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Trevor Paglen
Trevor Paglen is a geographer by training, and an expert on clandestine military installations. He leads expeditions to the secret bases of the American West and is the author, with A.C. Thompson, of ...

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I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me

Jennifer Pahlka
Jennifer Pahlka is the former deputy chief technology officer of the United States and the founder of Code for America, a nonprofit that believes government can work for people in the digital age. ...

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Recoding America

Edward Paice
Edward Paice was a History Scholar at Cambridge and winner of the Leman prize. After a decade working in London, he spent four years living and writing in East Africa. Paice is a Fellow of the Royal ...

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World War I

Lynn Painter
Lynn Painter writes romantic comedies for both teens and adults. She is the author of Better Than the Movies, Mr. Wrong Number, The Do-Over, Betting on You, and Nothing Like ...

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Nothing Like the Movies

Nell Irvin Painter
Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, Princeton University, is the author of books of history including the New York Times bestseller The History of White People; ...

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I Just Keep Talking

Derek Palacio
Derek Palacio received his MFA in Creative Writing from the Ohio State University. His short story "Sugarcane" appeared in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013, and his novella How to Shake the Other Man ...

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The Mortifications

R.J. Palacio
R. J. Palacio lives in NYC with her husband, two sons, and two dogs. For more than twenty years, she was an art director and graphic designer, designing book jackets for other people while waiting for...

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Wonder

Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk's novels include the bestselling Fight Club, which was made into a film by director David Fincher, Survivor, , Invisible Monsters, Choke, Lullaby, Fugitives and Refugees, Diary, ...

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Choke

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The Ghostwriter
by Julie Clark

From the instant New York Times bestselling author of The Last Flight and The Lies I Tell comes a dazzling new thriller.

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The Lamplighter's Bookshop
by Sophie Austin

The Lost Bookshop meets The Lost Apothecary in a beguiling novel full of secrets…

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Before Dorothy
by Hazel Gaynor

Before Oz, Aunt Em leaves Chicago for Kansas in a powerful tale of courage, change, and new beginnings by Hazel Gaynor.

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Making Friends Can Be Murder
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A riveting story of class, ambition, and bisexuality—one woman risks everything for a second chance at first love.

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