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New Books to BPLD March 19, 2024
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The princess of Las Vegas : a novel
by Chris Bohjalian
Living in the Buckingham Palace Casino, Crissy Dowling, a Princess Diana impersonator with her own musical cabaret, finds her carefully constructed kingdom crashing down around her when the owner of the casino is brutally murdered and she is drawn in a world of organized crime, cryptocurrency and obsession.
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Finding Margaret Fuller : a novel
by Allison Pataki
Describes how Margaret Fuller became the beating heart of the Transcendentalists, becoming a role model to Louisa May Alcott, an inspiration to Nathaniel Hawthorne and a muse to Henry David Thoreau as he headed into the woods.
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Everyone who can forgive me is dead : a novel
by Jenny Hollander
After fleeing as the lone surviving witness to horrific, gruesome events at her graduate school, Charlie Colbert disappeared and rebuilt her life only discover that the events of that night are being adapted into a film. 200,000 first printing.
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Help wanted : a novel
by Adelle Waldman
A group of misfit, big-box store employees working the overnight shift in a small upstate New York town vie for the stability, salary and possibility of a new job when their store manager announces he is leaving.
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Who's afraid of gender?
by Judith Butler
From a global icon comes a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the world. Index.
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Here After
by Amy Lin
This memoir from the debut Canadian author traces the dizzying loss she faced after the sudden death of her 32-year-old husband who had led her to greater joy, adventure, and self-acceptance. 50,000 first printing.
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The manicurist's daughter : a memoir
by Susan Lieu
The author faces her family's harrowing story: Vietnamese refugees who open two nail salons, well on their way to the American Dream, only to lose their inimitable matriarch after a routine plastic surgery operation goes horribly awry.
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