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A Few New Titles (& a few others) at NCL
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Understanding the War in Ukraine
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
By Anne Applebaum
Applebaum tells of Soviet-enforced collectivization, famine, the suppression of memory, and how the present is shaped by the past.
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This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
By Peter Pomerantsev
In a journey behind the enemy lines of the multinational information war--by turns analytical, poetic, lurid, and funny--disinformation expert Pomerantsev explores the contours of this new global order.
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Between Two Fires
By Joshua Yaffa
From a leading journalist in Moscow and a correspondent for The New Yorker, a groundbreaking portrait of modern Russia and the inner struggles of the people who sustain Vladimir Putin's rule.
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For a comprehensive reading list on Ukraine and Russia, check out this post by LitHub.
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FICTION
The Recovery Agent: A Gabriella Rose Novel
By Janet Evanovich
Recovery agent Gabriela Rose must come up with a large sum of money in order to keep her family's home from being wiped off the map. Book one in a new series.
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Dream Town
By David Baldacci
Private investigator and World War II veteran Aloysius Archer heads to Los Angeles, the city where dreams are made and shattered, and is ensnared in a lethal case.
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Night Work By Nora Roberts
Bestselling author Nora Roberts introduces an unforgettable thief in a new novel of suspense, greed, love, and survival...
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The Christie Affair
By Nina de Gramont
A beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder--and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century.
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MYSTERY
Give Unto Others By Donna Leon
What role can or should loyalty play in the life of a police inspector? It's a question Commissario Brunetti must face in this thirty-first installment of the Venetian crime series.
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The Maid By Nita Prose
An eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed, turning her once orderly world upside down--and inspiring a motley crew of unexpected allies to band together to solve the mystery.
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The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
By Eva Jurczyk
Liesl Weiss has been (mostly) happy working in the rare books department of a large university. But when her boss has a stroke and she's left to run things, she discovers that their most prized manuscript is missing. And then a librarian goes missing as well.
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NON-FICTION
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
By Jennifer Raff
From genetic anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story--and fascinating mystery--of how humans migrated to the Americas.
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Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us
By Colleen Kinder
An anthology of short, intimate second-person essays by a diverse range of writers, each honoring a fleeting encounter with a stranger met while traveling who left a profound and lasting impact.
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The Forgotten Botanist: Sara Plummer Lemmon's Life of Science and Art By Wynne L. BrownSara Lemmon, a little-known and under-appreciated woman of both science and art, did much of the botanical work attributed to her husband, John Lemmon.
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YOUNG ADULT
The Final Gambit
By Jennifer Lynn Barnes
To inherit billions, Avery has to survive a few more weeks in Hawthorne House. The paparazzi are dogging her. Financial pressures are building. Danger is a fact of life. Then trouble arrives in the form of a visitor who needs her help…
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The Last Cuentista
By Donna Barba Higuera
Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth.
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I Must Betray You
By Ruta Sepetys
In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to outwit his handler, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose what is happening in his country.
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CHILDREN
Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem
By Amanda Gorman
Illustrated by Loren Long
As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the power to make changes -- big or small -- in the world, in their communities, and in most importantly, in themselves.
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Pug’s Got Talent
By Kyla May
Bella, Baron von Bubbles's human, is putting on a pet talent show for the summer block party, and Bub would really like to show off his skateboarding stunts, but when the dress rehearsal goes wrong he must rely on his archenemy, Duchess the cat, to make sure the talent show is a success.
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Little Seed
By Benson Shum
Little Seed has a very big wish: figure out how to hug the whole world.
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