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The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
BUY Amazon | Bookshop With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces...
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Homeland Elegies by Ayad Ahktar
BUY Amazon | Bookshop A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and...
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A Beautiful Crime by Christopher Bollen
BUY Amazon | Bookshop When Nick Brink and his boyfriend Clay Guillory meet up on the Grand Canal in Venice, they have a plan in mind—and it doesn’t involve a vacation. Nick...
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Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy Taylor
BUY Amazon | Bookshop Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the “black travel guide to America.” At that time, it was very dangerous and difficult for African-Americans to travel...
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A Chidren’s Bible by Lydia Millet
BUY Amazon | Bookshop Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet’s sublime new novel―her first since the National Book Award long-listed Sweet Lamb of Heaven―follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced...
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