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The liars' gospel : a novel
by Naomi Alderman
An award-winning author describes the life of Jesus Christ as told by the four people who were closest to him before his death: his mother, his friend Iehuda, the High Priest of the Temple and a rebel named Bar-Avo. ALDERMAN, NAOMI
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We ride upon sticks
by Quan Barry
Nearly three centuries after their coastal community’s witch trials, the women athletes of the 1989 Danvers Falcons hockey team combine individual and collective talents with 1980s iconography to storm their way to the state finals. BARRY, QUAN
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My lovely wife
by Samantha Downing
A seemingly typical suburban husband discloses the secret ways that his wife of 15 years and he keep their marriage alive and chase away domestic boredom by orchestrating creative ways to get away with murder. DOWNING, SAMANTHA
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Where the lost wander : a novel
by Amy Harmon
Set on Overland Trail in 1853, a young widow sets off with her family for a life out West – a journey fraught with hardship, fear, death and terrible sacrifice that leads her into the arms of a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds. Original. HARMON, AMY
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The girl from the Channel Islands
by Jenny Lecoat
After fleeing Vienna, a Jewish woman living in the British Channel Islands is forced to hide in plain site during the German occupation and to survive must depend on her own courage, her community and a soldier she befriends. LECOAT, JENNY
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Apeirogon : a novel
by Colum McCann
Two fathers, a Palestinian and an Israeli, navigate the physical and emotional checkpoints of their conflicted world before devastating losses compel them to work together to use their grief as a weapon for peace. By the best-selling author of TransAtlantic. MCCANN, COLUM
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Gravity is the thing : a novel
by Jaclyn Moriarty
An adult debut by the award-winning author of the Colours of Madeleine trilogy follows a single mother's heartfelt search for more meaningful truths about the universe, her family and herself. MORIARITY, JACLYN
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The magician's assistant
by Ann Patchett
After the death of a homosexual magician, his female assistant journeys from Los Angeles to Nebraska in search of the man's hidden past and discovers his estranged family, as well as the love she has always been denied. PATCHETT, ANN
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After the last border : two families and the story of refuge in America
by Jessica Goudeau
Documents the intimate stories of two refugees in present-day Texas, describing how a Christian from Myanmar and a Muslim from Syria narrowly escaped their home countries only to be introduced to the worst and best of the American dream. Illustrations. 362.83981 GOUDEAU
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Solutions and other problems
by Allie Brosh
The creator of the award-winning Hyperbole and a Half presents a new collection of comedic, autobiographical and deceptively illustrated essays on topics ranging from childhood and very bad pets to grief, loneliness and powerlessness in modern life. 400,000 first printing. Illustrations. GRAPHIC 921 BROSH, ALLIE
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Ninety-nine glimpses of Princess Margaret
by Craig Brown
The best-selling author of Hello Goodbye Hello shares a portrait of the sister of Elizabeth II that draws on eclectic sources to explore her controversial relationships, the contradictory aspects attributed to her character and the tragedies that overshadowed her life 941.08509 BROWN
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'Ohana means family
by Ilima Loomis
In this cumulative rhyme in the style of "The House That Jack Built," a family celebrates Hawaii and its culture while serving poi at a luau E LOOMIS, ILIMA
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Outside, inside
by LeUyen Pham
"From Caldecott honoree LeUyen Pham, a moving picture book celebrating essential workers and the community coming together to face the challenges of the global COVID-19 pandemic" E PHAM, LEUYEN
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Dear Mr. Henshaw
by Beverly Cleary
In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world J CLEARY, BEVERLY
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Muggie Maggie
by Beverly Cleary
Maggie resists learning cursive writing in the third grade, until she discovers that knowing how to read and write cursive promises to open up an entirely new world of knowledge for her J CLEARY, BEVERLY
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Starfish
by Lisa Fipps
A debut novel-in-verse follows the experiences of a girl who tries to change her behavior when she is bullied for her weight, before a swimming hobby, a kind therapist and an accepting new neighbor help her embrace her true self. J FIPPS, LISA
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Unspeakable : the Tulsa Race Massacre
by Carole Boston Weatherford
"Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history" J 976.686 WEATHERF
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Muse of nightmares
by Laini Taylor
"As humans and godspawn reel in the aftermath of the citadel's near fall, a new foe shatters their fragile hopes, and the mysteries of the Mesarthim are resurrected" YA TAYLOR, LAINI
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This place : 150 years retold
by Katherena Vermette
A graphic novel anthology depicts the last one hundred fifty years of Canadian history as seen through the eyes of the Indigenous peoples who inhabited the land before the Europeans arrived YA GRAPHIC THIS PLACE
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