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• An American Marriage

  Jones, Tayari,

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  January 14: A newly married couple’s lives are shattered by a wrongful imprisonment in this moving, character-driven story tackling themes of love, family, and racial injustice.

• Quiet

  the Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

  Cain, Susan

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  February 11: Demonstrates how introverted people are misunderstood and undervalued in modern culture, charting the rise of extrovert ideology while sharing anecdotal examples of how to use introvert talents to adapt to various situations.

• The Round House

  Erdrich, Louise,

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  March 11: Louise Erdrich embraces tragedy, the comic, a spirit world very much present in the lives of her all-too-human characters, and a tale of injustice that is, unfortunately, an authentic reflection of what happens in our own world…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Orchardist

  a Novel

  Coplin, Amanda

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  April 8: At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a gentle solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots. Then two feral, pregnant girls and armed gunmen set Talmadge on an irrevocable…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Commonwealth

  a Novel

  Patchett, Ann,

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  May 13: Commonwealth explores how a chance romantic encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved. Spending summers together in Virginia, the Keating and Cousins children forge a lasting bond that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Radium Girls

  the Dark Story of America's Shining Women

  Moore, Kate (Writer and editor),

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  June 10: As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their bosses that the luminous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Life After Life

  a Novel

  Atkinson, Kate

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  July 8: What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• H Is for Hawk

  Macdonald, Helen, 1970-

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  August 12: When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer-Helen had been captivated by hawks since childhood-she'd never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Destiny of the Republic

  a Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

  Millard, Candice

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  Sept 2: A narrative account of the President James Garfield's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Invention of Wings

  Kidd, Sue Monk

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  October 14: Hetty "Handful" Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke's daughter, Sarah, has known from an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

  a Novel

  Ford, Jamie

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  November 11: In Ford's stunning debut novel, he offers an on-the-ground look at the true tolls of Japanese families' deportation to concentration camps in the 1940s, at what each family lost and left behind, and what two families--Henry's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Woman of No Importance

  the Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win WWII

  Purnell, Sonia,

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  December 9: The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War. In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A History of Burning

  Oza, Janika,

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  January 13: At the turn of the twentieth century, Pirbhai, a teenage boy looking for work, is taken from his village in India to labor on the East African Railway for the British. One day Pirbhai commits an act to ensure his survival that…Read moreRead more of this annotation