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| Among Friends by Hal EbbottTwo 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 by Jason MottJason 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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Spectacular things : a novel
by Beck Dorey-Stein
In a small Maine town, sisters Mia and Cricket grow up under the weight of their mother's hidden past, navigating ambition, loyalty, and fear of repeating generational wounds as they struggle to define their identities and futures.
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Mississippi blue 42
by Eli Cranor
A rookie FBI agent finds herself caught in the tangled web of a college football empire—and the bloody greed that fuels it.
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Songs for other people's weddings : a novel
by David Levithan
From an award-winning, bestselling author and acclaimed singer-songwriter comes a novel about an unlucky-in-love wedding singer trying to find the right words to save his relationship.
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| The Satisfaction Café by Kathy WangHaving 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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Love is a war song
by Danica Nava
Muscogee pop singer Avery's risque "Rolling Stone" cover wearing a feather war bonnet causes a scandal that sends her to grandmother Lottie's Oklahoma ranch, and although cowboy Lucas hates what Avery represents, he grudgingly agrees to show her what it means to be an Indian. Original.
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| Maggie; Or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar by Katie YeeOur 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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