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by Jennifer Weiner - Fiction

Three women --- two seeking to earn money by donating their eggs, and one wealthier woman who believes a baby will ensure a happy ending for her marriage --- come together in this unexpected love story, which interweaves themes of class and entitlement, surrogacy and donorship, the rights of a parent and the measure of motherhood.

by David McCullough - History, Nonfiction

THE GREATER JOURNEY is the enthralling and previously untold story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work.

by Joyce Carol Oates - Nonfiction

In this memoir, Joyce Carol Oates sheds light on the unexpected death of her husband of 46 years. She shares the derangement of denial, the anguish of loss, the disorientation of the survivor amid a nightmare of "death-duties," and the solace of friendship.

by Michelle Moran - Fiction, Historical Fiction

The world knows Madame Tussaud as a wax artist extraordinaire...but who was this woman who became one of the most famous sculptresses of all time? In these pages, her tumultuous and amazing story comes to life. The year is 1788, and a revolution is about to begin.

by Benjamin Hale - Fiction

Bruno Littlemore is quite unlike any chimpanzee in the world. Precocious, self-conscious and preternaturally gifted, young Bruno, born and raised in a habitat at the local zoo, falls under the care of a university primatologist named Lydia Littlemore.