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Our Picks for August, 2023
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Tom Lake : a novel
by Ann Patchett
Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance with, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
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The art of scandal
by Regina Black
After discovering her husband is having an affair, Rachel Abbott agrees to keep playing the ideal Black trophy wife until after his reelection campaign but finds it hard to keep her side of the bargain when she falls in love with an artist whose secrets blow everything wide open. 30,000 first printing.
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The underworld : journeys to the depths of the ocean
by Susan Casey
Drawing on interviews with marine geologists, marine biologists and oceanographers, a premiere chronicler of the aquatic world and New York Times best-selling author provides a fascinating history of deep-sea exploration and shows how urgent it is that we understand the ocean in a time of increasing threats from climate change. Illustrations.
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Tastes Like Shakkar
by Nisha Sharma
When someone tries to sabotage the biggest wedding of the year, Bobbie Kaur, with aspirations of taking over her family's event planning business, must call a truce with egotistical chef Bunty Padda to catch the culprit while exploring their growing attraction. Original. 75,000 first printing.
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To catch a storm : a novel
by Mindy Mejia
A physicist and a psychic reluctantly team up to solve two missing persons cases during an ice storm in Iowa.
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride
When a skeleton is unearthed in the small, close-knit community of Chicken Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1972, an unforgettable cast of characters—living on the margins of white, Christian America—closely guard a secret, especially when the truth is revealed about what happened and the part the town's white establishment played in it.
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Whalefall : a novel
by Daniel Kraus
Diving in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach to find the remains of his deceased father, Jay Gardiner, in a terrifying turn of events, is swallowed by a sperm whale and has only one hour before his oxygen tanks run out—one hour to defeat his demons and escape. Simultaneous.
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A council of dolls : a novel
by Susan Power
Details the story of three women from different generations, told through the stories of the dolls they carried in 1888, 1925 and 1961 bringing to light the damage done to indigenous people through history. 75,000 first printing.
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The Blonde Identity
by Ally Carter
Waking up in Paris with no memory of who she is, a young woman discovers she's the identical twin of a rogue spy and, to stay alive, must team up with a very grouchy, very sexy, very secret agent to unravel a deadly conspiracy and clear her sister's name, 100,000 first printing.
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Looking glass sound
by Catriona Ward
Returning to the small New England town of his youth where a killer had once stalked its streets, writer Wilder Harlow, while penning his memoir, fears his grip on the truth of the tragedy fading and that this will not only be his last book, but the last thing he ever does. 200,000 first printing.
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The bee sting
by Paul Murray
From the author of Skippy Dies, an comes a thought-provoking novel about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart.
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Thornhedge
by T. Kingfisher
The tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone completely sideways.
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Tell Me What I Am
by Una Mannion
Fourteen years after her sister Deena's disappearance, Nessa Garvey, who believes Deena's ex-husband got away with murder, and her niece Ruby, despite being 400 miles apart, work together to unearth the family history of menacing power and control that has shaped them both in different ways. 40,000 first printing.
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Let's go let's go let's go : stories
by Cleo Qian
"The electric, unsettling, and often surreal stories in LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO explore the alienated, technology-mediated lives of restless Asian and Asian American women today. A woman escapes into dating simulations to forget her best friend's abandonment; a teenager begins to see menacing omens on others' bodies after her double eyelid surgery; reunited schoolmates are drawn into the Japanese mountains to participate in an uncanny social experiment; a supernatural karaoke machine becomes a K-pop star's channel for redemption. In every story, characters refuse dutiful, docile stereotypes. They are ready to explode, to question conventions. Their compulsions tangle with unrequited longing and queer desire in their search for something ineffable across cities, countries, and virtual worlds. With precision and provocation, Cleo Qian's immersive debut jolts us into the reality of lives fragmented by screens, relentless consumer culture, and the flattening pressures of modern society-and asks how we might hold on to tenderness against the impulses within us"
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The golden girls : a cultural history
by Bernadette Giacomazzo
"A fun and meaningful examination of the beloved 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls, including how it tackled progressive social issues of its time and forever changed the way audiences view older women"
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Curves for days
by Laura Moher
A plus-size woman has a disastrous meeting with the gruff contractor working on her home, but the more time they spend together, the more they appreciate one another and their friendship blooms into a beautiful, small-town romance. Original.
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Riding the Nightmare by Lisa TuttleOver the past few decades, Lisa Tuttle has quietly established her place as one of today's very best writers of weird and horror fiction. Her previous collection, The Dead Hours of Night, was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award, and now she is back with this new volume containing twelve more unsettling tales.
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Happiness Falls
by Angie Kim
Mia isn't initially concerned when her family fails to return from a walk, until her mute brother Eugene, who suffers from a rare genetic condition, returns bloody and alone and is unable to describe what happened to their father.
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Kissing Kosher
by Jean Meltzer
Going undercover at a family-owned Jewish bakery to steal their world-famous Pumpkin Spiced Babka recipe, the heir to a kosher baked-goods empire finds himself distracted from his mission by the woman working the counter and discovers the best recipes in life are the ones you bake yourself. Original. 50,000 first printing.
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The Breakaway
by Jennifer Weiner
While leading a group bike trip from NYC to Niagara Falls, 34-year-old Abby Stern, newly engaged, encounters Sebastian, the one-night stand she never thought she'd see again, and, determined to keep him at arm's length over the next two weeks, finds her certainties about herself and the nature of love challenged. Simultaneous.
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Learned by Heart
by Emma Donoghue
Based on a true story and a five-million-word secret journal, this extraordinary work of fiction follows an orphaned heiress, banished from India to England, and a brilliant, troublesome tomboy who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in 1805 York where they fall secretly, deeply and dangerous in love. Simultaneous.
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My roommate is a vampire
by Jenna Levine
Moving into a too-good-to-be-true apartment, artist Cassie Greenberg, wondering what the catch is, discovers her gorgeous new roommate is a vampire—and he has a proposition for her. Original.
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Terrace story : a novel
by Hilary Leichter
Based on the National Magazine Award-winning story, a novel about love and death follows a family of three as they discover a beautiful terrace hidden in their closet that sets off a seismic chain of events, forever changing the shape of their tiny home—and the shape of the world. 75,000 first printing.
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