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January 13, 2022 at 5 p.m.

The Secret History

Donna Tartt - Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 576
Format: Paperback

Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch, established herself as a major talent with The Secret History, which has become a contemporary classic.

Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group...
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February 10, 2022 at 5 p.m.

Atonement: A Novel

Ian McEwan - Alexandria Library
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with...
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March 10, 2022 at 5 p.m.

The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

Thi Bui - Abrams ComicArts
Pages: 327
Format: Hardcover

National bestseller
ABA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selection
Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2017 Selection

An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam, from debut author Thi Bui.

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