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• The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War With Forbidden Literature

  English, Charlie

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  A tale of Cold War spycraft, smuggling, and secret printing operations, highlighting the work of a handful of extraordinary people who fought for intellectual freedom...a story about the power of the printed word as a means of resistance and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate

  Grunwald, Michael

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  In this rollicking, shocking narrative, Grunwald shows how the world, after decades of ignoring the climate problem at the center of our plates, has pivoted to making it worse, embracing solutions that sound sustainable but could make it even harder…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda

  Holt, Nathalia

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  For lovers of history, nature, and adventure, the stunning true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s sons and their 1929 Himalayan expedition to prove the existence of the beishung, the panda bear, to the western world, from the New York Times bestselling…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Typewriter Beach

  Clayton, Meg Waite

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  Set in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Hollywood, this novel is an unforgettable story of the unlikely friendship between an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and a young actress hoping to be Alfred Hitchcock's new star.

• The Satisfaction Café

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  Wang, Kathy

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  How do we live so that we are satisfied? How can people connect during moments of loneliness? This is the story of Joan Liang, a woman who moves across the world to America and, in trying to answer these questions, builds a wildly original life.

• Party of Liars

  Cox, Kelsey

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  A lavish, Texas-sized Sweet Sixteen turns deadly in this twisty, pulse-pounding new novel ― serving up a fresh take on a classic locked-room whodunnit. Let the festivities begin…

• Norman and the Smell of Adventure

  Higgins, Ryan T.

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  Norman is a porcupine. Norman’s best friend is Mildred. Mildred is a tree. When Norman wakes one morning and wants to try something new, he’s frustrated to learn that Mildred has other plans. Can their friendship survive? This is a sequel to Norman…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Snoop

  Korman, Gordon

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  From Gordon Korman, the bestselling author of Restart, the story of a boy who's stuck at home with two broken legs... and who starts using cameras and a drone to spy on his classmates, neighbors, and a possible criminal who's come to town.

• Coffeeshop in An Alternate Universe

  Lee, C. B.

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  Brenda, an overachieving and stressed high school student, falls for Kat, the daughter of a cafe owner--who happens to be the Chosen One in a universe that is not the same as Brenda's.

• Bear and the Three Goldilocks

  Horne, Patrick

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  This time, it's the Goldilocks family who gets their home away from home (campsite) invaded by a curious youngster. And the gooey, chocolatey s'mores are just right!

• Graciela in the Abyss

  Medina, Meg

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  A sea ghost, a mortal boy, and a dangerous enchanted harpoon . . . A Newbery Medalist takes us far beneath the waves in this extraordinary foray into fantasy.

• After We Burned

  Nijkamp, Marieke

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  After a fire consumes the local high school, killing a student, the town mourns, except who really knew―let alone cared about―Eden when she was alive? And why was she in the building that night? Five teens each hold a piece of the truth about what…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution

  Beer, Molly

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  A women-centric view of revolution through the life of Angelica Schuyler Church, Alexander Hamilton’s influential sister-in-law.

• The Red Queen

  Grimes, Martha

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  One calm night in Twickenham, a businessman named Tom Treadnor is shot off his barstool at The Queen pub. Superintendent Richard Jury is called in to investigate and quickly realizes that everyone in Treadnor’s life--from his widow, Alice, to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Vanished

  Jeremiah, David

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  As leader of a special military unit charged with stopping potential pandemics before they spread, John "Haggs" Haggerty has a front-row seat to the sharp increase in natural disasters that precede the Rapture--including plagues, earthquakes,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Clint: The Man and the Movies

  Levy, Shawn

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  From the acclaimed film critic and New York Times bestselling biographer of Paul Newman, the definitive biography of Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood, the most prolific and versatile actor-director in the history of the medium and an imposing icon of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Edge of Honor: A Thriller

  Thor, Brad

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  After six months abroad, America’s top spy returns to a new administration, a new set of global priorities, and a power struggle—the likes of which the United States has never experienced. A cabal of shadowy elites is maneuvering for control, and,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Road That Made America: A Modern Pilgrim's Journey on the Great Wagon Road

  Dodson, James

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  A lively, epic account of one of the greatest untold stories in our nation’s history—the eight-hundred-mile long Great Wagon Road that 18th-century American settlers forged from Philadelphia to Georgia that expanded the country dramatically in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Grave Birds (Original)

  Elmendorf, Dana

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  A twisty, fresh take on a Southern Gothic that follows a mysterious, charming bachelor as he makes his way into a small town, bringing a plague and the devil with him.

• Archive of Unknown Universes

  Reyes Jr, Ruben

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  From the critically acclaimed author of There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven, a piercing debut novel following two families in alternative timelines of the Salvadoran civil war—a stunning exploration of the mechanisms of fate, the gravity of the past,…Read moreRead more of this annotation