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New Fiction September 2020
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The Big Door Prize
by M. O. Walsh
When an unassuming DNA machine is installed at their local grocery store, Douglas and his wife, Cherilyn, are swept up by their community’s efforts to transform lives by reconnecting with their ancestry. By the best-selling author of My Sunshine Away.
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Just Like You
by Nick Hornby
Miserably married to a man with whom she once shared everything in common, Lucy forges an unexpected bond with her 22-year-old babysitter, a man from an entirely different class, culture and generation. By the best-selling author of About a Boy.
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Jack
by Marilynne Robinson
A conclusion to the story that began with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead traces the story of prodigal son John Ames Boughton, who pursues a star-crossed, interracial romance with a high school teacher who is also the son of a preacher.
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The Evening and the Morning
by Ken Follett
A prequel to the best-selling The Pillars of the Earth follows the experiences of a young boatbuilder, a scholarly monk and a Norman noblewoman against a backdrop of the Viking attacks at the end of the 10th century in England. Maps.
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The Paris Secret
by Karen Swan
While assessing objects d’art in a Paris apartment that has been abandoned since WWII, high-powered fine art agent Flora Sykes is thrown into the glamorous world of the Vermeils family until she makes a discovery that brings about scandal and places her in the eye of a storm that carries her from London to the glittering coast of Provence.
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A Girl is a Body of Water
by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Coming of age with the support of the women in her Ugandan village, a girl struggling with abandonment seeks answers at the side of a local witch who shares stories about their culture’s heritage of female strength.
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Homeland Elegies
by Ayad Akhtar
A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home.
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Piranesi
by Susanna Clarke
Living in a labyrinthine house of endless corridors, flooded staircases and thousands of statues, Piranesi assists the dreamlike dwelling’s only other resident throughout a mysterious research project before evidence emerges of an astonishing alternate world.
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What Are You Going Through
by Sigrid Nunez
A woman who is content to listen to the people she encounters talk about themselves is asked by one to do something extraordinary, in a novel by the New York Times-best-selling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend.
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Likes
by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
This new collection of short stories from the author of Madeleine is Sleeping explores contradictions in our modern times in tales about unexpected visitors, Waldorf school fairs, aging indie-film stars and a tween’s Instagram posts.
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You Want More : selected stories
by George Singleton
"With his signature darkly acerbic and sharp-witted humor, George Singleton has built a reputation as one of the most astute and wise observers of the South. These stories bear the influence of Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver, at other times Lewis Nordan and Donald Barthelme, and touch on the mysteries of childhood, the complexities of human relationships, and the absurdity of everyday life, with its inexorable defeats and small triumphs."
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