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The Magic Kingdom by Russell BanksThe year is 1971 and a property speculator records his life story. He reflects on his time in a community of Shakers in Florida, which saved his family from complete ruin. His story touches on youth, belief, betrayal, and the search for an American utopia.
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The Beach Trap
by Ali Brady
Two estranged half-sisters are left the family beach house in Destin, Florida. Immediately at odds, they reluctantly join forces to renovate the dilapidated house—an endeavor that brings about new romance for each of them and teaches them how to be sisters.
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Horse
by Geraldine Brooks
A scientist from Australia and a Nigerian-American art historian become connected by their shared interest in a 19th century race horse. One studies its remains, while the other uncovers the history of the Black horsemen who were critical to its success.
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The One You're With by Lauren K. DentonHigh school sweethearts Mac and Edie Swan lead a seemingly picture-perfect life in the sleepy-sweet community of Oak Hill, Alabama. One day a young woman walks into Mac's office, threatening all Mac and Edie have built and all they think they know about each other. Nineteen years after a summer apart, the past that they thought they left behind has come back to greet them.
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Calling For a Blanket Dance by Oscar HokeahThis story follows the life of Ever Geimausaddle, a young Native American, through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face policy corruption, threats of job loss, constant resettlement, and the pent up rage of centuries of injustice.
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Southernmostby Silas HouseA natural disaster inspires an evangelical preacher to reverse his position about gay rights, a transition that ends his marriage and job. These events force him to take desperate measures to introduce his son to a more accepting world.
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Simon the Fiddlerby Paulette JilesConscripted into the Confederate Army after nearly escaping the American Civil War, an itinerant fiddle player joins a ragtag regimental band playing for both sides of the conflict before falling in love with an indentured Irish governess.
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How Lucky
by Will Leitch
Unable to speak or move without a wheelchair, Daniel spends hours observing his neighborhood from his front porch. He believes he has witnessed the kidnapping of a young college student and vows to solve the mystery.
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The Girls in the Stilt Houseby Kelly MustianAs two girls are drawn deeper into a dangerous world of bootleggers and moral corruption, they must come to terms with the complexities of their tenuous bond and a hidden past that links them in ways that could cost them their lives.
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The Resemblance by Lauren NossettA University of Georgia fraternity brother is struck dead by an oncoming car driven by someone who looked identical to him. Detective Marlitt Kaplan investigates the case, uncovering chilling secrets as she explores the interconnected Greek system and just how far these brotherhoods will go to protect their own.
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Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-ValdezIn 1973 Montgomery, Alabama, a young black nurse named Civil Townsend works for the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic. She grapples with her role when she takes two young girls into her heart and the unthinkable happens. Nothing will ever be the same for any of them.
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Memphisby Tara M. StringfellowIn the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan flees her father's violence accompanied by her mother and younger sister. They only have one place to go: her mother's ancestral home in Memphis. The house was built by Joan's grandfather, who was lynched days after becoming the first Black detective in Memphis by his all-white police squad. This wasn't the first time violence altered the course of Joan's family's trajectory, and given who lives inside the house now, it won't be the last.
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Hang the Moonby Jeannette WallsWhen Sallie tries to teach young Eddie to be more like their father, her daredevil coaching leads to an accident and Sallie is cast out. Nine years later she returns, determined to reclaim her place in the family. That's a lot more complicated than Sallie expected, and she enters a world of conflict and lawlessness. Sallie confronts the secrets and scandals that hide in the shadows of the Big House to finally come into her own.
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by Elizabeth Wetmore
In the early hours of the morning after Valentine's Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramâirez appears on Mary Rose Whitehead's front porch. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field, an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law. When justice is evasive, the stage is set for a showdown with potentially devastating consequences.
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The Book of Lost Friendsby Lisa WingateA novel inspired by historical events, this is a story about three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who rediscovers their story and its connection to her own student's lives.
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