A Republic of Scoundrels: The Schemers, Intriguers, and Adventurers Who Created a New American Nation
by
David Head
Pegasus Books, 12/05/2023
We now have a clear-eyed understanding of Founding Fathers such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton; ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
by
Shahnaz Habib
Catapult, 12/05/2023
The conditions of travel have long been dictated by the color of passports and the color of skin.
The color of one's skin and passport have long ...
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All the Little Bird-Hearts: A Novel
by
Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
Algonquin Books, 12/05/2023
I lived for and loved a bird-heart that summer; I only knew it afterwards.
Sunday Forrester lives with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Dolly, in the...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
by
Judith Tick
W.W. Norton & Company, 12/05/2023
Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) possessed one of the twentieth century's most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald's ...
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Dazzling
by
Chikodili Emelumadu
The Overlook Press, 12/05/2023
Treasure and her mother lost everything when Treasure's father died. Haggling for scraps in the market, Treasure meets a man who promises to change ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Literary Fiction
Debut Author
Five Bad Deeds: A Novel
by
Caz Frear
Harper, 12/05/2023
Ellen Walsh has done something very, very bad. If only she knew what it was...
Teacher, mother, wife, and all-around good citizen Ellen is juggling...
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Flores and Miss Paula: A Novel
by
Melissa Rivero
Ecco, 12/05/2023
Thirtysomething Flores and her mother, Paula, still live in the same Brooklyn apartment, but that may be the only thing they have in common. It's been...
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Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground
by
Dylan Jones
Grand Central Publishing, 12/05/2023
Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen—whether it be the 1960s or the 2020s—the Velvet ...
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Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
by
Anthony Grafton
Belknap Press, 12/05/2023
In literary legend, Faustus is the quintessential occult personality of early modern Europe. The historical Faustus, however, was something quite ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
Never Lie
by
Freida McFadden
Poisoned Pen Press, 12/05/2023
Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. They think they've found it when they visit the remote manor that once ...
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Thrillers
Orbital
by
Samantha Harvey
Atlantic Monthly Press, 12/05/2023
Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, ...
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Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
by
Anthony Veasna So
Ecco, 12/05/2023
The late Anthony Veasna So's debut story collection,
Afterparties, was a landmark publication, hailed as a "bittersweet triumph for a fresh voice ...
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Sunset, Water City: The Water City Trilogy
by
Chris McKinney
Soho Press, 12/05/2023
Year 2160: It's been ten years since the cataclysmic events of
Eventide, Water City, where 99.97 percent of the human population was possessed or ...
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Critics' Consensus:
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
The Archive of Feelings: A Novel
by
Peter Stamm
Other Press, 12/05/2023
Forty years ago—almost a lifetime—he confessed his love to a classmate and close friend, Franziska. Now, living in his late mother's house...
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The Other Mothers
by
Katherine Faulkner
Gallery Books, 12/05/2023
When a young nanny is found dead in mysterious circumstances, new mom, Tash, is intrigued. She has been searching for a story to launch her career as ...
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This Cursed Light: The Last Finestra #2
by
Emily Thiede
Wednesday Books, 12/05/2023
When the gods make the rules, the players must choose: Sacrifice their love to save the world, or choose love and let it burn?
Six months after ...
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
by
Robyn Davidson
Bloomsbury Publishing, 12/05/2023
In 1977, while she was in her twenties, Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four camels to cross 1,700 miles of Australian desert to the sea.
A ...
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Welcome Home, Stranger: A Novel
by
Kate Christensen
Harper, 12/05/2023
Can you ever truly go home again?
An environmental journalist in Washington, DC, Rachel has shunned her New England working-class family for years....
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Sisters of the Sky: A Novel of World War II
by
Lana Kortchik
HQ Digital, 12/07/2023
October 1941: As war rages in the Soviet Union, Nina is devastated as she watches her younger brother being sent off to the front. She has witnessed ...
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History, Current Affairs and Religion
The Lace Widow: An Eliza Hamilton Mystery
by
Mollie Ann Cox
Crooked Lane Books, 12/12/2023
New York, 1804. America's beloved Alexander Hamilton lies dead after a duel with Aaron Burr. Meanwhile, Eliza Hamilton's eighteen-year-old son, ...
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The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943
by
James Holland
Atlantic Monthly Press, 12/12/2023
Following victory in Sicily, while the central command planned the spring 1944 invasion of France, Allied troops crossed into southern Italy in ...
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Critics' Consensus:
History, Current Affairs and Religion
Where There's Smoke
by
E. B. Vickers
Knopf Books for Young Readers, 12/12/2023
Life has never been easy in the small desert town of Harmony, but even on the day Calli Christopher buries her father, she knows she is surrounded by ...
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