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Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love
by Marianne Cronin
Eddie Winston, a 90-year-old charity shop volunteer in Birmingham, England, unexpectedly becomes friends with Bella, a pink-haired young woman mourning her boyfriend. When Bella realizes that Eddie has never been kissed, she sweetly sets out to help him find love.
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Gliff
by Ali Smith
Two "unverifiable" children befriend a horse and a group of squatters as they try to survive after their mother is taken away by all-powerful authorities. This timely and lyrical latest from an acclaimed Scottish author examines the perils of government surveillance and lack of data privacy as well as the power of language.
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The Ancients
by John Larison
In a dystopian future where the elite rule, three children from a lower clan find themselves alone after their mother is abducted and their father killed. Trying to make it to relatives, they travel in a world damaged by climate change. Meanwhile, their mother hopes to escape captivity where she and others are forced to labor for a scholar who's just inherited his father's wool business.
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Definitely Better Now
by Ava Robinson
Manhattan marketing assistant Emma is a self-described alcoholic who's officially been sober for a year. To aid her recovery, she stopped dating, but feels a connection with the office IT director, Ben, especially when they start planning the company holiday party. But will self-sabotage and family issues derail Emma's progress? Covering serious topics sensitively, this touching debut has hope and humor.
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Untethered : a novel
by Angela Jackson-Brown
Sometimes family is found in the most unlikely of places . .
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The time keepers
by Alyson Richman
Two women from different worlds, joined by the love of a child displaced by war, discover friendship and healing as their lives intersect with a mysterious wounded Vietnam vet named Jack, who works at the Golden Hours-a watch store that mends timepieces-and maybe even damaged souls.
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| Tilt by Emma PatteeWhen a devastating earthquake hits Portland, Annie is 35 years old, 37 weeks pregnant, and shopping for an IKEA crib. Amidst the destruction, she walks toward downtown while talking to her unborn child about the present (the chaos, money troubles) and the past (her playwriting dreams). If you like this moving debut, try Death Valley by Melissa Broder. |
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The story she left behind : a novel
by Patti Callahan Henry
In 1952, illustrator Clara Harrington travels to London with her daughter Wynnie to investigate a discovery linked to her vanished mother, a famed author, uncovering long-buried truths amid the chaos of the Great Smog and a remote Lake District retreat.
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