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Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (Pitt Poetry Series) by Ross Gay
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: An 'elegant, accessible, transcendent, earthy' poetry collection Winner, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, poetry category Winner, 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize Finalist, 2015...
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That Kind of Mother: A Novel by Rumaan Alam
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: In 'That Kind Of Mother,' a white mom, a black son Like many first-time mothers, Rebecca Stone finds herself both deeply in love with...
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Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas by Mark Kurlansky
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: New book tackles milk -- 'the most over-argued food in history' According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter...
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Like Brothers by Mark Duplass
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Duplass Brothers on working together and growing apart: 'We are ex-soulmates' Whether producing, writing, directing, or acting, the Duplass Brothers have made their mark...
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo by Zora Neale Hurston
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Barracoon' brings a lost slave story to light A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their...
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Warlight: A novel by Michael Ondaatje
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Warlight' illumines family secrets in Ondaatje's latest In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself--shadowed and luminous at once--we read the story...
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Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Undead Girl Gang': Mister, they are the weirdos Meet teenage Wiccan Mila Flores, who truly could not care less what you think about her...
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Square by Mac Barnett
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: My first existential crisis: The sweet story of an angsty 'Square' This book is about Square. Square spends every day taking blocks from a...
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Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
BUY Amazon | IndieBound When New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and quality time with the...
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