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The Only Good Indians
Featured on 8 lists including:
Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020
The Washington Post's Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Books of 2020
NPR's Best Books of 2020
A tale of revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition in this latest novel from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones.
You Matter
Illustrated by Christian Robinson
Featured on 6 lists including:
The New York Times' The 25 Best Children's Books of 2020
New York Public Library's Top 10 Best Books of 2020 for Kids
NPR's Best Books of 2020
They All Saw a Cat meets The Important Book in this sensitive and impactful picture book about seeing the world from different points of view by Caldecott and Coretta Scott King Honoree Christian Robinson.
Anxious People
A Novel
Featured on 5 lists including:
The Washington Post's Best Feel-Good Books of the Year
Google Play's Best Audiobooks of 2020
NPR's Best Books of 2020
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove comes a charming, poignant novel about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined.
The End of Everything
(Astrophysically Speaking)
By Katie Mack
Featured on 5 lists including:
The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2020
The Washington Post's The Most 2020 Books of 2020
Barnes & Noble's Best Books of the Year
From one of the most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics, an accessible and eye-opening look at five ways the universe could end, and the mind-blowing lessons each scenario reveals about the most important concepts in cosmology.
Legendborn
By Tracy Deonn
Featured on 5 lists including:
Den of Geek's Best Non-Western and POC Fantasy Books in 2020
New York Public Library's Top 10 Best Books of 2020 for Teens
Powell's Books' Best of Kids' and YA 2020
Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn’s YA contemporary fantasy Legendborn offers the dark allure of City of Bones with a modern-day twist on a classic legend and a lot of Southern Black Girl Magic.
Black Sun
Featured on 5 lists including:
New York Public Library's Best Books of 2020
NPR's Best Books of 2020
Powell's Books' Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, and Graphic Novels of 2020
From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Resistance Reborn comes the first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy, inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and woven into a tale of celestial prophecies, political intrigue, and forbidden magic.
Reaganland
America's Right Turn 1976-1980
Featured on 5 lists including:
The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2020
Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020
Barnes & Noble's Best Books of the Year
From the bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power.
Run Me to Earth
By Paul Yoon
Featured on 5 lists including:
Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020
The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020
NPR's Best Books of 2020
From award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a beautiful, aching novel about three kids orphaned in 1960s Laos—and how their destinies are entwined across decades, anointed by Hernan Diaz as “one of those rare novels that stays with us to become a standard with which we measure other books.”
One by One
By Ruth Ware
Featured on 4 lists including:
Google Play's Best Audiobooks of 2020
The Washington Post's Best Thrillers and Mystery Books of 2020
Barnes & Noble's Best Books of the Year
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Turn of the Key and In a Dark Dark Wood returns with another suspenseful thriller set on a snow-covered mountain.
Solutions and Other Problems
By Allie Brosh
Featured on 4 lists including:
Barnes & Noble's Best Books of the Year
Google Play's Top 5 Best Books of 2020
NPR's Best Books of 2020
For the first time in seven years, Allie Brosh—beloved author and artist of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller Hyperbole and a Half—returns with a new collection of comedic, autobiographical, and illustrated essays.
Once I Was You
A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America
Featured on 4 lists including:
Barnes & Noble's Best Books of the Year
NPR's Best Books of 2020
Real Simple's Best Books of 2020
The Emmy Award–winning journalist and anchor of NPR’s Latino USA tells the story of immigration in America through her family’s experiences and decades of reporting, painting an unflinching portrait of a country in crisis in this memoir that is “quite simply beautiful, written in Maria Hinojosa’s honest, passionate voice” (BookPage).
Also available in Spanish as Una vez fui tú.
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