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Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
2022
Bonnie Garmus debut novel, "Lessons in Chemistry", is a delightful book about a chemist n…
London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
Patrick Radden Keefe
2026
Patrick Radden Keefe's London Falling unravels the shocking true story of a teenager caught in Lond…
Luster: A Novel
Raven Leilani
2020
Luster: A Novel by Raven Leilani is a New York Times Bestseller and Best Book of the Year. Winner o…
Murder Your Employer: McMaster's Guide to Homicide
Rupert Holmes
2023
Many years ago I saw a performance of Rupert Holmes' musical "The Mystery of Edwin Drood&…
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Fredrik Backman
2013
Fredrik Backman, the Swedish author best known for his book "A Man Called Ove", has a kna…
One Two Three
Laurie Frankel
2021
Laurie Frankel has been one of my happy discoveries since opening Thornwell Books. Like James McBri…
Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
Dr. Paul Offit
2022
Dr. Paul Offit is a scientist who has spent his career working on vaccines. During a visit to a mus…
Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It
Brooke Averick
2026
Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It is a hilarious, heartfelt closed-door romance about an anxious 29-yea…
Poverty, By America
Matthew Desmond
2023
Matthew Desmond says in his prologue that he wrote "Poverty, By America" in an attempt to…
Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
2026
Regime Change review: veteran NYT reporters Haberman and Swan trace how power, loyalty, and pressur…
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt
2022
Several years ago, I read Sy Montgomery's "The Soul of an Octopus". I had heard that…
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
Candace Millard
2023
We no longer live in a world where there are unknown lands and continents to discover. The Age of E…
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