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| Witness by Jamel BrinkleyWhat's inside: ten lyrical New York City stories that feature unforgettable characters -- children, siblings, grandmothers, delivery drivers, and ghosts -- and shows what happens when they either act, or don't, on things they've seen.
Stories include: "Blessed Deliverance," "Comfort," "Witness," "Bartow Station," and "The Happiest House on Union Street."
For fans of: atmospheric, perceptive short story collections, like Deesha Philyaw's The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. |
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Half-life of a Stolen Sister
by Rachel Cantor
The author of A Highly Unlikely Scenario and Good on Paper returns with a form-shattering and humorous reimagining of the lives of the Brontë siblings—Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and brother Branwell.
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| Save What's Left by Elizabeth CastellanoThe beginning: When her husband, Tom, wants a break and sets out on a world cruise alone, middle-aged Kathleen Deane leaves Kansas for a New York coastal town and her own fresh start.
A new house: She arrives to find a massive modern monstrosity that breaks regulations being built next to the tiny cottage she's bought sight unseen. She teams up with a neighbor to fight town hall, and then Tom shows up in an Airstream that he parks in her driveway.
Read this next: Tara Conklin's Community Board, Amy Fusselman's The Means, or Beck Dorey-Stein's Rock the Boat. |
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King of the Armadillos
by Wendy Chin-Tanner
After a leprosy diagnosis, the son of Chinese immigrants must leave 1950s Bronx to quarantine at a federal institution in Carville, where he experiences a new sense of freedom and takes refuge in music, experiences, love and new friends.
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With a Kiss We Die: A Novel
by L. R. Dorn
When the prime suspects in a brutal double homicide offer exclusive interviews in exchange for help in proving their innocence, investigative journalist Ryanna, the host of a popular true-crime podcast, examines her subjects from multiple angles and diverse points of view to piece together a dark and horrible truth.
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Maddalena and the Dark
by Julia Fine
In 1717 Venice, 15-year-old Luisa, studying violin at the Ospedale della Pietà, and Maddalena, trying to escape her family, are drawn together by a dangerous wager and enter the decadent world outside the Pietà's walls, forcing them to decide what they truly want—and what they'll do to get it.
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The Bones of the Story: A Novel
by Carol Goodman
Twenty-five years after a tragedy involving a distinguished creative-Writing professor, Briarwood College alumni are brought together to honor the victims, but when the professor's former students start dying in similar ways to the stories they wrote years ago, those remaining must rewrite a new ending to survive.
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Sucker
by Daniel Hornsby
Forced to get a“real job” when his billionaire father threatens to cut him off, Chuck Gross starts working with old college friend Olivia Watts, a famed Harvard dropout and biotech darling who's running a biomedical startup selling nothing less than immortality, until he discovers the horrifying truth.
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Her, Too: A Novel
by Bonnie Kistler
A lawyer specializing in defending men falsely accused of sex crimes falls victim to a brutal sexual assault and realizes she can't tell anyone it happened without destroying her career.
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| Fireworks Every Night by Beth RaymerFlorida or bust: After her used car salesman dad burns down their Ohio business for the insurance money, 12-year-old C.C. Borkoski grows up in 1990s Florida playing basketball as her dysfunctional family spirals.
Is it for you? Moving back and forth across different times in C.C.'s life, including her marriage into a wealthy New York family, this darkly humorous coming-of-age story deals with various types of abuse.
Author buzz: Beth Raymer's gambling memoir, Lay the Favorite, was made into a 2012 movie and starred Rebecca Hall as Beth. |
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