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• Family Lore

  a Novel

  Acevedo, Elizabeth,

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  Follows the lives of several generations of women in the Marte family after gathering to honor Flor, who can predict the day someone will die, decides to throw herself a huge party as a living wake.

• Trust Exercise

  a Novel

  Choi, Susan, 1969-

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  Falling in love while attending a competitive 1980s performing arts high school, David and Sarah rise through the ranks before the realities of their family dynamics and economic statuses trigger a spiral that impacts their adult lives.

• Trust

  Díaz, Hernán, 1973-

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  Told from the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction, this unrivaled novel about money, power, intimacy and perception is centered around the mystery of how the Rask family acquired their immense fortune in 1920s-1930’s New…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Light We Cannot See

  a Novel

  Doerr, Anthony, 1973-

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  A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with their respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast.

• The Night Watchman

  a Novel

  Erdrich, Louise,

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  A historical novel based on the life of the National Book Award-winning author’s grandfather traces the experiences of a Chippewa Council night watchman in mid-19th-century rural North Dakota who fights Congress to enforce Native American treaty…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

  Fowler, Karen Joy

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  Coming of age in middle America, 18-year-old Rosemary evaluates how her entire youth was defined by the presence and forced removal of an endearing chimpanzee who was secretly regarded as a family member and who Rosemary loved as a sister.

• Less

  a Novel

  Greer, Andrew Sean,

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  Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his 50th birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself and making connections with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Rabbit Hutch

  Gunty, Tess,

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  Set in the post-industrial Midwest, this story of loneliness and community, entrapment and freedom, follows Blandine, who lives with three other teens in a run-down apartment building known as the Rabbit Hutch, as she embarks on a quest for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

  a Novel

  Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne, 1967-

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  To come to terms with who she is and what she wants, Ailey, the daughter of an accomplished doctor and a strict schoolteacher, embarks on a journey through her family’s past, helping her embrace her full heritage, which is the story of the Black…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An American Marriage

  a Novel

  Jones, Tayari,

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  When her new husband is arrested and imprisoned for a crime she knows he did not commit, a rising artist takes comfort in a longtime friendship only to encounter unexpected challenges in resuming her life when her husband's sentence is suddenly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Demon Copperhead

  a Novel

  Kingsolver, Barbara,

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  The son of an Appalachian teenager uses his good looks, wit and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves and crushing losses.

• Wolf Hall

  a Novel

  Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022

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  Assuming the power recently lost by the disgraced Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell counsels a mercurial Henry VIII on the latter's efforts to marry Anne Boleyn against the wishes of Rome and many of his people, a successful endeavor that comes with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Behold the Dreamers

  a Novel

  Mbue, Imbolo,

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  Two marriages, one immigrant working class and the other from the top one percent, are shaped by financial circumstances, infidelities, secrets and the 2008 recession.

• Deacon King Kong

  a Novel

  McBride, James, 1957-

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  In the aftermath of a 1969 Brooklyn church deacon’s public shooting of a local drug dealer, the community’s African-American and Latinx witnesses find unexpected support from each other when they are targeted by violent mobsters.

• The Road

  McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023

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  In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.

• Atonement

  a Novel

  McEwan, Ian

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  The Booker Prize-winning author of Amsterdam creates a richly textured novel, set in 1935 England, that follows thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis, who witness an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, as she becomes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

  Moore, Lorrie,

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  A teacher visits his dying brother in the Bronx and gets swept into a mystery involving a journal from the 19th century stolen from a boarding house.

• Hell of a Book

  or the Altogether Factual, Wholly Bona Fide Story of a Big Dreams, Hard Luck, American-Made Mad Kid

  Mott, Jason,

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  A work of fiction goes to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans, and America as a whole.

• The Sympathizer

  Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-

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  A startling debut novel from a powerful new voice featuring one of the most remarkable narrators of recent fiction: a conflicted subversive and idealist working as a double agent in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.

• Hamnet

  a Novel of the Plague

  O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972-

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  The award-winning author of I Am, I Am, I Am presents the evocative story of a young Shakespeare’s marriage to a talented herbalist before the ravaging death of their 11-year-old son shapes the production of his greatest play.