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Best New Books Out This Week | March 13, 2023
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
Selected as Oprah's 100th book club pick, this tear-jerking ode to Louisa May Alcott's classic Little Women tells the emotional tale of William Waters, who grows up unloved and neglected, before being thrust into the lives of four inseparable sisters.
Hello Beautiful (Oprah's Book Club)
Ann NapolitanoNapolitano chronicles life’s highs and lows with aching precision... Like her deeply felt characters, she compels us to contemplate the complex tapestry of family love that can, despite grief and loss, still knit us together. She helps us see ourselves — and each other — whole.
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Take What You Need by Idra Novey
Set in the Allegheny Mountains of Appalachia, this touching story follows a woman who returns to her rural hometown following her stepmother’s passing, and discovers a secret world filled with outsider art and a mysterious young man.
Take What You Need
Idra NoveyWhat an intricate, fascinating novel. I love reading about the welder at the center of this novel, who makes large sculptures she calls manglements, and reflects on, for instance, how the same mind holds both the most beautiful artistic impulse and the ugliest thoughts
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$$0 + Free shipping50% off your first bookKünstlers in Paradise by Cathleen Schine
After the Künstlers fled Vienna for America during the World War II, they settled into L.A.’s vibrant community of intellectual émigrés. Decades later, the pandemic forces 93-year-old Mamie Künstler and her visiting grandson to become roommates, setting off a fascinating excavation of L.A.’s immigrant-rich past.
Künstlers in Paradise
Cathleen Schine@cathleenschine's Kunstlers in Paradise is such a charming delight. For anyone who wants a book to lift you up as though you're sipping crisp white wine (or a dry martini) beneath a fragrant orange tree while listening to a true grande dame tell stories, this is it.
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$$0 + Free shipping50% off your first bookOur Best Intentions by Vibhuti Jain
In this gripping exploration of privilege, racial bias, and familial bonds, a New York Uber driver and his introverted teenage daughter find themselves embroiled in a crime that rocks their community.
Our Best Intentions
Vibhuti JainIn a novel that will leave you aching — and thinking — Jain asks us to consider what a world might look like if justice really were for everyone, and any one of us could just “happen” to be in the right place at the right time.
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$$0 + Free shipping50% off your first bookBrother & Sister Enter the Forest by Richard Mirabella
This queer coming-of-age novel traces a young man's struggles with toxic relationships, the harrowing aftermath of a violent crime and his attempt to reconcile with an estranged sister.
Brother & Sister Enter the Forest
Richard MirabellaMirabella’s debut novel—about a pair of once-close siblings and how the bruises of their youth swell into adulthood—is both bracing and a balm, his softly disarming sentences like cotton puffs that absorb the pain of deep cuts.
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$$0 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Everlasting Meal Cookbook: Leftovers A-Z by Tamar Adler
After her acclaimed book An Everlasting Meal, Adler returns with an essential guide that helps home cooks reduce food waste, save money and create delectable, sustainable meals.
The Everlasting Meal Cookbook: Leftovers A-Z
Tamar AdlerA comprehensive, beautifully illustrated and gracefully written resource... a no-waste ethos permeates these many pages with goodwill, humor, and hope. As with all things Adler, the writing is fantastic: expert and unfailingly elegant.
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$$0 + Free shipping50% off your first bookHow to Think Like a Woman by Regan Penaluna
In this provocative indictment of sexism in academia, Penaluna shares her own experiences in the male-dominated field of philosophy and sheds light on the work of four influential feminist philosophers from the 17th and 18th centuries — Mary Astell, Damaris Masham, Catharine Cockburn, and Mary Wollstonecraft — who have been unjustly overlooked in the philosophy canon.
How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
Regan PenalunaAn alternate philosophical canon, where women and their intellect are deeply and rigorously examined.
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$$0 + Free shipping50% off your first bookDust Child By Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
This is a much-anticipated follow-up to the author's first novel in English, The Mountains Sing (2020). In this novel, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai digs deeper into the consequences of the Vietnam War through the secrets and trauma within families, especially the children born of Vietnamese mothers and American soldiers.
Dust Child
Mai Phan Que NguyenIt tells a moving story from an often-overlooked perspective... The bleak, smoke-filled scenes involving sisters Trang and Quỳnh provide historical context and shed light on how harsh and dangerous life really was for a group of people who were notoriously treated like trash ...
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$$0 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Lost Americans by Christopher Bollen
The new thriller is set in Cairo, where a young woman will travel to uncover the truth around her brother’s death. With the help of an Egyptian man, who has been trying to escape the brutality of his country's government, she’ll face some dangerous enemies.
The Lost Americans
Christopher BollenAs the story accelerates toward its finale, it veers into uncharted territory, picking up momentum and emotional power... While “The Lost Americans” begins in the heady mood of a fish-out-of-water adventure, the ending is sobering, shocking and, I suspect, all too realistic.
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$$0 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery by Adam Gopnik
A long-time critic for The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik investigates how mastery of skills is achieved by becoming a student himself of different disciplines such as painting, boxing, and dancing. The result is an intimate reflection on expertise, talent and the underlying reasons for our quest for mastery.
The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery
Adam GopnikGopnik is a writer with a keen, warm eye and a generous heart... The joy of this book is its honesty. “The real work” is a term magicians use to define who’s really got the chops. Gopnik may not be able to handle a deck of cards, but he is a magician, all the same.
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