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If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie by Christopher Ingraham
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: A throwaway line led Washington Post reporter to call rural midwest his new home Like so many young American couples, Chris Ingraham and his wife...
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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: The Only Plane In The Sky' offers a powerful, graphic narrative of 9/11 Over the past eighteen years, monumental literature has been published about 9/11,...
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Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America by James Poniewozik
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Audience of One' aims to show how TV shaped Donald Trump — and led to his rise Television has entertained America, television has ensorcelled America,...
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Naturally Tan: A Memoir by Tan France
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Why fashion expert Tan France nearly turned down 'Queer Eye' In this heartfelt, funny, touching memoir, Tan France tells his origin story for the first...
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An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: If you love Octavia Butler, Colson Whitehead and Toni Morrison Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her...
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Palestine + 100
BUY Amazon Featured on The Thread: 'Palestine + 100' explores contested territory, past and future Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in...
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The Ventriloquists: A Novel by E.R. Ramzipoor
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: In 'The Ventriloquists,' the true story of a fake newspaper The Nazis stole their voices. But they would not be silenced.Brussels, 1943. Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene...
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Just Ask!: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You by Sonia Sotomayor
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Just Ask!' says Sonia Sotomayor. She knows what it's like to feel different Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and award-winning artist Rafael Lopez create a...
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We, the Survivors: A Novel by Tash Aw
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Structural injustice is at the core of 'We, The Survivors' Ah Hock is an ordinary man of simple means. Born and raised in a Malaysian...
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