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Isabel Allende’s latest novel spans from Poland in the 1930s to present-day San Francisco. This sweeping love story explores questions of identity, abandonment, redemption, and the unknowable impact of fate on our lives.

The hilarious behind-the-scenes story of two guys who went out for coffee and dreamed up a TV show about nothing. SEINFELDIA captures the magic and hard work that went into "Seinfeld," which became a cultural sensation, changed television, and altered the lives of everyone it touched.

A travel writer assigned to review a luxury cruise vacation witnesses a terrifying murder. But all the passengers remain accounted for—and as the ship sails on, she must attempt to convince the other passengers that something has gone terribly, terribly wrong.

Shonda Rhimes delivered some tough love in her Dartmouth commencement address saying, “dreamers often end up living in the basements of relatives.” Rhimes’s book YEAR OF YES offers inspiration for the dreamers who need to take action. Her straight-forward advice for living out your dreams boldly? Say “yes.”

We can’t recall the last time a book of poetry has gotten as much attention as Rupi Kaur’s MILK AND HONEY—but this one deserves all the discussion it’s receiving and more. In a collection of poetry and prose, Kaur beautifully and painfully depicts experiences of violence, abuse, love, loss, heartache, and femininity. This one should be on everyone’s shelves.

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A richly detailed novel from the author of THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, AVENUE OF MYSTERIES leaps across the globe to tell the story of one man who rose from humble beginnings being raised in a garbage dump in Mexico to become an international literary star.

Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic behind-the-scenes-story of Wilbur and Orville Wright, the daring brothers who taught the world how to fly.

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WHO DO YOU LOVE is a warmhearted, intimate modern-day fairy tale about the passage of time, the way people change and change each other, and how the measure of a life is in the people you love.

“I have read very few books in my life that compelled me to laugh so loudly in public that it made the people around me visibly uncomfortable. Allie Brosh’s HYPERBOLE AND A HALF is one of them.”

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You’ve seen Mary-Louise Parker in “Weeds,” “The West Wing,” and countless other films and TV shows. In her memoir, DEAR MR. YOU, she gives readers a closer look at her life through a series of letters written to the men—real and hypothetical—who have informed the person she is today.

Joe is a charming, dangerous antihero whose obsessive quest for the perfect girl takes him to extreme lengths. HIDDEN BODIES is not for the faint of heart—Joe is American Psycho level crazy and self-obsessed—but you’ll be turning pages late into the night.

For fans of “Insecure”

Issa Rae is awkward . . . and black, which is, in the opinion of her peers, a very unfortunate combination. This is made plain in her new TV show “Insecure ” and her New York Times bestseller THE MISADVENTURES OF AWKWARD BLACK GIRL. In this memoir-guide hybrid, Issa humorously illuminates what it’s like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits and black as cool.

When Ann Beattie began publishing short stories in the New Yorker in the mid-seventies, she was instantly celebrated for her original, precise, and prescient voice. In this collection of her stories, Beattie’s writing portrays subtle, wry, and unnerving observations about American families.

EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON is a stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West. Meticulously researched and thrillingly told, this sweeping narrative is a must-read for anyone interested in how the United States came into being.

If you’ve already read and loved All the Light We Cannot See and are hungry for more of Anthony Doerr, his debut story collection does not disappoint. These exquisite stories take readers from the African coast to the pine forests of Montana to the moors of Finland, and explore the vast emotional landscape of the human condition.