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| Enlightenment by Sarah PerryIn 1997 Essex, England, Thomas Hart is a secretly gay newspaper columnist and the godfather of 17-year-old Grace Macaulay. As the Comet Hale-Bopp approaches, he becomes enamored by both the sky and an old letter related to a ghostly legend, while Grace falls for a local boy in a novel that "magnificently evokes the wonder of the cosmos" (Publishers Weekly). |
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| Bear by Julia PhillipsIn Washington's San Juan Islands, two 20-something sisters work dead-end jobs and care for their dying mother. They talk about a future on the mainland, but when a bear suddenly shows up, one sister sees danger, while the other sees a magical beacon of hope, leading to the unraveling of their plans in this unsettling tale. |
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Truth Truth Lie
by Claire McGowan
Everyone here has killed someone. There is no way off this island. You will all either kill or be killed here. One of these statements is a lie. But which one?
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The curious secrets of yesterday
by Namrata Patel
Raised by her mother and grandmother and tutored in the healing wonders of spices, Tulsi Gupta is expected to carry on the ancestral tradition from her family's Salem spice shop. When Tulsi finds a letter written by her grandmother, that speaks of a long-ago betrayal, she decides to unravel the mystery as a distraction. But Tulsi stumbles into much more than she bargained for.
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Last house : or, The age of oil
by Jessica Shattuck
Spanning multiple generations, this emotional tour de force follows one American family, during the radical movement of the 1968 against Big Oil, as they are forced to reckon with the consequences of the resources that built their fortune and fueled their greatest tragedy.
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Dog day afternoon
by David Rosenfelt
A retired lawyer and dog rescue operator investigates after one of his recent adopters is implicated in a mass shooting at his workplace in the latest addition to the series following‘Twas the Bite Before Christmas.
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All the glimmering stars : a novel
by Mark T. Sullivan
Two 1990s Ugandan teens are kidnapped and forced into the Lord's Resistance Army where they dream of surviving their captivity and their intent to remain good people, in the new novel from the best-selling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky.
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The god of the woods
by Liz Moore
In 1975, when a camp counselor discovers the 13-year-old daughter of the summer camp's owners has disappeared just like her brother 14 years earlier, a panicked search begins as the secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow are revealed.
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| This Strange Eventful History by Claire MessudTouching on themes of identity and home, this buzzy book by an award-winning author follows an uprooted French Algerian pieds-noir family and their descendants as they move around the world between 1940 and 2010. "Brilliant and heart-wrenching" (Kirkus Reviews), this novel was inspired by the author's family. |
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| Allow Me to Introduce Myself by Onyi NwabineliAnuri Chinasa grew up famous as the star of her stepmother's social media accounts. Now 25 and in therapy, she's suing her stepmother to remove all photos of her, while trying to save her five-year-old half-sister from the same fate. Great for book clubs, this London-set novel offers a thought-provoking, witty look at self-discovery and momfluencers. |
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