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Popular Fiction

Where the crawdads sing
The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo : a novel
Ugly love : a novel
Verity
November 9
It ends with us
All your perfects : a novel
The silent patient
Fairy tale : a novel
Dreamland : a novel
MAYBE NOW
Maybe someday : a novel
Mad honey : a novel
Our missing hearts : a novel
Things we never got over
Long shadows
IT STARTS WITH US
The boys from Biloxi
Demon Copperhead : a novel
No plan B
The passenger
Going rogue : rise and shine twenty-nine
Triple Cross
Confess : a novel
Desert star
Lessons in chemistry
The lost metal
A LIGHT IN THE FLAME
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
The perfect assassin

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The body keeps the score : brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma
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Atomic habits : tiny changes, remarkable results : an easy & proven way to build good habits & break bad ones
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Dare to lead : brave work, tough conversations, whole hearts
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BRAIDING SWEETGRASS : INDIGENOUS WISDOM, SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE, AND THE TEACHINGS OF PLANTS
Extreme ownership : how U.S. Navy SEALs lead and win
The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse
All about love : new visions
Talking to strangers : what we should know about the people we don't know
Thinking, fast and slow
I'm glad my mom died
The greatest beer run ever : a memoir of friendship, loyalty, and war
A carnival of snackery : diaries (2003-2020)
Like a rolling stone : a memoir
Beyond the wand : the magic and mayhem of growing up a wizard
And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
The song of the cell : an exploration of medicine and the new human
The revolutionary : Samuel Adams
From scratch : a memoir of love, Sicily, and finding home
The president and the freedom fighter : Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and their battle to save America's soul
Go-to dinners : make ahead, freeze ahead, prep ahead, easy, assembled
The book of boundaries : set the limits that will set you free
If you want something done : leadership lessons from bold women
Chip war : the fight for the world's most critical technology
Friends, lovers, and the big terrible thing : a memoir
Surrender : 40 songs, one story
The philosophy of modern song
Cinema speculation
Sapiens : a brief history of humankind
All about me! : my remarkable life in show business
These precious days : essays
When McKinsey comes to town : the hidden influence of the world's most powerful consulting firm
Adrift : America in 100 charts
Radio's greatest of all time
The stories we tell
What's for dessert : simple recipes for dessert people
The light we carry : overcoming in uncertain times
So help me God
A book of days
The Queen : her life
Have I told you this already? : stories I don't want to forget to remember
Becoming
Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
Fuzz : [when nature breaks the law]
Smitten kitchen keepers : new classics for your forever files
The subtle art of not giving a fuck : a counterintuitive approach to living a good life
Half baked harvest : recipes for balanced, flexible, feel-good meals
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