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    Demon Copperhead: A Novel By Barbara Kingsolver Cover Image
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    The Cloisters: A Novel By Katy Hays Cover Image
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    We Are the Light: A Novel By Matthew Quick Cover Image
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    Red, White & Royal Blue: Collector's Edition: A Novel By Casey McQuiston Cover Image
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    Foster By Claire Keegan Cover Image
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    The Atlas Paradox (Atlas Series #2) By Olivie Blake Cover Image
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    Mistakes Were Made: A Novel By Meryl Wilsner Cover Image
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    Marigold and Rose: A Fiction By Louise Glück Cover Image
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    It Starts with Us: A Novel (It Ends with Us #2) By Colleen Hoover Cover Image
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    Maybe We'll Make It: A Memoir (American Music Series) By Margo Price Cover Image
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    And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle By Jon Meacham Cover Image
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    Inciting Joy: Essays By Ross Gay Cover Image
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    The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters By J. W. Ocker Cover Image
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    The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson By Jeff Pearlman Cover Image
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    Toil and Trouble: A Women's History of the Occult By Lisa Kröger, Melanie R. Anderson Cover Image
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    Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook By Ina Garten Cover Image
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    The Price of Salt, or Carol By Patricia Highsmith Cover Image
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    In a Holidaze By Christina Lauren Cover Image
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    Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation By Kyo Maclear Cover Image

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    Feathers Together (Feeling Friends) By Caron Levis, Charles Santoso (Illustrator) Cover Image
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    Friends By Daniela Sosa, Daniela Sosa (Illustrator) Cover Image
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    SumoPuppy By David Biedrzycki, David Biedrzycki (Illustrator) Cover Image
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    The Little Toymaker By Cat Min Cover Image
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    The Best Kind of Mooncake By Pearl AuYeung Cover Image
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    The Decomposition of Jack By Kristin O'Donnell Tubb Cover Image
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    The Switch By Roland Smith Cover Image
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    Always, Clementine By Carlie Sorosiak Cover Image
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    Plotting the Stars 1: Moongarden By Michelle A. Barry Cover Image
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    Let's Make History! (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales): Create Your Own Comics By Nathan Hale Cover Image
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    Garlic and the Witch By Bree Paulsen, Bree Paulsen (Illustrator) Cover Image
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    Dynamite Kids Cooking School: Delicious Recipes That Teach All the Skills You Need: A Cookbook By Dana Bowen, Sara Kate Gillingham Cover Image
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    I Was Born for This By Alice Oseman Cover Image
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    Miss Suzy By Miriam Young, Arnold Lobel (Illustrator) Cover Image
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    Matilda By Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator) Cover Image
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    Mama, Do You Love Me? (Mama & Papa, Do You Love Me?) By Barbara M. Joosse, Barbara Lavallee (Illustrator) Cover Image

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  • A Sense of Justice: Judge Gilbert S. Merritt and His Times By Keel Hunt Cover Image
  • These Precious Days: Essays By Ann Patchett Cover Image
  • Trashed! By Martha Freeman Cover Image
  • Ode to a Nobody By Caroline Brooks DuBois Cover Image
  • Spare By The Duke of Sussex Prince Harry Cover Image
  • In the Upper Country: A Novel By Kai Thomas Cover Image
  • Two Wrongs Make a Right (The Wilmot Sisters Series #1) By Chloe Liese Cover Image
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    Demon Copperhead: A Novel By Barbara Kingsolver Cover Image
  • The Creative Act: A Way of Being By Rick Rubin Cover Image
  • Very Good Hats By Emma Straub, Blanca Gomez (Illustrator) Cover Image
  • How to Sell a Haunted House By Grady Hendrix Cover Image
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    Zorrie By Laird Hunt Cover Image
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    Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel By Gabrielle Zevin Cover Image
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    Inaugural Ballers: The True Story of the First US Women's Olympic Basketball Team By Andrew Maraniss Cover Image
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    Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel By Bonnie Garmus Cover Image
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    And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle By Jon Meacham Cover Image
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    Horse: A Novel By Geraldine Brooks Cover Image
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    Small Things Like These By Claire Keegan Cover Image
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    Little Pieces of Hope: Happy-Making Things in a Difficult World By Todd Doughty, Josie Portillo (Illustrator) Cover Image
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    The Woman in the Library: A Novel By Sulari Gentill Cover Image
  • Commonwealth: A Novel By Ann Patchett Cover Image
  • Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir By Dolly Alderton Cover Image
  • The Patron Saint of Liars: A Novel By Ann Patchett Cover Image
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Ann Patchett's Books

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    The Dutch House: A Novel By Ann Patchett Cover Image
  • Escape Goat By Ann Patchett, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illustrator) Cover Image
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    The Dutch House: A Novel By Ann Patchett Cover Image
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    Lambslide By Ann Patchett, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illustrator) Cover Image
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    Nashville: Scenes from the New American South By Ann Patchett, Heidi Ross, Jon Meacham (Foreword by) Cover Image
  • Commonwealth: A Novel By Ann Patchett Cover Image
  • This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage By Ann Patchett Cover Image
  • State of Wonder: A Novel By Ann Patchett Cover Image
  • What now? By Ann Patchett Cover Image
  • Run: A Novel By Ann Patchett Cover Image
  • Truth & Beauty: A Friendship By Ann Patchett Cover Image
  • Bel Canto (Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions) By Ann Patchett Cover Image
  • Magician's Assistant: A Novel By Ann Patchett Cover Image
  • Taft: A Novel By Ann Patchett Cover Image
  • The Patron Saint of Liars: A Novel By Ann Patchett Cover Image

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