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Real Americans
by Rachel Khong
In this intricately woven tapestry of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance, 15-year-old Nick Chen, who can't shake the feeling his mother is hiding something, sets out to find his biological father—journey that raises more questions than provides answers.
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The Light Pirate
by Lily Brooks-Dalton
Born during a powerful hurricane, Wanda, an unusual woman in a rapidly changing world, loses family, gains community and ultimately seeks adventure, love and purpose in a place abandoned by civilization and remade by nature.
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Small World
by Laura Zigman
Inviting her older sister Lydia to live with her until she finds a place of her own, Joyce finds their relationship fraying as new revelations from their family's history come to light and force them to finally reckon with their childhood.
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Good Night, Irene
by Luis Alberto Urrea
Abandoning her abusive fiancâe in New York in 1943 to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe, Irene Woodward befriends Dorothy Dunford as they join the Allied soldiers streaming into France after D-Day where they are embroiled in danger, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald, and where Irene learns to trust again through their friendship
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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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Foster
by Claire Keegan
An Irish child taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm finds the love and affection she never knew before and begins to thrive in the internationally best-selling novel now available as a standalone book.
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