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Books in the National Media January 2020 Books People are Talking About!
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Followers by Megan AngeloDecades after an ambitious writer and her A-list wannabe roommate abandon their ethics for social-media stardom, a government-appointed celebrity discovers a shattering secret from her past that her corporate sponsors would gladly exploit. A first novel. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, January issue
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Run me to earth : a novel by Paul YoonThree children orphaned in 1960s Laos meet a dedicated doctor who enlists them as motorcycle couriers in his effort to rescue civilians and find medical supplies in a novel from the award-winning author of Snow Hunters. Featured in The Washington Post, January 28
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Creatures by Crissy Van MeterA bride explores the complexities of love, abandonment and forgiveness when her California wedding is upended by a trapped whale carcass, the groom’s disappearance at sea and the unexpected return of her long-absent mother. Featured in NPR Book Reviews, January 9
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Dear Edward : a novel by Ann NapolitanoA 12-year-old lone survivor of a plane crash investigates the stories of his less-fortunate fellow passengers before making a profound discovery about his life purpose in the face of transcendent losses. By the author of A Good Hard Look. Featured on Today Show, January 30
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Creatures by Crissy Van MeterA bride explores the complexities of love, abandonment and forgiveness when her California wedding is upended by a trapped whale carcass, the groom’s disappearance at sea and the unexpected return of her long-absent mother. Featured in NPR Book Reviews, January 9
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Cesare : A Novel of War-torn Berlin by Jerome CharynAdopted by the German military intelligence chief whose life he saved, a young naval sub-cadet secretly helps the Jewish underground in Berlin before the woman he loves is captured and sent to Auschwitz. By the author of A Loaded Gun. Featured in The Washington Post, January 2
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How quickly she disappears by Raymond FleischmannA woman whose twin disappeared 30 years earlier is approached in her small Alaskan town by a dangerous man claiming to know what happened to her sister, but requesting from her three specific gifts in exchange for the information. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, January issue
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Oligarchy by Scarlett ThomasArriving at her English boarding school, the daughter of a Russian oligarch is enmeshed in her classmates’ thin-obsessed world of pecking orders, eating disorders and online drama, before a friend goes missing amid rumors of a dormitory ghost. Featured on NPR Book Review, January 11
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A small town : a novel by Thomas PerryTwo years after a prison break unleashes hundreds of violent convicts on a local community, a police officer goes undercover to track down and eliminate 12 dangerous conspirators. By the Edgar Award-winning author of The Butcher’s Boy. Featured in The Wall Street Journal, January 3
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Mr. Nobody : a novel by Catherine SteadmanTreating a man found on the beach with no memory of his identity, a neuropsychologist who would hide her own past is confronted by her patient’s mysterious knowledge of her secrets. By the author of Something in the Water. Featured in The Washington Post, January 2
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The Heap by Sean AdamsChronicles the rise and fall of a massive high-rise housing complex, and the lives it affected before—and after—its demise. A first novel. Featured on NPR Books, January 7
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The God Game by Danny TobeyFive ambitious high school students find their lives at risk when a video game that thinks it’s God won’t let them quit. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, January issue
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Little gods : a novel by Meng JinA new novel explores the complex web of grief, memory, time, physics, history and selfhood in the immigrant experience, and the complicated bond between daughters and mothers. A first novel. Featured in The Washington Post, January 17
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Cleanness by Garth GreenwellIn a follow-up to What Belongs to You, set in Sofia, Bulgaria—a landlocked city in Southern Europe—an American teacher grapples with the intimate encounters that have marked his years abroad as he prepares to leave the place he’s come to call home. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, January issue
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Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibañez"Ximena is the decoy Condesa, a stand-in for the last remaining Illustrian royal. Her people lost everything when the usurper, Atoc, used an ancient relic to summon ghosts and drive the Illustrians from La Ciudad. Now Ximena's motivated by her insatiable thirst for revenge, and her rare ability to spin thread from moonlight. When Atoc demands the real Condesa's hand in marriage, it's Ximena's duty to go in her stead. She relishes the chance, as Illustrian spies have reported that Atoc's no longer carrying his deadly relic. If Ximena can find it, she can return the true aristâocrata to their rightful place". Featured on NPR Book Review, January 8
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Topics of Conversation by Miranda PopkeyComprised almost exclusively of conversations between women, a collection of stories explores themes ranging from sex and violence to shame and self-sabotage as they impact two decades of life for a recklessly thrill-seeking unnamed narrator. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, January issue, NPR Book Review, January 7
