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In 2017, Reese Witherspoon launched a book club along with her media company, Hello Sunshine. And since her inaugural novel pick—Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine—many of the A-lister's monthly choices have landed themselves on the New York Times bestsellers list. In Witherspoon announced in 2020 that she'd pick young adult novels mid-month in addition to her more mature selections. Site: https://reesesbookclub.com/picks
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2024
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We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People
Nemonte Nenquimo - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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From a fearless, internationally acclaimed activist, an impassioned memoir about an indigenous childhood, a clash of cultures, and the fight to save the Amazon rainforest and protect her people . Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador's Amazon rainforest - one of the last to be contacted... |
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Society of Lies: A Novel
Lauren Ling Brown - Bantam
Format: Hardcover
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When a young woman is found dead on her college campus, her sister doesn't believe it was an accident - and her search for answers leads her closer to home than she ever would have imagined in this thrilling debut novel from an exciting new talent.
Maya can't wait to return to Princeton... |
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The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
Margaret Renkl - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author Margaret Renkl comes a "howling love letter to the world" (Ann Patchett) : a luminous book tracing the passing of seasons, personal and natural.In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a devotional of sorts: fifty-two... |
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Slow Dance: A Novel
Rainbow Rowell - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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A bright, beaming power ballad of a novel from Rainbow Rowell - the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Landline, Fangirl, and Eleanor & Park - Slow Dance tells the humorous and heartbreaking love story of best friends Shiloh and Cary from their inseparable teen years to their far-flung... |
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The Cliffs: A novel
J. Courtney Sullivan - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New York Times best-selling author of Friends and Strangers. "A stunning achievement, and J. Courtney Sullivan's best book yet. Sullivan weaves a narrative that's fascinating and thought-provoking.... |
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Twelfth Knight
Alexene Farol Follmuth - Tor Teen
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six (under the pen name Olivie Blake) comes Twelfth Knight, a YA romantic comedy and coming-of-age story about taking up space in the world and learning what it means to let others in.. *This luxe hardcover edition will include endpaper... |
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The Unwedding
Ally Condie - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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The White Lotus meets Agatha Christie inThe Unwedding, the adult fiction debut from #1New York Timesbestselling YA author Ally Condie, about a recent divorcee whose vacation at an exclusive Big Sur resort unravels when she discovers a dead body on the day a wedding was set to occur.
Ellery... |
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How to End a Love Story: A Novel
Yulin Kuang - Avon
Format: Paperback
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The brilliant contemporary romance novel debut from Yulin Kuang, the acclaimed screenwriter of Emily Henry's People We Meet on Vacation and director of the forthcoming Beach Read feature film.Helen Zhang hasn't seen Grant Shepard once in the thirteen years sincethe tragic accident... |
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The Most Fun We Ever Had: A Novel
Claire Lombardo - Random House Audio
Format: Paperback
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"A gripping and poignant ode to a messy, loving family in all its glory." (Madeline Miller, New York Times best-selling author of Circe) A New York Times Best Seller Longlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction In this "rich, complex family saga" (USA Today) full of long-buried... |
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Anita de Monte Laughs Last: A Novel
Xochitl Gonzalez - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-generation Ivy League student who uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death. Who gets to leave a legacy?. 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world,... |
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Redwood Court: Fiction
DéLana R. A. Dameron - The Dial Press
Format: Hardcover
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A breathtaking debut about one unforgettable Southern Black family, seen through the eyes of its youngest daughter as she comes of age in the 1990s.. "A beautiful exploration of a family . . . deeply moving." Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful.... |
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First Lie Wins: A Novel
Ashley Elston - Pamela Dorman Books
Format: Hardcover
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Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn't exist.. "Buckle up. First Lie Wins features some of the best cat and mouse suspense... |
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2023
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Before We Were Innocent
Ella Berman - Berkley
Format: Hardcover
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A summer in Greece for three best friends ends in the unthinkable when only two return home in this new novel from Ella Berman. . . .Ten years ago, after a sun-soaked summer spent in Greece, best friends Bess and Joni were cleared of having any involvement in their friend Evangeline's... |
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Maybe Next Time: A Novel
Cesca Major - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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One Day meets Groundhog Day, in this heartwarming and emotionally poignant novel about a stressed woman who must relive the same day over and over, keeping her family and work life from imploding as she attempts to spare her husband from an unfortunate fate. It is an ordinary Monday and harried... |
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Starling House
