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• A Fever in the Heartland

  the Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

  Egan, Timothy,

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  Madge Oberholtzer, a seemingly powerless woman, would reveal the secret cruelties of the Ku Klux Klan, and finally brought the Klan to its knees with her deathbed testimony.

• The Tender Bar

  a Memoir

  Moehringer, J. R., 1964-

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  A portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man, and a touching depiction of how some men remain lost boys.

• The_atmospherians

  a Novel

  McElroy, Isle

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  Sasha is at rock bottom after a confrontation with an abusive online troll. Her oldest childhood friend offers her a chance to restore her reputation, but what horrors await her and what does he want in return?

• Save What's Left

  Castellano, Elizabeth, 1990-

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  Katherine's husband makes a surprise announcement that he wants a divorce, so she heads to Whitbey hoping for a bucolic paradise. What she finds instead is unexpected, but may be just what she needs.

• The Secret Adversary

  Christie, Agatha

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  An entrepreneurial romp leads a young and optimistic couple down a dangerous, twisted path of secrets, kidnappings and murder.

• To Die Beautiful

  A Novel

  Jackson, Buzzy

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  Based on a true story of the life of the heroic Hannie Schaft, a young Dutch woman who joined the Resistance in Holland during World War II and became one of the Nazis' most lethal adversaries.

• The Personal Librarian

  Benedict, Marie,

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  The story of an extraordinary woman famous for her intellect, style and wit, and shares the lengths she must go to — for the protection of her family and her legacy — to preserve her carefully crafted white identity in the racist world in which she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Anthropocene Reviewed

  Essays on a Human-centered Planet

  Green, John, 1977-

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  Green's adult debut is a perfectly calibrated collection that reviews and rates various aspects of the current geological age, the Anthropocene, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity.

• Trust

  Díaz, Hernán, 1973-

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  In glamorous 1920s New York City, two characters of sophisticated taste come together, a legendary Wall Street tycoon and the brilliant daughter of penniless aristocrats. Steeped in affluence and grandeur, their marriage excites gossip and allows a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bicycling With Butterflies

  My 10,201-mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration

  Dykman, Sara, 1985-

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  Dykman recounts her incredible journey and the dramatic ups and downs of the nearly nine-month odyssey, bicycling alongside monarch butterflies on their storied annual migration.

• Monsters

  a Fan's Dilemma

  Dederer, Claire, 1967-

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  Dederer asks, "What's a fan to do when they love the art, but hate the artist?"

• Crying in H Mart

  a Memoir

  Zauner, Michelle,

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  An earnest account of the author's Korean-American upbringing, musical career and the aftermath of her mother's death.

• Five Little Pigs

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

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  Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, but just like the nursery rhyme, there were five other "little pigs" who could have done it.

• The Island of Missing Trees

  Shafak, Elif, 1971-

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  A novel about belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal.

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