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A long petal of the sea : a novel by Isabel AllendeSponsored by the poet Pablo Neruda to flee the violence of the Spanish Civil War, a pregnant widow and an army doctor unite in an arranged marriage only to be swept up by the early days of World War II. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, January issue, NPR Book Review, January 27
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Follow Me to Ground by Sue RainsfordHelping her father dispense otherworldly folk remedies to heal the sick in their village, Ada pursues a forbidden affair that transforms her lover and the dangerous source of her powers. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, January issue
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Remembrance by Rita WoodsLooks at present-day Ohio, 1791 Haiti, and 1857 New Orleans, in which house girl Margot is sold just before her 18th birthday and her promised freedom, and, desperate, she escapes and tries to find Remembrance, a rumored stop on the Underground Railroad. Featured on NPR Book Reviews, January 25
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Such a fun age : a novel by Kiley ReidSeeking justice for a young black babysitter who was wrongly accused of kidnapping by a racist security guard, a successful blogger finds her efforts complicated by a video that reveals unexpected connections. A first novel. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, January issue
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Mr. Nobody : a novel by Catherine SteadmanTreating a man found on the beach with no memory of his identity, a neuropsychologist who would hide her own past is confronted by her patient’s mysterious knowledge of her secrets. By the author of Something in the Water. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, January issue
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The truants by Kate WeinbergJess Walker has come to a concrete campus under the flat grey skies of East Anglia for one reason: To be taught by the mesmerizing and rebellious Dr Lorna Clay, whose seminars soon transform Jess’ thinking on life, love and Agatha Christie. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, January issue
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Processed cheese by Stephen WrightWhen a bag of cash literally falls out of the sky and into the path of Graveyard, who is desperate for money, he and his wife embark on the adventure of their lives while the owner of the bag will do whatever it takes to get it back. Featured on NPR Book Reviews, January 26
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The Majesties by Tiffany TsaoA sole survivor of a Chinese-Indonesian family struggles on the edge of a coma to regain consciousness while reexamining tragic elements in her family that may have driven a beloved sister to a shocking act of violence. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, January issue, NPR Book Reviews, January 20
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Riot baby by Tochi OnyebuchiThe author of the award-winning young-adult novel Beasts Made of Night tackles youth, race and the carceral state with magical flair, in his adult-science-fiction debut. Featured in NPR Book Reviews, January 26
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The better liar : a novel by Tanen JonesDesperate to safeguard a much-needed inheritance that is dependent on the legacy of a long-estranged runaway sibling, Leslie orchestrates a reckless bargain with an imposter who hides her own dangerous secrets. A first novel. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, January issue
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Trust exercise : a novel by Susan ChoiFalling in love while attending a competitive 1980s performing arts high school, David and Sarah rise through the ranks before the realities of their family dynamics and economic statuses trigger a spiral that impacts their adult lives. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, January issue
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American dirt : a novel by Jeanine CumminsSelling two favorite books to an unexpectedly erudite drug-cartel boss, a bookstore manager is forced to flee Mexico in the wake of her journalist husband’s tell-all profile and finds her family among thousands of migrants seeking hope in America. Featured on NPR's Books News & Features, January 24, NPR's Fresh Air, January 14
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Normal people : a novel by Sally RooneyThe unconventional secret childhood bond between a popular boy and a lonely, intensely private girl is tested by character reversals in their first year at a Dublin college that render one introspective and the other social, but self-destructive. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, January issue
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Featured in The Washington Post, January 16
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Cleanness by Garth GreenwellIn a follow-up to What Belongs to You, set in Sofia, Bulgaria—a landlocked city in Southern Europe—an American teacher grapples with the intimate encounters that have marked his years abroad as he prepares to leave the place he’s come to call home. Featured in NPR Book Reviews, January 19
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The missing American by Kwei QuarteyTurning private detective when her ambition to be a police officer is dashed, Emma Djan teams up with a first client to search for a man whose disappearance is linked to the email scams and fetish priests of Ghana. Featured in The Washington Post, January 24
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Long bright river by Liz MooreA policewoman races to find her missing sister, a homeless addict, amid a vicious killing spree in a Philadelphia neighborhood, in a story that alternates between the investigation and memories of their shared childhood. By the award-winning author of Heft. Featured in Entertainment Weekly, January issue
