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HarperAcademic Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath
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A classic from writer Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar is a beautiful and haunting tale of a woman battling mental illness and societal pressures. @HarperPerennial https://t.co/9qujaRhitF

Paperback, 2005

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay

Bad Feminist

Roxane Gay
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Cynthia Manick’s NO SWEET WITHOUT BRINE is filled with “exuberant, engaging poems composed with confidence and flair.” (Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and Hunger) Read a sample: https://t.co/HrHUj0GwB8 @AmistadBooks #poetry #Blackpoet #poetrybywomen #womanpoet https://t.co/ObxKyr0mMg

Paperback, 2014

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam

Leave the World Behind

Rumaan Alam
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We're thrilled with a recent adoption for Rumaan Alam's LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND at Stockton University. Learn more about this title for your course over at our book page: https://fal.cn/3jaDI #courseadoption https://t.co/8JcByjP6oV

Paperback, 2021

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Last Confessions of Sylvia P., Lee Kravetz

The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.

Lee Kravetz
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Now available in paperback is Lee Kravetz's blend of mystery and multigenerational story, THE LAST CONFESSIONS OF SYLVIA P.! Learn more, and read an excerpt, at our book page: https://t.co/W2HMgw7gsw https://t.co/KSMsCFca2F

Paperback, 2023

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Beasts of a Little Land, Juhea Kim

Beasts of a Little Land

Juhea Kim
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Now in paperback, Juhea Kim's Beasts of a Little Land is "a stunning chronicle of the Korean peninsula during the tumultuous decades leading to independence and partition." (Alexis Schaitkin, author of Saint X) @eccobooks https://t.co/wUdtHwEK60

Paperback, 2022

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver

Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver
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“An Appalachian David Copperfield.... Barbara Kingsolver’s DEMON COPPERHEAD reimagines Dickens’s story in a modern-day rural America contending with poverty and opioid addiction.” — New York Times @harperbooks  #BarbaraKingsolver #comingofage #Appalachia #demoncopperhead https://t.co/ozStMhK8aF

Paperback, 2024

$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction), Colson Whitehead

The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

Colson Whitehead
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In We Carry Their Bones, forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle explores the legacy of the notorious Dozier Boys School, the true story behind Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Nickel Boys. @WmMorrowBooks https://t.co/MLqI3MBHA5

Paperback, 2020

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Notes on an Execution, Danya Kukafka

Notes on an Execution

Danya Kukafka
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NOTES ON AN EXECUTION by Danya Kukafka unravels the familiar narrative of the American serial killer, asking readers to consider the false promise of looking for meaning in the psyches of violent men. @WmMorrowBooks #crimefiction #amreading #womeninfiction #serialkiller https://t.co/9pZUhQkuOC

Paperback, 2023

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food, Roanne Van Voorst

Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food

Roanne Van Voorst
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Roanne van Voorst's Once Upon a Time we Ate Animals, now available in paperback, is a provocative exploration of a hypothetical future in which animal consumption is a thing of the past. Read the first chapter here: https://t.co/Bxe4hzHmRy. @HarperOneBooks https://t.co/It6ieduthV

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Book Cover for: The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin
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Ursula Le Guin's classic The Dispossessed is commonly assigned in literature courses...but sometimes we see it assigned in other departments, such as Sociology! https://t.co/cMWJp8EUtG

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