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New Books to BPLD June 11, 2019
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Star wars, Alphabet Squadron
by Alexander Freed
A debut entry in a crossover trilogy companion to the simultaneous Tie Fighter series is set after the events of Return of the Jedi and traces the experiences of five unlikely New Republic hero pilots. Movie tie-in. Illustrations
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The oracle
by Clive Cussler
Searching for a cache of cursed scrolls from sixth-century northern Africa, treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo confront rival crime bands that have taken students hostage to steal supply shipments from a charity-funded Nigerian school.
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The summer of Sunshine and Margot
by Susan Mallery
Descended from a long line of women with disastrous luck in love, twin sisters Margot and Sunshine transform their controversial relationships with a client's son and an employer into unexpected sources of happiness. (romance). 250,000 first printing.
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Mrs. Everything : a novel
by Jennifer Weiner
Two sisters struggle to find their place, be true to themselves and adapt to rapid changes happening throughout the latter half of 20th-century America. By the best-selling author of In Her Shoes. 350,000 first printing
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Elderhood : redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life
by Louise Aronson
As revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, denigrated, neglected, and denied. Reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, noted Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients, and draws from history, science, literature, popular culture, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that's neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy--a vision full of joy, wonder, frustration, outrage, and hope about aging, medicine, and humanity itself. Elderhood is for anyone who is, in the author's own words, "an aging, i.e., still-breathing human being."
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Reckoning : the epic battle against sexual abuse and harassment
by Linda R Hirshman
The best-selling author of Sisters in Law chronicles America's ongoing fight against sexual harassment, from the pivotal civil rights battles of the 1970s through the headline events of the #MeToo movement. 40,000 first printing. Tour
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