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Among Friends
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Hal Ebbott
Two wealthy men who’ve been friends since college gather at one’s New York country home to celebrate his 52nd birthday, bringing along their wives and teenage daughters. But tension, envy, and a devastating action reverberate afterward. Exploring male friendship and duality, this buzzy debut literary novel is "subtle, keenly intelligent, psychologically deft -- and deeply grim" (Kirkus Reviews). For fans of: John Cheever.
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People Like Us
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Jason Mott
Jason Mott follows up his National Book Award-winning Hell of a Book with this funny, moving, and surreal tale of two Black writers pondering race, loss, and survival. One of them, who specializes in grief, is at a Minnesota college where a shooting recently occurred, and the other, who just won a big award, is on a book tour in Europe. Try this next: Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour.
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Archive of Unknown Universes
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Ruben Reyes Jr.
In 2018, Harvard student Ana uses an experimental technology that depicts personalized alternate timelines, leaving her questioning her past and her future. Days later, she visits Cuba with her boyfriend, a fellow student, and both research and look for answers about their Salvadoran families' ties to the island. Meanwhile, in 1978 El Salvador, two revolutionaries fall in love against the backdrop of an impending civil war. Read-alike: The Volcano Daughters by Gina Maria Balibrera.
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Bring the House Down
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Charlotte Runcie
At the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, critic Alex Lyons pens a devastating review of Hayley Sinclair's one-woman act. He then sleeps with her just before it’s published. In retaliation, she turns her show into “The Alex Lyons Experience,” where she and others detail his misdeeds. Narrated by Alex’s coworker, a struggling new mom whose husband may be having an affair, this witty, compelling tale explores art, gender, power, and identity. For fans of: Mona Awad’s All’s Well.
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Jamaica Road
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Lisa Smith
Beginning in 1981, this evocative coming-of-age novel follows two best friends who become something more. Quiet 12-year-old Daphne is of Jamaican heritage and the only Black girl in her South London class when Jamaican immigrant Cornelius “Connie” Smalls arrives, ready to be seen and heard. Thoughtfully portraying their relationship as it ebbs and flows, this tender debut also spotlights societal issues. For fans of: Sally Rooney’s Normal People.
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The Satisfaction Café
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Kathy Wang
Having left Taiwan in the 1970s to attend Stanford graduate school, Joan marries a fellow student, but that lasts mere weeks. She stays in California, unexpectedly drawn to a wealthy, thrice-divorced older man. They marry, and in this quietly powerful portrait, Joan becomes a stepmother, a mother, a widow, and the owner of café designed to combat loneliness. For fans of: The Healing Season of Pottery by Yeon Somin; Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum.
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The Rabbit Club
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Christopher J. Yates
Alistair McCain, an 18-year-old from California, has never met his British rock star father. Starting at Oxford, he hopes to finally do so and to be accepted into a secret society he’s heard about at the university. While his lineage gets him an invite, he soon suspects the group may be involved in murder in this suspenseful and entertaining read. Try this next: I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai.
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Maggie; Or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar
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Katie Yee
Our unnamed narrator learns her husband is leaving her for his coworker Maggie. So, when she’s told she has cancer days later, she names the tumor Maggie, too. Not telling her ex any of this, she gets help from her best friend and shares her Chinese mother’s mythological tales with her kids. Depicting resilience and heart, this moving first novel is liberally peppered with humor. Read-alike: Catherine Newman's We All Want Impossible Things.
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Iron Lake by William Kent KruegerCork O'Connor has lost both his wife and his job as sheriff and falls into a profound emotional isolation. As a wild blizzard buries his lakeside town, a despised though influential resident is found dead, and a young Ojibwe Indian boy seems to have lefthome in a hurry. Cork has never taken Indian legends to heart, but when an old sage warns him that a cruel spirit with a heart of ice is near, all that changes Tuesday, October 7 at 2:00 p.m. Post Road Library Meet New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger at Sharon Forks Library on Thursday, October 9 or Friday October 10 for An Evening with Willam Kent Krueger. Registration required. |
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The Measure by Nikki ErlickWhen every person, all over the globe, receives a small wooden box bearing the same inscription and a single piece of string inside, the world is thrown into a collective frenzy, in this novel told through multiple perspectives that introduces an unforgettable cast of characters. Wednesday, October 8 at 10:00 a.m. Post Road Library |
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In the near future, where intelligent robots, climate change, and surveillance have changed the world. A mother, made jobless by AI, undertakes desperate measures to keep her family whole, raising unsettling, tense questions about the contemporary world and its possibilities.
Tuesday, October 14 at 7:00 p.m. Sharon Forks Library |
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The Last Thing He Told Me
by Laura Dave
After her husband disappears, Hannah Hall quickly realizes he isn't who he said he was and that his 16-year-old daughter, who wants nothing to do with her, may hold the key to figuring out his true identity.
Saturday, October 18 at 10:30 a.m.
Hampton Park Library
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Interview with the Vampire
by Anne Rice
Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic and shocking, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force–
a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of extraordinary power of the senses.
Tuesday, October 21 at 6:30 p.m.
Denmark Library
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Agatha Christie
Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorp and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from her locked bedroom? Suspects abound in the quaint village of Styles St. Mary--from the heiress's fawning new husband to her two stepsons, her volatile housekeeper, and a pretty nurse who works in a hospital dispensary. With impeccable timing, and making his unforgettable debut, the brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is on the case.
Thursday, October 23 at 10:00 a.m.
Cumming Library
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None of This is True
by Lisa Jewell
Popular podcaster Alix Summer becomes the subject of her own podcast after a woman named Josie Fair comes into her life and then disappears, leaving behind a terrible and terrifying legacy that puts her life and her family's lives in mortal danger.
Tuesday, October 28 at 2:00 p.m.
Post Road Library
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