Alix E. Harrow - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover
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A grim and gothic new tale from New York Times bestselling author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that can't stay buried and the sinister house that sits at the crossroads of it all.. Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend... |
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Mother-Daughter Murder Night: A Novel
Nina Simon - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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A fun, fresh, and twisty debut whodunnit about a grandmother-mother-daughter trio who come together as amateur sleuths to solve a murder in their coastal California town."A lively and tender story of family that Simon deftly transforms into an edge-of-your-seat murder mystery... One part... |
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Tom Lake: A Novel
Ann Patchett - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers."Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature." - The GuardianIn the spring of 2020, Lara's three... |
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Yellowface: A Novel
R. F. Kuang - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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What's the harm in a pseudonym? Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American - in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author... |
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Cassandra in Reverse: A Novel
Holly Smale - MIRA
Format: Hardcover
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"Witty, touching and totally absorbing. Cassandra is a funny and sharply-observed character who I loved spending time with." - Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie Project. If you had the power to change the past ... would you?. Cassandra Penelope Dankworth... |
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Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?
Crystal Smith Paul - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A multigenerational saga that traverses the glamour of old Hollywood and the seductive draw of present-day showbiz as secrets split a family tree into Black, white, and something in betweenWhen white silver screen icon Kitty Karr Tate dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the three... |
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Romantic Comedy: A Novel
Curtis Sittenfeld - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A comedy writer thinks she's sworn off love, until a dreamily handsome pop star flips the script on all her assumptions - a hilarious, observant and deeply tender novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Eligible, Rodham, and Prep. Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night... |
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The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation. With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin... |
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The House of Eve
Sadeqa Johnson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring, beautiful, and redemptive novel that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how much one is willing to sacrifice to achieve her greatest goal.1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming... |
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The House in the Pines: A Novel
Ana Reyes - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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A debut thriller about the subtlety of memory and manipulation, in which a young woman must find her way back to a New England cabin, armed with only hazy, haunting memories and a half-written book by the father in Guatemala she never knew, to finally uncover the truth that could save her.Maya... |
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2022
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The Marriage Portrait: A novel
KNOPF. - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the breakout New York Times best seller Hamnet - winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award - an electrifying new novel set in Renaissance Italy, and centering on the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de Medici. Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand... |
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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Cheryl Strayed - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can't pay the bills - and it can be great: you've had the hottest sex of your life; you get that plum job; you muster the courage to write your novel. Sugar - the once-anonymous online columnist at The Rumpus,... |
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Our Missing Hearts: A Novel
Celeste Ng - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fearTwelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former... |
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On the Rooftop: A Novel
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives - set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San FranciscoAt home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations. Ruth,... |
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Wrong Place Wrong Time: A Novel
GILLIAN MCALLISTER - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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From UK bestselling author Gillian McAllister comes an astonishing, compulsively twisty psychological thriller about a mother who witnesses her teenage son stab a man and then seizes on an unconventional way to try to save him, deemed "perfection, every word, every moment" by Lisa... |
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Honey and Spice: A Novel
Bolu Babalola
Format: Hardcover
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"Babalola's writing shines whether she's writing parry-riposte banter or fresh, evocative interiority." - New York Times Book Review"Babalola's hilarious romance debut will have you laughing out loud and reconsidering first impressions." - BuzzfeedBreakout... |
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Counterfeit: A Novel
Kirstin Chen - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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For fans ofHustlersandHow to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, thestoryoftwoAsian American womenwho band together togrowa counterfeit handbag scheme into a global enterprise - an incisive andglitteringblend offashion, crime,andfriendshipfrom the author ofBury What We Cannot TakeandSoy Sauce... |
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The Dictionary of Lost Words: A Novel
Pip Williams - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme's place... |
