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• The Names

  a Novel

  Knapp, Florence,

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  "A dazzling debut that asks: Can a name shape the course of a life? In the wake of an enormous, history-making storm, Cora sets off with her nine-year-old daughter, Maia, to register her son's birth. Her husband Gordon, a local doctor, respected in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Heartwood

  a Novel

  Gaige, Amity, 1972-

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  "In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Happy Wife

  a Novel

  Lavender, Meredith

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  Nora Davies doesn't exactly fit in to Winter Park, Florida, where old-guard Floridians mix with the tax-fleeing coastal elite. Twenty-eight and barely making ends meet working at a country club, Nora feels like she's going nowhere fast. Enter Will a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Other Heart

  Strenner, Emma Nanami,

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  "A mother's missing child, a search for identity, and ever-changing notions of "home"--class and race intersect with belonging in this stunning debut novel of mothers, daughters and best friends. In June 2000, Mimi Truang is on her way home to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Is a Love Story

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  Soffer, Jessica,

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  "For fifty years Abe and Jane have been coming to Central Park, as starry-eyed young lovers, as frustrated and exhausted parents, as artists watching their careers take flight. They came alone when they needed to get away from each other, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus

  Knight, Emma (Emma L.),

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  "A witty, warm and brilliantly told debut that is at once a love story, a story of female friendship and motherhood, and an irresistible mystery surrounding an extraordinary British family. Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wedding People

  Espach, Alison, 1984-

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  "It's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Colors of the Dark

  Whitaker, Chris

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  "From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes an epic novel about a man fixated on finding a missing woman and the FBI agent on his tail, who might be even more obsessed than he is"-- "1975 is a time of change in America.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blue Sisters

  Mellors, Coco

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  "Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death in this unforgettable story of grief, identity, and the complexities of family, from the acclaimed author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein. The three…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Real Americans

  Khong, Rachel

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  "An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family, and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures?"--

• The Husbands

  Gramazio, Holly

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  "A novel about a woman who one day comes home to find her attic is magic and producing an endless supply of interchangeable husbands"--

• Black Candle Women

  Brown, Diane Marie,

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  Follows four generations of the Montrose family, who have been living with a curse that leaves any person they fall in love with dead, stemming back to a Voodoo sorceress in 1950s New Orleans' French Quarter. "Generations of Montrose women--Augusta,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Celebrants

  Rowley, Steven, 1971-

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  "It's been a minute-or five years-since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends, and twenty-eight years since their graduation when their adult lives officially began. Now Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle find themselves at the brink of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lincoln Highway

  Towles, Amor,

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  "The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Comeback

  Berman, Ella,

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  A deep dive into the psyche of a young actress raised in the spotlight under the influence of a charming, manipulative film director and the moment when she decides his time is up. At the height of her career and on the eve of her first Golden Globe…Read moreRead more of this annotation