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Dixon, descending : a novel
by Karen Outen
A former Olympic-level runner working as a school psychologist abandons his family and students to join his brother on a quest to be the first black American men to summit Mount Everest, resulting in a tragedy that shatters his life.
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Front Sight : Three Swagger Novellas
by Stephen Hunter
Three generations of Swagger family members, Charles, Earl and Bob Lee, tell their stories in three interconnected novellas that describe hunting for a notorious gangster in Chicago, uncovering municipal corruption in Maryland, and returning from the Vietnam War.
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How to Solve Your Own Murder
by Kristen Perrin
After a fortune teller in 1965 predicts her murder, Frances spends her life searching for her best friend who disappeared at a county fair until she actually is murdered 60 years later, leaving her grand-niece Annie to solve both crimes.
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James : a novel
by Percival Everett
"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. While many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river's banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin...), Jim's agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light. Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a "cult literary icon" (Oprah Daily), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature"
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Memory Piece
by Lisa Ko
Moving from the predigital 1980s to a strikingly imagined portrait of the 2040s, this visionary novel of friendship, art and ambition follows three lifelong friends as they strive for meaningful lives in a world that turned out to be radically different from the one they were promised.
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Uphill both ways : hiking toward happiness on the Colorado Trail
by Andrea Lani
"In Uphill Both Ways: Hiking toward Happiness on the Colorado Trail, Andrea Lani walks the reader through the landscape of the Southern Rockies, contrasting how it appears today with how it has changed since the discovery of gold in 1859. At the same time, she delves into the history of her family, who immigrated to Leadville to work in the mines and her own story of hiking the trail in her early twenties before returning two decades later, a depressed middle-aged mom exiled on the East Coast, with threekids and a husband in tow, seeking happiness in the landscape of her childhood"
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What the bears know : how I found truth and magic in America's most misunderstood creatures
by Steve Searles
"In this wonderous and eye-opening exploration, Steve Searles, the renown and respected "Bear Whisperer" of Mammoth Lakes, takes the reader on a journey into the lives of these remarkable creatures and the world we share. In the late 1990s, the town of Mammoth Lakes, California hired Steve Searles as a hunter to cull half its troublesome bear population. But as he began to prepare for the grim task, the bears soon won him over, and Searles realized there had to be a better way... Warm and poignant, and perfect for anyone who has been fascinated by the natural world, What the Bears Know shows that wisdom and fulfillment can come from unexpected places"
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The women
by Kristin Hannah
In 1965, nursing student Frankie McGrath, after hearing the words“Women can be heroes, too,” impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows her brother to Vietnam where she is overwhelmed by the destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America.
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