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• Wandering Stars

  Orange, Tommy, 1982-

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  Tracing the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864 to the aftermath of Orvil Red Feather's shooting, Opal tries to hold her family together while Orvil becomes emotionally reliant on prescription medications, and his younger brother, suffering…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wild Houses

  Barrett, Colin, 1982-

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  In Ballina, Ireland, introspective loner Dev, when Doll English, the younger brother of a small-time local dealer shows up on his doorstep in the clutches of Dev’s enforcer cousins, finds his quiet homelife upturned as he is quickly and unwittingly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Held

  Michaels, Anne, 1958-

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  A war-wounded soldier in 1920 returns home to Yorkshire and has his past push into the present when ghosts with indecipherable messages begin to show up in his photographs, in the new novel from the author of Fugitive Pieces.

• Creation Lake

  a Novel

  Kushner, Rachel,

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  Creation Lake is a novel about a secret agent, a thirty-four-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics, bold opinions, and clean beauty, who is sent to do dirty work in France.

• This Strange Eventful History

  a Novel

  Messud, Claire, 1966-

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  Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family’s history, this masterful story follows the Cassars over seven decades, starting with patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them, and ending with Chloe,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Playground

  a Novel

  Powers, Richard, 1957-

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  The tiny atoll of French Polynesia has been chosen for humanity’s next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea, but first, the island’s residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Enlightenment

  a Novel

  Perry, Sarah, 1979-

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  Two unlikely best friends in Aldleigh, England investigate the mystery of a vanished 19th century explorer uncovering a devastating tale of love and scientific pursuit, in the new novel from the author of The Essex Serpent.

• Orbital

  Harvey, Samantha, 1975-

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  In an elegy to our humanity, environment and planet, six astronauts, selected for one of the last space station missions, leave their lives behind to travel at a speed of over 17,000 miles an hour to orbit Earth, witnessing the marks of civilization…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• James

  a Novel

  Everett, Percival,

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  Describes the events of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of the enslaved Jim, who decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island after learning he is to be sold to a man in New Orleans.

• The Safekeep

  a Novel

  Wouden, Yael van der,

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  In 1961, in Dutch countryside, Isabel lives by routine and discipline until her brother leaves his graceless new girlfriend Eva on her doorstep, and as Eva disrespects her house, Isabel develops a fury-fueled obsession that gives way to infatuation,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Friends

  a Novel

  Matar, Hisham, 1970-

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  Attending the University of Edinburgh, Benghazi transplant Khaled forms a powerful friendship with the author whose short story changed his life, forcing him, as the Arab Spring erupts, to confront agonizing tensions between revolution and safety,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Headshot

  a Novel

  Bullwinkel, Rita,

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  Eight teenage girl boxers from different backgrounds travel to Reno, Nevada, to compete against each other in a tournament to be named the best in the country, in a series of raw, intense face-offs.