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Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs

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Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs (Hardcover)

By Keena Roberts
$22.40
ISBN: 9781538745151
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - November 12th, 2019

 

Keena Roberts split her childhood between a private school in Philadelphia and "Baboon Camp," a remote island in Botswana where her primatologist parents worked several months out of the year. Her resulting memoir, a story of a fish-out-of-water girl most comfortable with animals, is funny, touching, and deeply compelling.

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The Mythic Dream

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The Mythic Dream (Paperback)

By Dominik Parisien (Editor), Navah Wolfe (Editor), John Chu, Leah Cypess, Indrapramit Das, Amal El-Mohtar, Jeffrey Ford, Sarah Gailey, Carlos Hernandez, Kat Howard, Stephen Graham Jones, T. Kingfisher, Ann Leckie, Carmen Maria Machado, Arkady Martine, Seanan McGuire, Naomi Novik, Rebecca Roanhorse, Alyssa Wong, J.Y. Yang
$16.99
ISBN: 9781481462389
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Published: Gallery / Saga Press - September 3rd, 2019

If you read science fiction and fantasy, you should pick up this book. Every anthology Parisien & Wolfe edit is excellent, and The Mythic Dream is no exception.

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Two Girls Down

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Two Girls Down (Paperback)

By Louisa Luna
$16.00
ISBN: 9780525433750
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Published: Anchor - January 8th, 2019

 

When two young sisters disappear from a strip mall parking lot, their mother hires a bounty hunter to help find them. Shut out by an overworked police department, Alex Vega enlists a disgraced former detective to help her. Perfect for mystery fans looking for a new gritty antihero to root for.

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The Downstairs Girl

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The Downstairs Girl (Hardcover)

By Stacey Lee
$17.99
ISBN: 9781524740955
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers - August 13th, 2019

 

Atlanta, 1890. By day, Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid. By night, she writes a newspaper advice column under the name Miss Sweetie. But when her column challenges fixed ideas about race and gender, she isn't prepared for the backlash. Rich with historical detail and a compelling heroine. Stacey Lee is one of the best YA historical fiction authors writing today!

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Bachelor Nation

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Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure (Paperback)

By Amy Kaufman
$16.00
ISBN: 9781101985915
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Published: Dutton - February 5th, 2019

 

Why are so many people obsessed with this show? Amy Kaufman dives headfirst into the extensive production behind the The Bachelor, revealing all the secrets that create the reality TV fantasy. If you're a fan (or just a hate-watcher), you should pick up this book.

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