time when we are struggling as a community and a nation over the appropriate way to represent …
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Family Family

Laurie Frankel
2024
Laurie Frankel has written five novels all concerned with family; how we define that unit, the vari…
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