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Mentioned in the Media July & August 2024 |
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Red side story
by Jasper Fforde
In a society strictly regulated by one's limited color perception, 20-year-old Eddie Russet, out on the fringes of Red Sector West, is framed for murder and, to save himself and Jane Grey, with whom he has an illegal relationship, must negotiate the narrow boundaries of the Rules to find a loophole.
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Everywhere the Undrowned: A Memoir of Survival and Imagination
by Stephanie Clare Smith
Holding on is all fourteen-year-old Stephanie Clare Smith can do when she's left home alone in New Orleans during the summer of 1973. As she seeks to ease her loneliness through her summer algebra class, the city itself, and her friendship with a streetcar operator, adults fail her again and again with devastating consequences.
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Which Way Was North: Poems
by Anne Pierson Wiese
In Which Way Was North, Anne Pierson Wiese juxtaposes poems from her years living in New York City with work written after her relocation to South Dakota.
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Summer on Highland Beach
by Sunny Hostin
In Highland Beach, the oldest Black resort community in America, Olivia Jones, amid tense family drama, must decide if she wants to return to the beautiful life she's created in Sag Harbor or finally achieve her dream of having a home and family of her own in Highland Beach.
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Life's Too Shore: A Memoir
by Darius Rucker
The three-time Grammy award-winning, Diamond-album-selling lead singer of Hootie & the Blowfish and country music star tells the story of his life through the music that made him and his own music with Hootie and as a solo artist, sharing stories of his road-hardened life that are raw, real, funny and deeply emotional.
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Farewell, Amethystine
by Walter Mosley
Los Angeles detective Easy Rawlins investigates when the ex-husband of his ex-lover, Amethystine Stoller, turns up dead and his only friend at the LAPD goes into hiding, in the 16th novel of the series following Blood Grove.
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The Great Divide
by Cristina Henrâiquez
An epic novel about the construction of the Panama Canal casts light on the unsung people who lived, loved and labored there.
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Little Rot
by Akwaeke Emezi
Aima and Kalu are a longtime couple who have just split. When Kalu, reeling from the breakup, visits an exclusive sex party hosted by his best friend, Ahmed, he makes a decision that will plunge them all into chaos, brutally and suddenly upending their lives. Ola and Souraya, two Nigerian sex workers visiting from Kuala Lumpur, collide into the scene just as everything goes to hell. Sucked into the city’s corrupt and glittering underworld, they’re all looking for a way out, fueled by a desperate need to escape the dangerous threat that looms over them.
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Parade
by Rachel Cusk
A new novel follows G, an artist whose life contains many lives.
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American Negra: A Memoir
by Natasha S. Alford
An award-winning journalist, host and media executive recalls growing up as the daughter of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother in Upstate New York and the challenges she faced as a multiracial woman.
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The Family Experiment
by John Marrs
When the company behind Virtual Children creates a reality TV show called“The Substitute,” 10 couples compete to raise a Virtual Child from birth to age 18 in a nine-month period where the prize is the right to keep their virtual child or risk it all for the chance of a real baby.
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Home is Where the Bodies Are
by Jeneva Rose
After their mother passes, three estranged siblings reunite to sort out her estate. Beth, the oldest, never left home. She stayed with her mom, caring for her until the very end. Nicole, the middle child, has been kept at arm's length due to her ongoing battle with a serious drug addiction. Michael, the youngest, lives out of state and hasn't been back to their small Wisconsin town since their father ran out on them seven years before. While going through their parent's belongings, the siblings stumble upon a collection of home videos and decide to revisit those happier memories. However, the nostalgia is cut short when one of the VHS tapes reveals a night back in 1999 that none of them have any recollection of. On screen, their father appears covered in blood. What follows is a dead body and a pact between their parents to get rid of it, before the video abruptly ends. Beth, Nicole, and Michael must now decide whether to leave the past in the past or uncover the dark secret their mother took to her grave.
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Same As it Ever Was
by Claire Lombardo
Finally at age 57, Julie Ames feels she has a firm handle on things, but a surprise 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 had previously kept her on a razor's edge.
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Sandwich
by Catherine Newman
While on her family's yearly escape to Cape Cod, Rocky, sandwiched between her half-grown kids and fully aging parents, relives the tenderness and sorrow of a handful of long-ago summers, coming face-to-face with her family's history and future and accepting she can no longer hide her secrets from the people she loves.
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Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida
by Mikita Brottman
Mike and Denise Williams had a tight knit, seemingly unbreakable bond with childhood friends, Brian and Kathy Winchester. The two couples were devout, hardworking Baptists who lived perfect, quintessentially Southern lives. Their friendship seemed ironclad. That is, until December 16, 2000, when Denise's husband Mike disappeared while duck hunting on Lake Seminole...
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There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
by Anna Akbari
Part memoir, part glimpse into the mind of a catfish, this page-turning personal account follows three successful and highly educated women who fell in love with Ethan Schuman and were ensnared in a web of intense emotional intimacy, until they managed to uncover a greater deception than they could've ever imagined.
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Fire Exit
by Morgan Talty
Consumed by a long-held secret about his daughter across the river on the Penobscot Reservation, Charles Lamosway grapples with his past, a lost love and the burdens of family as he searches for redemption. as he searches for redemption.
