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• Brawler

  Stories

  Groff, Lauren

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  An excellent novelist who is also celebrated for her skill with short stories (her second collection Florida won the Story Prize) delivers a rich, rangy and relatable new collection. The novel kicks off with a short gem called "The Wind," a story of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fox and the Devil

  White, Kiersten

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  Anneke is an investigator extraordinaire. Despite the prejudice against women in Victorian era Europe, she's called upon in respected circles for her keen insights and ability to solve the most puzzling crimes. But she lives under the shadow of her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Told You So!: Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right

  Kaplan, Matt

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  Economist science writer Matt Kaplan's I Told You So covers why new ideas are sometimes unfairly rejected by the scientific community. Of course, any new scientific theory needs to be challenged to test it and see if holds up. However, the examples…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lost Lambs

  a Novel

  Cash, Madeline

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  Cash's playful debut centers around the troubled Flynn family, who live in a small unnamed port town on the West Coast. The three Flynn daughters go to Catholic school. Their community revolves around church events and services. Parents Bud and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Red Winter

  Sullivan, Cameron,

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  Its 1785, and a beast has been terrorizing the people of rural France, brutally killing workers, livestock, travelers or anyone else it comes across. This is exactly what happened in the infamous "red winter" twenty years before, and so Sebastian…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Seven Daughters of Dupree

  Williams, Nikesha Elise,

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  Nikesha Elise Williams's multi-generational novel follows seven generations of Dupree women. Each chapter centers on one woman's life, a defining struggle she must come to terms with, and a secret she carries that she'll withhold from her daughter.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sheer

  Lawrence, Vanessa (Writer),

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  Sheer by Vanessa Lawrence takes us back to the 2010s, when twentysomething women were inundated with #GirlBoss-heading companies like Away, Glossier, and The Wing. We meet fictional Maxine Thomas, the founder and creative director behind the cult…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Star Shipped

  Sebastian, Cat

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  Simon and Charlie are co-stars on a popular sci-fi TV show, and neither is especially fond of the other. Charlie got his start in reality TV and is an exuberant golden retriever in human form. Simon is a constant ball of stress and ready to leave…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Is Where the Serpent Lives

  Mueenuddin, Daniyal,

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  Daniyal Mueenuddin's first novel (seventeen years after his lauded 2009 debut story collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders) is structured in four parts, each centering on a different character, each striving for success on his own terms in…Read moreRead more of this annotation