UNDER THE RADARSEPTEMBER

2020

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AN INCONVENIENT WOMANSTEPHANIE BUELENSAn LAPD contractor for hire who would discretely resolve a messydomestic dispute and a woman who would protect a family from herviolent ex delve into the heart of a years-old crime to prevent anothermurder.

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TRANSCENDENT KINGDOMJYAA GYASIA follow-up to the best-selling Homegoing finds a sixth-year PhD candidategrappling with the childhood faith of the evangelical church in which shewas raised while researching the science behind the suffering that hasdevastated her Ghanaian immigrant family.

THE BRILLIANT LIFE OF EUDORA HONEYSETTANNIE LYONSWanting to organize an assisted death on her own terms, a world-wearyoctogenarian forges an unexpected bond with an exuberant 10-year-oldwho drags her to tea parties, shopping sprees and other social excursions.

DEAR ANNBOBBIE ANN MASONA woman facing a life crisis reflects on her past as a naïve graduate studentwho set aside her educational ambitions at the height of the Summer ofLove to pursue an obsessive relationship. 

TO TELL THE TRUTHGILLY MACMILLANThe disappearance of her fawningly dependent husband catapults a best-selling mystery writer into dark memories about a brother who wentmissing under suspicious circumstances 30 years earlier.

THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARYMATT HAIGBetween life and death there is a library, and within that library, theshelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life youcould have lived, if you had made other choices. 

The chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix’s  Ugly Delicious  getsuncomfortably real in his debut memoir.

I AM THESE TRUTHS: A MEMOIRSUNNY HOSTIN & CHERISSE JONES

The Emmy Award-winning  View  co-host and ABC News senior legalcorrespondent traces her journey from a biracial child in a South Bronxhousing project to a successful and influential Washington, D.C. attorneyand journalist.SOLUTIONS AND OTHER PROBLEMSALLIE BROSHThe creator of the award-winning  Hyperbole and a Half  presents a newcollection of comedic, autobiographical and deceptively illustrated essayson topics ranging from childhood and very bad pets to grief, loneliness andpowerlessness in modern life.CAN'T EVENANNE HELEN PETERSENPetersen argues that the millennial generation is experiencing burnout andlooks at the cultural shifts that caused it, the pressures that sustain it andthe need for drastic change. 

HIS VERY BEST: J IMMY CARTER, A LIFEJONATHAN ALTERAn intimate portrait of the 39th President draws on fresh archival materialto trace Jimmy Carter's improbable rise from a humble peanut farmer andcomplex man of faith to an American president and Nobel Prize-winninghumanitarian.

WHALE DAY: AND OTHER POEMS

A latest collection by the former Poet Laureate of the United States gathersmore than 50 new poems that reflect the writer's signature mix of playfuland serious language. By the author of The Rain in Portugal.

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