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All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother,...  more

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Space Struck by Paige Lewis
This astonishing, self-assured debut leads us on an exploration to the stars and back, begging us to reconsider our boundaries of self, time, space, and knowledge. The speaker writes, ??the universe/is an arrow/without end/and it asks only one question;/How dare you?? Zig-zagging through the...  more

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Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang & Ken Liu (Translator)
A century after the Martian war of independence, a group of kids are sent to Earth as delegates from Mars, but when they return home, they are caught between the two worlds, unable to reconcile the beauty and culture of Mars with their experiences on Earth. In 2096, the war of independence...  more

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Hollywood Park: A Memoir by Mikel Jollett
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Three Hours in Paris by Cara Black
Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Führer. Wrecked by grief after a Luftwaffe bombing killed her husband and infant daughter, she is armed with a rifle, a vendetta, and a fierce...  more

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Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted but...  more

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You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
Shay Miller wants to find love, but it eludes her. She wants to be fulfilled, but her job is a dead end. She wants to belong, but her life is increasingly lonely. Until Shay meets the Moore sisters. Cassandra and Jane live a life of glamorous perfection, and always get what they desire. When...  more

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Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Yo...
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Anna K: A Love Story by Jenny Lee
Meet Anna K! Every happy teenage girl is the same, while every unhappy teenage girl is miserable in her own special way... At seventeen, Anna K is at the top of Manhattan and Greenwich society (even if she prefers the company of her horses and dogs); she has the perfect (if perfectly boring)...  more

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A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son. Xavier is headed to college in the fall, and after years of single parenting, Valerie is facing the prospect of an empty nest....  more

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These Ghosts Are Family: A Novel by Maisy Card
A transporting debut novel that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations, in the tradition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. Stanford Solomon has a shocking, thirty-year-old secret. And it?s about to change the lives of everyone around him. Stanford Solomon is...  more

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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stam...
Reynolds’s adaptation of Kendi’s National Book Award–winning title teaches readers to think critically about racism and antiracism in the United States and the Western world. Arguing that there are three mind-sets -- segregationist, assimilationist, and antiracist -- the...  more

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Me and White Supremacy: A 28-Day Challenge to Combat Racism, Change the World, and Be...
"Layla Saad moves her readers from their heads into their hearts, and ultimately, into their practice. We won't end white supremacy through an intellectual understanding alone; we must put that understanding into action." ? Robin DiAngelo, author of New York Times bestseller White FragilityBased...  more

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Oona Out of Order: A Novel by Margarita Montimore
Just because life may be out of order, doesn't mean it's broken.It's New Year's Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics, or remain...  more

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When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann
In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: years spent hiding in plain sight in war-torn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew. In 1941, the first Neumann...  more

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The Regrets by Amy Bonnaffons
For weeks, Rachel has been noticing the same golden-haired young man sitting at her Brooklyn bus stop, staring off with a melancholy air. When, one day, she finally musters the courage to introduce herself, the chemistry between them is undeniable: Thomas is wise, witty, handsome, mysterious,...  more

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The Kingdom of Liars (Legacy of the Mercenary Kings, Bk 1) by Nick Martell
Michael is branded a traitor as a child because of the murder of the king’s nine-year-old son, by his father David Kingman. Ten years later on Michael lives a hardscrabble life, with his sister Gwen, performing crimes with his friends against minor royals in a weak attempt at striking back...  more

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28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand
Their secret love affair has lasted for decades - but this could be the summer that changes everything... When Mallory Blessing's son, Link, receives deathbed instructions from his mother to call a number on a slip of paper in her desk drawer, he's not sure what to expect. But he...  more

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We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez
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The Toni Morrison Book Club by Juda Bennett & Winnifred Brown-Glaude & Casssa...
In this startling group memoir, four friends—black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born—use Toni Morrison’s novels as a springboard for intimate and revealing conversations about the problems of everyday racism and living whole in times of uncertainty....  more

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The Honest Enneagram: Know Your Type, Own Your Challenges, Embrace Your Growth by Sar...
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The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner
Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people band together to attempt something remarkable. One hundred and fifty years ago, Chawton was the final home of Jane Austen, one of England's finest novelists. Now it's...  more

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All Adults Here by Emma Straub
When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days decades earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she’d been to her three, now-grown children. But to what...  more

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The Guest List: A Novel by Lucy Foley
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The Groom Will Keep His Name by Ortile, Matt
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The Boyfriend Project (Boyfriend Project, Bk 1) by Farrah Rochon
Samiah Brooks never thought she would be "that" girl. But a live tweet of a horrific date just revealed the painful truth: she's been catfished by a three-timing jerk of a boyfriend. Suddenly Samiah - along with his two other "girlfriends," London and Taylor - have gone...  more

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The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers...
In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, vanished from a rural town in New York. Months later he reappeared on the Midwestern frontier and converted to a burgeoning religious movement known as Mormonism. In the wake of the murder of the sect's...  more

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The House on Fripp Island by Rebecca Kauffman
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The Extraordinaries (Extraordinaries, Bk 1) by T. J. Klune
Nick Bell? Not extraordinary. But being the most popular fanfiction writer in the Extraordinaries fandom is a superpower, right? After a chance encounter with Shadow Star, Nova City’s mightiest hero (and Nick’s biggest crush), Nick sets out to make himself extraordinary. And...  more

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Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Franny Stone has always been a wanderer. By following the ocean’s tides and the birds that soar above, she can forget the losses that have haunted her life. But when the wild she loves begins to disappear, Franny can no longer wander without a destination. She arrives in remote...  more

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Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks
The #1 bestselling author of World War Z takes on the Bigfoot legend with a tale that blurs the lines between human and beast--and asks what we are capable of in the face of the unimaginable.   As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier's eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the...  more

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The Multi-Hyphen Life: Work Less, Create More, and Design a Life That Works for You b...
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His & Hers by Alice Feeney
There are two sides to every story: yours and mine, ours, and theirs... His & Hers. Which means someone is always lying. When a woman is murdered in Blackdown, a quintessentially British village, newsreader Anna Andrews is reluctant to cover the case. Detective Jack Harper is suspicious of...  more

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Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by M...
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The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Peter Straub?s Ghost Story meets Liane Moriarty?s Big Little Lies in this American Indian horror story of revenge on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends, find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives,...  more

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All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living by Morgan Harper Nichols
A celebration of hope. An encounter with grace. A restoration of the heart. A healing of wounds. An anthem of freedom. All Along You Were Blooming is the ultimate love letter from the pen of popular Instagram poet Morgan Harper Nichols to your mind, to your heart, to your soul, and to your...  more

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Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford
Now with a New Afterword When Notes on a Silencing hit bookstores in the summer of 2020, even amidst a global pandemic, it sent shockwaves through the country. Not only did this intimate investigative memoir usher in a media storm of coverage, but it also prompted the elite St....  more

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The Pull of the Stars: A Novel by Emma Donoghue
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Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall
Wanted: One (fake) boyfriend Practically perfect in every way Luc O'Donnell is tangentially-- and reluctantly -- famous. His rock star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next twenty years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad's...  more

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The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert
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A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
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Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
It’s been three years since ICE raids and phone calls from Mexico and an ill-fated walk across the Sonoran. Three years since Sia Martinez’s mom disappeared. Sia wants to move on, but it’s hard in her tiny Arizona town where people refer to her mom’s deportation as...  more

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The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg
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Raybearer (Raybearer, Bk 1) by Jordan Ifueko
Tarisai has slways longed for the warmth of family. She was raised in isolation by a mysterious, often absent mother known only as The Lady. When Tarisai comes of age, The Lady sends her to the capital of the global empire of Aritsar to compete with other children to be chosen as one of the...  more

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Grown Ups by Emma Jane Unsworth
Jenny McLaine’s life is falling apart. Her friendships are flagging. Her body has failed her. She’s just lost her column at The Foof because she isn’t the fierce voice new feminism needs. Her ex has gotten together with another woman. And worst of all: Jenny’s mother is...  more

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The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienting blackouts, moments of disconnection between self and surroundings. As adolescence gives way to adulthood, Vivek finds solace in friendships with the warm, boisterous daughters of the Nigerwives,...  more

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Anxious People by Fredrik Backman & Neil Smith (Translator)
Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the...  more

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To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Fractalverse, Bk 1) by Christopher Paolini
It was supposed to be a routine research mission on an uncolonized planet.  But when xenobiologist Kira Navárez finds an alien relic beneath the surface of the world, the outcome transforms her forever and will alter the course of human history. Her journey to discover the truth...  more

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Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
A portrait of a Ghanaian family, living in Alabama, ravaged by depression, addiction, and grief... Gifty is a fifth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a...  more

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Channel Kindness: Stories of Kindness and Community by Born This Way Foundation Repor...
For Lady Gaga, kindness is the driving force behind everything she says and does. The quiet power of kindness can change the way we view one another, our communities, and even ourselves. She embodies this mission, and through her work, brings more kindness into our world every single...  more

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Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
Animals don’t exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. In Vesper Flights Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on...  more

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Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy West
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Apple: (Skin to the Core) by Eric Gansworth
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Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth & Sara Lautman (Illustrator)
Our story begins in 1902, at the Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own...  more

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Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, Bk 1) by Rebecca Roanhorse
A god will return When the earth and sky converge Under the black sun In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the...  more

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Down Along with That Devil's Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legac...
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Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy
An irresistible psychological thriller featuring a newly married woman whose life is turned upside down when her husband goes missing. A handsome psychotherapist. His lonely wife. And in his home office ceiling, a vent … You’d listen too, wouldn’t you? (You know you...  more

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Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son...  more

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The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories by Danielle Evans
Danielle Evans is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and X-ray insights into complex human relationships. With The Office of Historical Corrections, Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters’ lives in a way that allows them to speak to...  more

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The Best American Short Stories 2020 (Best American) by Curtis Sittenfeld (Compiler) ...
Godmother tea / Selena Anderson -- The apartment / T.C. Boyle -- A faithful but melancholy account of several barbarities lately committed / Jason Brown -- Sibling rivalry / Michael Byers -- The nanny / Emma Cline -- Halloween / Marian Crotty -- Something Street / Carolyn...  more

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White Ivy (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by Susie Yang & Emily Woo Zeller (Narrator)
A young woman’s crush on a privileged former classmate becomes a story of love, lies, and dark obsession, offering stark insights into the immigrant experience, as it hurtles to its electrifying ending. Ivy Lin is a thief and a liar - but you’d never know it by looking at her....  more

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The Survivors by Jane Harper
Coming home dredges up deeply buried secrets... Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal community he once called...  more

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Cobble Hill by Cecily von Ziegesar
Welcome to Cobble Hill. In this eclectic Brooklyn neighborhood, private storms brew amongst four married couples and their children. There’s ex-groupie Mandy, so underwhelmed by motherhood and her current physical state that she fakes a debilitating disease to get the attention of her...  more

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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne & Tamara Payne
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We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
Duchess Day Radley is a 13 year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. At school, the other kids make fun of Duchess -- her clothes are torn, her hair a mess. But let them throw their sticks, because she’ll throw stones. Rules are for other people. She’s just trying to survive and keep her...  more

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Survival of the Thickest: Essays by Michelle Buteau
If you’ve watched television or movies in the past year, you’ve seen Michelle Buteau. With scene-stealing roles in Always Be My Maybe, First Wives Club, Someone Great, Russian Doll, and Tales of the City; a reality TV show and breakthrough stand-up specials,...  more

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Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen
Introducing Majella O'Neill, the lovable heroine of this darkly comic and highly original Irish debut. Majella O'Neill is happiest out of the spotlight, away from her neighbors' stares and the narrow-minded gossips of the small village in Northern Ireland where she grew up during...  more

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Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson
A passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption.  The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a white cop suffocated him. The video of that night’s...  more

