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Once More from the Top
by Emily Layden
At the height of her career, legendary pop star Dylan Read, when her childhood best friend's body is found, is forced to reckon with the secret she's kept hidden for 15 years, in this gripping and keenly observant novel about friendship, ambition and the cost of fame.
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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. Read-alikes: The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter; My Beloved Life by Amitava Kumar; French Braid by Anne Tyler. |
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| Sandwich by Catherine NewmanRocky, her husband, her two kids, and her mom and dad have been going to the same Cape Cod rental for 20 years. This year, things feel different as Rocky navigates hot flashes, aging parents, nostalgia for her kids' youth, and old secrets in a funny, fast-paced, and moving novel that's perfect for beach reading. Read-alikes: Vacationland by Meg Mitchell Moore; A Good Life by Virginie Grimaldi; Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. |
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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. For fans of: People Person by Candice Carty-Williams; The Bright Side of Going Dark by Kelly Harms. |
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| Whale Fall by Elizabeth O'ConnorManod is 18 years old in 1938 when a whale washes up on her remote Welsh island, drawing outside attention, including that of two Oxford ethnographers who want to study the 12 island families. Happy for a connection to the wider world, Manod agrees to help, a move she may regret. For other reflective and atmospheric novels, try Clear by Carys Davies or A Northern Light in Provence by Elizabeth Birkelund. |
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Rakesfall
by Vajra Chandrasekera
Bound together from here until the ends of time, two souls reincarnate ever deeper into the future, chasing the edge of human possibility, in this dark science fiction epic unlike anything you've read before.
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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). Read-alikes: The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan; The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick. |
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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. Read-alikes: The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes; The Blue Window by Suzanne Berne. |
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Summer on Highland Beach : a novel
by Sunny Hostin
In Highland Beach, the oldest Black resort community in America, Olivia Jones, amid tense family drama, must decide if she wants to return to the beautiful life she's created in Sag Harbor or finally achieve her dream of having a home and family of her own in Highland Beach.
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Lambton County Library 787 Broadway St. Wyoming, Ontario N0N1T0 519-845-3324www.lclibrary.ca |
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