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• Alan Opts Out

  Maum, Courtney, 1978-

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  Maum's fast-paced, funny satire set in affluent suburban Connecticut skewers consumerism, greed, exclusivity, gated communities and other features of privileged life. When successful advertising executive Alan's potentially lucrative pro-milk pitch…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Anxietyland

  Correll, Gemma,

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  Reminiscent of Pixar's Inside Out, Anxietyland is a relatable, engaging read about the complicated, layered emotions that come with panic, anticipatory anxiety and addiction. Correll's wit and visual confidence immediately draw you in even as she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead

  Nguyen, Mai, 1988-

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  When Cleo is pregnant with her first child at the same time as her best friend, she can't believe her luck. But the universe has something different in store. What is supposed to be a happy life event turns into her biggest nightmare when her baby…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Disaster Gay Detective Agency

  Rosen, Lev AC,

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  Brandon, Ollie, Nicole and Ian have been friends since college, and now, in their mid-20s, each is struggling to figure out adulthood. When Brandon meets a handsome and mysterious man at the hotel where he works, he is sure that he has finally met…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eating Ashes

  a Novel

  Navarro, Brenda, 1982-

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  An unnamed Mexican woman living in Spain reckons with her brother's suicide at age sixteen in this introspective meditation on the intense feelings that follow traumatic loss. The novel skips back and forth in time as the narrator ruminates on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Every Version of You

  Messier, Natalie,

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  Joey Vasquez's life looks pretty good from the outside. She's a successful lawyer on the cusp of making partner and living the high life in L.A. But her personal life is a mess. Then she dies in a car accident, and instead of proceeding to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• If This Be Magic

  the Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation

  Hahn, Daniel,

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  A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but does Shakespeare remain characteristically Shakespeare when you take away all of his distinctive English and translate his work into another language? British writer and translator Daniel Hahn's deep…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sublimation

  Kim, Isabel J.,

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  In this engrossing story of an alternate Earth, whenever anyone emigrates a duplicate version of themselves stays behind, left to live out a parallel life. Rose emigrated from Korea to America at the age of 10. Now, 20 years later, she is returning…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Unicorn Hunters

  a Novel

  Arden, Katherine,

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  Anne of Brittany was a child when her father lost a war to the French. Charles of France wants to marry Anne and combine their realms. Her only hope of avoiding the loss of Britany's independence is by finding another marriage. Maximilien of Austria…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Witch

  a Novel

  NDiaye, Marie,

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  In this allegorical novel originally published in French in 1996, Lucie is a witch of modest abilities living in a French suburb with her disagreeable husband Pierrot and their disaffected twin daughters Maud and Lise. The story opens on Lucie…Read moreRead more of this annotation