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Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis by Ada Calhoun
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Why We Can't Sleep' documents the unique pressures on Gen X women When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis,...
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Topics of Conversation: A novel by Miranda Popkey
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: There's plenty to talk about in 'Topics of Conversation' Miranda Popkey's first novel is about desire, disgust, motherhood, loneliness, art, pain, feminism, anger, envy,...
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The Heap: A Novel by Sean Adams
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: There's heart amid the ruins of 'The Heap' Standing nearly five hundred stories tall, Los Verticalés once bustled with life and excitement. Now this...
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Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibañez
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: A tale of revenge, magic and nuance, all 'Woven in Moonlight' Ximena is the decoy Condesa, a stand-in for the last remaining Illustrian royal....
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Creatures: A Novel by Crissy Van Meter
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Creatures' examines the heartbreak of being human On the eve of Evangeline’s wedding, on the shore of Winter Island, a dead whale is trapped...
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Jean Stafford: Complete Novels
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: New collection celebrates Jean Stafford, a gifted novelist who deserved better Jean Stafford (1915-1979) made a bold entrance onto the American literary scene in...
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American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power by Andrea Bernstein
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'American Oligarchs' reveals how Trump, Kushner families learned to work the system In American Oligarchs, award-winning investigative journalist Andrea Bernstein tells the story of the...
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Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity by Peggy Orenstein
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Boys & Sex' reveals that young men feel 'cut off from their hearts' Peggy Orenstein’s Girls & Sex broke ground, shattered taboos, and launched conversations about...
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Recipes of My 15 Grandmothers: Unique Recipes and Stories from the Times of the Crypto-Jews during the Spanish Inquisition by Genie Milgrom
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Trove of recipes dating back to Inquisition reveals a family's secret Jewish roots Recipes of My 15 Grandmothers is a collection of recipes and...
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