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• When the Stars Go Dark

  a Novel

  McLain, Paula

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  Mclain, known for her historical novelizations of famous women's lives, turns her talents to literary suspense in this tale of a San Francisco missing person's detective who returns to her hometown of Mendocino after a tragedy, only to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Vanishing Half

  Bennett, Brit,

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  The Vignes twin sisters are identical, but after they run away from their small Louisiana town at 16 and choose different worlds, everything differs. Weaving together multiple familial strands and generations, this lyrical family history…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Falling

  Newman, T. J. (Novelist),

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  The premise: a pilot's family is kidnapped and the only way he can save them is by crashing the plane. The author: a former flight attendant. Our advice: secure your seatbelts for action-packed suspense.

• Less

  a Novel

  Greer, Andrew Sean,

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

• The Paper Palace

  Cowley Heller, Miranda,

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  In the course of a singular summer day on Cape Cod, a middle-aged wife and mother must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades in this atmospheric and haunting story of young love, heartbreaking secrets, and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Giver of Stars

  a Novel

  Moyes, Jojo, 1969-

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  Set in Depression-era Kentucky, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women who deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library.

• The Overstory

  Powers, Richard, 1957-

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  Pulitzer-prize winning novel of activism and natural-world power told through interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees.

• The Nickel Boys

  a Novel

  Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

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  Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a barbarous reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.

• The Plot

  Korelitz, Jean Hanff, 1961-

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  Once a promising young novelist, Jacob Finch Bonner now struggles to write anything while he teaches in a third-rate MFA program where Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces that the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Begin at the End

  Whitaker, Chris

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  After 30 years in prison for killing his childhood sweetheart's sister, Vincent King returns to his hometown where his sweetheart remains and his childhood best friend is now the chief of police in this mysterious, compelling and literary…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Afterparties

  Stories

  So, Anthony Veasna, 1992-2020,

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  A vibrant, hilarious but unsparingly insightful story collection about the messy beauty of Cambodian-American, queer and immigrant life. LIterary magic from the late So.

• The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett

  a Novel

  Lyons, Annie,

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  World-weary octogenarian Eudora Honeysett has lived a full life, witnessed the indignities and suffering of old age, and is determined to meet the end on her terms. Then she meets 10-year-old Rose Trewidney, a pint-sized rainbow of color…Read moreRead more of this annotation