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Sasha Masha by Agnes Borinsky
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Jingle Jangle: The Invention of Jeronicus Jangle: (Movie Tie-In) by Lyn Sisson-Talber...
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The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
Meet Jane. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates, a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded tchotchkes and jewelry off the side tables of her...  more

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The Mermaid from Jeju: A Novel by Sumi Hahn
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How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
Set in Barbados, about four people each desperate to escape their legacy of violence in a so-called "paradise." In Baxter Beach, Barbados, moneyed ex-pats clash with the locals who often end up serving them: braiding their hair, minding their children, and selling them drugs. Lala...  more

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First Comes Like (Modern Love, Bk 3) by Alisha Rai
Beauty expert and influencer Jia Ahmed has her eye on the prize: conquering the internet today, the entire makeup industry tomorrow, and finally, finally proving herself to her big opinionated family. She has little time for love, and even less time for the men in her private...  more

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The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
A singular and stunning novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence. Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. That was the way it was since the...  more

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Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson
As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken, Jenny brings readers along on her mental and physical health journey, offering heartbreaking and hilarious anecdotes along the way. With people experiencing anxiety and depression now more...  more

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The Listening Path: The Creative Art of Attention (A 6-Week Artist's Way Program) by ...
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Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
There’s nothing like a Black salesman on a mission. An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content working at...  more

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Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz
A livewire debut from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today's literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness...  more

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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Unknown Auth...
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Milk Fed: A Novel by Melissa Broder
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Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
A Native teen must root out the corruption in her community... Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look...  more

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Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology by Jess Zimmerman
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The Paris Library: A Novel by Janet Skeslien Charles
Based on the true World War II story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris, this is an unforgettable story of romance, friendship, family, and the power of literature to bring us together, perfect for fans of The Lilac Girls and The Paris Wife. Paris, 1939: Young and...  more

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You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruff...
Writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers Amber Ruffin writes with her sister Lacey Lamar with humor and heart to share absurd anecdotes about everyday experiences of racism. Now a writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers and host of The Amber...  more

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Act Your Age, Eve Brown (Brown Sisters, Bk 3) by Talia Hibbert
Eve Brown is a certified hot mess. No matter how hard she strives to do right, her life always goes horribly wrong -- so she’s given up trying. But when her personal brand of chaos ruins an expensive wedding (someone had to liberate those poor doves), her parents draw the line. It's...  more

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Caul Baby: A Novel by Morgan Jerkins
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How Beautiful We Were: A Novel by Imbolo Mbue
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The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
There's only been one time that Rose couldn't stop me from doing the wrong thing and that was a mistake that will haunt me for the rest of my life... Fern Castle works in her local library. She has dinner with her twin sister Rose three nights a week. And she avoids crowds, bright lights...  more

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Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas
When children start to go missing in the local woods, a teen girl must face her fears and a past she can't remember to rescue them in this atmospheric YA novel, Lost in the Never Woods. It’s been five years since Wendy and her two brothers went missing in the woods, but when...  more

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The Conductors by Nicole Glover
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Anna K Away (Anna K, 2) by Jenny Lee
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Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge
Libertie, an unforgettable story about one young Black girl’s attempt to find a place where she can be fully, and only, herself. Coming of age in a free Black community in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson is all too aware that her purposeful mother,...  more

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The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda Gorman
On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Taking the stage after the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, Gorman captivated the nation and brought hope to viewers around the globe with her call for...  more

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One Two Three by Laurie Frankel
In a town where nothing ever changes, suddenly everything does... Everyone knows everyone in the tiny town of Bourne, but the Mitchell triplets are especially beloved. Mirabel is the smartest person anyone knows, and no one doubts it just because she can’t speak. Monday is the town’s...  more

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Mirrorland by Carole Johnstone
Mirrorland is a thrilling work of psychological suspense about twin sisters, the man they both love, and the dark childhood they can’t leave behind. Cat lives in Los Angeles, far away from 36 Westeryk Road, the imposing gothic house in Edinburgh where she and her estranged twin...  more

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Troy by STEPHEN FRY
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Amari and the Night Brothers (Supernatural Investigations, Bk 1) by B. B. Alston
Amari Peters has never stopped believing her missing brother, Quinton, is alive. Not even when the police told her otherwise, or when she got in trouble for standing up to bullies who said he was gone for good. So when she finds a ticking briefcase in his closet, containing a nomination for a...  more

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Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford
One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the looming absence of her incarcerated father. Through poverty, adolescence, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley C. Ford wishes she could turn...  more

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The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (Jaipur, Bk 2) by Alka Joshi
Henna artist Lakshmi arranges for her protégé, Malik, to intern at the Jaipur Palace... It’s the spring of 1969, and Lakshmi, now married to Dr. Jay Kumar, directs the Healing Garden in Shimla. Malik has finished his private school education. At twenty, he has just met a...  more

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The Anatomy of Desire by L. R. Dorn
Claire Griffith seems to have it all, a thriving career, a gorgeous, successful boyfriend, a glamorous circle of friends. She always knew she was destined for more than the life her deeply conservative parents preached to her. Arriving in Los Angeles as a flat broke teenager, she has risen to...  more

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The Wreckage of My Presence: Essays by Casey Wilson
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Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir by Brian Broome
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One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don’t exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. She can’t imagine how waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner and...  more

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The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, bestselling author John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered...  more

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Malibu Rising (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by Taylor Jenkins Reid & Julia Whelan (Narr...
Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, the family drama that ensues will change their lives forever... Malibu, August 1983: It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a...  more

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Sweethand (Island Bites) by N.G. Peltier
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All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle
In his weekly phone calls to his daughter in Australia, widower Hubert Bird paints a picture of the perfect retirement, packed with fun, friendship, and fulfillment. But it's a lie. In reality, Hubert's days are all the same, dragging on without him seeing a single soul. Until he...  more

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An Emotion of Great Delight by Tahereh Mafi
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Live Your Life: My Story of Loving and Losing Nick Cordero by Amanda Kloots
Amanda Kloots bravely reflects on love, loss, and life with her husband, Broadway star and Tony-nominee Nick Cordero, whose public battle with Covid-19 and tragic death made headlines around the world. In the early spring of 2020, Broadway star and Tony Award nominee Nick Cordero was...  more

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The Maidens (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by Alex Michaelides & Louise Brealey (Narrato...
Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike... particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The...  more

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Dear Miss Metropolitan by Carolyn Ferrell
Fern seeks refuge from her mother’s pill-popping and boyfriends via Soul Train; Gwin finds salvation in the music of Prince much to her congregation’s dismay and Jesenia, miles ahead of her classmates at her gifted and talented high school, is a brainy and precocious enigma. None of...  more

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Animal by Lisa Taddeo
Honestly, sometimes I think it’s the only recourse. Killing men in times like these . Joan has spent a lifetime enduring the cruel acts of men. But when one of them commits a shocking act of violence in front of her, she flees New York City in search of Alice, the only person alive who...  more

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Temple House Vanishing by Rachel Donohue
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Falling by T. J. Newman
You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the...  more

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Mona At Sea by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
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Midnight, Water City (The Water City Trilogy) by Chris Mckinney
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The Dating Dare by Jayci Lee
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The Great Glorious Goddamn of it All by Josh Ritter
In the tiny timber town of Cordelia, Idaho, ninety-nine year old Weldon Applegate recounts his life in all its glory, filled with tall tales writ large with murder, mayhem, avalanches and bootlegging. It’s the story of dark pine forests brewing with ancient magic, and Weldon’s...  more

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What If You & Me (Say Everything, Bk 2) by Roni Loren
The world can be a scary place. At least, that's what Andi Lockley's anxiety wants her to believe. It doesn't help that she narrowly escaped a dangerous man years ago, or that every relationship since has been colored with that lingering fear. But things are better now -- she's...  more

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Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body by Savala Nolan Trepc...
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Assembly by Natasha Brown
Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Step out into a world of Go Home vans. Go to Oxbridge, get an education, start a career. Do all the right things. Buy a flat. Buy art. Buy a sort of happiness. But above all, keep your head down. Keep quiet. And...  more

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A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the victim’s home. Carla is his grief-stricken aunt, already mourning the recent death of yet another family member....  more

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Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father? This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings. The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. The parents, Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. They’re...  more

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The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert by Shugri Said Salh
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Savage Tongues: A Novel by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
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Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge
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This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir by Cecily Strong
A powerful memoir from the Saturday Night Live cast member Cecily Strong about grieving the death of her cousin -- and embracing the life-affirming lessons he taught her -- amid the coronavirus pandemic. Cecily Strong had a special bond with her cousin Owen. And so she was...  more

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Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Beautiful World, Where Are You tells the story of Alice and Eileen, two best friends approaching their thirties, and on very different trajectories. Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Italy with her. In Dublin, her best friend...  more

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Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
In the 15th century, an orphan named Anna lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople. She learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds what might be the last copy of a centuries-old book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he...  more

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The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina by Zoraida Cordova
The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low or empty, or why their matriarch won’t ever leave their home in Four Rivers—even for graduations, weddings, or baptisms. But when Orquídea Divina invites...  more

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The Heart Principle (Kiss Quotient, Bk 3) by Helen Hoang
When violinist Anna Sun accidentally achieves career success with a viral YouTube video, she finds herself incapacitated and burned out from her attempts to replicate that moment.  And when her longtime boyfriend announces that he wants an open relationship before making a final...  more

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A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020) by David Sedaris
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Black Nerd Problems: Essays by William Evans & Omar Holmon
The creators of the popular website Black Nerd Problems bring their witty and unflinching insight to this engaging collection of pop culture essays -- on everything from Mario Kart to issues of representation -- that “will fill you with joy and give you hope for the future of geek...  more

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The Archer by Shruti Swamy
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Three O'Clock in the Morning by Gianrico Carofiglio
A coming-of-age novel -- a heady union of Before Sunrise and Beautiful Ruins -- about a father and his teenage son who are forced to spend two sleepless nights exploring the city of Marseilles, a journey of unexpected adventure and profound discovery that helps them come to truly know each...  more

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Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo
Anna is at a stage of her life when she's beginning to wonder who she really is. In her 40s, she has separated from her husband, her daughter is all grown up, and her mother -- the only parent who raised her -- is dead. Searching through her mother's belongings one day, Anna finds...  more

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My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studying racism by conducting a secret social experiment on his own son. A single mother desperate to buy her first home even as the world hurtles toward...  more

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Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist by Sesali Bowen
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The Donut Trap by Julie Tieu
Jasmine Tran has landed herself behind bars -- maple bars that is. With no boyfriend or job prospects, Jasmine returns home to work at her parents’ donut shop. Jasmine quickly loses herself in a cyclical routine of donuts, Netflix, and sleep. She wants to break free from her daily grind,...  more

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Flesh & Blood: Reflections on Infertility, Family, and Creating a Bountiful Life: A M...
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When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky by Margaret Verble
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The Corpse Flower (Kaldan and Schafer, Bk 1) by Anne Mette Hancock
Danish journalist Heloise Kaldan is in the middle of a nightmare. One of her sources has been caught lying, and she could lose her job over it. Then she receives the first in a series of cryptic and unsettling letters from a woman named Anna Kiel. Wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing...  more

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Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim
An epic story of love, war, and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement, following the intertwined fates of a young girl sold to a courtesan school and the penniless son of a hunter In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local...  more

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Noor by Nnedi Okorafor
Anwuli Okwudili prefers to be called AO. To her, these initials have always stood for Artificial Organism. AO has never really felt...natural, and that's putting it lightly. Her parents spent most of the days before she was born praying for her peaceful passing because even in-utero she was...  more

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Blue-Skinned Gods by S. J. Sindu
In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy is born with blue skin. His father sets up an ashram, and the family makes a living off of the pilgrims who seek the child’s blessings and miracles, believing young Kalki to be the tenth human incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. In Kalki’s tenth year, he...  more

