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A Fortune of Sand
by Ruta Sepetys
Marjorie Lennox is the youngest daughter of a powerful Detroit dynasty--a family rich in money and poor in charm. Creative and reckless, Marjorie has spent her life overlooked by her controlling father and self-absorbed siblings. But when she secretly applies to an elite arts program backed by a mysterious patron, she grabs the chance to finally step out of her family's shadow. The building is grand, the talent is extraordinary, and something is deeply wrong. The program is strict in ways that feel sinister: doors lock at strange hours, rumors spread about women going missing, and the handsome benefactor behind it all is as magnetic as he is unsettling. As Marjorie gets pulled deeper into his world, she must fight to discover the truth before she loses herself completely. Set in the fading splendor of 1920s Detroit and inspired by real, long-buried events, A Fortune of Sand is a glittering, gothic page-turner about power, control, and the price women pay when they demand to be seen.
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The Wild Beneath
by Kelly Anderson
Annie MacLeod always knew she was different, growing up on a sailboat in the Pacific Northwest, navigating by the stars and swimming in the ocean. But when a tsunami shatters her world and her parents are swept away, Annie is stranded on land, grief-stricken and forced to confront just how unconventional she is, despite her enduring love for her childhood sweetheart, Evan. In the wreckage, she rescues a mysterious and wordless man named Walker, who emits a hum only she can hear. Their connection is instant and electric. When Walker disappears, Annie is forced to decide between evacuating with Evan or staying to unlock a secret that feels vital to her survival. Six years later, Annie has buried the past. But when Walker's otherworldly sound returns, it forces a reckoning with the wild life she's left behind. Is the truth of the ocean more powerful than she knows?
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All That's Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir
by Emilee Hackney
Born and raised deep in the hollers of the Appalachian Mountains, Emilee Hackney knew little beyond the ridgelines and coalfields of southwest Virginia. At fourteen, Emilee meets Sam, a senior at her high school, who offers her a glimpse at a promising future together. But as they begin attending services at Deliverance Christian Church as a couple, Emilee is thrust into the radical realm of Pentecostalism. In a culture where marriage at nineteen isn't uncommon, Emilee is engaged to Sam. Eager to make her relationship work, she embraces the extremist doctrines of the religion, submitting herself fully to God, to Sam, and to a life of repentance. But what she doesn't yet know is the man she plans to marry is not who he claims to be. Years later, Emilee finds herself isolated from friends, family, and her own sense of truth. Wracked with shame and self-doubt, she reaches a breaking point. On the verge of spiraling out of control, in a stunning act of defiance and hope, she applies to Harvard; against all odds, she is accepted. Emilee begins the arduous process of reinventing herself and her relationships with her home, faith, and values.
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American Hagwon
by Min Jin Lee
The National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko returns with a breathtaking contemporary epic: a masterpiece by turns sweeping and intimate that reckons with ambition and moderation, lust and loyalty, personal dreams and familial duty. Once comfortably middle class in Korea, John and Helen Koh and their three children, Bo, DH, and Mido, find their lives upended, first by a shocking betrayal by John's oldest friend, then by the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Desperately striving to regain their footing, they leave Seoul for Sydney and eventually settle in Southern California where new vistas of opportunity open up for the children as their parents. John and Helen must adjust to a new life in which their experience and education mean little, and they set their sights on whatever it takes to provide for their children's futures. The Kohs, their friends, relatives, and even their foes move in and out of each other's lives as they navigate new courses across the years, always nursing the almost all-consuming faith that education will lead the next generation to success and security.
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Autumn at the Cat Cafe
by Kathleen Fuller
Via Dalton has sworn off men to focus on the two things she loves most: her quirky cat café and the charming town of Pecan Corner, Ohio. But her peaceful world is shaken when Earl, the owner of the beloved Second Chapter Books store, passes away. Via is determined to buy the shop, but her plans hit a snag in the form of a tall, handsome, and completely unexpected heir. Leo Brewster's life is thriving in LA, and the last thing he needs is a book store in middle-of-nowhere, Ohio. He plans a short trip to Ohio to accept the inheritance and sell the shop to the highest bidder and is greeted with the list of stipulations in Earl’s will that keeps him in Pecan Corner for a month. Desperate to convince Leo the bookstore is vital to her community, Via challenges Leo to complete her Autumn Bucket List. As they navigate corn mazes, pumpkin patches, and fall festivals, Leo begins to see the magic in Pecan Corner…and in Via. Despite her vow to stay single and his plan to leave, the attraction between them simmers like hot cider. Can a season of small-town charm convince a city boy to stay, or will Via lose both the bookstore and her heart?
