| Flashlight by Susan ChoiFlashlight follows American Louisa Kang and her family across locations and years, but focuses on the night young Louisa and her ethnically Korean father walk on a beach in Japan. Later, she washes ashore, amnesiac and clinging to life, but her dad can't be found. Covering family relationships and geopolitics, this slow burn novel is "never sentimental, never predictable" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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| The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie HartnettPJ Halliday is a 63-year-old hoarder who drinks too much. When he learns his old high school girlfriend is newly single, he sets out on a cross-country road trip from Massachusetts to Arizona, bringing along his newly orphaned grandniece and grandnephew, his 26-year-old daughter, and Pancakes, a death-predicting cat. Funny and bittersweet, this novel works for fans of Steven Rowley's The Guncle and Kevin Wilson's Run for the Hills. |
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| Open, Heaven by Seán HewittIn this lyrical and poignant first novel by a poet and memoirist, librarian James looks back on his youth as a shy, gay 16-year-old. Growing up in a remote northern English village in 2002, James feels isolated from most people, except his ill younger brother, but he soon develops a friendship and consuming crush on the troubled new boy in town. |
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| Big Chief by Jon HickeyHaving moved around a lot, 30-year-old lawyer Mitch Caddo is an outsider at his Wisconsin reservation. But with his old friend Mack up for reelection as tribal president, political fixer Mitch works hard to defeat a nationally known activist, whose young aide is Mack's sister and Mitch's old flame. Jon Hickey, a member of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, debuts with a timely, thought-provoking novel. |
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| Awake in the Floating City by Susanna KwanIn a flooded near-future San Francisco, grieving artist Bo lives in a high rise and hopes for the return of her mother, missing for two years. On the verge of finally leaving the city, she instead stays to help her 130-year-old neighbor, whose stories inspire Bo's creativity. Exploring grief, art, memory, climate change, and multi-generational friendships, this is a "marvelously graceful debut" (Kirkus Reviews). Read-alike: Eiren Caffall's All the Water in the World. |
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| Food Person by Adam RobertsUncomfortable on camera, digital cooking magazine writer Isabella Pasternack is forced to go live on Instagram, which results in her firing. Desperate for a job, she's soon ghostwriting a cookbook for a scandal-plagued actress who's not interested in food. This fun debut combines the culinary world with friendship, ambition, and romance to create a great summer read. |
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| So Far Gone by Jess WalterIn a divided 2016 America, retired Rhys Kinnick decks his son-in-law Shane at Thanksgiving and then goes off-grid in Washington State. A few years later, his grandkids show up, brought by a neighbor at the request of Rhys' daughter. But then Shane sends members of his church militia after the kids, leading Rhys to team up with an eccentric group of old friends. Read-alike: The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem. |
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The Ministry Of Time by Kaliane BradleyTo establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time, a“bridge” who lives with, assists and monitors the expat known as“1847” or Commander Graham Gore, falls fervently in love, with consequences she never could've imagined—ones that could change the future. Tuesday, August 12 at 7:00p.m. Sharon Forks Library |
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A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniTwo women born a generation apart witness the destruction of their home and family in wartorn Kabul, incurring losses over the course of thirty years that test the limits of their strength and courage Wednesday, August 13 at 10:00 a.m. Post Road Library |
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Rebecca by Daphne Du MaurierAt the great Cornwall estate of Manderley, Maxim de Winter and his frightened new wife try to live with the haunting legacy of Maxim's first wife, the beautiful and cold Rebecca, who died in a sailing accident. Saturday, August 16 at 10:30 a.m. Hampton Park Library |
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The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael ConnellyRepresenting some unsavory characters in his work as a defense lawyer, Mickey Haller takes on his first high-paying and possibly innocent client in years, but finds the case complicated by events that suggest a particularly evil perpetrator Tuesday, August 19 at 6:30 p.m. Denmark Library |
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First Lie Winsby Ashley ElstonA woman with many faces and identities, Evie Porter, covertly moves from job to job for her unknown employer until her latest mark, Ryan Summer gets under her skin and makes her envision a different sort of life. Tuesday, August 26 at 2:00 p.m. Post Road Library |
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Educatedby Tara WestoverTraces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond. Thursday, August 28 at 10:00 a.m. Cumming Library |
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