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| I'll Come to You by Rebecca KauffmanBeginning in January 1995 and ending in December of the same year, this quietly moving novel with vibrant characters follows the everyday goings-on of several related families as their members navigate new relationships, dating after divorce, pregnancy, dementia, and more. Read-alike: Julie Otsuka's The Swimmers. |
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| Waiting for the Long Night Moon by Amanda PetersThe Canadian author of the award-winning The Berry Pickers presents 17 stories that span hundreds of years, feature thought-provoking Indigenous characters, and cover topics such as the arrival of colonists, the evils of Indian residential schools, and the importance of protecting nature. "An affecting and wide-ranging collection," raves Publishers Weekly. |
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Blue Sisters
by Coco Mellors
After the unexpected death of their sister Nicky sends them reeling, the remaining three Blue sisters return to New York to stop the sale of the apartment they were raised in, where they must reckon with disappointments, loss and secrets.
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| The Granddaughter by Bernhard SchlinkAfter his wife dies, elderly Kaspar finds a diary indicating she gave birth to a child before she met him. Kaspar investigates and discovers the lost daughter is a neo-Nazi with a controlling husband and a 14-year-old daughter, Sigrun. Using money to finesse his way into visits with Sigrun, Kaspar shows her the Berlin he loves, gets her the piano lessons she wants, and tries to expand her world view. Try this next: Foster by Claire Keegan. |
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The Reeds
by Arjun Basu
The Reeds are a very loving, slightly dysfunctional family -- but a summer of individual changes is about to shake their tight family unit. Bobby, the father, loses his executive job while his wife Mimi’s lucrative home-run business leaps ahead. Their adopted son, Abbie, leverages his internet stardom into the makings of a career, while their adopted daughter, Dee, discovers who she really is. They’ll have to navigate the shifting landscapes of commerce and fame in the age of the internet, office politics, gender dynamics, and sexuality in a world that has just seen Brexit, Trump, and heightened climate anxiety.
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| We Lived on the Horizon by Erika SwylerIn an AI-run walled city, someone murders a powerful member of the Saints, a wealthy group descended from the city's founders. Meanwhile, 60-something Saint Enita creates a body for Nix, the AI she considers family, unaware that the murder signals rumblings of a revolution in this "singularly stunning and stunningly singular" (Kirkus Reviews) novel. Try this next: Gish Jen's The Resisters.
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Counting Miracles
by Nicholas Sparks
Returning to 1903 Iowa, a reclusive musician, Otis Taylor, returns to settle family affairs and find his missing niece, while Sadie West, seeking to help her family, creates a transformative bond with him, potentially unlocking the mystery of his niece.
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| Good Dirt by Charmaine WilkersonAfter she's left at the alter by her wealthy white fiancé, Ebby, who's from a well-to-do Black New England family, goes to France to escape the press. She also works on a book about the stoneware jar her enslaved relatives owned, which was destroyed years ago when burglars killed her brother. After the success of Black Cake, author Charmaine Wilkerson serves up another emotionally intense story with multiple viewpoints. |
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Trial by Fire
by Danielle Steel
Fifty-six-year-old CEO of a family perfume business, Dahlia de Beaumont faces unexpected consequences and personal challenges after aiding Napa Valley fire victims during a routine business trip to San Francisco, leading to profound changes in her life and relationships.
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The Banned Books Club
by Brenda Novak
Returning to Wakefield, Iowa, Gia Rossi comes face-to-face with Mr. Hart, the teacher who was fired after she reported him for sexual misconduct, which had divided the town, and with the support of an unlikely ally, sets out to prove Mr. Hart's guilt.
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The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
by Anna Johnston
Eighty-two-year-old Frederick Fife, kind at heart, is desperately lonely, broke and on the brink of homelessness until a case of mistaken identity lands him in a nursing home where he learns about the man's past and how he can return to a life in better condition than he found it.
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We Need No Wings
by Ann Dávila Cardinal
After her husband of over 30 years dies, Tere Sanchez feels unmoored and is stunned to find herself hovering over her garden. A descendent of levitating St. Teresa of Ávila, Tere visits a cousin who's a nun in Spain to learn more, and meets people who change her life in this moving story about loss, self-discovery, and second chances.
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Love Can't Feed You
by Cherry Lou Sy
Queenie, her younger brother and their elderly Chinese father arrive in the U.S. to reunite with her mother who has been working as a nurse in this chronicle of a Filipino-American family's struggle to rebuild their lives in Brooklyn.
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The Memory Dress
by Jade Beer
A missing husband and a dress once owned by Princess Diana set two very different women on paths of discovery that will change both their lives forever.
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A Home for the Holidays
by Taylor Hahn
After learning that her mother, Connie, has died two weeks before Christmas, wedding singer Mel Hart meets a woman claiming to be her mom's estranged best friend who offers an alternate narrative where Connie was almost a famous country singer.
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