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• Conversations With Friends

  a Novel

  Rooney, Sally

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  Frances and Bobbi are best friends. At a poetry performance one night, they meet a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into her world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman's sophisticated home and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Swamplandia!

  Russell, Karen, 1981-

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  Twelve year old Ava must travel into the Underworld part of the swamp in order to save her family's dynasty of Bigtree alligator wrestling.

• A Man Called Ove

  a Novel

  Backman, Fredrik, 1981-

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  Ove is a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'. But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Breath, Eyes, Memory

  Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-

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  When Martine, a young Haitian woman, is raped, her child Sophie is raised by Tante Atie in a small Haitian village. But when Sophie is twelve, she is reunited with her birth mother in New York. Neither woman is able to put the past to rest,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Leaving the Atocha Station

  a Novel

  Lerner, Ben, 1979-

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  Veering between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a dazzling introduction to one of the smartest, funniest and most audacious writers of a generation.

• The Song of Achilles

  Miller, Madeline

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  A tale of gods, kings, immortal fame, and the human heart, The Song of Achilles is a dazzling literary feat that brilliantly reimagines Homer's enduring masterwork, The Iliad.

• Everything I Never Told You

  Ng, Celeste

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  "Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet." So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bull Mountain

  Panowich, Brian,

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  Clayton Burroughs comes from a long line of outlaws. For generations, the Burroughs clan has made its home on Bull Mountain in North Georgia, running shine, pot, and meth over six state lines. To distance himself from his family, Clayton took the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• White Teeth

  a Novel

  Smith, Zadie

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  Set against London' s racial and cultural tapestry, venturing across the former empire and into the past as it barrels toward the future, White Teeth revels in the ecstatic hodgepodge of modern life, flirting with disaster, confounding expectations,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rules of Civility

  a Novel

  Towles, Amor

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  On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tipping the Velvet

  Waters, Sarah, 1966-

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  Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine. Soon after, she becomes Kitty's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Mothers

  a Novel

  Bennett, Brit,

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  The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community - and the things that ultimately haunt us most. It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, 17-year-old beauty.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

  Clarke, Susanna

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  In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars in 1806, most people believe magic to have long since disappeared from England - until the reclusive Mr. Norrell reveals his powers and becomes an overnight celebrity. Another practicing magician then emerges: the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Blade Itself

  Abercrombie, Joe,

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  The first novel in the First Law Trilogy and debut fantasy novel from New York Times bestseller, Joe Abercrombie.

• The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

  Jemisin, N. K.

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  After her mother's mysterious death, a young woman is summoned to the floating city of Sky in order to claim a royal inheritance she never knew existed in the first book in this award-winning fantasy trilogy from the NYT bestselling author of The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bear and the Nightingale

  a Novel

  Arden, Katherine,

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  Katherine Arden's bestselling debut novel spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice.

• Ready Player One

  a Novel

  Cline, Ernest

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  In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital…Read moreRead more of this annotation