Swimming Between Worlds
Summary: A beautifully written and absorbing novel about civil rights; architecture and place; the wrenching experience of becoming an adult; first love; and ordinary people making extraordinary choices.
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Riots I Have Known
Summary: An acclaimed comic novel about literary creation, mass incarceration, and settling a few scores.
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree: A Novel
Summary: A mesmerizing debut set in Colombia at the height Pablo Escobar's violent reign about a sheltered young girl and a teenage maid who strike an unlikely friendship that threatens to undo them both.
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The Home for Unwanted Girls
Summary: Philomena meets The Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel.
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White Hot Grief Parade: A Memoir
Summary: A powerful and luminous story of grief and coming-of-age and a beautiful tribute to the relationship between a father and daughter.
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The Silent Patient
Summary: Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. She is a famous painter and her husband, Gabriel, an in-demand fashion photographer. Until one evening, when Gabriel returns home late from work and Alicia shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word. #1 New York Times bestseller.
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Patrick Melrose: The Novels
Summary: Edward St. Aubyn offers his readers the often darkly funny and self-loathing world of privilege as we follow Patrick Melrose’s story of abuse, addiction, and recovery from the age of five into early middle age.
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The Only Woman in the Room: A Novel
Summary: She was beautiful. She was a genius. Could the world handle both? A powerful novel based on the incredible true story of the glamour icon and scientist Hedy Lamarr, whose groundbreaking invention revolutionized modern communication.
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The Handmaid's Tale
Summary: In the world of the near future, who will control women’s bodies? Timeless, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid’s Tale, written in 1989, is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and topical tour de force.
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The Book of Joan: A Novel
Summary: In the near future, a cyborg Joan of Arc is born who can cause earthquakes with her fists. She is the last hope to reverse accelerating climate change, and challenge a dictator who would enslave the remnants of humanity as the Earth becomes uninhabitable. A poet named Christine, trapped aboard a space station, looks down and writes the epic story of their battle.
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Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)
Summary: Beginning in 1910 during the time of Japanese colonization and ending many decades later in 1989, Pachinko is the epic saga of a Korean family told over four generations. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.
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The Orphan Keeper
Summary: Based on a remarkable true story. Seven-year-old Chellamuthu's life--and his destiny--is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in Southern India and sold to the Lincoln Home for Homeless Children.
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Stay with Me: A novel
Summary: Set in Nigeria, Stay With Me, gives voice to both husband and wife as they tell the story of their marriage--and the forces that threaten to tear it apart.
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Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun
Summary: The story of Morayo Da Silva, a seventy-five year old, cosmopolitan Nigerian woman living in hip San Francisco.
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Everyone Knows You Go Home
Summary: A NEW NOVEL ABOUT IMMIGRATION AND THE DEPTHS TO WHICH ONE MEXICAN AMERICAN FAMILY WILL GO FOR FORGIVENESS AND REDEMPTION.
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A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
Summary: A transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel. Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.
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