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Forgotten on Sunday
by Valâerie Perrin
A nursing assistant at a retirement home befriends a near-centenarian and the pair share their life stories, deepening their friendship, but revealing a long-kept secret
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Horror Movie
by Paul Tremblay
The only surviving cast member of a notorious, disturbing 1993 art house horror movie joins the remake, but begins having trouble distinguishing between reality and film.
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Another Word for Love: A Memoir
by Carvell Wallace
The writer and podcast host examines his own history of growing of growing up Black and queer in America and the struggles he faced as the son of a single parent in a predominantly white Pennsylvania town.
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Consent: A Memoir
by Jill Ciment
The author of the novel The Body in Question reevaluates her decades-long marriage to the 47-year-old man she met when she was seventeen in the context of today's focus on the balance of power between older men and young girls.
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On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Services
by Anthony S. Fauci
The most famous—and most revered—doctor in the world today who guided America through the COVID pandemic—and who embodies “speaking truth to power” with dignity and results, reveals his behind-the-scenes advising and negotiating with seven presidents on key issues from global AIDS relief to infectious disease preparedness at home.
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The Future was Color
by Patrick Nathan
In 1950s Hollywood, when George Curtis, a Hungarian immigrant working as a studio hack scripting monster movies, is offered a political writing residency at a famous actress's estate in Malibu, he discovers that behind this decadent lifestyle lurks the real monsters.
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Godwin
by Joseph O'Neill
A technical writer living in Pittsburgh with his young family is pulled into a scheme with his half-brother to recruit a soccer phenom in Africa to play for his team in the United Kingdom.
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The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions
by Amanda Brickell Bellows
Told through the stories of a diverse group of ten extraordinary, yet often overlooked, adventurers, including Sacagawea, James Beckwourth, Harriet Chalmers Adams and Sally Ride, this exhilarating new history of American exploration brings to life the people who took on great risk in unfamiliar territory to exercise personal freedom.
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The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in An Age of Rage
by Jonathan Turley
Placing the current attacks on free speech in their proper historical, legal and political context, this timely, eye-opening book shows how the alliance of academic, media and corporate interests with the government's traditional wish to control speech is hurtling us toward censorship.
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The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower
by Michel Paradis
Drawing on meticulous research and newly discovered records, letters, diaries and first-hand accounts from three continents, a leading human rights lawyer, historian and national security law scholar chronicles the rise of Dwight Eisenhower in the months leading up to D-Day, which was integral to America's rise as a global superpower.
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The Whole Staggering Mystery: A Story of Fathers Lost and Found
by Sylvia Brownrigg
Vividly weaving together the lives of her father and grandfather, through memory and imagination, the author explores issues of sexuality and silences and childhoods fractured by divorce and in uncovering this lost family, writes beautifully of daughterhood and parenthood, gradually making her story whole.
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Daughter of the Merciful Deep
by L. Penelope
Mute since armed riders expelled every Black family in town, Jane Edwards seeks assistance from a strange man with uncanny abilities to help fight the construction of a dam that will wash away her new home.
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God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer
by Joseph Earl Thomas
An ex-Army grad student, Joseph, navigates PTSD, single fatherhood and strained family ties while confronting the complexities of race, love, and justice in modern Philadelphia.
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Malas
by Marcela Fuentes
When her beloved grandmother passes away, 14-year-old Lulu is drawn to the glamorous stranger who crashed the funeral and their unexpected kinship picks at the secrets of Lulu's family and a curse that reverberates across generation as one woman must make peace with the past and one girl must embrace her future.
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Missing White Woman
by Kellye Garrett
A woman thinks she's waking up to a romantic vacation—only to find a body in her rental home and her boyfriend gone.
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Moonbound: The Last Book of the Anth
by Robin Sloan
Thirteen thousand years from now, Ariel, a boy in a remote village under a wizard's rule, encounters an entity from an earlier civilization, a sentient, sensitive AI with a special perspective on all human history who becomes Ariel's greatest Ally.
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One of Our Kind
by Nicola Yoon
Moving their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California, hope to find a community of like-minded people, Jasmyn, perplexed and frustrated by most residents' outlook, discovers a terrible secret about Liberty and its founders and must save her loved ones from embracing the Liberty way of life.
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And Then? And Then? What Else?
by Daniel Handler
The author of the popular Lemony Snicket books discusses his love of strange literature and reflects on his life experiences in an entertaining memoir that also serves as inspiration for aspiring writers.
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Fi: A Memoir
by Alexandra Fuller
The award-winning New York Times best-selling author of Don't Let's Go to The Dogs Tonight discusses how she faced the sudden and unexpected death of her 21-year-old son and her struggles to not abandon her two surviving daughters.
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Joyful Recollection of Trauma
by Paul Scheer
The award-winning comedian, actor, filmmaker and podcaster presents a hilarious and candid memoir-in-essays that confront his sometimes shocking and difficult childhood, journey towards self-acceptance and his own experiences as a father.
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Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir
by Sara Glass
No longer able to conform to her controlling Hasidic community, the author walked away from the world she knew and onto a path of self-acceptance as she, after a divorce, custody battle, remarriage and a shocking sexual assault, decided to finally be true to herself and embrace her queer identity.
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