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Donna Tartt grew up in the small town of Grenada, Mississippi. She was a bookish child. When she was only 5 years old, she wrote her first poem, and at 13 years of age, she had a sonnet published. From 1981 to 1982 Tartt attended the University of Mississippi.
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Elizabeth Strout
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Elizabeth Strout was born in Portland, Maine, and grew up in small towns in Maine and New Hampshire. From a young age she was drawn to writing things down, keeping notebooks that recorded the quotidian details of her days. Strout attended Bates College, graduating with a degree... |
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Bunny
Mona Awad - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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Samantha Heather Mackey couldnt be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New Englands Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing... |
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Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo - Thorndike Press
Format: Paperback
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Galaxy Alex Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. But Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world's most prestigious universities... |
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Catherine House
Elisabeth Thomas - Custom House
Format: Book
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Trust us, you belong here. A gothic-infused debut of literary suspense, set within a secluded, elite university and following a dangerously curious, rebellious undergraduate who uncovers a shocking secret about an exclusive circle of students . . . and the dark truth beneath her school's... |
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The Maidens
Alex Michaelides - Celadon Books
Format: Book
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Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alikeparticularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens. Mariana... |
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The It Girl
Ruth Ware - Gallery/Scout Press
Format: Book
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April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford. Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends - Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily... |
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The Atlas Six
Olivie Blake - Tor Books
Format: Book
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The first in an explosive trilogy The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power,... |
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The Cloisters
Katy Hays - Atria Books
Format: Book
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When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its medieval art collection and its group of enigmatic... |
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Vicious
V E SCHWAB - Tor Books
Format: Paperback
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Victor and Eli started out as college roommates -- brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing... |
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Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence
R. F. Kuang - Thorndike Press
Format: Book
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1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he'll enroll in Oxford University's prestigious Royal Institute of Translation--also... |
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If We Were Villains
M L Rio - Flatiron Books
Format: Book
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Oliver Marks has just served ten years in jail - for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the man who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a decade ago. As one of seven... |
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Vita Nostra
Marina Di︠a︡chenko - Harper Voyager
Format: Book
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Sasha Samokhina has been accepted to the Institute of Special Technologies. Or, more precisely, she’s been chosen. Situated in a tiny village, she finds the students are bizarre, and the curriculum even more so. The books are impossible to read, the lessons obscure to the point... |
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In My Dreams I Hold a Knife
Ashley Winstead - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Book
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Six friends. One college reunion. One unsolved murder. Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has planned her triumphant return to her southern, elite Duquette University, down to the envious whispers that are sure to follow in her wake. Everyone is going to see the girl she wants... |
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The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt - Little Brown & Company
Format: Book
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Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him,... |
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Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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Author Elizabeth Strout binds together thirteen rich, luminous narratives into a book with the heft of a novel, through the presence of one larger-than-life, unforgettable character: Olive Kitteridge. At the edge of the continent, Crosby, Maine, may seem like nowhere, but seen through... |
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