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Author: Sue Miller Genre: Literary Fiction Publisher: Sue Miller Publication Date: September 8, 2020 Book Description: A brilliantly insightful novel, engrossing and haunting, about marriage, love, family, happiness and sorrow, from New York Times bestselling author Sue Miller. Graham and Annie have been married for nearly thirty years. A golden couple, their seemingly effortless devotion…

Author: Marilynne Robinson Genre: General Fiction Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication Date: September, 29, 2020 Book Description: Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the latest novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction Marilynne Robinson’s mythical world…

Author: Brittany K. Barnett Genre: Memoir Publisher: Crown Publishing Publication Date: September 8, 2020 Book Description: Brittany K. Barnett was only a law student when she came across the case that would change her life forever—that of Sharanda Jones, single mother, business owner, and, like Brittany, Black daughter of the rural South. A victim of…

Author: Jean-Claude Grumberg Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: HarperVia Publication Date: September 29, 2020 Book Description: Set during the height of World War II, a powerful and unsettling tale about a woodcutter and his wife, who finds a mysterious parcel thrown from a passing train. Once upon a time in an enormous forest lived a woodcutter…

Author: Anne Helen Petersen Genre: Multicultural Interest Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication Date: September 22, 2020 Book Description: An incendiary examination of burnout in millennials—the cultural shifts that got us here, the pressures that sustain it, and the need for drastic change Do you feel like your life is an endless to-do list? Do you…

Author: Catherine Gildiner Genre: Memoir Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Publication Date: September, 22, 2020 Book Description: In this fascinating narrative, therapist Catherine Gildiner’s presents five of what she calls her most heroic and memorable patients. Among them: a successful, first generation Chinese immigrant musician suffering sexual dysfunction; a young woman whose father abandoned her at…

Author: Shannon Burke Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Pantheon Books Publication Date: August 4, 2020 Book Description: “In our family, there was none of this crap about everyone being a winner,” says Willie, the narrator, who looks back on his teen years–and his nearly mortal combat with his domineering older brother, Coyle. In the Brennan house…

Author: Charlie Lovett Genre: Literary Fiction/Historical Fiction Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Publication Date: September 22, 2020 Book Description: In 1906 New York City, a trio of young people come together to write a series of children’s books that echo down the generations in unexpected ways. Robert Parrish’s childhood obsession with series books like the Hardy Boys…

Author: David Chang Genre: Memoir Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers Publication Date: September 8, 2020 Book Description: In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened in a tiny, stark space in Manhattan’s East Village. Its young chef-owner, David Chang, worked the line, serving ramen and pork buns to a mix of fellow restaurant cooks and confused diners whose…

Author: Michael Ian Black Genre: Non-Fiction/Parenting & Families Publisher: Algonquin Publication Date: September 15, 2020 Book Description: In this thoughtful, inspiring, and deeply personal book, comedian, actor, and father Michael Ian Black gets (mostly) serious about the trouble with masculinity. In the form of a heartfelt letter to his college-bound son—but with ideas sure to…