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• 99 Percent Mine

  Thorne, Sally, 1981-

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  Free-spirited and tough-as-nails Darcy has been in love with her sweet and gorgeous childhood friend Tom for nearly a decade. Trouble is, as her twin brother's best friend, he's been off-limits to her for just as long. Darcy has avoided her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Age of Light

  Scharer, Whitney

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  The Age of Light is an alluring historical romance centered on the relationship between Lee Miller and Man Ray. The book opens on a rural farm in England in the 1960s. Miller is throwing a dinner party when her editor suggests a magazine piece…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Current

  Johnston, Tim, 1962-

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  In this sparely written thriller, two college friends embark on an impromptu road trip which results in a tragic accident. Survivor Audrey Sutter, badly shaken, wakes up in a hospital bed unable to move her arm. As news of the accident spreads…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Deep Creek

  Finding Hope in the High Country

  Houston, Pam,

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  Houston, using the cash advance she received from her debut book Cowboys Are My Weakness, purchased a ranch in the Colorado Rockies that she had to have but could hardly afford. The essays in Deep Creek revolve around her ranch, which provides the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ghost Wall

  Moss, Sarah,

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  Teenager Silvie is camping in Northumberland in the 1980s with her parents and a college professor and a few students who are conducting an experiment, trying to learn about Iron Age people by living like them for a spell as a summer project. They…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Here and Now and Then (Original)

  Chen, Mike

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  In this time travel novel that will appeal to an audience beyond science fiction fans, Kin Stewart is stranded in San Francisco beginning in 1990 after a botched mission from the future. He tries hard to lead a normal life until one day his rescue…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Joy Enough

  a Memoir

  McColl, Sarah,

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  In this spare debut, memoirist Sarah McColl shares the beautiful little moments that make up a life. While the crux of the book is that her mother is dying and her marriage is ending, McColl infuses her reflections with a quiet hope and optimism.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Kinship of Secrets

  a Novel

  Kim, Eugenia (Eugenia SunHee),

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  Drawing on her family's experiences, Kim paints a detailed picture of a family’s struggle to maintain normalcy through decades of war, migration and heart-breaking separation. The story line follows two sisters as they grow up separately due to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Leading Men

  Castellani, Christopher

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  Set partly in sun-drenched Italy in the 1950s, Castellani's latest historical novel has two main characters: Frank Merlo, the real-life lover of Tennessee Williams during the era of his best plays who aspired to be an actor, and the fictional Anja…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Silent Patient

  Michaelides, Alex

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  In this page-turning thriller, forensic psychotherapist Theo Faber is obsessed with the high-profile murder case surrounding Alicia Berenson, a young, attractive woman imprisoned in a mental institution for shooting her husband at close range.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Suspect

  Barton, Fiona,

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  Alex O’Connor has been dreaming of the trip to Thailand she has planned for her gap year before she starts university. She and best friend Mags have the whole trip planned out day by day. When Mags bows out, confessing that she hasn't saved enough…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Thick

  and Other Essays

  McMillan Cottom, Tressie

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  Sociologist Cottom's Thick is a thought-provoking collection of essays centered on being black and female in America. Cottom skewers white-defined beauty as a commodity of capitalism; recalls the lesson of speaking and dressing well to signal to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Travelling Cat Chronicles

  Arikawa, Hiro, 1972-

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  This beautifully quirky novel gives voice to Nana, a cat traveling with his caretaker Satoru to visit old friends across Japan. The reason for the road trip becomes increasingly clear, as Nana tells the story of how Satoru adopted him off the street…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Water Cure

  a Novel

  Mackintosh, Sophie,

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  This resonant dystopian debut, longlisted for the Man Booker prize, describes a society in which an unspecified future climate event has permeated the atmosphere with a toxin which makes men violent toward women. Three daughters live with their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Cast a Shadow

  Ruffin, Maurice Carlos

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  Ruffin's exceptional debut novel is a dystopian satire that is so incisive it will dazzle you with biting humor all while filling you with a sense of deep unease. In a near future Southern city, an unnamed black narrator is subjected to a series of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The White Book

  Kang, Han

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  From Booker Prize-winner and literary phenomenon Han Kang comes this meditative exploration on grief and loss juxtaposed with the color white and "white" things. Against the snowy scenery of Warsaw during a writers' retreat, a nameless narrator…Read moreRead more of this annotation