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Book covers lined up in two rows of five: You Won’t Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters, by Rachel Aviv; Country People, by Daniel Mason; Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast, by Pamela Colloff; Cloudthief, by Nathaniel Rich; Data Empire: The Power of Information to Organize, Control, and Dominate, by Roopika Risam; It Will Come Back to You: Stories, by Sigrid Nuñez; They Stole a City: Wilmington’s White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy, by Lauren Collins; Yellow Pine, by Claire Vaye Watkins; Cool Machine, by Colson Whitehead; Beginning Middle End, by Valeria Luiselli.

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