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Fiction A to Z September 2024 |
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| Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-AknerThis witty and insightful novel takes place 40 years after wealthy Carl Fletcher was kidnapped. His wife paid the $250,000 ransom and he survived, but no one in the family has dealt with their trauma, and now their money is running out. |
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The volcano daughters
by Gina Maria Balibrera
Spending years under the cruel dictator El Gran Pendejo's regime in El Salvador, sisters Graciela and Consuelo, when genocide strikes the community from which they hail, and each believing the other to be dead, flee across the globe, reinventing themselves until fate brings them back together in the most unlikely of ways.
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| Black Butterflies by Priscilla MorrisIn 1992, rumors of war fly in cosmopolitan Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. While her husband and mother go to England, 55-year-old artist Zora stays, convinced it'll all end quickly. But as the siege of her city drags on for years, Zora must connect with others to survive. Published in the United Kingdom in 2022, this immersive debut was inspired by the author's family. Read-alikes: Steven Galloway's The Cellist of Sarajevo; Stef Penney's The Beasts of Paris. |
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| All This & More by Peng ShepherdRecently divorced middle-aged mom Marsh thinks it's too late to live the life she'd once imagined, from having a high-flying career to traveling the world. But then she's selected for a reality show where quantum technology allows contestants to revise their pasts...though there just might be a glitch in the process. For fans of: Choose Your Own Adventure-style books; Holly Gramazio's The Husbands. |
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The forgotten names : a novel
by Mario Escobar
Researching the 108 children who disappeared from Vénissieux 50 years earlier, escaping certain death in the German concentration camps, law student Valérie Potheret discovers Jewish mothers, to save their children, made the ultimate sacrifice, and vows to match the abandoned names with the people they belong to.
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The bookshop sisterhood
by Michelle Lindo-Rice
While working toward the grand opening of their Black-owned bookstore, four best friends are each told four little words that upend their lives, forcing them to lean on each other and the books they love to navigate the changes or risking losing the business and their friendships.
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If you like: Elizabeth Strout
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| Roman Stories by Jhumpa LahiriCentering on the city of Rome, this thoughtful collection of nine lyrical short stories explores the lives and relationships of a wide variety of individuals. Roman Stories was composed in Italian by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri and translated into English by Lahiri and her editor. |
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| Commonwealth by Ann PatchettIt's at the Southern California christening for baby Franny Keating that the implosion of two nuclear families begins with a kiss. When the dust clears, Franny and her sister have four new stepsiblings with whom they are forced to spend long summers in Virginia. Over the decades, a fatal bee sting, long-held secrets, and a bestselling novel threaten hard-won bonds. |
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| Gilead by Marilynne RobinsonIn 1956 Gilead, Iowa, 70-something Reverend John Ames approaches the time of his death and writes a letter to his son chronicling family history that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals family secrets. For fans of: lyrical novels portraying the intimate thoughts of characters who have complicated, often difficult lives within their small communities. |
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| The Covenant of Water by Abraham VergheseSet in Kerala, India from 1900 to 1977, this atmospheric saga follows a family of Saint Thomas Christians (a local Christian community present in the region since late antiquity) that loses at least one member by drowning each generation, as well as an orphaned Scot, who becomes a physician and makes his way to Colonial India. |
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