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Helen of Nowhere
by Makenna Goodman
In the middle of the countryside, a realtor is showing a disgraced professor around an idyllic house. She speaks not only about the home's many wonderful qualities but about its previous owner, the mystifying Helen, whose presence still seems to suffuse every fixture. Through hearing stories of Helen's chosen way of living, the man begins to see that his own story is not actually over, rather, he is being offered a chance to buy his way into the simple life, close to the land, that's always been out of reach to him. But as evening fades into black, he will learn that the asking price may be much higher, and stranger, than anticipated. Philosophically and formally adventurous, at once intimate and cosmic in scope, Helen of Nowhere asks: What must we give up in exchange for true happiness?
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The Midnight Taxi
by Yosha Gunasekera
Siriwathi doesn't quite know where she's going in life. She never expected to be a taxicab driver in New York City, struggling to make ends meet and still living with her parents at twenty-eight. The true-crime podcasts that keep Siri company as she drives don't do much to make up for the legal career she imagined for herself, or the brother she's grieving. When public defender Amaya Fernando gets into her cab, they make a quick connection through their shared Sri Lankan roots. Siri, whose social circle is limited to her grade-school best friend, Alex, thinks things might finally be looking up with this new potential friendship. But she's suddenly dropped into her own true crime when she discovers her next passenger murdered in the backseat, and she has to call Amaya sooner than she'd expected. Pinned as the obvious and only suspect, and desperate to clear her name, Siri chases down leads across the boroughs of New York City with Amaya's help. But with her court date looming, they have just five days to find out who really killed the midnight passenger or Siri's life will be over before she can even truly live it.
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The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness
by Arthur C. Brooks
Meaning in life is getting harder to find--and there's a reason for that. In The Meaning of Your Life, social scientist and happiness expert Arthur Brooks explains how rapid societal and technological changes have rewired our brains, making them ill-equipped to handle questions of existential reckoning. The resulting emptiness is not imaginary, and it is life-destroying for some, especially for young people. Fortunately, there's hope. With compassion, clarity, and practicality, Brooks tells you exactly what you need to do to move toward meaning. You'll take a test to determine where you are on your meaning journey, learn evidence-based tactics for rewiring your brain for complex and abstract concepts, and discover a vocabulary for your desires. Most importantly, Brooks will show you where to search for the transcendence, vocation, and significance that are your birthright as a human being. What is the meaning of my life? is not an unanswerable question, but the road to an answer, or answers, is a long one. The Meaning of Your Life is your guide for the journey.
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This Is Why I Need You
by Alecsandra Kakon
Zinnia, Fay, Kiara, and Valentina have one rule since high school: the annual girls' trip is non-negotiable. No matter how much their lives change, they show up for each other. But this year, the cracks in their friendship are threatening to break them apart. What begins as a sun-soaked reunion quickly turns claustrophobic. Beneath the shared memories and inside jokes, something more dangerous is finally exposed: they may not actually know each other anymore. For Zinnia and Fay, what's been buried for years can't stay hidden forever. For Kiara and Valentina, the pressure of holding everything together is starting to break them open in different directions. And as jealousy, secrets, and emotional fallout build, the group is forced into a question none of them want to answer: When friendships survive on history alone... what happens when history isn't enough?
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Sunlight Finds You
by Laura Moriarty
It's 1949, early in the Cold War, but St. Petersburg, Florida is warm, lush, and booming with newcomers seeking sunshine and opportunity. For seventeen-year-old Nora, St. Pete feels like paradise, especially after she meets and wins over Leonard, the shy, brilliant son of transplanted New Yorkers. Nora and Leonard are soon spending balmy days and evenings together, and in her adoring, encouraging company, he grows more confident, even as he remains tender and caring. Leonard's mother welcomes Nora into their lives, but his father distrusts her motives. When his suspicions are seemingly confirmed, Nora is forced to cut contact. In her longing and fear, she takes a chance that changes her life, exiling her from the family she loves and setting off a chain of secrets and betrayals that will follow her into adulthood. It is a mature Nora who tells the story of her turbulent past. Wiser and more worldly, she commits to an honest but compassionate account, and to a future based on trusting, first and foremost, herself.
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The News from Dublin: Stories
by Colm Toibin
Colm Toibin is a master of the short story, able to summon an extraordinary intensity of emotion in a brief tale. Described by the Los Angeles Times as "his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated and contradictory power," he brings to these stories an astonishing clarity and compassion. Set in Spain, Ireland, and America, these gorgeous stories explore longing, estrangement from family, grief, the pull of the past, and complex, transcendent love.
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