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Gathering insights from Michelle Obama on staying in love, Chelsea Handler on getting over a broken heart, and Martha Beck on overcoming anxiety, this book offers a cheat sheet to living.

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An earnest and intimate exploration of locations of extreme injustice, and of the power of writing to render a more compassionate--and more honest--future... At once a rallying cry and a love letter to writing itself, the book is an urgent reminder that 'politics is the art of the possible, but art creates the possible of politics.

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A new Ann Tyler novel is always a cause for celebration, and this one promises to be a showstopper... With humor and heart, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of more than twenty novels takes on marriage, divorce, and family in all its modern complexity.

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We love the Olive-and-Lucy world, but Strout’s decision to start fresh feels like a promise: new characters to obsess over, new quiet devastations to survive. Here, a high school teacher’s seemingly settled life is upended by a long-kept secret. Strout will always make ordinary lives feel urgent.

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Inspired by the true story of Happy Land—a self-proclaimed, self-governed kingdom built by and for the formerly enslaved in the hills of North Carolina—the latest from the award-winning author of Take My Hand is an intergenerational epic with urgent contemporary stakes.

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What follows is predictably steamy but also unexpectedly tender; a taut, spunky, and fiercely original exploration of queer sexual and personal discovery.

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Adam Gopnik holds a mirror up to our achievement-obsessed world, bent on monetizing every hobby and accelerating every career move, and opens a door to a brighter future: one with accomplishment at its center...his overall argument is both humble and motivating.

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Told in reverse chronology from her mother’s death in March 2020 to her birth in December 1933, this memoir is a daughter’s poignant effort to see the whole of a life that was often fractured by mental illness and cognitive decline.

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The EGOT legend is finally ready to tell her own story, in her own voice... [Minnelli] digs into what it’s like to grow up the only child of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli and to fight for joy through addiction, miscarriages, anxiety, heartbreak, and hard-won comebacks.

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A meditative novel that reveals our changing planet with a new urgency, and its inhabitants with a new and profound love.