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Women's Literature Picks for October!
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Sourdough
by Robin Sloan
Enduring a virtually solitary existence working for an ambitious software company, an exhausted coder is bequeathed a sourdough recipe from sibling bakers who are forced to close their shop, a gift that leads to a new vocation, a legal dispute and a venture into a secret market that fuses food with technology.
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Map of the Heart
by Susan Wiggs
Accompanying her aging father on a trip to his native France, a widowed photographer is led by his memories of World War II to unexpected revelations about their family's history at the same time she bonds with a handsome American historian.
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Little Fires Everywhere
by Celeste Ng
Fighting an ugly custody battle with an artistic tenant who has little regard for the strict rules of their progressive Cleveland suburb, a straitlaced family woman who is seeking to adopt a baby becomes obsessed with exposing the tenant's past, only to trigger devastating consequences for both of their families.
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Young Jane Young
by Gabrielle Zevin
Cruelly branded for her affair with her congressman boss, an intern and blogger changes her name and moves to a remote town in Maine with her young daughter before local prompting to run for public office forces her to reckon with the past.
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The Address
by Fiona Davis
Struggling to rebuild after rehab, an interior designer leaps at a chance to renovate her heiress cousin's lavish apartment and learns the scandalous history of a distant ancestor's connection to the murder of the building's architect a century earlier.
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The Dollhouse
by Fiona Davis
Arriving at the famed Barbizon Hotel in 1952 where she is instantly rendered a misfit, a plain, self-conscious secretarial school student is befriended and introduced by a hotel maid to the city's jazz and drug counterculture and is involved in a deadly skirmish that reverberates half a century later in the life of an obsessed journalist.
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How to Find Love in a Bookshop
by Veronica Henry
Struggling to hold onto her family's bookshop in the wake of her beloved father's death and circling property developers, Emilia finds support from family-like customers who navigate their own difficulties with secrets, loss and unrequited romance.
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Little Fires Everywhere
by Celeste Ng
Fighting an ugly custody battle with an artistic tenant who has little regard for the strict rules of their progressive Cleveland suburb, a straitlaced family woman who is seeking to adopt a baby becomes obsessed with exposing the tenant's past, only to trigger devastating consequences for both of their families.
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Manhattan Beach
by Jennifer Egan
Years after she is placed in the hands of a stranger vital to her family's survival, Anna takes a job at the Brooklyn Naval Yard during the war while meeting with the man who helped them and learning important truths about her father's disappearance.
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All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
by Janelle Brown
Over the course of an eventful summer, the three Miller women--Janice, abandoned by her wealthy husband for her tennis partner; daughter Margaret, facing bankruptcy; and teenage daughter Lizzie, dealing with the loss of her reputation--do battle with divorce lawyers, debt collectors, country-club snobs, their own demons, and one another.
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Finding Audrey
by Sophie Kinsella
Energized by a friendship with her brother's gaming teammate, 14-year-old Audrey, a girl with an anxiety disorder, finds their subsequent romance challenging her progress. By the best-selling author of the Shopaholic series. Simultaneous eBook.
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Small Admissions
by Amy Poeppel
Becoming profoundly unmotivated after being dumped by her French boyfriend, a summa cum laude graduate takes a job in the admissions department of a prestigious school, where she endures a season of nasty applicants, winsome underdogs and pushy parents.
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This One Is Mine
by Maria Semple
Deeply unhappy in spite of a luxurious Hollywood life with an emotionally distant rock-and-roll manager husband and beloved toddler, Violet Parry rediscovers passion through a relationship with a small-time bass player.
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