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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death (Hardcover)

By Caitlin Doughty, Dianne Ruz (Illustrator)

$25.95

ISBN: 9780393652703

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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 10th, 2019
My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel (Paperback)

By Oyinkan Braithwaite

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ISBN: 9780525564201

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Not the Girl You Marry (Paperback)

By Andie J. Christopher

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Published: Berkley - November 12th, 2019
Lady in the Lake: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Laura Lippman

$26.99

ISBN: 9780062390011

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Published: William Morrow - July 23rd, 2019
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind (Hardcover)

By Harriet A. Washington

$28.00

ISBN: 9780316509435

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Published: Little, Brown Spark - July 23rd, 2019
A Particular Kind of Black Man: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Tope Folarin

$26.00

ISBN: 9781501171819

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Published: Simon & Schuster - August 6th, 2019

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Joy-Ann Reid at Connecticut Ave.

Tuesday, July 23, 2019 at 7 p.m.

Emily Nussbaum at Conn. Ave.

Wednesday, July 24, 2019 at 7 p.m.

Laura Lippman at Conn. Ave.

Thursday, July 25, 2019 at 7 p.m.

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1:00 pm

Bruce M. Beehler - Natural Encounters: Biking, Hiking, and Birding Through the Seasons and Birds of Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia

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3:00 pm

William Sturkey - Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White

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5:00 pm

Mary Beth Keane - Ask Again, Yes

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22

7:00 pm

Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake - The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats

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7:00 pm

Matthew Kepnes - Ten Years a Nomad: A Traveler's Journey Home — at Politics and Prose at The Wharf

Tue

23

7:00 pm

Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden - African Americans and Africa: A New History — at Politics and Prose at Union Market

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23

7:00 pm

Joy-Ann Reid - The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story — in conversation with E. J. Dionne

Wed

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7:00 pm

Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields - The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics — in conversation with Bill Press — at Politics and Prose at Union Market

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7:00 pm

Emily Nussbaum - I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

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7:00 pm

Laura Lippman - Lady in the Lake — in conversation with Neely Tucker

Fri

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7:00 pm

Harriet A. Washington - A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind

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1:00 pm

Thomas W. Lippman - Crude Oil, Crude Money: Aristotle Onassis, Saudi Arabia, and the CIA

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