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• The Disappearers

  James, Marlon, 1970-

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  In 1988, eight men in Kingston, Jamaica, begin rehearsals for a play. The men are strangers to one another and each has a different reason for being involved. But they all share one inescapable truth: All of them are gay--a "battyman" in Jamaican…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• John of John

  a Novel

  Stuart, Douglas, 1976-

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  A young man returns to his Hebridean island home, a portrait of a father's expectations and a son's desires.

• The Things We Never Say

  a Novel

  Strout, Elizabeth,

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  Artie Dam is a man with a secret. He goes about his days teaching American history to high schoolers, correcting their casual ignorance, and lending a kind word to those who need it most. He spends his free time sailing the beautiful Massachusetts…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• THE END OF EVERYTHING

  Harrison, M John

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  Phillip Tennent makes his living at the tideline, collecting artefacts that wash up from the Channel. It's been years since the crisis changed everything, but its exact nature remains obscure. Government barely functions, the seas are full of new…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• May We Feed the King

  Perry, Rebecca, 1986-

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  A curator spends her days selecting and carefully arranging furniture, fabrics, and replica food to bring medieval rooms back to life. After accepting a commission to work on the private quarters of a medieval palace, she becomes absorbed in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BLACK BAG

  Kennard, Luke

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  An out-of-work actor accepts the role of a lifetime—sitting soundlessly in a lecture theater, zipped into a large leather bag—to aid a professor’s psychological experiment. What could possibly go wrong? In Luke Kennard’s audacious new novel, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation