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• In Memoriam

  a Novel

  Winn, Alice,

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  Love between two young men is tough enough in 1914; the fact that they are both fighting in World War I makes it…tougher.The two moneyed teens, Sidney Ellwood and Henry Gaunt, are boarding school students in England just before the Great…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Maame

  George, Jessica, 1994-

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  After a loss, a young British woman from a Ghanaian family reassesses her responsibilities. Her name is Maddie, but the young protagonist in this debut coming-of-age novel has always been known to her family as Maame, meaning woman.

• Weyward

  a Novel

  Hart, Emilia,

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  Three generations of women struggle against the bounds of patriarchy in this debut novel. The Weyward women of Crows Beck in Cumbria, England, have shared a common gift: the ability to connect deeply with and seemingly communicate with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pineapple Street

  a Novel

  Jackson, Jenny (Editor),

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  This debut novel is a comedy of manners charting the fates of the Stockton siblings and their spouses, circling around the house where they grew up in Brooklyn Heights, now inhabited by Cord and his wife, Sasha, who is referred to as the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Banyan Moon

  a Novel

  Thai, Thao

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  Long-held secrets haunt the lives of three generations of Vietnamese women. Hương raised Ann as a single mother—though Ann was closer to her grandmother—and never told her the identity of her father. In the shadow of Minh’s death, the two…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Writing Retreat

  a Novel

  Bartz, Julia,

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  Five writers, four weeks, and a $1 million book deal for the lucky winner. Unless they disappear first….Having just turned 30, Alex has to face up to some hard truths: She hates her job; she’s been miserable since breaking up with her best…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Berry Pickers

  Peters, Amanda,

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  This debut novel explores the lives of a Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia as they grapple with their decades-old trauma. In 1962, Ruthie, the family’s youngest daughter, goes missing from the berry farm in Maine where they work every…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The God of Endings

  Holland, Jacqueline, 1983-

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  Following a vampire across more than 200 years, this novel considers “whether this world and life in it is a kindness or an unkindness, a blessing or a curse.” At the age of 10, Anna faces illness and death daily as an epidemic sweeps…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lucky Red

  a Novel

  Cravens, Claudia,

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  Bridget Shaughnessy—the extraordinary, soon-to-be-orphaned narrator of Cravens’ welcome remix of a Western novel—is 16, uneducated, and impoverished when her feckless father dies after a rattlesnake bite on the trail they’re taking…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Save What's Left

  Castellano, Elizabeth, 1990-

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  Castellano's wickedly funny debut unfurls in miserable yet gleeful detail the soul-sucking nightmare of owning a house on the Long Island oceanfront. "Never buy a beach house. Don't even dream about one. Don't save your money or call real…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Quiet Tenant

  Michallon, Clémence,

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  He'd be a rom-com hero if not for the woman tied up in his house—a twisted premise that raises unexpected moral questions. Aidan Thomas doesn’t seem like a bad person: “People loved and trusted him because he was a normal man.” When his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

  a Novel

  Paul, Crystal Smith

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  Hidden behind the glitz and glamour of 1950s Hollywood were real lives (and heartbreaking, necessary, lies). This debut hits the ground running with a peek at the complicated family life of an iconic, privacy-seeking clan of Hollywood…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Deep Sky

  A Novel

  Kitasei, Yume

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  Asuka Hoshino-Silva is one of 80 people bound for a far-off planet with the hope of starting a new civilization. After a rigorous training and selection process that began when the crew members were 12 years old, their spaceship finally…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The East Indian

  a Novel

  Charry, Brinda,

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  When his courtesan mother dies from cholera, an 11-year-old who goes by the name Tony soon loses the guidance of her British patron and the easy life on southeastern India’s Coromandel Coast. The patron arranges for Tony to sail to London,…Read moreRead more of this annotation