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True Biz: A Novel
Sara Novic - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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True biz (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk
True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with... |
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The Club: A Novel
Ellery Lloyd - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of People Like Her, a smart and sinister murder mystery set in the secretive world of exclusive celebrity clubs, where the A-list members and the staff who serve them all have something to hide.The ClubThe A-List is Dying to JoinEnvisioned as a luxurious home-away from-home... |
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The Christie Affair: A Novel
Nina de Gramont - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Every story has its secrets.Every mystery has its motives."A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman. It's a particular feeling, the urge to murder. It takes over your body so completely, it's like a divine force, grabbing hold of your will, your limbs, your... |
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Anatomy: A Love Story
Dana Schwartz - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover
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Hazel Sinnett is a lady who wants to be a surgeon more than she wants to marry.Jack Currer is a resurrection man who's just trying to survive in a city where it's too easy to die.When the two of them have a chance encounter outside the Edinburgh Anatomist's Society, Hazel thinks... |
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2021
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Honor
Thrity Umrigar - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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In India to cover the story of Meena, a Hindu woman whose marriage to a Muslim man shames her family and suggests the violence shaping women's lives there, journalist Smita is forced to acknowledge her own family's painful departure from the country and the benefits granted her simply... |
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Lucky
Marissa Stapley - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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What if you had the winning ticket that would change your life forever, but you couldn't cash it in? Lucky Armstrong is a tough, talented grifter who has just pulled off a million-dollar heist with her boyfriend, Cary. She's ready to start a brand-new life, with a new identity - when... |
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Within These Wicked Walls: A Novel
Lauren Blackwood - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover
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Andromeda is a debtera -- an exorcist hired to cleanse households of the Evil Eye. She would be hired, that is, if her mentor hadn't thrown her out before she could earn her license. Now her only hope of steady work is to find a Patron -- a rich, well-connected individual who will vouch... |
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The Island of Missing Trees: A Novel
Elif Shafak - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Book
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Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. The taverna is the only place that Kostas and Defne can meet in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic and chilli peppers, creeping honeysuckle,... |
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Sankofa
Chibundu Onuzo - Catapult
Format: Hardcover
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.Masterful in its examination of freedom, prejudice, and personal and public inheritance, Sankofa is a story for anyone who has ever gone looking for a clear identity or home, and found something more complex in its place. Anna is at a stage of her life when she's beginning to wonder... |
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L.A. Weather
María Amparo Escandón - Flatiron
Format: Hardcover
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L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He’s harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life with a little more intimacy and a little... |
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We Were Never Here: A Novel
Andrea Bartz - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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Emily is having the time of her life - she's in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than ever. But on the last night of the trip, Emily enters their hotel suite to find blood and broken glass on the floor.... |
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The Paper Palace: A Novel
Miranda Cowley Heller - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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It is a perfect July morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at "The Paper Palace" - the family summer place which she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different: last night Elle and her oldest friend Jonas crept out the back... |
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Seven Days in June
Tia Williams - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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. Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event,... |
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Tokyo Ever After: A Novel
Emiko Jean - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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Izumi Tanaka has never really felt like she fit in -- it isn't easy being Japanese American in her small, mostly white, northern California town. Raised by a single mother, it's always been Izumi -- or Izzy, because "It's easier this way" -- and her mom against the world.... |
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The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel
Laura Dave - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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We all have stories we never tell. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers: Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost... |
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Northern Spy: A Novel
Flynn Berry - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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returns with her most thrilling novel to date: the story of two sisters who become entangled with the IRAA producer at the Belfast bureau of the BBC, Tessa is at work one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground after the Good Friday Agreement... |
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Firekeeper's Daughter
Angeline Boulley - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Book
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YA As a biracial, unenrolled tribal member and the product of a scandal, eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. Daunis dreams of studying medicine, but when her family is struck by tragedy, she puts her future... |
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Infinite Country: A Novel
Patricia Engel
Format: Hardcover
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At the dawn of the new millennium, Colombia is a country devastated by half a century of violence. Elena and Mauro are teenagers when they meet, their blooming love an antidote to the mounting uncertainty of life in Bogot. Once their first daughter is born, and facing grim economic prospects,... |
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The Sanatorium: A Novel
Sarah Pearse
Format: Hardcover
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Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel.An imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps... |
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You Have a Match: A Novel
Emma Lord - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover
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When Abby signs up for a DNA service, it's mainly to give her friend and secret love interest, Leo, a nudge. After all, she knows who she is already: Avid photographer. Injury-prone tree climber. Best friend to Leo and Connie...although ever since the B.E.I. (Big Embarrassing Incident)... |
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Outlawed
Anna North
Format: Hardcover
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The Crucible meets True Grit in this riveting adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West.In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves... |
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2020
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The Light in Hidden Places
Sharon Cameron - Scholastic Press
Format: Book
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YA The extraordinary story of Stefania Podgorska, a Polish teenager who chose bravery and humanity by hiding thirteen Jews in her attic during WWII. One knock at the door, and Stefania has a choice to make...
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The Chicken Sisters
KJ Dell'Antonia - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Paperback
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Three generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster.In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken Mimi's and Chicken Frannie's have spent a century vying to serve up the best fried chicken in the state--and the legendary feud between their respective owners, the Moores and the Pogociellos,... |
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A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
Laura Taylor Namey - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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YA For Lila Reyes, a summer in England was never part of the plan. The plan was 1) take over her abuela's role as head baker at their panadería, 2) move in with her best friend after graduation, and 3) live happily ever after with her boyfriend. But then the Trifecta happened,... |
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Group HowOneTherapistandaCircleof StrangersSavedMyLife
Christie Tate - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
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The refreshingly original debut memoir of a guarded, over-achieving, self-lacerating young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to get psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers - her psychotherapy group - and in turn finds human connection, and herself.Christie... |
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His Only Wife
Peace Adzo Medie - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding." Afi Tekple is a young seamstress whose life is narrowing rapidly. She lives in a small town in Ghana with her widowed mother, spending much of her time in her uncle Pious's house with his many wives and children.... |
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Furia
Yamile Saied Méndez - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Book
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YA In Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan lives a double life. At home, she is a careful daughter, living within her mother's narrow expectations, in her rising-soccer-star brother's shadow, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father. On the field, she is La Furia,... |
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The Last Story of Mina Lee: A Novel
Nancy Jooyoun Kim - Park Row
Format: Hardcover
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An electrifying debut novel for fans of Celeste Ng and Jean Kwok, The Last Story of Mina Lee is a poignant mother-daughter story and surprising mystery that illustrates the devastating realities of being an immigrant in America.Margot Lee's mother, Mina, isn't returning her calls.... |
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You Should See Me in a Crown
Leah Johnson - Scholastic Press
Format: Book
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YA Becky Albertalli meets Jenny Han in a smart, hilarious, black girl magic, own voices rom-com by a staggeringly talented new writer.Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. But it's... |
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Everything Inside: Stories
Edwidge Danticat
Format: Paperback
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WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2020 VILCEK PRIZE IN LITERATUREOne of the Best Books of the Year NPR, Time, Esquire, BuzzFeed, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Milwaukee Journal SentinelA romance unexpectedly sparks between two wounded friends. A marriage ends for what seem like noble reasons,... |
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
AUSTIN CHANNING BROWN - Convergent Books
Format: Hardcover
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From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middle-class white America. Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with a racialized America came at age 7, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future... |
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The Guest List: A Novel
Lucy Foley - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. Its a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer... |
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The Henna Artist
Joshi, Alka - MIRA