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The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are by David M Henki...
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Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King
Told in the intimate voices of complex, endearing characters, Five Tuesdays in Winter intriguingly subverts expectations as it explores desire, loss, jolting violence, and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A reclusive bookseller begins to feel the discomfort of love again....  more

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The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
If Avery Chambers can’t fix you in 10 sessions, she won’t take you on as a client. Her successes are phenomenal -- she helps people overcome everything from domineering parents to assault -- and almost absorb the emptiness she sometimes feels since her husband’s...  more

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Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro “Prieto” Acevedo, are boldfaced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn, while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan’s power...  more

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Bright Burning Things by Lisa Harding
Sonya used to perform on stage. She attended glamorous parties, dated handsome men, rode in fast cars. But somewhere along the way, the stage lights Sonya lived for dimmed to black. In their absence, came darkness -- blackouts, empty cupboards, hazy nights she could not remember. Haunted by...  more

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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
The scholar W.E.B. Du Bois once wrote about the problem of race in America... what he called “Double Consciousness,” a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois’s words all too well....  more

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The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot: A Novel by Marianne Cronin
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I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home by Jami Attenberg
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Manifesto: On Never Giving Up by Bernardine Evaristo
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Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
Born a bastard, Molly Bolt is adopted by a dirt-poor Southern couple who want something better for their daughter. Molly plays doctor with the boys, beats up Leroy the tub and loses her virginity to her girlfriend in sixth grade. As she grows to realize she's different, Molly decides not to...  more

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Wahala by Nikki May
Ronke wants happily ever after and 2.2. kids. She’s dating Kayode and wants him to be “the one” (perfect, like her dead father). Her friends think he’s just another in a long line of dodgy Nigerian boyfriends. Boo has everything Ronke wants—a kind husband,...  more

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Never Tell by Selena Montgomery
Criminal psychologist Dr. Erin Abbott wants nothing more than to live a quiet life. That means no danger, no intrigue-and absolutely no romance. But when Erin suspects a serial killer is roaming New Orleans, her investigation throws her straight into the arms of the only man who can help...  more

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The Arc: A Novel by Tory Henwood Hoen
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To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
From the author of the classic A Little Life -- a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia. In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free...  more

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How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur
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Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett
When the body of disgraced reality TV star Desiree Pierce is found on a playground in the Bronx the morning after her 25th birthday party, the police and the media are quick to declare her death an overdose. It’s a tragedy, certainly, but not a crime. But Desiree’s half-sister...  more

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Vladimir by Julia May Jonas
The boundaries of morality bump up against the impulses of the human heart, exposing the nuances and the grey area between power and desire... "When I was a child, I loved old men, and I could tell that they also loved me." A popular English professor's charismatic husband, at the...  more

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Recitatif: A Story by Toni Morrison
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Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu
"Within every misfortune there is a blessing and within every blessing, the seeds of misfortune, and so it goes, until the end of time." It is 1938 in China and, as a young wife, Meilin’s future is bright. But with the Japanese army approaching, Meilin and her four year old...  more

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Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour
Sara Foster runs away from home at sixteen, leaving behind the girl she once was, capable of trust and intimacy. Years later, in Los Angeles, she is a sought-after bartender, renowned as much for her brilliant cocktails as for the mystery that clings to her. Across the city, Emilie Dubois is in...  more

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A Brush with Love by Mazey Eddings
Harper is anxiously awaiting placement into a top oral surgery residency program when she crashes (literally) into Dan. Harper would rather endure a Novocaine-free root canal than face any distractions, even one this adorable. A first-year dental student with a family legacy to contend with, Dan...  more

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In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
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Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton & James Patterson
From America’s most beloved superstar and its greatest storyteller -- a thriller about a young singer/songwriter on the rise and on the run, and determined to do whatever it takes to survive. Every song tells a story. She’s a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind...  more

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Chorus by Rebecca Kauffman
Chorus shepherds seven siblings through two life-altering events--their mother's untimely death, and a shocking teenage pregnancy--that ultimately follow them through their lives as individuals and as a family The seven Shaw siblings have long been haunted by two early and profoundly...  more

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The Atlas Six (Atlas, Bk 1) by Olivie Blake
The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams,...  more

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All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Cloud’s Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and...  more

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The Lost Dreamer by Lizz Huerta
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Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that...  more

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Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life: A Memoir by Delia Ephron
The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-life love story, complete with a tragic second act and joyous resolution. Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She’d lost her sister, Nora, and then...  more

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The Damage Done: A Novel by Michael Landweber
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Unraveling: Poems by Brandon Leake
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The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one of those tech demi-gods with whom we’re all on a first name basis.” Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, and desperate for a new idea, when he...  more

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Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles
They must have been followed. That’s the thought I return to after all these years . . .   In May 1996, two skilled backcountry leaders, Lollie Winans and Julie Williams, entered Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park for a week-long backcountry camping trip. The free-spirited...  more

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I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
A romantic comedy about chasing down what you want, only to find what you need... Chloe Green is so close to winning. After her moms moved her from SoCal to Alabama for high school, she’s spent the past four years dodging gossipy classmates and the puritanical administration of...  more

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Together We Burn by Isabel Ibañez
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No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs by Nury Turkel
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Scary Monsters: A Novel in Two Parts by Michelle De Kretser
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Pla...
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices.  As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how...  more

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The Girl in the Painting by Tea Cooper
An orphaned young math prodigy in need of family. A painting that shatters a woman’s peace. And a decades-old mystery demanding to be solved. Australia, 1906: Orphan Jane Piper is nine years old when philanthropist siblings Michael and Elizabeth Quinn take her into their home to...  more

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A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby (Rogues and Remarkable Women, Bk 1) by Vanessa Riley
When headstrong West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her English husband's mysterious suicide, she lost everything: her newborn son, Lionel, her fortune -- and her freedom. Falsely imprisoned, she risks her life to be near her child -- until The Widow's Grace gets her hired as...  more

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Stars of Alabama by Sean Dietrich
From Sean Dietrich?also known as Sean of the South?comes a poignant tale of the stars that shine all around us . . . if only we?re willing to look.When she becomes pregnant at fifteen, Marigold is rejected by her family and forced to fend for herself. And when she loses her baby in the forest,...  more

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In All Good Faith: A Novel by Liza Nash Taylor
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A Mosaic of Wings by Kimberly Duffy
It's 1885, and all Nora Shipley wants, now that she's graduating from Cornell University as valedictorian of the entomology program, is to follow in her late father's footsteps by getting her master's degree and taking over the scientific journal he started. The only way to uphold her father's...  more

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Book Lovers by Emily Henry
One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming... Nora Stephens' life is books, she’s read them all, and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for...  more

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Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want ...
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A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall
When Viola Caroll was presumed dead at Waterloo she took the opportunity to live, at last, as herself. But freedom does not come without a price, and Viola paid for hers with the loss of her wealth, her title, and her closest companion, Justin de Vere, the Duke of Gracewood. Only when their...  more

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The Ravaged by Norman Reedus & Frank Bill
Jack's dying mother told him, "Run and never look back." He spent his life amassing wealth, but after losing his family, he has no one to share it with. Alone with his demons and a backpack, he heads to South America, where people with nothing teach him what matters. After...  more

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Family of Liars: The Prequel to We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
A windswept private island off the coast of Massachusetts.  A hungry ocean, churning with secrets and sorrow. A fiery, addicted heiress. An irresistible, unpredictable boy.  A summer of unforgivable betrayal and terrible mistakes.   Welcome back to the Sinclair...  more

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The Other Mother by Rachel M. Harper
Jenry Castillo is a musical prodigy, raised by a single mother in Miami. He arrives at Brown University on a scholarship -- but also to learn more about his late father, Jasper Patterson, a famous ballet dancer who died tragically when Jenry was two. On his search, he meets his estranged...  more

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I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays by Tom Segura
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Half-Blown Rose by Leesa Cross-Smith
Vincent, having grown up as the privileged daughter of artists, has a lovely life in many ways. At forty-four, she enjoys strolling the streets of Paris and teaching at the modern art museum; she has a vibrant group of friends; and she’s even caught the eye of a young, charismatic man...  more

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An Olive Grove in Ends by Moses McKenzie
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You Still Look the Same by Farzana Doctor
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Flying Solo by Linda Holmes
Smarting from her recently canceled wedding and about to turn forty, Laurie Sassalyn returns to her Maine hometown of Calcasset to handle the estate of her great-aunt Dot, a spirited adventurer who lived to be ninety-three. Alongside boxes of Polaroids and pottery, a mysterious wooden duck shows...  more

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Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
There is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories. Luz “Little Light” Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older brother, Diego, a snake charmer and factory worker, is run out of town by a violent white mob. As Luz navigates 1930s...  more

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Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen
Money can't buy happiness... but it can buy a decent fake. Ava Wong has always played it safe. As a strait-laced, rule-abiding Chinese American lawyer with a successful surgeon as a husband, a young son, and a beautiful home--she's built the perfect life. But beneath this...  more

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The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
In every person's story, there is something to hide... The tranquility is shattered by a woman's terrified scream. Security guards take charge immediately, instructing everyone inside to stay put until the threat is identified and contained. While they wait for the all-clear, four...  more

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Just by Looking at Him: A Novel by Ryan O'Connell
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The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings
Nola is a city full of wonders. A place of sky trolleys and dead cabs, where haints dance the night away and Wise Women help keep the order. To those from Away, Nola might seem strange. To Perilous Graves, it’s simply home. In a world of everyday miracles, Perry might not have a talent...  more

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The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain
Every day, Albert Entwistle makes his way through the streets of his small English town, delivering letters and parcels and returning greetings with a quick wave and a “how do?” Everyone on his route knows Albert, or thinks they do—a man of quiet routines, content to live alone...  more

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August Kitko and the Mechas from Space (Starmedal Symphony, Bk 1) by Alex White
When an army of giant robot AIs threatens to devastate Earth, a virtuoso pianist becomes humanity's last hope in this bold, lightning-paced, technicolor new space opera series from the author of A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe.  Jazz pianist Gus Kitko expected to spend...  more

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My Two Elaines: Learning, Coping, and Surviving as an Alzheimer's Caregiver by Martin...
Former governor of Wisconsin Marty Schreiber has seen his beloved wife, Elaine, gradually transform from the woman who had gracefully entertained in the Executive Residence to one who sometimes no longer recognizes him as her husband. In My Two Elaines: Learning, Coping, and Surviving as an...  more

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Twisted Love: A Brother's Best Friend Romance by Ana Huang
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The Fifth Avenue Story Society by Rachel Hauck
Five strangers get the chance to rewrite their stories…  Executive assistant Lexa is eager for a much-deserved promotion, but her boss is determined to keep her underemployed. Literature professor Jett is dealing with a broken heart, as well as a nagging suspicion his literary...  more

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The Do-Over by Bethany Turner
Sometimes dreams come true. Other times, the best outcome begins with an epic fail. Career-driven McKenna Keaton has devoted her life to attaining the senior partnership at her law firm. So asking a man on a date should be nothing. But the past four days have been the worst of her life and...  more

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I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and...  more

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Carrie Soto Is Back (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. But by the time she retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Grand Slam titles. And if you ask Carrie, she is entitled to every...  more

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The Women Could Fly: A Novel by Megan Giddings
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Shutter by Ramona Emerson
Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent photography skills have cracked many cases—she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her...  more

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When We Were Bright and Beautiful: A Novel by Jillian Medoff
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Bookish People by Susan Coll
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Take Back Your Power: 10 New Rules for Women at Work by Deborah Liu
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Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Dr. Kit Heyam Ph.D
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Ithaca by Claire North
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A Broken Blade (Halfling Saga, Bk 1) by Melissa Blair
My body is made of scars, some were done to me, but most I did to myself. Keera is a killer. As the King's Blade, she is the most talented spy in the kingdom. And the king’s favored assassin. When a mysterious figure moves against the Crown, Keera is called upon to hunt down the...  more

