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Fiction A to Z August 2021
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Brotherhood
by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
After a fundamentalist Islamist government publicly executes two young people for being in love, their mothers begin a secret correspondence to deal with their grief that leads to the publication of an underground newspaper and ultimately a rebellion. Original.
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China room
by Sunjeev Sahota
In 1929 rural Punjab, Mehar and her new sisters-in-law are locked at work in the family’s “china room,” while trying to figure out which of three brothers is her new husband, setting off events that impact a descendent in 1999.
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Count the Ways : a novel
by Joyce Maynard
The New York Times best-selling author tells the story of Eleanor and Cam as their marriage is shattered by tragedy and infidelity and how, during the decades that follow, they make surprising discoveries and decisions that bring them together, and tear them apart.
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Dear Miss Metropolitan
by Carolyn Ferrell
After being abducted by Boss Man and held captive in a dilapidated house in Queens, three rescued girls rage against a local newspaper columnist who missed their tale of horror as it unfolded right across the street.
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Embassy wife
by Katie Crouch
Amanda Evans discovers that her husband’s real motive in accepting a Fulbright to study in Namibia is to find a woman he left behind 20 years earlier, in the new novel by the best-selling author of Abroad.
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| Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily AustinThe dark but humorous tale of an anxious young woman who falls into a receptionist job at a Catholic church and becomes obsessed with her predecessor’s mysterious death. Gilda is not Catholic (she's an atheist) and doesn't conform to Catholic ideals (she's gay). She also ends up impersonating her predecessor (Grace) and stalking the priest as she investigates Grace's death -- which make her a person of interest to the police.
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Instamom
by Chantel Guertin
A proudly single social media influencer who posts about her fabulous child-free life reconsiders what her future might look like when she partners on a campaign with a smart, sexy, single-dad chef and his whip-smart eight-year-old daughter.
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The Outsider
by Emily Hourican
A thought-provoking tale of family, flawed friendship and betrayal. Two very different families ... One is loud, eccentric, rich and confident. The other is less sure of their place in life. On holidays in Portugal, a near-drowning brings the ten-year-old daughters, Jamie and Sarah, together and a friendship is formed. As the bond between the girls grows deeper, so too do the ties between their families and an unsettling closeness develops between two of the adults. Then, as Jamie begins to feel suffocated by the intensity of Sarah's friendship, cracks begin to show.
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What Strange Paradise
by Omar El Akkad
Looking at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child, this dramatic story follows Vñna who comes to the rescue of a 9-year-old Syrian boy who has washed up on the shores of her small island and is determined to do whatever it takes to save him.
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