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Shrines of Gaiety
by Kate Atkinson
In London after the Great War, Nellie Carter, the notorious and ruthless queen of a dazzling, seductive, and corrupt new world in the clubs of Soho, finds her success breeding enemies as she faces threats from without and within, revealing the dark underbelly beneath Soho's gaiety.
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Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea
by Rita Chang-Eppig
When Shek Yeung sees a Portuguese sailor slay her husband, a feared pirate, she knows she must act swiftly or die. Instead of mourning, Shek Yeung launches a new plan: immediately marrying her husband's second-in-command and agreeing to bear him a son and heir in order to retain power over her half of the fleet. But as Shek Yeung vies for control over the army she knows she was born to lead, larger threats loom. As Shek Yeung navigates new motherhood and the crises of leadership, she must decide how long she is willing to fight, and at what price, or risk losing her fleet, her new family, and even her life.
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Poverty, by America
by Matthew Desmond
Drawing on history, research, and original reporting, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, revealing there is so much poverty in America, not in spite of our wealth but because of it, and builds a startlingly original case for eliminating poverty in our country.
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Maame
by Jessica George
Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi but in this case, it means woman. It's fair to say that Maddie's life in London is far from rewarding. With an overbearing mother who spends most of her time in Ghana, Maddie is the primary caretaker for her father, who suffers from advanced stage Parkinson's. At work, her boss is a nightmare and Maddie is tired of always being the only Black person in every meeting. When her mum returns from her latest trip to Ghana, Maddie leaps at the chance to get out of the family home and finally start living. But it's not long before tragedy strikes. Maame explores what it feels like to be torn between two homes and cultures and celebrates being able to find where you belong.
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Red String Theory: A Novel
by Lauren Kung Jessen
When it comes to love and art, Rooney Gao believes in signs. Most of all, she believes in the Chinese legend that everyone is tied to their one true love by the red string of fate. And that belief has inspired her career as an artist, as well as the large art installations she makes with (obviously) red string. That is until artist's block strikes and Rooney begins to question everything. But then fate leads her to the perfect guy, Jack Liu. After their magical date, it looks like they might be lost to each other forever...until they're given one more chance to reconnect.
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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
by Shubnum Khan
Moving into Akbar Manzil, a ruined mansion off the coast of South Africa, Sana stumbles upon the long-forgotten story of Meena, the original owner's second wife who died there tragically 100 years ago, awakening a grieving djinn, an invisible spirit who has haunted the mansion since Meena's mysterious death.
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River East, River West
by Aube Rey Lescure
Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, this debut novel is a coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows two generations searching for belonging and opportunity in a rapidly changing world.
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After Annie
by Anna Quindlen
After Annie Brown dies suddenly, her family and her best friend struggle to maintain their lives and eventually discover that they are able to grow, change, and become stronger due to their memories and the lasting power of love.
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The Marriage Portrait
by Maggie O'Farrell
In Florence during the 1550s, captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici, having barely left girlhood behind, marries the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, and now, in an unfamiliar court where she has one duty—to provide an heir—fights for her very survival.
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The Keeper of Stories
by Sally Page
She can't recall what started her collection. Before long she noticed people were telling her their stories. Perhaps they had always done so, but now it is different, now the stories are reaching out to her and she gathers them to her. Janice has a unique insight into the community around her. When she starts cleaning for Mrs. B—a shrewd and prickly woman in her nineties—she finally meets someone who wants to hear her story. But Janice is clear: she is the keeper of stories, she doesn't have a story to tell. At least, not one she can share.
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I Will Die in a Foreign Land
by Kalani Pickhart
This novel follows four individuals over the course of a volatile Ukrainian winter. Their lives become intertwined and are forever changed by the Euromaidan protests triggered by President Yanukovych's choosing to align with Russia instead of the European Union in 2013.
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Familia
by Lauren E. Rico
A fact-checker for a popular magazine, Gabby DiMarco, takes a DNA test and discovers she has a sister in Puerto Rico who has been desperately trying to find her for 25 years, despite her parents saying it is impossible.
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The Celebrants
by Steven Rowley
Reuniting in Big Sur to honor a decades-old pact to throw each other living “funerals”—celebrations to remind themselves life is worth living and living well—five friends find their pact upended when one of them reveals a shocking secret.
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Lucy by the Sea
by Elizabeth Strout
As a panicked world goes into lockdown during the pandemic, former married couple and now lifelong friends, Lucy Barton and William, hunker down in a little house in Maine on the edge of the sea where they are faced with fear, struggles, and isolation as well as hope, peace, and possibilities.
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Glassworks
by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
Glassworks follows several generations of a family between 1910 and 2015, from Agnes who leaves her spendthrift husband for a Bohemian naturalist glassblower to her great-granddaughter who is a burned-out stoner making cremains into glass keepsakes.
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Solito: A Memoir
by Javier Zamora
When Javier Zamora was nine, he traveled unaccompanied by bus, boat, and foot from El Salvador to the United States to reunite with his parents. This is his memoir of that dangerous journey, a nine-week odyssey that nearly ended in calamity on multiple occasions. While Solito is Javier's story, it's also the story of millions of others who have risked so much to come to this country. A memoir that reads like a novel, rooted in precise and authentic detail, Solito is destined to be a classic of the immigration experience.
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