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The Italian Ballerina by Kristy Cambron
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The Letter from Briarton Park (Houses of Yorkshire, Bk 1) by Sarah E. Ladd
In Regency England, one letter will alter a young woman’s fate when it summons her to Briarton Park—an ancient estate that holds the secrets of her past and the keys to her future. Cassandra Hale grew up knowing little about her parentage, and she had made peace with the fact that...  more

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Marple: Twelve New Mysteries by Agatha Christie & Naomi Alderman & Leigh Bard...
One doesn't stop at one murder... Jane Marple is an elderly lady from St Mary Mead who possesses an uncanny knack for solving even the most perplexing puzzles. Now, for the first time in 45 years, Agatha Christie’s beloved character returns to the page for a globe-trotting tour of...  more

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Lessons by Ian McEwan
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Two thousand miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano...  more

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The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh
Everyone in Orange County’s Little Saigon knew that the Duong sisters were cursed. It started with their ancestor, Oanh, who dared to leave her marriage for true love—so a fearsome Vietnamese witch cursed Oanh and her descendants so that they would never find love or happiness,...  more

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Bindle Punk Bruja: A Novel by Desideria Mesa
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On the Rooftop: A Novel by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
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The Kiss Curse (Ex Hex, Bk 2) by Erin Sterling
Gwyn Jones is perfectly happy with her life in Graves Glen. She, her mom, and her cousin have formed a new and powerful coven; she’s running a successful witchcraft shop, Something Wicked; and she’s started mentoring some of the younger witches in town. As Halloween approaches,...  more

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Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm: A Novel by Laura Warrell
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Always the First to Die by R. J. Jacobs
Always the First to Die follows a former horror movie actress as she returns to the set of her most iconic film, only to find that the strange circumstances begin to resemble the plot of her most famous film. After her husband's death, Lexi has refused to return to the Pinecrest Estate on...  more

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StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race...
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The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare by Kimberly Brock
The fate of the world is often driven by the curiosity of a girl. What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke remains a mystery, but the women who descended from Eleanor Dare have long known that the truth lies in what she left behind: a message carved onto a large stone and the contents of...  more

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Bless Your Heart, Rae Sutton by Susannah B. Lewis
Sometimes what your life is missing is an eccentric group of older ladies to take you under their wing... When Rae Sutton's mama passes away and leaves her the house where she grew up, Rae can't imagine how the little old place might restore her broken life. Mourning the recent loss...  more

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Our Missing Hearts (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by Celeste Ng & Lucy Liu (Narrator)
Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left the family when he was nine years old without a trace. Bird knows to not ask too many...  more

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Liberation Day: Stories by George Saunders
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Making a Scene by Constance Wu
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The Wind at My Back: Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from My Mentor, Raven Wilkins...
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Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet
A man named Gil walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new neighbors move into the glass-walled house next door, and his life begins to mesh with theirs. In this warmly textured, drily funny, and philosophical account of Gil’s unexpected devotion to...  more

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A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
One of the most vivid and and realized characters of recent fiction, Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry's highly acclaimed novel. Leaving Dublin to fight for the allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, he finds himself caught between the war playing out on...  more

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The Storyteller's Death by Ann Davila Cardinal
There was always an old woman dying in the back room of her family's house when Isla was a child... Isla Larsen Sanchez's life begins to unravel when her father passes away. Instead of being comforted at home in New Jersey, her mother starts leaving her in Puerto Rico with her...  more

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River Woman, River Demon: A Novel by Jennifer Givhan
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Meredith, Alone by Claire Alexander
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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and...  more

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Partners in Crime by Alisha Rai
Indian Matchmaking meets Date Night in this fun, romantic adventure in which a match-made couple about to be engaged gets caught up in a caper that puts their future—and lives—in danger. At thirty-five, with a stable job as an accountant, Mira Chaudhary wants nothing more than to...  more

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The World Record Book of Racist Stories by Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar
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Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don't Want to Forget to Remember by Lauren G...
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Now Is Not the Time to Panic: A Novel by Kevin Wilson
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The Cloisters by Katy Hays
A circle of researchers uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York’s famed Met Cloisters... When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she finds...  more

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The Stories We Tell: Every Piece of Your Story Matters by Joanna Gaines
In her first solo memoir, New York Times bestselling author Joanna Gaines invites us on an authentic and deeply vulnerable journey into her story--and helps shine a light on the beauty of our own--guiding us to release the weights that hold us back so we may live and share our story in...  more

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Even Though I Knew the End by C. L. Polk
A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the love of her life. This sapphic period piece will dazzle anyone looking for mystery, intrigue, romance, magic, or all of the above. An exiled augur who sold her soul to save her...  more

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My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings by Zosia Mamet (Editor)
A warm and relateable collection of essays exploring the memories we associate with different meals in our lives, from a spectrum of talented creators What is your most poignant memory surrounding food?  Of all the essentials for survival: oxygen, water, sleep, and food, only food is...  more

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The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton
Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state’s infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern coast. Kirby Lowe, an electrical line worker, his pregnant wife, Frida, and their two sons,...  more

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Whiteout by Dhonielle Clayton & Tiffany D Jackson & Nic Stone & Angie Tho...
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Blackwater Falls (Blackwater Falls, Bk 1) by Ausma Zehanat Khan
From critically acclaimed author Ausma Zehanat Khan, Blackwater Falls is the first in a timely and powerful crime series, introducing Detective Inaya Rahman. Girls from immigrant communities have been disappearing for months in the Colorado town of Blackwater Falls, but the local...  more

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The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend. Villa Aestas in Orvieto is a high-end holiday home now, but...  more

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And Yet: Poems by Kate Baer
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The Obsession by Jesse Q. Sutanto
A classic sort of love story... except somebody might wind up dead. Nobody knows Delilah like Logan does. Nobody. He makes sure of it by learning everything he can through her social media and watching her through a hidden camera he has trained on her house. Some might call him a stalker....  more

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The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His divelight illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing...  more

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Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood by Jessica Grose
In this timely and necessary book, New York Times opinion writer Jessica Grose dismantles two hundred years of unrealistic parenting expectations and empowers today's mothers to make choices that actually serve themselves, their children, and their communities Close your eyes...  more

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We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds
Family secrets, a swoon-worthy romance, and a slow-burn mystery collide in We Deserve Monuments, a YA debut from Jas Hammonds that explores how racial violence can ripple down through generations. What’s more important: Knowing the truth or keeping the peace? Seventeen-year-old...  more

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Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, BLACK...  more

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Maame by Jessica George
Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi but in my case, it means woman. It’s fair to say that Maddie’s life in London is far from rewarding. With a mother who spends most of her time in Ghana (yet still somehow manages to be overbearing), Maddie is the primary caretaker for her...  more

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Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong
Katrina Kim may be broke, the black sheep of her family, and slightly unhinged, but she isn’t a stalker. Her obsession with her co-worker, Kurt, is just one of many coping mechanisms—like her constant shape and number rituals, or the way scenes from her favorite children’s...  more

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Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build...
From the globally-recognized personal finance educator and social media star behind Her First $100K, an inclusive guide to all things money—from managing debt to investing and voting with your dollars Tori Dunlap was always good with money. As a kid, she watched her prudent parents...  more

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The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore & Douglas Gorsline (Illustrator)
Beautifully illustrated in full color, America's favorite Christmas poem is vividly depicted.

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The Tatami Galaxy by Tomihiko Morimi & Emily Balistrieri (Translator)
An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four parallel realities to explore the what-might've-been and the what-should-never-be... Our protagonist, an unnamed junior at a prestigious university in Kyoto, is on the verge of dropping out. After rebelling against the dictatorial jock...  more

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Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone by Sequoia Nagamatsu
"You should be here; he's simply magnificent." These are the final words a biologist hears before his Margaret Mead-like wife dies at the hands of Godzilla. The words haunt him as he studies the Kaiju (Japan's giant monsters) on an island reserve, attempting to understand the beauty his wife...  more

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Midnight on the River Grey by Abigail Wilson
Abigail Wilson returns to Regency England with another tale of murder, mystery, and romance.After her elder brother?s mysterious death, Rebecca Hunter vows to expose the man she believes responsible?Mr. Lewis Browning?known by the locals as the Midnight Devil and by Rebecca as her new guardian....  more

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The Gold in These Hills by Joanne Bischof
Two second-chance love stories, hope across the centuries, and the legacy that binds them together. Upon arriving at Kenworthy, California, mail-order-bride Juniper Cohen was met by the pounding of the gold mine, the rowdiness of its prospectors, and her greatest surprise of all: the love of...  more

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The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes
Maya was a high school senior when her best friend, Aubrey, mysteriously dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man named Frank whom they’d been spending time with all summer.   Seven years later, Maya lives in Boston with a loving boyfriend and is kicking the secret addiction that...  more

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Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill. New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It’s a rich man’s car, but when the dust settles there...  more

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The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness by Robe...
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Ghost Music by An Yu
A gorgeous Beijing-set novel of music, secrets and self-discovery For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. With her marriage, she gave up on her own career as a concert pianist, but her husband Bowen has...  more

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Weyward by Emilia Hart
I am a Weyward, and wild inside. 2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she...  more

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The Dream Builders by Oindrila Mukherjee
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Better the Blood by Michael Bennett
A tenacious MÄÂori detective, Hana Westerman juggles single motherhood, endemic prejudice, and the pressures of her career in Auckland CIB. Led to a crime scene by a mysterious video, she discovers a man ritualistically hanging in a secret room and a puzzling inward-curving inscription....  more

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Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
A brilliantly original and funny novel about a sex therapist’s transcriptionist who falls in love with a client while listening to her sessions. When they accidentally meet in real life, an explosive affair ensues. Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in...  more

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Radiant Sin (Dark Olympus, 4) by Katee Robert
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I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year....  more

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VenCo by Cherie Dimaline
Métis millennial Lucky St. James is barely hanging on when she learns she’ll be evicted from the tiny Toronto apartment she shares with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella. But then one night, something strange and irresistible calls out to Lucky. She burrows through a...  more

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The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi
Once upon a time, a man who believed in fairy tales married a beautiful, mysterious woman named Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada. He was a scholar of myths. She was heiress to a fortune. They exchanged gifts and stories and believed they would live happily ever after--and in exchange for her...  more

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This Other Eden by Paul Harding
In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discovered an island where they could make a life together. More than a century later, the Honeys’ descendants remain there, with an eccentric, diverse band of neighbors: a pair of sisters raising three Penobscot...  more

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I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir by Debra Lee
As an incredible glass-ceiling breaker and the woman who brought timeless television shows like The Game and Being Mary Jane to cable, Debra Lee has been the visionary responsible for elevating Black images and storytelling for decades. Now she’s telling her own story, in an intimate and...  more

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You Are Only Just Beginning: Lessons for the Journey Ahead (Morgan Harper Nichols Poe...
Popular Instagram poet and bestselling author Morgan Harper Nichols reimagines the classic heroine's journey—from the very first call to adventure, through trials, hardships, and new relationships, all the way back home—and offers key lessons and affirmations to encourage and...  more

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The Family Morfawitz by Daniel H. Turtel
When Hadassah Morfawitz flees Nazi Germany with her siblings and arrives in New York, she is determined to turn the city into her own Mount Olympus -- at any cost. In choosing orphaned concentration camp survivor Zev Kretinberg as her husband and accomplice -- ensuring his loyalty with the...  more

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Against the Currant (Spice Isle Bakery, Bk 1) by Olivia Matthews
Little Caribbean, Brooklyn, New York: Lyndsay Murray is opening Spice Isle Bakery with her family, and it’s everything she’s ever wanted. The West Indian bakery is her way to give back to the community she loves, stay connected to her Grenadian roots, and work side-by-side with her...  more

