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by Carrie Fisher - Nonfiction

SHOCKAHOLIC is the juicy account of the life of Carrie Fisher, daughter of actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher. Focusing on the Star Wars years and dishing about the various Hollywood relationships she’s formed since she was chosen to play Princess Leia at only 19 years old, this memoir recounts Fisher’s emotional and psychological journey through fame.

by Gregory Maguire - Fantasy, Fiction

OUT OF OZ reimagines L. Frank Baum’s world over the rainbow as wracked with social unrest --- placing Glinda the good witch under house arrest and having the cowardly Lion on the lam from the law as the Emerald City prepares to make war on Munchkinland.

by James Kaplan - Biography, Nonfiction

Despite his mammoth fame, Frank Sinatra the man has remained an enigma. Now James Kaplan brings deeper insight than ever before to the complex psyche and turbulent life behind that incomparable voice, from Sinatra’s humble beginning in Hoboken to his fall from grace and Oscar-winning return in From Here to Eternity. Here at last is the biographer who makes the reader feel what it was really like to be Frank Sinatra --- as man, as musician, as tortured genius.

by Katharine Weber - Nonfiction

THE MEMORY OF ALL THAT is an enthralling look at a tremendously influential --- and highly eccentric --- family, as well as a consideration of how their stories have both provoked and influenced one of our most prodigiously gifted writers.

by Madeleine Wickham - Fiction

At their country estate, Patrick Chance and his wife host a weekend tennis party. As four couples gather on the sunny terrace, it seems obvious who is succeeding and who is falling behind. But by the end of the party, nothing will be quite as certain. While the couples’ children amuse themselves, the adults suffer a series of personal revelations and crises. Reviewed by Jana Siciliano.

by Francine Pascal - Fiction

Iconic and beloved identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield are back and all grown up, dealing with the complicated adult world of love, careers, betrayal and sisterhood.

by Robb Forman Dew - Fiction

After teaching and raising her family in post-World War II America for most of her life, Agnes Scofield is tired of the routine. But how, at 51, can she establish an identity apart from what has so long defined her? 

by Amy Waldman - Fiction

A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack, and discovers the anonymous winner is an American Muslim.

by Patricia Bosworth - Biography, Nonfiction

Patricia Bosworth brings readers into Jane Fonda's life: her family drama, her film career, her activism during the Vietnam War, the exercise videos that began a fitness craze, and much more.

by Diana Abu-Jaber - Fiction

A girl who ran away from home five years previously must reckon with the guilty secret that drove her away, and must face her fear of losing her family and her sense of self forever.