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The Saturday Night Ghost Club: A Novel by Craig Davidson
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Saturday Night Ghost Club' celebrates the wonders and horrors of being a kid Growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls - a seedy but magical,...
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American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: A return to America's Eden On a clear morning in July 1804, Alexander Hamilton stepped onto a boat at the edge of the Hudson...
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The Cuban Comedy by Pablo Medina
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'The Cuban Comedy' walks the line between politics and poetry A love story steeped in political satire, poetry, and the lightest touches of magical...
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Wilder Girls by Rory Power
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Enter the quarantine around 'Wilder Girls' at your own risk It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine....
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American Spy: A Novel by Lauren Wilkinson
BUY Amazon | IndieBound It’s 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She’s brilliant, but she’s also a young black woman working...
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Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion by Nishta J. Mehra
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Beautiful' essays that address race, family, religion and more Brown White Black is a portrait of Nishta J. Mehra's family: her wife, who is white;...
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The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast by Andrew Blum
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: How the advance weather forecast got good The weather is the foundation of our daily lives. It’s a staple of small talk, the app...
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Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Growing Things' will winds its tendrils into your mind A masterful anthology featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction, Growing Things is an exciting glimpse into Paul...
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The Gifted School: A Novel by Bruce Holsinger
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: In 'The Gifted School,' ripped-from-the-headlines parental scheming This deliciously sharp novel captures the relentless ambitions and fears that animate parents and their children in modern...
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