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Tournament of Books All-Stars July 7-August 4 |
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Tournament of Books All-Stars
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The Frozen River by Ariel LawhonIn 1789 Maine, midwife and healer Martha Ballard, who is good at keeping secrets, investigates a shocking murder linked to an alleged rape that has shaken her small town, especially when her diary lands at the center of the scandal, threatening to tear both her family and her community apart. 2025 Champion |
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The Only One Left by Riley SagerIn 1983, home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope's End to care for Lenora Hope, helping her write about the events leading up to her family's massacre in 1929, and soon discovers this seemingly harmless woman could be far more dangerous than she first thought. 2024 Champion |
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Remarkably Bright Creaturesby Shelby Van PeltAfter her husband dies, widow Tova Sullivan starts working at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, where she forms a special bond with a giant Pacific octopus who holds the key to solving the mysterious disappearance of her 18-year-old son, Erik, over thirty years ago on the Puget Sound. |
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The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline BoulleyDaunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths. |
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Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life as a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, where he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. Then Linus is given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel to Marsyas Island Orphanage, where six dangerous children reside. Linus must set aside his fears and determine whether or not they're likely to bring about the end of days. But the children aren't the only secret the island keeps...
2021 Champion |
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Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda HolmesYoung widow Evvie Drake and major league pitcher Dean Tenney, who has lost his game and needs a chance to reset his life, form an unlikely relationship when Dean moves into an apartment at the back of Evvie's house. 2020 Champion |
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Love, Hate & Other Filters by Samira AhmedMaya Aziz, seventeen, is caught between her India-born parents' world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil, when a terrorist attack changes her life forever. 2019 Champion |
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanA socially awkward, routine-oriented loner teams up with a bumbling IT guy from her office to assist an elderly accident victim, forging a friendship that saves all three from lives of isolation and secret unhappiness. 2018 Champion |
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A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor TowlesDeemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he endures life in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold. By the best-selling author of Rules of Civility. 2017 Champion |
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Our Souls at Night by Kent HarufA senior-aged widow and widower forge a loving bond over shared loneliness and respective histories, provoking local gossip and the disapproval of their grown children in ways that are further complicated by an extended visit by a sad young grandchild. 2016 Champion |
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