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• Happy Land

  Perkins-Valdez, Dolen,

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  Nikki receives an urgent call out of the blue from her estranged grandmother. Rather than inform Nikki of the reasons for the family’s split, Mother Rita tells a tale of the real African kingdom that thrived in North Carolina for decades and then…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Boy From the Sea

  Carr, Garrett, 1975-

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  In 1973, Brendan Bonnar is the boy who, as a baby, was found abandoned on the beach of a close-knit Irish community. The town is fascinated by the boy, but the changing world and Brendan’s eventual departure cause a reconning with modernity.

• A Gentleman's Gentleman

  Alexander, T. J.,

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  Lord Christopher Eden is a “man of unusual make” and prefers to live out his life at his boyhood estate, as far as possible from the ton. However, when his father’s will is discovered to include the stipulation that he find a wife by the end of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Venetian Vespers

  Banville, John,

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  A powerful “is he losing his mind or is this really happening” story from a master of literary fiction. After a hack writer marries for money and travels to Venice, paranormal happenings force a mental reckoning.

• The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes

  Cleeton, Chanel,

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  Three women in three different time periods over the course of a century and a quarter from Havana to Boston to London must work through secrets, forbidden love, political dissent, and the lies of three nations.

• The Hong Kong Widow

  Loesch, Kristen,

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  What happened decades ago on the night of a séance in a notoriously haunted house in Hong Kong? Mei’s life has been plagued by memories of that fateful evening for most of her life.

• Bad Bad Girl

  a Novel

  Jen, Gish,

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  Loo Shu-hsin is born in Shanghai in 1924. For years, all she ever hears from the adults around her is the scolding, “Bad bad girl!” After making a life of her own despite her detractors, can she ever lift up her daughter and not repeat the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Buckeye

  a Novel

  Ryan, Patrick, 1965-

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  Bonhomie, Ohio is a town where secrets cannot stay buried. A chance encounter at the end of World War II ripples through the decades to reshape the lives of the descendants of that unexpected meeting.

• I, Medusa

  a Novel

  Gray, Ayana,

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  The story of Medusa from her own point of view. What begins as a vindictive punishment turns Medusa from a footnote in other people’s stories to a vigilante in her own narrative.

• Shadow Ticket

  Pynchon, Thomas,

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  Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, and outlaw motorcyclists in 1932 Milwaukee grace the pages of the legendary Thomas Pynchon’s latest outing.