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NerdCrush by Alisha Emrich
Ramona Lambert is a typical shy, artistic sixteen-year-old. She has a best friend whom she’s known since they were in diapers; parents who love her; a love for cosplay; and a crush on the cute boy in her class. The only problem? Her best friend moved away; her parents don't quite...  more

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When Trying to Return Home: Stories by Jennifer Maritza McCauley
Profoundly moving and powerful, the stories in When Trying to Return Home dig deeply into the question of belonging. A young woman is torn between overwhelming love for her mother and the need to break free from her damaging influence during a desperate and disastrous attempt to rescue...  more

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How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life...
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The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J. Crew by Maggi...
Once upon a time, a no-frills J.Crew rollneck sweater held an almost mystical power -- or at least it felt that way. The story of J.Crew is the story of the original "lifestyle brand," whose evolution charts a sea change in the way we dress, the way we shop, and who we aspire...  more

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Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough by Dina Nayeri
From the author of The Ungrateful Refugee -- finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Kirkus Prize -- Who Gets Believed? is a groundbreaking book about persuasion and performance that asks unsettling questions about lies, truths, and the difference between being believed and being...  more

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The Farewell Tour by Stephanie Clifford
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Everybody Rise , a rich and riveting novel with the exquisite historical detail and evocative settings of The Cold Millions and Great Circle that tells the story of one unforgettable woman’s rise in country and western music. It’s...  more

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Forget Me Not by Julie Soto
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Period: The Real Story of Menstruation by Kate Clancy
Menstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood. Scientists once thought of an individual's period as useless and some doctors still believe it's unsafe for a menstruating person to swim in the ocean...  more

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Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls
Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who’d amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers...  more

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Wires that Sputter: Poems by Britta Badour
A powerful debut collection from an award-winning artist, public speaker, and poet. With propulsive, intimate stylings and an eye toward Black liberations, pop culture, sports, and familial fractures, Wires that Sputter meets the world with the posture of a portraitist and the...  more

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Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector by Amit Ka...
A thrilling account of the creation of the so-called lie detector, exploring shocking murders and dramatic trials to uncover the true nature of the polygraph. Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife’s blood. But was he a grieving husband, or a...  more

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Chlorine by Jade Song
In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between a literary coming-of-age narrative and a dark unsettling horror tale, told from an adult perspective on the trials and tribulations of growing up in a society that puts...  more

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God Themselves by Jae Nichelle
Rising star and spoken word poet Jae Nichelle debuts her luminous thoughts in God Themselves, a new collection of stirring poetry. Nichelle taps into her experiences of growing up in the South as a queer Black woman to courageously confront the affects of a forced religion and the inherent...  more

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Happy Place by Henry Emily
Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college -- they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now -- for reasons they're still not discussing -- they don't. They broke up six months ago. And still haven't told their best...  more

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You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith
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Silver in the Bone (Silver in the Bone, Bk 1) by Alexandra Bracken
Born without a trace of magic, Tamsin Lark is no match for the sorceresses and Hollowers who populate the magical underground of Boston. But when the only parent she’s ever known disappears without so much as a goodbye, she has no choice but to join in their cutthroat pursuit of enchanted...  more

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The Fiancee Farce by Alexandria Bellefleur
Tansy Adams’ greatest love is her family’s bookstore, passed down from her late father. But when it comes to actual romance… Tansy can’t get past the first chapter. Tired of her stepfamily’s questions about her love life, Tansy invents Gemma, a fake girlfriend...  more

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You Shouldn't Have Come Here by Jeneva Rose
You’ve opened up your house and your heart to a total stranger … What could possibly go wrong? Grace Evans, an overworked New Yorker looking for a total escape from her busy life, books an Airbnb on a ranch in the middle of Wyoming. When she arrives at the idyllic getaway,...  more

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Homebodies by Tembe Denton-Hurst
Urgent, propulsive, and strikingly insightful, Homebodies is a thrilling debut novel about a young Black writer whose world is turned upside down when she loses her coveted job in media and pens a searing manifesto about racism in the industry. Mickey Hayward dreams of writing...  more

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Chita: A Memoir by Chita Rivera
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If Only You (Bergman Brothers, Bk 6) by Chloe Liese
Brace yourself for longing, laughter, and a swoony slow-burn in this brothers best friend sports romance about scoring the love of your life when you least expect to. Ziggy -- I'm the youngest player on the National Soccer team, the baby of my family, and thoroughly sick of being...  more

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The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs by Laura Tremaine
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Coronation Year: A Novel by Jennifer Robson
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The Audrey Hepburn Estate by Brenda Janowitz
When Emma Jansen discovers that the grand Long Island estate where she grew up is set to be demolished, she can't help but return for one last visit. After all, it was a place filled with firsts: learning to ride a bike, sneaking a glass of champagne, falling in love. But once Emma...  more

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Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore?s Deadliest Gang Leader by Ma...
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Lost in Paris: A Novel by Betty Webb
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The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag by Sasha Velour
“Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us—the infinite ways in which gender, good taste, and art can be lived.” – Sasha Velour This book is a quilt, piecing together memoir, history, and theory into a living portrait of an artist and an art....  more

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The God of Good Looks by Breanne Mc Ivor
This entertaining, transportive, and luminous debut novel follows a young Trinidadian woman finding her voice and a new kind of happy ending. Bianca Bridge has always dreamt of becoming a writer. But Trinidadian society can be unforgiving, and having an affair with a married government...  more

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The Postcard by Anne Berest
Anne Berest’s luminous, moving, and unforgettable new novel The Postcard is the most acclaimed and beloved French book in recent years. At once a gripping investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and an enthralling portrait of 20th-century Parisian...  more

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The Swiss Nurse by Mario Escobar
Based on the true story of an astonishingly brave woman who saved hundreds of mothers and their children during the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Elisabeth Eidenbenz left Switzerland in 1937 to aid children orphaned during the Spanish Civil War. Now, her work has led her to France, where...  more

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The Wisdom of Morrie: Living and Aging Creatively and Joyfully by Morrie Schwartz
From the eponymous subject of the beloved classic Tuesdays with Morrie comes an insightful, poignant masterpiece on staying vibrant and connected for life. Who am I really? What have I done? What is important and meaningful to me? What difference does it make that I have lived? What does it mean...  more

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The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts by Soraya Palmer
Folktales and spirits animate this lively coming-of-age tale of two Jamaican-Trinidadian sisters in Brooklyn grappling with their mother’s illness, their father's infidelity, and the truth of their family's past Sisters Zora and Sasha Porter are drifting apart. Bearing witness...  more

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Burst by Mary Otis
An arresting debut novel that explores the relationship complexities between mothers and daughters, the desire to escape, and the longing to connect. Burst is a powerful story about how we become—and unbecome—our mothers, how we absorb the past, and how we burst into our own...  more

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This House is Not a Home by Katlia
After a hunting trip one fall, a family in the far reaches of so-called Canada's north return to nothing but an empty space where their home once stood. Finding themselves suddenly homeless, they have no choice but to assimilate into settler-colonial society in a mining town that has...  more

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The Family Secret by Kiersten Modglin
Their new home has a terrifying secret… When freshly engaged Austyn Murphy and Lowell Bass receive the news that Lowell’s parents have died unexpectedly, they set out for the historic Bass estate to handle their affairs and lay the former heads of the family to...  more

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Time Magic: Reclaim Your Time, Reclaim Your Life by Melissa Ambrosini & Nick Broa...
Feel like you don't have enough time? Killing yourself trying to 'do it all' without much to show for it? Forget about time management, you need Time Magic. In this revolutionary book, you'll learn how to create the spacious, fulfilling life you've always imagined, but that...  more

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No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister
One book. Nine readers. Ten changed lives.  That was the beauty of books, wasn’t it? They took you places you didn’t know you needed to go… Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached, until a devastating...  more

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Famous for a Living by Melissa Ferguson
She's Insta-famous. He uses a flip phone. When her business partner is accused of serious financial crimes, superstar influencer Cat Cranwell -- an engineered marvel of beauty, energy, and fun -- falls from her penthouse perch. Des­perate to get away from the online trolls and...  more

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Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune
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Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
She felt their eyes, all those executioners… Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising program in...  more

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Quietly Hostile: Essays by Samantha Irby
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The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
Founded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera’s lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant to measure...  more

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Drowning by T. J. Newman
Six minutes after takeoff, Flight 1421 crashes into the Pacific Ocean. During the evacuation, an engine explodes and the plane is flooded. Those still alive are forced to close the doors—but it’s too late. The plane sinks to the bottom with twelve passengers trapped inside. More...  more

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It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward by Elizabeth Passar...
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Friends Like These by Meg Rosoff
New York City. June, 1982. When eighteen-year-old Beth arrives in Manhattan for a prestigious journalism internship, everything feels brand new -- and not always in a good way. A cockroach-infested sublet and a disaffected roommate are the least of her worries, and she soon finds herself...  more

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The Imposters by Tom Rachman
Dora Frenhofer, a once successful but now aging and embittered novelist, knows her mind is going. She is determined, however, to finish her final book, and reverse her fortunes, before time runs out. Alone in her London home during the pandemic, she creates, and is in turn created by, the...  more

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A Crown of Ivy and Glass (Middlemist, Bk 1) by Claire Legrand
Lady Gemma Ashbourne seemingly has it all. She's young, gorgeous, and rich. Her family was Anointed by the gods, blessed with incredible abilities. But underneath her glittering façade, Gemma is deeply sad. Years ago, her sister Mara was taken to the Middlemist to guard against...  more

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Love Across Borders: Passports, Papers, and Romance in a Divided World by Anna Lekas ...
We are told that love conquers all, but what happens when you don’t have the right passport?   With deep empathy, rigorous reporting, and the irresistible perspective of a true romantic, journalist Anna Lekas Miller tells the stories of couples around the world who must confront...  more

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All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive by Rainesford Stauffe...
From journalist and author of An Ordinary Age , an examination, dismantling, and reconstruction of ambition, where burnout is the symptom of our holiest the lonely way we strive. Ambition -- the want, the hunger, the need to achieve -- is woven into America’s fabric from the first...  more

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Social Engagement by Avery Carpenter Forrey
A bitingly sharp and darkly humorous debut novel exploring millennial wedding culture, class, and relationships, all filtered through the ever-present lens of social media. In an opulent honeymoon suite in Watch Hill, Rhode Island’s most desirable wedding venue, 29-year-old Callie Holt...  more

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The Shift: Change Your Perspective, Not Yourself by Tinx
The lifestyle creator, advice expert, and host of the It’s Me, Tinx podcast shares her hilarious and (sometimes brutally) honest wisdom on how to shift your approach to life, step into your confidence, and enjoy the journey. It’s time to get laser focused on what makes us feel...  more

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The Rachel Experiment (From Sunset Park, With Love, Bk 2) by Lisa Lin
Who knew that one night out would change everything? As a financial analyst, Rachel Bai is more comfortable with numbers than people. When her boss promotes her to head a team in San Francisco, his message is clear -- she has one year to build a successful team and become an effective leader....  more

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Hurt You by Marie Myung-Ok Lee
With echoes of Marieke Nijkamp and Jason Reynolds, acclaimed author Marie Myung-Ok Lee's stunning YA homage to Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men tells the tragic story of a Korean American teen who fights to protect herself and her neurodivergent older brother from a hostile...  more

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Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success by Jessica Parra
Graduation is only a few months away, and so far Rubi Ramos’s recipe for success is on track. *Step 1: Get into the prestigious Alma University. *Step 2: Become incredibly successful lawyer. But when Alma waitlists Rubi’s application, her plan is in jeopardy. Her parents --...  more

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Love Betrayal Murder by Adam Mitzner
Matthew Brooks and Vanessa Lyons are a perfect love match, both attorneys at a powerful New York City law firm. But there’s a hitch: Matt just made partner, and Vanessa is coming up for partner next year. And Vanessa’s husband, the profligate Bradley Lyons, has his...  more

