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    An Unexpected Guest
    • Anne Korkeakivi
    • Little, Brown
    • 277 pp.

    A British diplomat’s wife in modern-day Paris, the main character confronts moral and ethical issues by putting her husband’s career aspirations first, but then realizes she must search for redemption and decency. Ultimately, the novel is a celebration of a life unexpectedly set free.

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    The Social Conquest of Earth
    • Edward O. Wilson
    • Liveright/W.W. Norton
    • 329 pp.

    According to the author we are a Star Wars civilization with Stone Age emotions, our characteristics and instincts much like those of social insects

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    The Lifeboat: A Novel
    • Charlotte Rogan
    • Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown and Company
    • 288 pp.

    A novel focusing on the criminal trial of a shipwreck survivor and her stories of life, death and endurance on an early-1900s lifeboat.

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    A Naked Singularity
    • Sergio De La Pava
    • University of Chicago Press
    • 678 pp.

    This crazy and erratic fat novel focuses on Everything, from the perspective of a precocious young public defender in the NYC court system.

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    Show Time
    • Phil Harvey
    • Lost Coast Press
    • 256 pp.

    In this psychological thriller, set on a Michigan island as winter approaches, the contestants of a survivor-style TV show stage a drama of their own.

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    Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick
    • Paul Dickson
    • Walker & Company
    • 448 pp.

    Behind Bill Veeck’s showmanship, publicity and stunts, the author finds a talented baseball and business mind in this new baseball biography.

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    Kaltenburg
    • Marcel Beyer, translated by Alan Bance
    • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
    • 345 pp.

    Especially for those with knowledge of Nazi scientist Konrad Lorenz and 20th-century German history, this novel is a window into the subtleties and complexities of life in post-World War II Germany.

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    Black April: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-75
    • George J. Veith
    • Encounter Books
    • 620 pp.

    A meticulous, well-researched account of the fall of South Vietnam, this new history offers new details on the fall and the final days of the war.

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