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Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Heavy' brilliantly renders the struggle to become fully realized Kiese Laymon is a fearless writer. In his essays, personal stories combine with piercing intellect...
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 by Max Hastings
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Vietnam' takes on all sides with a critical gaze An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Timesbestselling...
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron de Hart
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Ruth Bader Ginsburg' reminds us why the justice is a true legal icon In this large, comprehensive, revelatory biography, Jane De Hart explores the...
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Melmoth: A Novel by Sarah Perry
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Melmoth' bears witness to our worst, loneliest moments For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe, searching for those whose complicity and...
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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser
BUY Amazon | IndieBound On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how...
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Infidel by Pornsak Pichetshote
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Infidel' uses the supernatural to explore racism's real life horrors A haunted house story for the 21st century, INFIDEL follows an American Muslim woman...
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The Sadness of Beautiful Things: Stories by Simon Van Booy
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Beautiful Things' is a string of little apocalypses Over the past decade, Simon Van Booy has been listening to people’s stories. With these personal...
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Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Author Leif Enger on story-light, character-heavy fiction Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is “cruising along at medium altitude” when his car flies off...
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False Calm: A Journey Through the Ghost Towns of Patagonia by María Sonia Cristoff
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'False Calm' acts as a record of real life in Patagonia Part reportage, part personal essay, part travelogue, False Calm is the breakout work by Argentinian...
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