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Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism by Magda Tet...
A panoramic cultural and legal history that traces the roots of antisemitism and racism to early Christian theology. Since the earliest days of Christianity, theologians expressed pervasive anxiety about Jews as equal members of society, and, with European expansion in the early modern...  more

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I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness by Daniel Alle...
“I spent eighteen years in a group that taught me to hate myself. You cannot be queer and a Jehovah’s Witness -- it’s one or the other.” Daniel Allen Cox grew up with firm lines around what his religion considered celebrating birthdays and holidays; voting in...  more

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Breaking In by Tyler Schwanke
When a crooked Hollywood director announces his next big premiere, aspiring filmmaker Millie Blomquist is shocked to learn that he's stolen her script. Millie uses her college savings to attend a summer program at the Manhattan Movie Academy, run by her favorite director, Ricky...  more

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The Thing About Home by Rhonda McKnight
Home is not a place -- it’s a feeling. Casey Black needs an escape. When her picture-perfect vow renewal ceremony ends in her being left at the altar, the former model turned social media influencer has new fame -- the kind she never wanted. An embarrassing viral video has cost her...  more

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Never Trust a Gemini by Freja Nicole Woolf
Cat Phillips has her head in the stars, but her romantic fantasies may ruin her shot at real-life love in this sweet and funny lesbian story. It’s Libra Season, and Cat Phillips is ready to run headfirst into love. The only problem is that her crush is on her best friend, Alison...  more

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Into the Fire (Ray Wyatt, Bk 1) by Rick Mofina
INTO THE FIRE, introduces Ray Wyatt, a veteran reporter grappling with the tragic loss of his wife and son while searching for answers in the crime stories he covers. Hikers find a traumatized boy wandering in a remote corner of New York's Adirondack Mountains. Retracing his steps to a...  more

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Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves through Dark Moods by Mariana Alessandri
A philosopher’s personal meditation on how painful emotions can reveal truths about what it means to be truly human. Under the light of ancient Western philosophies, our darker moods like grief, anguish, and depression can seem irrational. When viewed through the lens of modern...  more

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Sugar, Spice, and Can't Play Nice (Chai Masala Club, Bk 2) by Annika Sharma
Payal is a girl on the verge -- of living a life she's always dreamt of, becoming a rising star in fashion, and...of marriage?! When her parents insist she marry fellow Londoner and serial dater Ayaan Malhotra in order to save their company, Payal has a choice: stick it to her...  more

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The Castle Keepers by Aimie K. Runyan & J'nell Ciesielski & Rachel McMillan
Leedswick Castle has housed the Alnwick family in the English countryside for generations, despite a family curse determined to destroy their legacy and erase them from history. 1870. After a disastrous dinner at the Astor mansion forces her to flee New York in disgrace, socialite...  more

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Dulcinea by Ana Veciana-Suarez
Dolça, mistress, muse, and lifelong love of Miguel de Cervantes de Cortinas, paints her story against the rich backdrop of Spain as she travels from Barcelona to Madrid at the behest of her dying paramour. The daughter of a wealthy merchant, young Dolça was besotted with the...  more

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Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy by Jennifer ...
An eye-opening portrait of the gun sellers who navigated the social turmoil leading up to the January 6 Capitol attack. Gun sellers sell more than just guns. They also sell politics. Merchants of the Right sheds light on the unparalleled surge in gun purchasing during one of the most dire...  more

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Give Me Forever (Beaumont: Next Generation, Bk 5) by Heidi McLaughlin
Elle James has it a loving fiancé in Ben, a promising career as a music manager, and a supportive family. She couldn’t be happier with her life. That is until the unthinkable happens and she must accept the consequences of her actions and figure out how to come clean to her family...  more

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Everything's Still There by Kalyn Fogarty
Professional party planner turned stay-at-home-mom, Brynn Hallman always imagined she’d be the ideal mother for her little boy, Cody. But her plans go awry with a series of medical complications that send her into a tailspin. Fueled by bad reality TV and a growing obsession with an...  more

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The Power of Hope: How the Science of Well-Being Can Save Us from Despair by Carol Gr...
Why hope matters as a metric of economic and social well-being In a society marked by extreme inequality of income and opportunity, why should economists care about how people feel? The truth is that feelings of well-being are critical metrics that predict future life outcomes. In this timely...  more

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The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due
American Book Award-winning author Tananarive Due’s second collection of stories includes offerings of horror, science fiction, and suspense -- all genres she wields masterfully. From the mysterious, magical town of Gracetown to the aftermath of a pandemic to the reaches of the far future,...  more

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Sing, Nightingale by Marie Helene Poitras & Rhonda Mullins (Translator)
Beneath the bright sky of Noirax lies a long tradition of secrets. Generations of men on the Malmaison estate have fathered countless children, both legitimate and not. The women all meet tragic ends or live in the shadows of the estate, and the illegitimate offspring are cared for by nursemaids...  more

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At Last Count by Claire Ross Dunn
Paisley Ratchford is trying to keep it together, but her world is about to be turned upside down: In six weeks, the Toronto apartment building she lives in will be demolished. Thirty-nine years old, with nowhere to go and no one to turn to, she tries to regain possession of her childhood home on...  more

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I Got a Name: The Murder of Krystal Senyk by Eliza Robertson & Myles Dolphin
A vivid and meticulous true-crime story that exposes the deep fractures in a system that repeatedly fails to protect women, while tracking the once-cold trail of a murderer still at large. Krystal Senyk was the kind of friend everybody a reliable confidant, a handywoman of all trades, and an...  more

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My Own Magic: A Reappearing Act by Anna Kloots
Despite what appeared to be a glamorous existence full of globetrotting adventures, behind the scenes, Anna Kloots felt invisible in her own life. Consumed by a marriage that left no space for her own desires, she chose to reframe the failure of her marriage as an opportunity to begin again....  more

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The Rest of Me by Ashley Munoz
Death never simply settles for the life it claims. It’s greedy. It stole all of our lives that night and while it put my husband in the ground, it left my four children and me behind. After an ugly year of grief, something had to change. My sister suggested open spaces, big skies and...  more

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Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her...  more

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The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley by Courtney Walsh
She’s out to prove that there’s no such thing as choosing happiness. Isadora Bentley follows the rules. Isadora Bentley likes things just so. Isadora Bentley believes that happiness is something that flat-out doesn’t exist in her life -- and never will. As a...  more

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Killingly by Katharine Beutner
Based on the unsolved real-life disappearance of a Mount Holyoke student in 1897, Killingly weaves a haunting spell of intrigue, longing, and terror, perfect for fans of Donna Tartt and Sarah Waters. Bertha Mellish, “the most peculiar, quiet, reserved girl” at Mount...  more

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Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wake—a party to bring her family and community together to celebrate the long life she’s led—her sisters are surprised. Has Flor foreseen her own death, or someone...  more

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Hedge by Jane Delury
An emotionally charged, richly observed novel about a woman balancing the demands of motherhood and marriage with her own needs. Maud is a talented garden historian and devoted mom to daughters Ella and Louise. Motivated to reignite her career and escape her troubled marriage, she accepts a...  more

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Pedro & Daniel by Federico Erebia & Julie Kwon (Illustrator)
Pedro and Daniel are Mexican American brothers growing up in 1970s Ohio. Their mother resents that Pedro is a spitting image of their darker-skinned father; that Daniel likes dolls; that neither boy plays sports. Both are gay and neurodivergent. They are alike, but they are dissimilar in their...  more

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A Shadow in Moscow by Katherine Reay
In the thick of the Cold War, a betrayal at the highest level risks the lives of two courageous female spies: MI6’s best Soviet agent and the CIA’s newest Moscow recruit. Vienna, 1954 After losing everyone she loves in the final days of World War II, Ingrid Bauer agrees to a hasty...  more

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The Antiquity Affair by Lee Kelly & Jennifer Thorne
An archaeologist’s estranged daughters. 1907: The dawn of Egyptology is a time of imperialism and plunder, opulence and unrest, and Dr. Warren Ford, esteemed archaeologist, is the man of the hour. His daughters -- intellectual Lila, on the eve of her debut as a Manhattan socialite, and...  more

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A Botanist's Guide to Flowers and Fatality (Saffron Everleigh, Bk 2) by Kate Khavari
1920s London isn’t the ideal place for a brilliant woman with lofty ambitions. But research assistant Saffron Everleigh is determined to beat the odds in a male-dominated field at the University College of London. Saffron embarks on her first research study alongside the insufferably...  more

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Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca
After a recent string of disappearances in a small Connecticut town, a grieving widower with a grim secret is drawn into a dangerous ritual of dark magic by a powerful and mysterious older gentleman named Heart Crowley. Meanwhile, a member of local law enforcement tasked with uncovering the...  more

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The Little Book of Exoplanets by Joshua N. Winn
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The Carnivale of Curiosities by Amiee Gibbs
In Victorian London, where traveling sideshows are the very pinnacle of entertainment, there is no more coveted ticket than Ashe and Pretorius' Carnivale of Curiosities. Each performance is a limited engagement, and London's elite boldly dare the dangerous streets of Southwark to...  more

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The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata
Vanessa Mazur refuses to feel bad for quitting—she knows she’s doing the right thing. The thankless job of personal assistant to the top defensive end in the National Football Organization was always supposed to be temporary. She has plans for her life, and none of them include...  more

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Softening Time: Collected Poems by Elena Brower
From beloved yogi, teacher, and artist Elena Brower comes the writer’s debut collection of a lyrical exploration of grief, self-compassion, and learning from the past to navigate life’s challenges with grace. Softening Time is both autobiography and self-help, poetry and...  more

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Before She Finds Me by Heather Chavez
Julia Bennett has worked hard to create a stable life for her daughter, Cora, in Southern California. So when Cora leaves for college, the worst thing Julia expects on move-in day is an argument with her ex-husband and his new wife. But a sudden attack leaves the campus stunned—and only...  more

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There Are 'No' Stupid Questions . . . in Science by Leah Elson
There Are (No) Stupid Questions … In Science was born from Leah’s popular web series, 60 Seconds of Science, wherein her avid followers, from all around the world, suggest topics to be explained, within sixty seconds. In the vein of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil...  more

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In Ruins (Something More) by Danielle Pearl
She wanted to start again. To be someone---anyone---different . . . Freedom. When Carleigh Stanger thought of college, that was the word that came to mind. Freedom from her unhappy home life. Freedom from high school mistakes. Freedom from the memory of that terrible morning. Only instead of...  more

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The Infinite Miles by Hannah Fergesen
A wacky time-traveling sci-fi odyssey wrapped in an elegiac ode to lost friendship and a clever homage to Doctor Who . To save the future, she must return to the beginning Three years after her best friend Peggy went missing, Harper Starling is lost. Lost in her dead-end job, lost in her grief....  more

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What Remains by Wendy Walker
Detective Elise Sutton is drawn to cold cases. Each crime is a puzzle to solve, pulled from the past. Elise looks for cracks in the surface and has become an expert on how murderers slip up and give themselves away. She has dedicated her life to creating a sense of order, at work with her...  more

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Halifax: Transgression (Doctor Jane Halifax, Bk 1) by Roger Simpson
Based on the hugely successful Channel 9 drama series starring Rebecca Gibney as forensic psychologist Dr. Jane Halifax, whose criminal profiling, twenty years later, might be the only way to track down Australia's most dangerous serial killer yet. The first murder is brazen, violent and...  more

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Shadows of the Lost (Guild of Night, Bk 1) by Maxym M. Martineau
Once I was a Charmer, and the magical beasts of this world loved me. Now I'm something else. Something darker. As a member of the Charmers Council, Gaige is able to form lasting bonds with the magical beasts of his world. At least, he used to be a Charmer...until he died and was brought...  more

