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The Daydreams
by Laura Hankin
When their fans demand a reunion special, the stars of a popular teen show from the early 2000s come back for forgiveness, revenge and a second chance at first love, but as they rediscover the magic of the original show, the real reason behind their downfall resurfaces.
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| This Strange Eventful History by Claire MessudTouching on themes of identity and home, this buzzy book by an award-winning author follows an uprooted French Algerian pieds-noir family and their descendants as they move around the world between 1940 and 2010. "Brilliant and heart-wrenching" (Kirkus Reviews), this novel was inspired by the author's family. Read-alikes: The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter; My Beloved Life by Amitava Kumar; French Braid by Anne Tyler. |
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| Sandwich by Catherine NewmanRocky, her husband, her two kids, and her mom and dad have been going to the same Cape Cod rental for 20 years. This year, things feel different as Rocky navigates hot flashes, aging parents, nostalgia for her kids' youth, and old secrets in a funny, fast-paced, and moving novel that's perfect for beach reading. Read-alikes: Vacationland by Meg Mitchell Moore; A Good Life by Virginie Grimaldi; Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. |
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Bad habit : a novel
by Alana Portero
Trapped in a working-class Madrid slum in the 1980s, a woman navigates the local party scene involving heroin and disco while searching for belonging in a potentially violent world where every choice can be fatal. 75,000 first printing.
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The silence of the choir
by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
When they arrive in Altino, where the Santa Marta Association will decide their fate, seventy-two men-immigrants, refugees or migrants-change the lives of everyone they encounter, in this story told through a growing symphony of voices that ends only when one final voice brings silence to the choir
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A feather so black
by Lyra Selene
A changeling raised by the queen to be a spy is sent through a hidden gate to a strange realm where she must retrieve the princess she was swapped with and break a curse. Original. 30,000 first printing.
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The Spoiled Heart
by Sunjeev Sahota
Middle-aged Nayan Olak is up for union leader at the Chesterfield, England, company where he works, but a surprise opponent upends the race and things get ugly. At home, he forges a relationship with a new woman...who may have a secret connection to the tragic deaths of Nayan's mother and young son years ago. Read-alikes: The Museum of Failures by Thrity Umrigar; Love Marriage by Monica Ali.
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Interesting facts about space
by Emily. Austin
A woman obsessed with space and true crime podcasts begins a new relationship with her estranged half-sisters after the death of their absent father and begins to become increasingly paranoid that someone is following her.
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| Fire Exit by Morgan TaltyCharles Lamosway grew up on the Penobscot Reservation with his mom and Native American stepdad, but had to leave when he was 18 since he isn't Native. Now nearing 60, he attends AA meetings, helps his mom who has dementia, and looks across the river from his home to the reservation, keeping an eye on his secret daughter and wondering if he should tell her who he is. Read-alikes: The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters; There There by Tommy Orange. |
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The limits
by Nell Freudenberger
Sent to New York to stay with her father, an overworked surgeon, and his new wife, 15-year-old Pia, rebelling against her stepmother when COVID sends them into near total isolation, finds her life colliding with 16-year-old Athyna, who's caring for a toddler full time, as they spiral toward parallel but inescapably different tragedies.
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