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The gifted school : a novel by Bruce W HolsingerThe students and parents of a tight-knit community find their bonds nearly destroyed by competitiveness when an exclusive school for gifted children opens nearby, in a story told from both adult and child perspectives.
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Gravity is the thing : a novel by Jaclyn MoriartyAn adult debut by the award-winning author of the Colours of Madeleine trilogy follows a single mother's heartfelt search for more meaningful truths about the universe, her family and herself.
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Natalie Tan's book of luck and fortune by Roselle LimInheriting her grandmother's restaurant in a crumbling San Francisco Chinatown neighborhood, Natalie Tan is advised by the local seer to prepare three recipes from her grandmother's cookbook to help their struggling community.
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Very nice : a novel by Marcy DermanskyA darkly humorous tale of privilege, race and bad behavior find a wealthy Connecticut divorcée and her college-age daughter becoming unlikely rivals in a romantic triangle involving the latter's creative writing professor.
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Costalegre by Courtney MaumA historical novel inspired by the relationship between Peggy and Pegeen Guggenheim finds an American heiress offering safe passage to Nazi-threatened artists, while her emotionally unstable daughter chronicles their wartime experiences. By the award-winning author of Touch.
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The golden hour by Beatriz WilliamsTraveling to World War II Nassau to interview the infamous Duke and Duchess of Windsor, an investigator for a New York society magazine uncovers a treasonous plot that is complicated by her romance with an unscrupulous scientist.
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Lady in the lake : a novel by Laura LippmanA divorced reporter in racially torn 1966 Baltimore triggers unanticipated consequences for vulnerable community members while investigating the murder of an African-American party girl. By the Edgar Award-winning author of Sunburn.
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The nickel boys : a novel
by Colson Whitehead
A follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning, The Underground Railroad, follows the harrowing experiences of two African-American teens at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida
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King of the Mississippi by Mike FreedmanA cutthroat power war at a prestigious Houston consulting firm is spearheaded by an old-money jock who uses downsizing to control his clients and a dishonorable veteran who would exploit the respect of others.
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Supper club : a novel by Lara WilliamsA woman confronts her personal limits and repressed past after forming a nighttime collective of women who gorge themselves passionately and embrace their bodies.
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Maggie Brown & Others : Stories by Peter OrnerIn his moving new book, Peter Orner chronicles people whose lives are at inflection points. In forty-four compressed gems, he grips us with a series of defining moments. Whether it's a first date that turns into a late-night road trip to a séance in an abandoned airplane hangar, or a family's memories of the painful mystery surrounding a forgotten uncle's demise, Orner reveals how our fleeting decisions between kindness and abandonment chase us across time.
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