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The Traitor Beside Her by Mary Anna Evans
Trust no one. Justine Byrne can't trust the people working beside her. She can't trust the women who live down the hall. She can't even trust the man in front of her, and she just might love him. Inside the walls of Arlington Hall, a former women's college in Virginia that...  more

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Something More by Jackie Khalilieh
A contemporary teen romance novel featuring a Palestinian-Canadian girl trying to hide her autism diagnosis while navigating her first year of high school. Fifteen-year-old Jessie, a quirky loner obsessed with the nineties, is diagnosed as autistic just weeks before starting high school....  more

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Notalus: Lord of the South Wind (Lords of the Wind, Bk 1) by A. E. Via & Jay Ahee...
Patrons of the Autumn Realm, All Hail, Notalus Cavalerie! The last of the Horsemen and Harbingers of Justice. The Overseer of the Harvest and Creator of New Life. He is the Titan of Tir an Fhomhair and Lord of the South Wind. After two thousand years of providing peace for his people, Notalus...  more

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Chasing the Panther: Adventures and Misadventures of a Cinematic Life by Carolyn Pfei...
A cinematic and vibrant coming-of-age memoir, Chasing the Panther captures the thrilling and, at times, heartbreaking early years of Carolyn Pfeiffer, a pioneering film producer and one of Hollywood's first female executives -- a “mini-mogul” in the words of the Wall Street...  more

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Six Ostriches (Dr. Bannerman Vet Mystery, Bk 2) by Philipp Schott
It’s springtime in rural Manitoba, and the snow has finally left the exotic animal farm when an ostrich finds and swallows a shiny object. (Because this is what ostriches do.) Cue veterinarian and amateur sleuth Dr. Peter Bannerman, who surgically removes the object, which looks like an...  more

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Super Bloom by Megan Tady
If only there was a spa treatment for heartbreak. In this sparkling, heart-warming debut set at a luxury Vermont spa, massage therapist Joan Johnston is wallowing in grief over the accidental death of her boyfriend, Samuel, and it’s now seriously jeopardizing her job and her...  more

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Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education by Sybille Bedford
"A deliciously evoked return to worlds, and a Europe, now almost vanished; it will ravish connoisseurs of the lost."-John Fowles. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Sybille Bedford's latest novel walks the borderline between autobiography and fiction. It picks up where A Legacy leaves off,...  more

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The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Moun...
In 1966 in Rabun County, Georgia, a group of high school English students created the Foxfire magazine, a literary journal that celebrated Appalachian stories, peoples, and culture. The publication was filled with poetry and prose from local students and authors and featured interviews with...  more

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Resisting the Grump (Mount Macon, Bk 1) by Ashley Munoz
Ashley Munoz, brings a deliciously fun small-town romance, full of hilarious antics and a grumpy recluse-with no idea he has to not only win the girl but redeem himself in the process. Stalking the town recluse wasn’t exactly wise. Davis was five years older than me…antisocial...  more

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Double-Decker Dreams by Lindsay MacMillan
American consultant Kat is staffed on a six-month project in London and has two very small, very reasonable ambitions before returning home: get promoted to partner and fall in love with a handsome English aristocrat. No problem, right? But work is a grind, and the British men she meets are a...  more

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Reach: Hard Lessons and Learned Truths from a Lifetime in Television by Arthur Smith
One of the most daring, creative, and influential minds in nonfiction television, Arthur Smith draws on the most exciting moments of his pioneering career as a producer to show how far you can go when you reach for your dreams. Arthur Smith is famous for his innovation and audacity, and as the...  more

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Celebrity Nation: How America Evolved into a Culture of Fans and Followers by Landon ...
A former People magazine editor reveals how our cult of celebrity has shaped our politics, our culture, and our personal lives—for better or worse From the writer and editor who coined the term “baby boomer” comes Celebrity Nation , an exploration into how and why fame no...  more

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How to Stay Productive When the World Is Ending: Productivity, Burnout, and Why Every...
A biting humor collection about the cult of productivity and the feeling of impending doom that comes with it, from Reductress. Juggling careers, maintaining relationships, managing side gigs, and sustaining an engaging social media presence is hard––and we're expected to do...  more

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Piece of Cake by Mary Hollis Huddleston & Asher Fogle Paul
She’s only trying to save her job and her reputation. Claire Sommers grew up as a society girl destined to have it tasteful Dallas mansion, high-powered career, hot and rich husband. Until a massive mistake left her reputation in tatters and trust fund frozen. Now the former debutante is...  more

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The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar
A pun-filled YA contemporary romance, The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar finds a teenage girl competing in a televised baking competition, with contestants including her ex-girlfriend and a potential new crush -- perfect for fans of The Great British Bake Off and She Drives Me Crazy...  more

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Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, Bk 2) by Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory. It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black...  more

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Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. And she’s all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though...  more

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Ladies of the Lake by Cathy Gohlke
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All Is Not Forgiven by Joe Kenda
When murder is your business, solving the case is personal … The Homicide Hunter’s riveting debut novel proves that fiction really can be stranger than truth … In this first novel, the rookie Det. Kenda investigates a 1975 case that begins with the murder of a beloved...  more

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Wednesdays at One by Sandra A. Miller
Sophisticated and suspenseful, this debut novel by award-winning author Sandra A. Miller explores how long-buried secrets have the power to shatter a seemingly perfect life. Dr. Gregory Weber has a thriving career, a beautiful family, and an elegant home in one of Boston's most desirable...  more

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Just a Hat by S. Khubiar & Shanah Khubiar
Action-packed, humorous, and bittersweet, this 1970s-era coming-of-age novel is more relevant than ever--exploring how a second-generation immigrant kid in a new hometown must navigate bullying, unexpected friendships, and the struggle of keeping both feet firmly planted in two very different...  more

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The Rooster House: My Ukrainian Family Story, A Memoir by Victoria Belim
A timely and deeply moving memoir of the author’s Ukrainian family history, interwoven with the country’s tumultuous story In 2014, the landmarks of Victoria Belim’s personal geography were plunged into tumult at the hands of Russia. Her hometown Kyiv was gripped by protests...  more

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The Art of Scandal by Regina Black
"Love would be so much easier if it were perfect..." On the night of her husband Matt’s fortieth birthday, Rachel Abbott receives a sexy, explicit text from her husband that she quickly realizes was meant for another woman. Divorce is inevitable, and Rachel is determined not...  more

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Sipping Dom Perignon Through a Straw: Reimagining Success as a Disabled Achiever by E...
A memoir penned with one good finger,  Ndopu writes about being profoundly disabled and profoundly successful   Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare degenerative motor neuron disease affecting his mobility. He was told that he wouldn't...  more

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The Trap by Catherine Ryan Howard
One year ago, Lucy’s sister, Nicki, left to meet friends at a pub in Dublin and never came home. The third Irish woman to vanish inexplicably in as many years, the agony of not knowing what happened that night has turned Lucy’s life into a waking nightmare. So, she’s going...  more

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Positively, Penelope (Skymar, Bk 2) by Pepper Basham
Told mostly through letters, texts, and email, this contemporary romance will charm its way into hearts as Penelope rescues a theater and discovers her true self in the process. Penelope Edgewood is practically positive in every way, so when, fresh out of college, she is awarded a paid...  more

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The Other Year by Rea Frey
Can the entire course of a life be traced back to a single moment? On a coveted two-week beach vacation, working mom Kate Baker’s nine-year-old daughter, Olivia, vanishes suddenly among the waves—a heart-dropping incident that threatens to uproot her entire reality. But in the...  more

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The Followers by Bradeigh Godfrey
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Wine People: A Novel by Michelle Wildgen
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Where the Dead Sleep (Ben Packard, Bk 2) by Joshua Moehling
A small town's dark secrets turn deadly... When an early morning call brings Deputy Ben Packard to the scene of a home invasion, he finds Bill Sandersen shot in his bed. Bill was a well-liked local who chased easy money his whole life, leaving bad debts and broken hearts in his wake....  more

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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (Dover Value Editions) by Isabella L. Bird
"In its simple and disarming style, it is a great piece of reporting on a rugged frontier."--San Francisco Chronicle"The book is a jewel case of keen perception, social analysis, and masterful description for this era."--Chicago TribuneIn 1873 Isabella Bird embarked on a trip that called for...  more

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Only the Dead Know Peace by Alberto Mansur
Alberto Mansur's debut thriller offers a bracing, wide-angle portrait of the fence dividing Israel and Palestine, the most controversial border on earth. It follows a diverse cast of characters as they fight for love, belief, country, and power. In Israel and Palestine, religious and...  more

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Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe by Charl...
During Charlotte Gill?s 20 years working as a tree planter she encountered hundreds of clear-cuts, each one a collision site between human civilization and the natural world, a complicated landscape presenting geographic evidence of our appetites. Charged with sowing the new forest in these...  more

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Cunk on Everything: The Encyclopedia Philomena by Philomena Cunk
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Wellness by Nathan Hill
When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the '90s, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in Chicago’s thriving underground art scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to married life, and alongside the...  more

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The Light on Halsey Street by Vanessa Miller
Two girls’ lives are irrevocably intertwined the summer of 1985 in the streets of Brooklyn, New York, and neither will ever be the same in this coming-of-age story that spans decades. In the summer of 1985, Lisa Whitaker is a church kid headed to college on a scholarship while her best...  more

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Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywher...
From “weird, scary, ingenious” (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, a brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfort of rigid belief systems -- from Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People, to...  more

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End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood by Patty Lin
A candid and revealing look at life in television, Hollywood, and work in the writer's room, from an insider who wrote for some of the most popular television shows in historyâۥFriends, Desperate Housewives, and Breaking Bad. Ever since Patty Lin retired from television...  more

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One Sunny Afternoon: A Memoir of Trauma and Healing by Rowan Jette Knox
From the bestselling author of Love Lives Here, a deeply personal memoir about facing life-long trauma head on, and bravely healing the scars that endure. For writer and human rights advocate Amanda Jetté Knox, the inspiring story of her family’s journey of love and...  more

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After Botham: Healing From My Brother's Murder by a Police Officer by Allisa Charles-...
On September 6, 2018, White Dallas police officer Amber Guyger opened the door of Apartment 1478. Inside, Botham Jean lay on his couch, having hung up from the daily call with his sister, Allisa. She'd encouraged her brother to stay home for the night's opening Dallas Cowboys game as...  more

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Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine
Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine’s debut collection examines the diverse range and complexities of the Arab-American community in Dearborn, Michigan. In ten tragicomic stories, Zeineddine explores themes of identity, generational conflicts, war trauma, migration, sexuality,...  more

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Round Here and Over Yonder: A Front Porch Travel Guide by Two Progressive Hillbillies...
Join Southern comedian duo Trae Crowder and Corey Ryan Forrester in this hilarious and irreverent travel guide as they wander about ponderin' the peculiarities beyond their small-town front porches. Trae and Corey will take you from the smallest of small towns to major US metropolises (or is...  more

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Ryan and Avery by David Levithan
From the New York Times bestselling author of EVERY DAY, this is a queer love story for the ages--told over the course of a couple's first ten dates. When a blue-haired boy (Ryan) meets a pink-haired boy (Avery) at a dance--a queer prom--both feel an inexplicable but powerful...  more

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Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir by Curtis Chin
Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone—from the city’s first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples—could sit down for a...  more

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The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy (Undertaking of Hart and Mercy, Bk 1) by Megan Bann...
Hart is a marshal, tasked with patrolling the strange and magical wilds of Tanria. It’s an unforgiving job, and Hart’s got nothing but time to ponder his loneliness.   Mercy never has a moment to herself. She’s been single-handedly keeping Birdsall & Son Undertakers...  more

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Hell If We Don't Change Our Ways: A Memoir by Brittany Means
Brittany Means’s childhood was filled with abuse, neglect, violence, and instability, in part caused by her and her mother’s nomadic existence. Poverty, sexual assault, and evangelical Christian culture didn’t help. Spending her childhood riding shotgun as her mother struggled...  more

