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GOLDENSEAL with Maria Hummel and Barbara Bourland (Virtual)

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Set against the vivid landscapes of Los Angeles and unfolding with the evanescence of a dream or a memory, Goldenseal peels away the layers of an intimate female friendship to reveal a stirring and haunting story about the search for connection and the lingering echoes of lost love. Considered a mix of A Gentleman in […]

YOU’LL DO: A HISTORY OF MARRYING FOR REASONS OTHER THAN LOVE (Virtual)

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In this illuminating and thought-provoking examination of the uniquely American institution of marriage, Marcia Zug explores how Americans hold marriage in such high esteem that we push people toward it, reward them for taking part in it, and fetishize its benefits. In You’ll Do, Zug presents "a fresh, engaging social history" (Kirkus Reviews) of marriage, […]

AMERICAN PATRIOTS: A SHORT HISTORY OF DISSENT (Virtual)

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The history of America is a history of dissent. In American Patriots, historian Ralph Young chronicles the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States. He explains that activists are not protesting against America but rather pushing the country to live up to its ideals. Young considers how ordinary Americans, from moderates to firebrands, […]

MAUDE HORTON’S GLORIOUS REVENGE (Virtual)

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Maude Horton searches for the truth about her sister, who boarded a ship headed to the frozen Arctic and never returned. In order to get the answers she needs, Maude decides to shadow the man who might have had a hand in her sister’s disappearance. She joins him on a new venture to extract the […]

DIVA – A Novel About Maria Callas with Daisy Goodwin (Virtual)

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In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas was known simply as la divina: the divine one. In this new novel, Daisy Goodwin brings to life a woman whose extraordinary talent, unremitting drive and natural chic made her a legend. But it was only in confronting the heartbreak of losing the man […]

DISILLUSIONED: FIVE FAMILIES AND THE UNRAVELING OF AMERICA’S SUBURBS (Virtual)

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Disillusioned shows how for generations, upwardly mobile white families have extracted opportunity from the nation’s heavily subsidized suburbs, then moved on before the bills for maintenance and repair came due, leaving the mostly Black and Brown families who followed to clean up the ensuing mess. But now, sweeping demographic shifts and the dawning realization that […]

WHO OWNS THIS SENTENCE? A HISTORY OF COPYRIGHTS AND WRONGS (Virtual)

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Copyright is everywhere. Not only books but wallpaper, computer programs, pop songs, cartoon characters, snapshots, and cuddly toys are now deemed to be intellectual properties—making copyright a labyrinthine construction of laws with colorful and often baffling rationales covering almost all products of human creativity. But it wasn’t always so. Who Owns This Sentence? is a […]

ONLY IF YOU’RE LUCKY with Stacy Willingham (Virtual)

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From the author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things comes a tantalizing thriller about the nature of friendship and belonging. Margot and Lucy have become the closest of friends, but by the middle of their sophomore year, one of the fraternity boys from the house next door has been brutally […]

THE STOLEN WEALTH OF SLAVERY (Virtual)

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In this timely, powerful, investigative history, The Stolen Wealth of Slavery, Emmy Award-nominated journalist David Montero follows the trail of the massive wealth amassed by Northern corporations throughout America’s history of enslavement. He showcases exactly what was stolen, who stole it, and to whom it is owed, calling for corporate reparations as he details contemporary […]

BEAUTYLAND with Marie-Helene Bertino (Virtual)

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A blazing novel of startling originality about the fragility and resilience of life in our universe, that is a remarkable evocation of feeling in exile at home and introduces a gentle, unforgettable alien for our times. At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual […]

AND HOW DOES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL? with Joshua Fletcher (Virtual)

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What goes on behind the closed door of a therapist’s office, or, more importantly, in their head as they are treating the clients? And How Does That Make You Feel? takes you there. Psychotherapist and host of the self-help podcast Disordered Joshua Fletcher provides a candid, funny, and revealing look inside the mind of a […]

DAYSWORK: A Novel with Jennifer Habel and Chris Bachelder (Virtual)

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Dayswork considers the blurry lines between life and literature, the slippage between what happens and what gets recorded, and the ways we locate ourselves in the lives of others. In the endless days of the pandemic, a woman spends her time sorting fact from fiction in the life and work of Herman Melville. As she […]