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Escaping from an arranged and abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone from her 1950s rural village to the vibrant pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the henna artist--and confidante--most in demand to the wealthy women of the upper class. But trusted with the secrets... |
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Untamed
Glennon Doyle - The Dial Press
Format: Hardcover
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In her most revealing and powerful book yet, the beloved activist, speaker, and author of the bestselling sensations Love Warrior and Carry On, Warrior explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet the expectations of the world, and start trusting the voice... |
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The Jetsetters: A Novel
Amanda Eyre Ward - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Dysfunctional family goes away together on a Mediterranean cruise: What's not to love? This novel fell squarely in my wheelhouse and I was delighted anew in every port. The Jetsetters is fun, sexy, and engrossing." - Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author... |
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The Scent Keeper: A Novel
Erica Bauermeister - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback
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Erica Bauermeister presents a moving and evocative novel about childhood stories, families lost and found, and how a fragrance conjures memories capable of shaping the course of our lives.Emmeline lives on a remote island with her father, who teaches her about the natural world through... |
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2019
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Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.Alix... |
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Conviction
Denise Mina - Mulholland Books
Format: Hardcover
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A breathtaking thriller about a wealthy housewife who successfully conceals her dark past until a true-crime podcast and a photo posted on social media send her running across Europe, with a faded rock star by her side and extremely dangerous enemies on her trail.Anna McLean loves to revel... |
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The Giver of Stars: A Novel
Jojo Moyes - Pamela Dorman Books
Format: Book
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Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium
Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett... |
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Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do
Eve Rodsky - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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A revolutionary, real-world solution to the problem of unpaid, invisible work that women have shouldered for too long--from a woman tapped by Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine as the expert on this topic for a new generation of women.Eve Rodsky is changing society one marriage at a time... |
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The Secrets We Kept: A novel
Lara Prescott - Knopf
Format: Book
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A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago.
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The Last House Guest
Megan Miranda - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
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Littleport, Maine, has always felt like two separate towns: an ideal vacation enclave for the wealthy, whose summer homes line the coastline; and a simple harbor community for the year-round residents whose livelihoods rely on service to the visitors.
Typically, fierce friendships... |
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Whisper Network: A Novel
Chandler Baker - Flatiron Books
Format: Book
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"If only you'd listened to us, none of this would have happened."
Sloane, Ardie, Grace, and Rosalita have worked at Truviv, Inc. for years. The sudden death of Truviv's CEO means their boss, Ames, will likely take over the entire company. Each of the women has a different... |
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The Cactus
Sarah Haywood - Park Row
Format: Hardcover
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In this witty and heartfelt debut, one woman's unconventional journey to motherhood means learning to embrace the unexpectedEven the prickliest cactus has its flower ... For Susan Green, messy emotions don't fit into the equation of her perfectly ordered life. She has a flat that is ideal... |
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From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
Tembi Locke - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A poignant and transporting cross-cultural love story set against the lush backdrop of the Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food, family, and unexpected grace in her darkest hour.It was love at first sight when Tembi met professional chef, Saro, on a street... |
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The Night Tiger: A Novel
Yangsze Choo - Flatiron Books
Format: Book
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An utterly transporting novel set in 1930s colonial Malaysia, perfect for fans of Isabel Allende and Min Jin Lee
Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother's Mahjong debts. But when one of her dance... |
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Daisy Jones & The Six: A Novel
Taylor Jenkins Reid - Ballantine Books
Format: Book
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Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice... |
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The Proposal
Jasmine Guillory - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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When someone asks you to spend your life with him, it shouldn't come as a surprise--or happen in front of 45,000 people.
When freelance writer Nikole Paterson goes to a Dodgers game with her actor boyfriend, his man bun, and his bros, the last thing she expects is a scoreboard... |
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The Library Book
Susan Orlean - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
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On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, "Once that first stack got going, it was 'Goodbye,... |
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2018
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One Day in December: A Novel
JOSIE SILVER - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback
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Two people. Ten chances. One unforgettable love story.
Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes... |
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The Other Woman: A Novel
SANDIE JONES - Minotaur Books
Format: Book
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HE LOVES YOU: Adam adores Emily. Emily thinks Adam's perfect, the man she thought she'd never meet.
BUT SHE LOVES YOU NOT: Lurking in the shadows is a rival, a woman who shares a deep bond with the man she loves.
AND SHE'LL STOP AT NOTHING: Emily chose... |
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This Is How It Always Is: A Novel
Laurie Frankel - Flatiron Books
Format: Book
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This is how a family keeps a secret ... and how that secret ends up keeping them.
This is how a family lives happily ever after ... until happily ever after becomes complicated.
This is how children change ... and then change the world.
This... |
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Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent,... |
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Still Lives: A Novel
Maria Hummel - Counterpoint LLC
Format: Hardcover
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A young editor at a Los Angeles art museum finds herself pulled into the strange and disturbing world of a famous artist who goes missing on the opening night of her exhibition Kim Lord is a giant in the Los Angeles art scene: avant garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur. And her new exhibition... |
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Next Year in Havana
Chanel Cleeton - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity--and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution...Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's... |
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Something in the Water: A Novel
CATHERINE STEADMAN - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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A shocking discovery on a honeymoon in paradise changes the lives of a picture-perfect couple in this taut psychological thriller debut - for readers of Ruth Ware, Paula Hawkins, and Shari Lapena. If you could make one simple choice that would change your life forever, would you? Erin... |
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You Think It, I'll Say It: Stories
Curtis Sittenfeld - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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A suburban mother of two fantasizes about the downfall of an old friend whose wholesome lifestyle empire may or may not be built on a lie.
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Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
HEATHER HARPHAM - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices.Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, a world-roaming California girl, and Brian, an intellectual,... |
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Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows: A Novel
BALLI KAUR JASWAL - William Morrow
Format: Book
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Every woman has a secret life . . .
Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London, where she tends bar at the local pub. The daughter of Indian immigrants, she's spent most of her twenty-odd years distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community of her childhood, preferring a more... |
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The Light We Lost
Jill Santopolo - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Book
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He was the first person to inspire her, to move her, to truly understand her. Was he meant to be the last?
Lucy is faced with a life-altering choice. But before she can make her decision, she must start her story - their story - at the very beginning.
Lucy and Gabe... |
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Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
Brené Brown - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives - experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy. In Braving the Wilderness, Brown redefines what it means to truly belong... |
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2017
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The Last Mrs. Parrish: A Novel
Liv Constantine - HarperLuxe
Format: Paperback
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A mesmerizing debut psychological thriller full of delicious twists about a coolly manipulative woman who worms her way into the lives of a wealthy "golden couple" from Connecticut to achieve the privileged life she wants.Some women get everything. Some women get everything they... |
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This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Ann Patchett - Harper; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage takes us into the very real world of Ann Patchett’s life. Stretching from her childhood to the present day, from a disastrous early marriage to a later happy one, it covers a multitude of topics, including relationships with family and friends,... |
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The Rules of Magic
Alice Hoffman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From beloved author Alice Hoffman comes the spellbinding prequel to her bestseller, Practical Magic. Find your magic. For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man. Hundreds of years later, in New York City... |
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Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng - Penguin Press
Format: Book
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In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle... |
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The Lying Game: A Novel
RUTH WARE - Gallery/Scout Press
Format: Book
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On a cool June morning, a woman is walking her dog in the idyllic coastal village of Salten along a tidal estuary known as the Reach. Before she can stop him, the dog charges into the water to retrieve what first appears to be a wayward stick, but to her horror, turns out to be something... |
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The Alice Network: A Novel
Kate Quinn - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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Two women - a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947 - are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption.
1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World... |
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel
GAIL HONEYMAN - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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No one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends... |
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Controversies
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Nava, A. M. (2023, March 16). A Reese's book club pick is under fire (again). The Mary Sue. https://www.themarysue.com/a-reeses-book-club-pick-is-under-fire-again/ [The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah]
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