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Homeward by Angela Jackson-Brown
The country is changing, and her own world is being turned upside down. Nothing -- and no one -- will ever be the same. Georgia, 1962.  Rose Perkins Bourdon returns home to Parsons, GA, without her husband and pregnant with another man’s baby. After tragedy strikes her husband in the...  more

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10 Things That Never Happened (Material World, Bk 1) by Alexis Hall
Fake amnesia. Real feelings? Real problems. Sam Becker loves -- or, okay, likes -- his job. Sure, managing a bed and bath retailer isn't exactly glamorous, but it's good work and he gets on well with the band of misfits who keep the store running. He could see himself being content...  more

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Emergency Contact by Lauren Layne & Anthony Ledonne
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You're Gonna Die Alone (& Other Excellent News) by Devrie Brynn Donalson
A refreshingly honest, wonderfully humorous, and entirely inspiring exploration of change, fear, and what it really means to be alone, from everyone's favorite TikTok oracle, Devrie Donalson. Dear Reader Just Doing Your Best, Give me a minute, and I'll tell you a story. I'll tell you...  more

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Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, Bk 3) by Ashley Herring Blake
Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partners that are perfect for them, and her parents are still blissfully married. And she's happy for all of them, truly. Iris doesn't want any of that -- dating, love, romance. She'll stick...  more

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Huge by Brent Butt
In comedy, killing is a good thing. From the award-winning screenwriter and International Emmy nominee comes this unexpectedly dark and twisted thriller. It's 1994, and three stand-up comedians have embarked on a tour of smaller communites across a remote stretch of rural Canadian...  more

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Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones by Dolly Parton
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The Pole by J. M. Coetzee
Renowned for his sparse yet powerful prose, J. M. Coetzee is unquestionably among the most influential -- and provocative -- authors of our time. With characteristic insight and a “brittle wit that forces our attention on the common terrors we don’t want to think about”...  more

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The Princess of Thornwood Drive by Khalia Moreau
Two sisters are trapped on opposite sides of reality in this entrancing and deeply moving debut novel that weaves together a contemporary narrative with a parallel fantasy world.   One year ago, a tragic car accident killed 22-year-old Laine’s parents and left her 18-year-old...  more

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The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a community, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years. July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries...  more

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The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by Laura Pearson
The list he left had just one item on it. Or, at least, it did at first… Mabel Beaumont’s husband Arthur loved lists. He’d leave them for her everywhere. ‘Remember: eggs, butter, sugar’. ‘I love you: today, tomorrow, always’. But now Arthur is...  more

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End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir by Meghan Riordan Jarvis
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Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood
Life's moving pieces bring rival chess players together in a match for the heart. Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays; after the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory's focus is on her mom, her sisters, and the...  more

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The Other Half (DI Caius Beauchamp, Bk 1) by Charlotte Vassell
You know how they live. This is how they die... Rupert's 30th birthday party is a black-tie dinner at the Kentish Town McDonald's—catered with cocaine and expensive champagne. The morning after, his girlfriend Clemmie is found murdered on Hampstead Heath, a single stiletto heel...  more

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Mom Com by Adriana Mather
Maddi DeLuca is coming home for the holidays with her nine-year-old son, only it’s not the triumphant return she might have hoped for. She recently broke down on a reality TV baking show, letting the entire country know she feels like a colossal failure. And she can be certain her mother...  more

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Hot Springs Drive by Lindsay Hunter
Jackie loved her best friend Theresa from the moment they met nearly fifteen years ago. Now, Theresa is dead and everyone knows who killed her. Jackie Newsome wants to be many things, but a martyr has never been one of them. She is an ex-emotional eater and mother of four, who has finally lost...  more

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The Start of Something Wonderful (Escape to the Lakes, Bk 1) by Jessica Redland
Autumn Laine has lost her creative sparkle. After losing her grandad and her job as an illustrator in quick succession, she is at a crossroads in life and needs a break. Spending time with her parents in Paris, even in the artistic community of Montmartre, doesn't appear to be the...  more

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The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death,...  more

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The Last Love Note by Emma Grey
You may never stop loving the one you lost. But you can still find love again.  Kate is a bit of a mess. Two years after losing her young husband Cameron, she’s grieving, solo parenting, working like mad at her university fundraising job, always dropping the ball -- and yet...  more

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Out On a Limb by Hannah Bonam-Young
Winnifred "Win" McNulty has always been wildly independent. Not one to be coddled for her limb difference, Win has spent most of her life trying to prove that she can do it all on her own. And, with some minor adjustments, she's done just fine. That is until she has a one-night...  more

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The Other Mothers by Katherine Faulkner
When a young nanny is found dead in mysterious circumstances, new mom, Tash, is intrigued. She has been searching for a story to launch her career as a freelance journalist. But she has also been searching for something else -- new friends to help her navigate motherhood. She sees them at her...  more

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Your Difference is Your Strength: A Guide to Accepting Yourself - for Anyone Who Has ...
You were made to be extraordinary, so get going! Your Difference is Your Strength is a book for anyone and everyone who has ever felt out of place, misunderstood, or just...different. It’s the book for the kid who was too creative or too shy or too “weird” and who grew up into...  more

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The Curse of Penryth Hall by Jess Armstrong
After the Great War, American heiress Ruby Vaughn made a life for herself running a rare bookstore alongside her octogenarian employer and house mate in Exeter. She's always avoided dwelling on the past, even before the war, but it always has a way of finding her. When Ruby is forced to...  more

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Hemlock by Kiersten Modglin
She thought she’d escaped her poisonous past… Thirteen years ago, Maggie Ellis left her small town and vowed to never return. In her rearview mirror were two men she loved and an ominous secret that would forever haunt her. Now, tragedy has brought her back , and she’s...  more

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How to Fight by Thich Nhat Hanh
Learn how to relax the bonds of anger, attachment, and delusion through mindfulness and kindness toward ourselves and others. The Mindfulness Essentials series introduces beginners and reminds seasoned practitioners of the essentials of mindfulness practice. This time Nhat Hanh brings his...  more

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Besaydoo: Poems by Yalie Saweda Kamara
Selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamara’s Besaydoo is an elegantly wrought love song to home -- as place, as people, as body, and as language. A griot is a historian, a living repository of communal legacies with “a story pulsing in...  more

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The Year of Goodbyes and Hellos by Kelly Irvin
In a novel inspired by the author's own cancer experience, two sisters seek a new balance in work, family, and love when one receives a diagnosis that sets the clock ticking. Determined to save Sherri's life, Kristen drops everything to guide her sister on the harrowing cancer...  more

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Everyone But Myself: A Memoir by Julie Chavez
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Double Take (Lake City Heroes, Bk 1) by Lynette Eason
Detective James Cross has been honorably discharged from the Army Criminal Investigation Division due to wounds sustained when an IED blew up near him. Now with the Lake City Police Department, he's rooming with this good buddy and partner, Cole, while he figures out his family...  more

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Unsinkable by Jenni L Walsh
The Titanic was only the beginning. What she survived has become legend. Violet Jessop is Miss Unsinkable. Violet is a stewardess and wartime nurse who not only survives a shipwreck but also two sinkings, one on the infamous Titanic. No one can understand why she would return to sea, but...  more

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Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed...  more

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The Magic All Around by Jennifer Moorman
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The Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez
A powerful novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived, loved, and labored there It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who resents the...  more

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Cold Victory by Karl Marlantes
From author Karl Marlantes comes a propulsive and sweeping novel in which loyalty, friendship, and love are put to the ultimate test. Helsinki, 1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West. Everyone is being watched. A wrong look or a wrong word could end in catastrophe. Natalya...  more

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Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor
From the author of Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay , a hilariously candid and refreshingly honest account of Stefanie Wilder-Taylor’s journey to breaking up with alcohol for good. When Stefanie Wilder-Taylor became a mother, being able to connect with other moms over drinks or enjoy a...  more

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A Tale of One January by Albert Maltz
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Black Boys Like Me: Confrontations with Race, Identity, and Belonging by Matthew R. M...
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Only If You're Lucky by Stacy Willingham
Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a liberal arts college in South Carolina. Margot is the shy one, the careful one, always the sidekick and never the center of attention. But when...  more

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Ours by Phillip B. Williams
An epic novel set in mid-nineteenth-century America about the spiritual costs of a freedom that demands fierce protection In this ingenious, sweeping novel, Phillip B. Williams introduces us to an enigmatic woman named Saint, a fearsome conjuror who, in the 1830s, annihilates plantations all...  more

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The Lost Dresses of Italy by M. A. McLaughlin
In this rich, atmospheric historical novel, perfect for fans of Brenda Janowitz and Adriana Trigiani, two stories of love and deceit intertwine nearly a hundred years apart in Verona, Italy. Verona, 1947. Textile historian Marianne Baxter comes to post-war Italy with one thing on her mind:...  more

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Outspoken: My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan by Sima Samar
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The Murder After the Night Before: From the author of How to Kill Men and Get Away Wi...
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Fangirl Down (Big Shots, Bk 1) by Tessa Bailey
Author Tessa Bailey launches a super sexy sports romance series with a rom-com about a bad boy professional athlete who falls for his biggest fan... Wells Whitaker was once golf’s hottest rising star, but lately, all he has to show for his “promising” career is a killer...  more

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Rogers v. Rogers: The Battle for Control of Canada's Telecom Empire by Alexandra Posa...
A riveting, deeply reported account that takes us inside the dramatic battle for control of Canada’s largest wireless carrier, and paints a broader picture of the cutthroat telecom industry, the labyrinth of regulatory and political systems that govern it, and the high-stakes corporate...  more

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The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells by Rebecca Rego Barry
The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells is the first biography of one of the “lost ladies” of detective fiction who wrote more than eighty mysteries and hundreds of other works between the 1890s and the 1940s. Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) excelled at writing country house and locked-room...  more

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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir by RuPaul
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Happily Never After by Lynn Painter
Their name? The objectors. Their job? To break off weddings as hired. Their dilemma? They might just be in love with each other. When Sophie Steinbeck finds out just before her nuptials that her fiancé has cheated yet again, she desperately wants to call it off. But because her...  more

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Hidden Yellow Stars by Rebecca Connolly
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The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony by Annabelle Tometich
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Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
A powerful, provocative novel about the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy, and control. Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs,...  more

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James by Percival Everett
When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently...  more

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A Man Downstairs by Nicole Lundrigan
What if the childhood you remember isn’t really what happened at all? From the acclaimed author of An Unthinkable Thing and Hideaway, a breath-stopping novel of suspense about a woman tormented by memories of the past and threatened by long-held secrets in the present. Molly Wynters...  more

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Did I Ever Tell You?: A Memoir (Economist Books) by Genevieve Kingston
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The Dredge by Brendan Flaherty
Two estranged brothers must confront the violence of the past when they find out a pond where they played as children will be dredged. After some traumatic teenaged years in rural Connecticut, Cale and Ambrose Casey had nothing left to say to each other. Cale ran off to Hawaii to sell luxury...  more

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The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
The Husbands delights in how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world of never-ending options? When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There’s only one problem—she’s not married. She’s...  more

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Colton Gentry's Third Act: A Novel by Jeff Zentner
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Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne
A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own sociopathy and shed light on the often maligned and misunderstood mental disorder. Patric Gagne realized she made others uncomfortable before she started kindergarten. Something about her...  more

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Funny Story by Emily Henry
Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it… right up until the moment he realized he was...  more

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How to Plot a Payback by Melissa Ferguson
He crossed an ocean, and it still wasn't enough to escape his lifelong nemesis. Now he has to work with her. Successful screenwriter Finn Masters just landed his dream job writing for Neighbors, one of Hollywood's highest-rated, longest-running sitcoms. The only downside? It will...  more

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