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Godshot
by Chelsea Bieker
Set in: Peaches, CA, an isolated town enduring a drought so terrible its residents have turned to a cult for help -- and the leader believes that the only solution involves the mass impregnation of all the teens in town.
Introducing: 14-year-old Lacey May, who is one of these teens; to make things worse, her mother has abandoned her.
Why you should read it: Lacey's an independent-minded young woman who isn't about to go down without a fight.
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Days of Distraction
by Alexandra Chang
Starring: Chinese American Jing Jing, a tech reporter, who follows her white boyfriend from California to upstate New York, where she begins to more seriously explore her identity as a woman of color and consider their interracial relationship in a white-dominant culture.
Reviewers say: The author's "humorous, timely observations on race, technology, and relationships lend immediacy to the narrator’s chronicle of self-awareness" (Publishers Weekly).
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The Coyotes of Carthage
by Steven Wright
What it is: a dark (and darkly humorous) tale of political and financial skulduggery in a small South Carolina town.
What happens: Dispatched to rural Carthage County, SC, by his elite Washington, D.C. firm, black political consultant Andre Ross is determined that nothing is going to stop him from separating the county from its assets by manipulating an upcoming election, no matter how torn about it he is.
Read it if: you enjoy the television show Scandal or are intrigued by "dark money" campaigns.
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LaRose
by Louise Erdrich
What happens: In North Dakota, Landreaux Iron has accidentally killed his friend's five-year-old son. In accordance with Ojibwe tradition, he gives up his own son, LaRose, to his friend's family.
Why you might like it: Tying together Ojibwe beliefs and Catholicism, deep grief and history, this powerful novel centers on LaRose, named after generations of healers and thrust into that role himself.
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Autopsy of a boring wife
by Marie-Renée Lavoie
"Marie-Renée Lavoie's Autopsy of a Boring Wife tells the hysterically funny and ultimately touching tale of forty-eight-year-old Diane, a woman whose husband leaves her and is having an affair because, he says, she bores him. Diane takes the charge to heart and undertakes an often ribald, highly entertaining journey to restoring trust in herself and others that is at the same time an astute commentary on women and girls, gender differences, and the curious institution of marriage in the twenty-first century. All the details are up for scrutiny in this tender, brisk story of the path to recovery. Autopsy of a Boring Wife is a wonderfully fresh and engaging novel of the pitfalls and missteps of an apparently "boring" life that could be any of ours."
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Frankissstein : a love story
by Jeanette Winterson
A transgender doctor falls in love with a celebrated professor who is leading the debate about artificial intelligence and conducting controversial experiments impacting cryogenics and the sex trade. By the author of Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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Night Theater
by Vikram Paralkar
An anti-establishment doctor in a village clinic is approached by the ghosts of a murdered family, who offer him redemption if he can mend their wounds using otherworldly skills over the course of one transformative night. Reprint. A first novel.
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The lost book of Adana Moreau : a novel
by Michael Zapata
Decades after a 1929 Dominican immigrant writer passes away believing her final manuscript was destroyed, a Chicago lawyer discovers the book and endeavors to learn the woman’s remarkable story against the backdrop of Hurricane Katrina. 50,000 first printing.
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The mountains sing : a novel
by Phan Quáð¿ Mai Nguyá»…n
Years after a family is forced by Vietnam’s Communist Land Reforms to abandon their farm, a granddaughter comes of age as her loved ones depart for the Ho Chi Minh Trail. A first English-language translation. 30,000 first printing. Tour.
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