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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
by Angela Carter
Carter breathes new life into familiar fairy tales and legends in a style steeped in the romantic trappings of the gothic tradition. She focuses on female characters seeking freedom from repressive, often patriarchal, environments. Her complex characterizations and poignant allegories make her novels sophisticated and rich, though the writing is often witty and playful. Her fiction is also marked by an interest in surreal, wondrous, and magical elements, such as puppets, circuses, and evil scientists.
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When the Reckoning Comes
by LaTanya McQueen
More than a decade ago, Mira fled her segregated hometown of Kipsen, leaving behind her best friend, the white Celine, and Woodsman Plantation, rumored to be haunted by the spirits of slaves. Now Mira is back in Kipsen for Celine's wedding. Mira hopes to reconnect with her old friends, especially Jesse, the boy she secretly loved. Woodsman remains a monument to its racist history, and as the weekend unfolds, Mira, Celine, and Jesse are forced to acknowledge their history together and save themselves from what is to come.
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The Pumpkin Spice Cafe
by Laurie Gilmore
When Jeanie's aunt gifts her the Pumpkin Spice Café in the small town of Dream Harbor, Jeanie jumps at the chance for a fresh start. Logan is a local farmer who avoids Dream Harbor's gossip at all costs. But Jeanie's arrival disrupts Logan's routine and he wants nothing to do with the irritatingly upbeat new girl, except that he finds himself inexplicably drawn to her. Will Jeanie's happy-go-lucky attitude win over the grumpy-but-gorgeous Logan, or has this city girl found the one person in town who won't fall for her charm or her pumpkin spice lattes?
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Woman of Light
by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Written in a singular voice, the wildly entertaining and complex lives of the Lopez family fill the pages of this multigenerational western saga. Woman of Light is a transfixing novel about survival, family secrets, and love. It is filled with an unforgettable cast of characters, all of whom are just as special, memorable, and complicated as our beloved heroine, Luz. There is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories.
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The Unmaking of June Farrow
by Adrienne Young
In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm and the mysterious curse that has plagued their family line. It's been a year since June started seeing and hearing things that weren't there, but she is determined to end the curse once and for all. After her grandmother's death, June discovers a series of cryptic clues regarding her mother's decades-old disappearance. Could the door she once assumed was a hallucination be the answer she's been searching for?
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Good Girl
by Aria Aber
Born in Germany to Afghan refugees, raised in public housing graffitied with swastikas, drawn to philosophy, photography, and sex, nineteen-year-old Nila has spent her adolescence searching for her voice as a young woman and artist. Then in the haze of Berlin's night life, Nila meets Marlowe, an American writer who opens her eyes to personal and artistic freedom. As Nila is pulled into Marlowe's controlling orbit, racial tensions begin to roil Germany. After a year of running from her future, Nila stops and asks herself: who does she want to be?
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The Time Door
by Shannon Mcdermott
In the shambles of the Great Collapse, Earth has abandoned the Mars explorers. But Reuben Jackson will make a stand for Mars, even against the powerfully united politicians and scientists. As the conflict mounts on Earth, time runs down on Mars. Left to face Mars alone, Commander Donegan Moynihan and his team have little hope of surviving. The explorers venture deep inside the ancient volcano of Arsia Mons, into perils and secrets long buried. What they discover would move mountains on Earth, but will it be enough to save themselves?
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Stay Dead
by April Henry
When a bomb rips off a wing and a plane crashes in the mountains, 16-year-old Milan is entrusted with a key to unlocking evidence people have already died for, including Milan's father. She must elude the relentless assassins on her trail to save herself and countless others.
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Lucky Day
by Chuck Tingle
Four years ago, an unthinkable disaster occurred. In what was later known as the Low-Probability Event, 8 million people were killed in a single day, each of them dying in improbable, bizarre ways. Vera, a former statistics professor, lost everything that day, and she still struggles to make sense of the catastrophe. When Special Agent Layne shows up on Vera's doorstep, she learns he's investigating a suspiciously-and statistically impossible-lucky casino. He needs her help to prove the casino's success is connected to the deaths of millions, and it's Vera's last chance to make sense of a world that doesn't.
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Death on the Island
by Eliza Reid
Trapped on a remote island by a howling storm, nine people sit down to dinner. One of them is about to die. A group of international players has gathered in a tiny village off the coast of Iceland for a diplomatic dinner. There's Kristján, the mayor reeling from a personal tragedy, Graeme, the ambassador with an agenda to push, Jane, his wife, along for the ride on another one of her husband's many business trips, and several others, each with their own reason for being there, their own loyalties and grievances. No one in their group is safe.
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The Rebel's Clinic
by Adam Shatz
Frantz Fanon was the intellectual activist of the postcolonial era, and his writings about race, revolution, and the psychology of power continue to shape radical movements across the world. This biography tells the story of Fanon’s stunning journey, leaving his home in Martinique to fight in the French Army during World War II, falling under the influence of Existentialism, practicing a novel psychiatry of “dis-alienation” in rural France and Algeria, and joining the Algerian independence struggle, where he became a spokesman, diplomat, and clandestine strategist.
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Jane Austen's Bookshelf
by Rebecca Romney
This book investigates the disappearance of Austen's heroes -- women writers who were erased from the Western canon -- to reveal who they were, what they meant to Austen, and how they were forgotten. Each chapter profiles a different writer, drawing on connections between their words and Austen's. Romney collects the once-famed works of these forgotten writers, physically recreating Austen's bookshelf and making a convincing case for why these books should be placed back on the to-be-read pile of all book lovers today.
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The Small and the Mighty
by Sharon McMahon
Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn't make it into textbooks. She discovers history's unsung characters and brings their rich, riveting stories to light for the first time. You'll meet a woman on a white horse riding down Pennsylvania Ave, a boy detained at a Japanese incarceration camp, a formerly enslaved woman on a mission to reunite with her daughter, a poet on a train, and a teacher who learns to work with her enemies. This is a book about what really made America - and Americans - great.
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Creativity, Inc.
by Edwin E. Catmull
In 1986, Ed Catmull co-founded Pixar, a modest start-up with an immodest goal: to make the first-ever computer animated movie. Nine years later, Pixar released Toy Story, which went on to revolutionize the industry, gross $360 million, and establish Pixar as one of the most successful, innovative, and emulated companies on earth. This book details how Catmull built an enduring creative culture. As he discovered, pursuing excellence isn't a one-off assignment. It's an ongoing, day-in, day-out, full-time job, one he was born to do.
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Bring the Magic Home
by Sunny Chanel
This inspirational book is a practical how-to guide to infuse your personal spaces with the wonders of Disney! A mix of Disney history, interior design, garden design, and DIY project studies, this visually detailed coffee table book charts how to infuse your personal spaces with the wonder and whimsy found at Disneyland and Walt Disney World. It also looks at those who created the elements that serve as our muse.
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