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The Man Who Loved China
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
by Simon Winchester
The Man Who Loved China (2/11/2011)
An A-1 Bio. on a great scholar and adventurer.
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    The River Knows Your Name
    by Kelly Mustian
    A haunting Southern novel about memory and love, from the author of The Girls in the Stilt House.
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    The Devil Finds Work
    by James Baldwin
    A book-length essay on racism in American films, by "the best essayist in this country" (The New York Times Book Review).
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    The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris
    by Evie Woods
    From the million-copy bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop.
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    Real Americans
    by Rachel Khong
    From the author of Goodbye, Vitamin, a novel exploring family, identity, and the shaping of destiny.

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    From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel about a family's secret ties to a vanished American Kingdom.

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    One Death at a Time
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    A cranky ex-actress and her Gen Z sobriety sponsor team up to solve a murder that could send her back to prison in this dazzling mystery.

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    The Seven O'Clock Club
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    Four strangers join an experimental treatment to heal broken hearts in Amelia Ireland's heartfelt debut novel.

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    The Fairbanks Four
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    One murder, four guilty convictions, and a community determined to find justice.

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