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• Yellowface

  a Novel

  Kuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.)

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  "After witnessing the sudden death of her more successful former classmate Athena Liu, struggling author June Hayward steals Athena’s unfinished novel and publishes it as her own under the name Juniper Song. As the book becomes a bestseller, June is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Calamity of Souls

  Baldacci, David,

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  "In 1968 Virginia, a Black man is accused of murdering two wealthy white landowners, and the entire town is ready to see him hang. Small-town lawyer Jack Lee takes the case expecting a swift trial, but as buried secrets and racial tensions rise to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  Zevin, Gabrielle,

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  "A modern love story about two childhood friends: Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills. They reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When the Cranes Fly South

  Ridzén, Lisa,

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  "Bo is running out of time. These days, his quiet existence is broken up only by daily visits from his home care team. Fortunately, he still has his beloved elkhound Sixten to keep him company ... though now his son, with whom Bo has had a rocky…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Mesmerist

  a Novel

  Woods, Caroline (Caroline Courtney),

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  "In 1894 Minneapolis, fear and superstition spread as women begin dying under mysterious circumstances and whispers of dark magic grip the city. When a young woman stumbles into the Bethany Home for Unwed Mothers suspicion quickly falls on her. Like…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Great Divide

  a Novel

  Henríquez, Cristina, 1977-

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  "A novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, following the intersecting lives of the local families fighting to protect their homeland, the West Indian laborers recruited to dig the waterway, and the white Americans who gained profit and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The God of the Woods

  Moore, Liz, 1983-

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  "When thirteen-year-old Barbara Van Laar vanishes from her summer camp in the Adirondacks in 1975, panic spreads through the community surrounding the wealthy family that owns the camp and the vast estate nearby. But Barbara’s disappearance reopens…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lucy by the Sea

  a Novel

  Strout, Elizabeth,

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  "Elizabeth Strout turns her exquisitely-tuned eye to the inner workings of the human heart, this time following the indomitable heroine Lucy Barton through the early days of the pandemic. As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Maid

  a Novel

  Prose, Nita,

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  "Molly Gray prefers order, routine, and the quiet perfection of her job as a hotel maid at the Regency Grand. But when she discovers a wealthy guest dead in his suite, her carefully structured world unravels. Misunderstood by the police and thrust…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hello Beautiful

  a Novel

  Napolitano, Ann,

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  "Haunted by a lonely childhood marked by tragedy, William Waters finds a sense of belonging for the first time when he falls in love with Julia Padavano and is welcomed into her warm, chaotic family of four fiercely devoted sisters. But as buried…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sea of Tranquility

  a Novel

  Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-

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  "The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Broken Country

  a Novel

  Hall, Clare Leslie,

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  "Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth's brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, a dog belonging to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• James

  a Novel

  Everett, Percival,

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  "A retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

  a Novel

  Green, Hank,

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  "When twenty-three-year-old April May discovers a mysterious giant sculpture in New York City and uploads a video that goes viral, she becomes the unexpected face of a global phenomenon. Soon, identical “Carls” appear in cities around the world, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lincoln Highway

  Towles, Amor

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  "In June 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson returns to Nebraska after serving time on a juvenile work farm, hoping to collect his younger brother and escape west to start over in California. But his plans are quickly upended when two fellow…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Atmosphere

  a Love Story

  Reid, Taylor Jenkins,

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  "Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece Frances--that is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Briar Club

  a Novel

  Quinn, Kate,

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  "Washington, D.C., 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital, where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• None of This Is True

  a Novel

  Jewell, Lisa,

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  "Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A…Read moreRead more of this annotation