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Untamed
by Glennon Doyle
For many years, Glennon Doyle denied her own discontent. Then, while speaking at a conference, she saw a woman across the room and fell instantly in love. Three words flooded her mind: There she is. In this powerful memoir, Glennon shares how she decided to quit abandoning herself and to instead abandon the world’s expectations of her. She quit being good so she could be free. She quit pleasing and started living.
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Valentine
by Elizabeth Wetmore
It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town's men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. Valentine is a haunting exploration of the intersections of violence and race, class and region in a story that plumbs the depths of darkness and fear, yet offers a window into beauty and hope.
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Hidden Valley Road : Inside the Mind of an American Family
by Robert Kolker
This fascinating book tells the heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children. Six of the boys were diagnosed with schizophrenia and the family became science’s great hope in the quest to understand the disease.
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The Glass Hotel : A Novel
by Emily St. John Mandel
From the award-winning author of Station Eleven comes an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events: a massive Ponzi scheme collapse and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea. Rife with unexpected beauty, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives.
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Such a Fun Age
by Kiley Reid
Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned white employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both. With empathy and piercing social commentary, this book explores the stickiness of transactional relationships, what it means to make someone "family," and the complicated reality of being a grown up.
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| Deacon King Kong by James McBride It's 1969, right after the Moon Landing, and Brooklyn-based Baptist deacon Cuffy Lambkin (called "Deacon King Kong" after his favorite kind of moonshine) shoots his former protégé (and current drug dealer) Deems Clemens in broad daylight. |
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The Mirror & The Light
by Hilary Mantel
With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man's vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion, and courage.
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