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Fiction
How to Age Disgracefully
by Clare Pooley

The quirky members of the Senior Citizen's Social Club join forces with the tiny members of the daycare next door to thwart the city council's planned sale of the building housing both centers.
James
by Percival Everett

Describes the events of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of the enslaved Jim, who decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island after learning he is to be sold to a man in New Orleans.
The Pairing
by Casey McQuiston

When they accidentally book the same European food and wine tour, estranged exes Theo and Kit, trapped with each other for three weeks in the most romantic cities of France, Spain and Italy, challenge each other to a hookup competition to prove they're over each other. 
Dreadful
by Caitlin Rozakis

It's bad enough waking up in a half-destroyed evil wizard's workshop with no eyebrows, no memories, and no idea how long you have before the Dread Lord Whomever shows up to murder you horribly and then turn your skull into a goblet or something. It's a lot worse when you realize that Dread Lord Whomever is... you. Gav isn't really sure how he ended up with a castle full of goblins, or why he has a princess locked in a cell. All he can do is play along with his own evil plan in hopes of getting his memories back before he gets himself killed. But as he realizes that nothing - from the incredibly tasteless cloak adorned with flames to the aforementioned princess - is quite what it seems, Gav must face up to all the things the Dread Lord Gavrax has done. And he'll have to answer the hardest question of all - who does he want to be?
Close to Death
by Anthony Horowitz

When Charles Kentworthy is found dead on his doorstep after moving his loud, boisterous family into an idyllic gated community, Detective Hawthorne investigates, in the fifth novel of the series following The Twist of a Knife. 
How to Read a Book
by Monica Wood

Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from rural Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher. Harriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs the prison book club, is facing the unsettling prospect of an empty nest. Frank Daigle, a retired machinist, hasn't yet come to grips with the complications of his marriage to the woman Violet killed. When the three encounter each other one morning in a bookstore in Portland, their lives begin to intersect in transformative ways. How to Read a Book is an unsparingly honest and profoundly hopeful story about letting go of guilt, seizing second chances, and the power of books to change our lives. 
We Used to Live Here
by Marcus Kliewer

A young, queer couple who flip houses, Charlie and Eve, while restoring an old house, answer the door to a man claiming to have lived there years before, which sets in motion a chain of uncanny and inexplicable events leading to Charlie's disappearance and Eve's descent into insanity.
Love Letters to a Serial Killer
by Tasha Coryell

Writing to William, a handsome lawyer accused of murdering 4 women, 30-something Hannah, using this an outlet for pent-up frustration and rage, is consumed by obsession when he writes back. When he's acquitted, she moves in with him and the two of them quickly fall into a routine of domestic bliss.  Well, as blissful as one can be while secretly investigating the other for serial murder.
Nonfiction
Knife : Meditations After an Attempted Murder
by Salman Rushdie

The internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner speaks out for the first time about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, when an attempt was made on his life, in this deeply personal meditation on violence, art, loss, love and finding the strength to stand up again.
Master Slave Husband Wife : An Epic Journey From Slavery to Freedom
by Ilyon Woo

The extraordinary and harrowing true story of a young, enslaved couple who, achieving one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history, embarked on three epic journeys in one monumental bid for freedom, challenging the nation's core precepts of life, liberty and justice for all. 
The Year of Living Constitutionally : One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
by A. J. Jacobs

A New York Times best-selling author chronicles his hilarious adventures as he attempts to live as closely as possible to the original meaning of the Constitution, and conducting interviews with constitutional experts from both sides, delves into originalism and living constitutionalism, the two rival ways of interpreting the document. 
The Friday Afternoon Club : A Family Memoir
by Griffin Dunne

A memoir and coming-of-age story chronicling the successes and disappointments, wit and wildness of Dunne and his multigenerational family of larger-than-life characters.
The Situation Room : The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis
by George Stephanopoulos

A former senior advisor to President Clinton, and for more than 20 years, the anchor of This Week and the co-anchor of Good Morning America, takes us into the White House Situation Room, the epicenter of crisis management where decisions are made that affect the lives of every person on this planet. 
Leslie F*cking Jones : A Memoir
by Leslie Jones

Introducing the woman behind the laughs, this audacious memoir reveals what it took to for Leslie Jones to become one of America's most beloved and plain-speaking superstars, encouraging others to let go of the fear and self-doubt holding them back to live a bigger life than ever imagined.
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