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Eat This, Not That : The Best & Worst Foods in America! by David ZinczenkoIndulge smarter with the no-diet weight loss solution. The bestselling phenomenon that shows you how to eat healthier with simple food swaps--whether you're dining in or out--is now expanded and completely updated. Featured on Today Show, January 3
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Living in Color : What's Funny About Me by Tommy DavidsonThe popular performer and standup comedian describes his life growing up black in a loving white family and the racial barriers he helped to break down on In Living Color alongside Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx and the Wayans brothers. Featured on The View, January 30
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Tightrope : Americans reaching for hope by Nicholas D. KristofThe Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the best-selling Half the Sky draw on the true experiences of working-class Americans to outline possible solutions to governmental failures behind rising unemployment, poverty and opioid addiction. Illustrations. Featured on NPR Book Reviews, January 14
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Uncanny valley : a memoir by Anna WienerThe author chronicles her experience at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination, glory and, of course, progress. Featured on NPR's Weekend Edition, January 11
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Featured on Today Show, January 7
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Featured on NPR's All Things Considered, January 12
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Featured on NPR's Fresh Air, January 8
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Featured on Live with Kelly and Ryan, January 6
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Featured on NPR Book Reviews, January 21
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Year of the monkey by Patti SmithFrom the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train comes a memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year. Illustrations. Featured on Tonight Show, January 9
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Featured on NPR Book Reviews, January 13
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Blowout : Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow"Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by spreading Russia's rot into its rivals, its neighbors, the United States, and the West's most important alliances. Chevron, BP, and a host of other industry players get their star turn, but ExxonMobil and the deceptively well-behaved Rex Tillerson emerge as two of the past century's most consequential corporatevillains. The oil-and-gas industry has weakened democracies in developed and developing countries, fouled oceans and rivers, and propped up authoritarian thieves and killers. But being outraged at it is, according to Maddow, "like being indignant when a lion takes down and eats a gazelle. You can't really blame the lion. It's in her nature."" Featured on Late Night, January 7
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Long way home by Cameron DouglasThe son of Michael Douglas, grandson of Kirk Douglas offers a moving, often shocking, ultimately inspiring memoir detailing his struggle to regain his dignity, humanity and place in society after many years of drug abuse and almost eight years in prison. Featured on The View, January 3
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The likability trap : how to break free and own your worth by Alicia MenendezAn award-winning multimedia journalist, examining the pressure put on women to be amiable at work, home and in the public sphere, empowers readers to reject an outdated image of leadership instead of reinventing themselves. Featured on Today Show, January 14, The View, January 16
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Featured on CBS This Morning, January 8, NPR Weekend Edition, January 4
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Featured on NPR Book Review, January 13
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Featured on Today Show, January 13
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A very stable genius : Donald J. Trump's testing of America by Philip RuckerA Washington Post national investigative reporter and the White House bureau chief share personal revelatory insights into Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, its consequences and the underlying patterns beneath a deceptively chaotic Trump administration. Featured NPR's Politics, January 17, NPR Book Reviews, January 15
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Why we can't sleep : women's new midlife crisis by Ada CalhounThe award-winning author of Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give presents a generation-defining exploration of the impossible standards being imposed on middle-aged Generation X women and what the author recommends to avoid burnout. Featured on NPR's Author Interviews, January 7, Today Show, January 15
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Tiny habits : + the small changes that change everything by B. J FoggAn expert of habit formation and behavior science describes how to harness the power of transformation, whether it be to lose weight, exercise more or de-stress, through making tiny changes that we can feel good about. Featured on Today Show, January 3
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Life Coaching for Successful Women : Powerful Questions, Practical Answers by Valorie BurtonBestselling author Valorie Burton is your coach and guide for real transformation in five key areas of your life--professional, financial, relational, physical, and spiritual. By asking straightforward questions with specific, doable action steps, you can move confidently toward the authentic life you were created to live. Featured on Today Show, January 17
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