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Friday Fiction July July 19, 2019
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The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
by Abbi Waxman
A confirmed introvert finds her simple life upended when the father she never knew passes away, revealing an enormous extended family that overwhelms her budding relationship with a fellow trivia buff.
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How to Hack a Heartbreak
by Kristin Rockaway
A help-desk tech who supports inept "genius" male co-workers tires of sexual harassment and uses her elite coding skills to create a viral app before she is forced to choose between her relationships and career.
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The Last Book Party : A Novel
by Karen Dukess
Attending an early summer gathering at a famed journalist's Cape Cod home, an aspiring writer stuck in a low-level job discovers uncomfortable truths about the literary world she has been so desperate to join.
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Maggie Brown & Others : Stories
by Peter Orner
Characters come to terms with their situations and the heaviness of memory in this short story collection, including a teen grieving over his involvement with his toddler sibling's death and the reflections of an unknown, dying beat poet.
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My Dark Vanessa
by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet naïve teenage girl and her magnetic and manipulative teacher, a brilliant, all-consuming read that marks the explosive debut of an extraordinary new writer.
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Olive, Again
by Elizabeth Strout
#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions of readers.
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The Saturday Night Ghost Club : A Novel
by Craig Davidson
A short, irresistible, and bittersweet coming-of-age story about a small group of kids who, under the leadership of an eccentric uncle, spend one summer investigating the validity of local ghost stories and macabre urban myths--in almost every instance getting in way over their heads.
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The Tenth Muse
by Catherine Chung
Determined to conquer the Riemann hypothesis in the face of cultural discrimination against women intellectuals, a genius mathematician uncovers a mysterious theorem's unexpected World War II link to her family.
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The Travelers : A Novel
by Regina Porter
A first novel by an award-winning playwright follows the experiences of two American families, one black and one white, against a backdrop of historical events from the 1950s through the first year of Barack Obama's presidency.
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The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone
by Felicity McLean
Part mystery, part coming of age story, The Van Apfel Girls are Gone is set in a distant suburb on the encroaching bushland, over the long hot summer of 1992. It's the summer of the school's Showstopper concert. The summer Tikka never forgot. The summer the Van Apfel sisters disappeared.
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The Warehouse
by Rob Hart
A darkly satirical thriller set in a near-future America wracked by violence, unemployment and climate change finds two employees of a world-saving global giant discovering their employers' true agenda.
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The Water Dancer : A Novel
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
A Virginia slave narrowly escapes a drowning death through the intervention of a mysterious force that compels his escape and personal underground war against slavery.
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The World Doesn't Require You : Stories
by Rion Amilcar Scott
This collection of short stories, set in fictional Cross River, Maryland, includes the tales of a struggling musician who is God's last son and a Ph.D. candidate whose dissertation about a childhood game sparks a riot in a once-segregated town.
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Conviction
by Denise Mina
An upper-class Edinburgh housewife who enjoys listening to the sordid details of true-crime podcasts has her world turned upside down when a new podcast turns out to have connections to her own dark past.
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Death and Other Happy Endings : A Novel
by Melanie Cantor
Regretting nothing except the relationships she has lost upon learning she has only three months to live, Jennifer writes cathartic letters to the most significant people in her life before she is confronted by unexpected surprises
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The Gifted School : A Novel
by Bruce W Holsinger
The students and parents of a tight-knit community find their bonds nearly destroyed by competitiveness when an exclusive school for gifted children opens nearby, in a story told from both adult and child perspectives.
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If You Want to Make God Laugh
by Bianca Marais
A pregnant teen, a grieving socialite and a disgraced former nun bond over respective troubles in rural post-Apartheid South Africa, where an abandoned newborn helps them discover the transcendent power of love.
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The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt : A Novel
by Andrea Bobotis
Judith Kratt inherited all the Kratt family had to offer - the pie safe, the copper clock, the murder that no one talks about - and she knows in her old bones that it's time to make an inventory of her household and its valuables. But she finds that cataloging the family heirlooms can't contain their misfortunes, not when her wayward sister suddenly returns, determined to expose secrets that the Kratts had hoped to take to their grave. Interweaving the present with chilling flashbacks from one fateful evening in 1929, Judith pieces together the influence of her family on their small South Carolina cotton town, learning that the effects of dark family secrets can last for decades.
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Late Migrations : A Natural History of Love and Loss
by Margaret Renkl
The widely followed New York Times opinion writer presents a collection of brief essays on the natural world, her Alabama childhood, her complicated parents and her transition to the role of a caregiver.
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Like a Love Story
by Abdi Nazemian
An Iranian youth who hides his sexual orientation from his family, an openly gay photographer and an aspiring fashion designer with an HIV-positive uncle fall in love and find their voices as activists during the height of the AIDS crisis in New York City.
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The Right Sort of Man
by Allison Montclair
Organizing a matchmaking business together in spite of their differences, two women from 1946 London find their promising company endangered when one of their clients is arrested for the murder of another.
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Salvation Day
by Kali Wallace
Kidnapping the lone survivor of an abandoned spaceship where she would house her exiled cult, Zahra uncovers a terrifying government secret that threatens all humanity.
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Whisper Network : A Novel
by Chandler Baker
An adult debut by the author of the High School Horror series follows four women who speak out when their ill-reputed boss is slated to become CEO, a decision that triggers catastrophic shifts throughout every department of their company.
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