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Popular FictionMay - June 2024
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The Glassmaker by Tracy ChevalierFrom the height of Renaissance-era Italy to the present day, this spellbinding novel follows Orsola Rosso and her family of glassblowers as they live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, and how through every era, the Rosso women ensure their work, and their bonds, endure.
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Shelterwood by Lisa WingateIn 1990 Oklahoma, Valerie, a Law Enforcement Ranger reporting for duty at Horsethief Trail National Park, is immediately faced with the long-hidden burial site of three children, and working with the neighboring Choctaw Tribal Police, unearths old secrets.
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This Strange Eventful History by Claire MessudInspired by stories from her own family, this masterful story follows the Cassars over seven decades, starting with patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them, and ending with Chloe, who believes telling her family's stories will bring them all peace.
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Last Summer on Sunset Lane by Kristy Woodson Harvey"A young woman discovers the love and family she has always longed for when she spends a life-changing summer at her grandparents' old house in North Carolina"
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The Guncle Abroad by Steven RowleyWith his brother getting remarried in Italy, Patrick takes his niece and nephew back under his wing, and as they travel through Europe, he tries his best to help them understand love, while dealing with a groom with cold feet, his over-flirtatious sister and other disasters.
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A Daughter of Fair Verona by Christina DoddThe eldest daughter of Romeo and Juliet rejects the betrothal planned by her parents and tries to find the groom-to-be a more suitable bride.
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Last House : or, The Age of Oil by Jessica ShattuckSpanning generations and nearly 80 years, this emotional tour de force follows one American family, during the radical movement of the 1968 against Big Oil, as they are forced to reckon with the consequences of the resources that built their fortune and fueled their greatest tragedy.
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Butcher by Joyce Carol OatesA disgraced doctor's quest for surgical renown in 19th-century America leads him down a horrifying path of experimentation on marginalized women at a New Jersey asylum, until his obsession with a young Irish indentured servant brings about his ultimate destruction.
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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.
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Same As It Ever Was by Claire LombardoFinally at age 57, Julie Ames feels she has a firm handle on things, but an announcement from her straight-arrow son, an impending separation from her teenaged daughter and a seductive resurgence of the past threaten to draw her back into the patterns that kept her on a razor's edge.
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The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahayeby Briony Cameron"An epic, dazzling tale based on true events, The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye illuminates a woman of color's rise to power as one of the few purported female pirate captains to sail the Caribbean, and the forbidden love story that will shape the course of history"
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All Fours by Miranda JulyDitching her California life for the open road, a restless, semi-famous artist leaves her husband, child and career and reinvents herself in a motel room, embarking on a journey of self-discovery and what it means to be alive and free.
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Lovers and Liarsby Amanda Eyre WardThe Peacock sisters reunite for their sister Sylvie's destination wedding at an English castle where things come to a head when their toxic mother arrives, giving them an unexpected opportunity to find the courage to make new choices.
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This Strange Eventful History by Claire MessudThis masterful story follows the Cassars over seven decades, starting with patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them, and ending with Chloe, who believes telling her family's buried stories will bring them all peace.
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Ella by Diane RichardsFollows the life of legendary singer Ella Fitzgerald from her escape from an infamous training school/prison that forced her to dance on the street for money to her 1934 first amateur appearance at the Apollo Theatre.
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Daughters of Shandong by Eve J. ChungAs China's civil war ravages and engulfs their once-privileged lives, four resourceful daughters defy tradition and flee their home as the Communist army closes in, charting a path across a war-torn nation to independence in Taiwan.
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Bear by Julia PhillipsTrapped on a remote Washington island with their dreams out of reach, two sisters clash when a mysterious bear arrives swimming in the channel, forcing them to confront their conflicting desires for escape and connection.
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How the Light Gets in by Joyce MaynardA complex story of three generations of a family focuses especially on its remarkable, resilient, indomitable matriarch, Eleanor.
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How to Age Disgracefully by Clare PooleyThe quirky members of the Senior Citizen's Social Club join forces with the tiny members of the daycare next store to thwart the city council's planned sale of the building housing both centers.
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You Are Here by David NichollsWhen a persistent mutual friend and some very unpredictable weather conspire to toss Michael and Marnie together on the most epic of 10-day hikes, neither of them can think of anything worse, until, of course, they discover exactly what they've been looking for.
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Every Time We Say Goodbye by Natalie JennerA London playwright working as a script doctor in 1955 Rome faces the mystery of what happened to her fiancé during the war, in the new novel by the best-selling author of The Jane Austen Society.
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The Lost Letters from Martha's Vineyard by Michael CallahanWhen TV producer Kit O'Neill discovers her late grandmother was Mercy Welles, an Oscar-nominated actress who disappeared just as her career was taking off, she puts her investigative skills to good use, which leads her to Martha's Vineyard.
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Oye by Melissa MogollonThe baby of her large Colombian American family, Luciana, when her grandmother, Abue, moves into her bedroom, finds her wild demands, antics and devastating secrets a welcome distraction, putting her on center stage, facing down adulthood—and rising to the occasion.
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Long After We Are Gone : a novel by Terah Shelton HarrisTold from alternating points of view from all four siblings, this emotional story about the power of family and letting go follows CeCe, Junior, Nance and Angeline, each fighting their own personal battles, as they return home to save their ancestral land after the death of their father.
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The Wealth of Shadows : a novel by Graham MooreIn 1939, Ansel Luxford uproots his family and moves to Washington, D.C., to work on a project to undermine Nazi Germany and is plunged into a world of espionage, danger and deceit, especially when his wife takes a job with the FBI, bringing subterfuge to the home front.
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Skin & Bones by Renée WatsonWhen a confession on her wedding day shifts her world, 40-year-old Lena, questions everything she's learned about dating, friendship and motherhood while working tirelessly to bring the oft-forgotten Black history of Oregon to the masses.
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The Library Thief : a novel by Kuchenga ShenjâeA white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England, Florence, restoring a collection of rare books in the forbidding Rose Hall, hears whispers about Lord Belfield's late wife, and when the library is broken into and his wife's secret diary is burned, she realizes it may have held the clue to her fate.
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