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  Places I've Taken My Body: Essays

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  F*ckface: and Other Stories

  F*ckface is a brassy, bighearted debut collection of twelve short stories about rurality, corpses, honeybee collapse, and illicit sex in post-coal Appalachia.
  
  The twelve stories in this knockout collec…

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  The Wife of Willesden

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  Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally

  An approachable guide to being a thoughtful, informed ally to disabled people, with actionable steps for what to say and do (and what not to do) and how you can help make the world a more accessible, …

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  The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

  Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but wh…

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  How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

  From the creator of The Good Place and the cocreator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-provoking guide to living an ethical life, drawing on 2,500 years of deep thinking from around the wo…

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  Interpreter of Maladies

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  Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching…

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  Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

  This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men—and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions, and live a more joyful lif…

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  What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

  From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people that will move us toward creating an agenda for fat justice.
  
  Anti-fatness is every…

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  “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

  The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the facts to debunk common anti-fat myths and with tools to take action for fat justice

  The pushback that sho…

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  The Summer Book

  An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland. Gradually, the two learn to adjust to each other's fears, whims and yearnings…

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  Everything I Need I Get from You

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  Franny and Zooey

  ‘Everything everybody does is so—I don’t know—not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and—sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or somethi…

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  The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

  A sumptuous, gothic-infused story about a marriage that is unraveled by dark secrets, a friendship cursed to end in tragedy, and the danger of believing in fairy tales—the breathtaking adult debut fro…

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  Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

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  In the Field Between Us: Poems

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  The Kreutzer Sonata

  When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kr…

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  How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

  When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms for personal branding, and products to be monetized, nothing can be quite so radical as… doing nothing…

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  The Hour of the Star

  The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa…

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  Infinite Country

  For readers of Valeria Luiselli and Edwidge Danticat, an urgent and lyrical novel about a Colombian family fractured by deportation, offering an intimate perspective on an experience that so many have…

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