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The Penelopiad by Margaret AtwoodThe author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin presents a cycle of stories about Penelope, wife of Odysseus, through the eyes of the twelve maids hanged for disloyalty to Odysseus in his absence.
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PinaTribute to German modern-dance pioneer Pina Bausch as members of her dance troupe, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, perform her pieces in various settings
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Reds Tells the story of the love affair between journalist/activist John Reed and writer/feminist Louise Bryant amidst the outbreak of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution.
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The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-DaleReturning to the Palais Garnier Opera House to choreograph the ballet that will kickstart her career—and finally make things right with her former friends—ballerina Delphine quickly discovers that things have changed—and some secrets can't stay buried forever.
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eternal sunshineEternal Sunshine is the seventh studio album by American singer Ariana Grande. Eternal Sunshine is a pop and R&B album with dance music influences, particularly synth-pop and house.
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Here After by Amy LinThis memoir from the debut Canadian author traces the dizzying loss she faced after the sudden death of her 32-year-old husband who had led her to greater joy, adventure, and self-acceptance.
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The Past is Still AliveThe follow up to their acclaimed debut, Life on Earth-which landed on Best of 2022 lists from the New York Times, Rolling Stone, NPR Music, Mojo, Uncut, among others-The Past Is Still Alive sees Hurray for the Riff Raff reunite with Brad Cook, while further expanding their creative cast of collaborators. There are love songs to real characters, locations and mythic figures like Sky Red Hawk ("Buffalo"), the first trans woman Segarra ever met ("Hawkmoon"). Segarra reflects on the land they have traveled, the hardships witnessed and bravery gained while running away from everything and everyone they knew at age seventeen.
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Between Two Kingdoms: a memoir of a life interrupted by Suleika JaouadAn Emmy Award-winning writer and activist describes the harrowing years she spent in early adulthood fighting leukemia and how she learned to live again while forging connections with other survivors of profound illness and suffering
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The Prisoner's Wife : a memoir by Asha BandeleThe compelling true story of an intelligent college woman who married a man serving a twenty-five-year-to-life sentence for murder takes an honest look at race, violence, and prison life.
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Little RopeSleater-Kinney returns with Little Rope, one of the finest, most delicately layered records in the band's 30-year career. On the surface, Little Rope's ten songs veer from spare to anthemic, catchy to deliberately hard-turning. But beneath that are perhaps the most complex and subtle arrangements of any Sleater-Kinney record, and a lyrical and emotional compass pointed firmly in the direction of something both liberating and terrifying: the sense that only way to gain control is to let it go.
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Bodies Bodies BodiesFollows a group of rich young men and women who get stuck at a remote family mansion during a hurricane and play a party game that suddenly turns deadly.
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I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp by Anthony Del ColZumrat Dawut is a mother of three in the Xinjiang autonomous region in China, who was arrested and sent to a detention facility for simply being a Muslim. There, she endured brutal living conditions, torture, interrogations, anti-Muslim propaganda, and sterilization. But that was just the beginning of Zumrat's troubles, who with her husband would soon hatch a plan to escape to America. Adult graphic novel
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Three-Inch teeth by C. J. BoxWhen the outlaw he locked up years ago is released from prison, determined to exact revenge on the six people who sent him away, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett, with a grizzly bear on a rampage, soon discovers he's one of those six people.
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The Maidens by Alex MichaelidesWhen a member of a secret society known as The Maidens is murdered, a brilliant, but troubled, group therapist finds her obsession with proving the guilt of an untouchable Cambridge University professor spiraling out of control, threatening to destroy her credibility as well as her life.
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Lighthouse by Max Eggers, Robert Eggers; directed by Robert EggersSet in the late 19th century, follows two lighthouse keepers stranded on an isolated island due to a storm and gradually going insane.
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Happiness Falls : a novel by Angie KimMia isn't initially concerned when her family fails to return from a walk, until her mute brother Eugene, who suffers from a rare genetic condition, returns bloody and alone and is unable to describe what happened to their father.
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Yellowface by R. F. KuangAfter the death of her literary rival in a freak accident, author June Hayward steals her just-finished masterpiece, sending it to her agent as her own work, but as emerging evidence threatens her success, she discovers just how far she'll go to keep what she thinks she deserves.
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Tales from the Hinterland by Melissa AlbertIn this companion book to "The Hazel Wood" and "The Night Country," the author presents a collection of dark fairy tales by Alice's reclusive grandmother Althea Proserpine.
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Dear Wormwood acts as a volume II to Through the Deep, Dark Valley. The duo explains, "This album is a collection of letters, all written by a single protagonist and addressed to a single recipient, a conversation to which the listener is an observer as a relationship gone wrong reaches it's breaking point - the words and music are at times affectionate and bittersweet, at others resigned and resolute".
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanA socially awkward, routine-oriented loner teams up with a bumbling IT guy from her office to assist an elderly accident victim, forging a friendship that saves all three from lives of isolation and secret unhappiness. Also available on Libby (this is great as an Audiobook!)
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Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam ZhangAccepting a job at a decadent, mountaintop colony, a young chef, with the help of her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter, is awakened to the pleasures of taste, touch and her own body until she is pushed beyond her boundaries in a plot to reshape the world far beyond the plate.
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Turtles All the Way Down by John GreenAza Holmes, a high school student with obsessive-compulsive disorder, becomes focused on searching for a fugitive billionaire.
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Bathe the Cat by Alice B. McGintyTo avoid getting a bath, the family cat keeps scrambling the list of chores with hilarious results, in this purr-fectly entertaining read-aloud story.
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Parable of the Sower by Octavia E ButlerIn California in the year 2025, a small community is overrun by desperate scavengers, as an eighteen-year-old African American woman sets off on foot on a perilous journey northward.
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The Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe lives of two sisters--Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a southern woman married to a man she hates--are revealed in a series of letters exchanged over thirty years.
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True Grit by Charles PortisPursuing a murderer who has escaped into Indian Territory, U.S. Marshal Rooster J. Cogburn teams up with a bounty-hunting Texas Ranger and Mattie Ross, a cantankerous young lady who is bent on revenge.
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The princess of Las Vegas : a novel by Chris BohjalianLiving in the Buckingham Palace Casino, Crissy Dowling, a Princess Diana impersonator with her own musical cabaret, finds her carefully constructed kingdom crashing down around her when the owner of the casino is brutally murdered and she is drawn in a world of organized crime, cryptocurrency and obsession.
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The Inimitable Jeeves by P. G. WodehouseIntroducing two of the greatest characters created by the undisputed master of English comic prose, this is quite simply one of the funniest books ever written. Whether attempting to stay on the right side of his ghastly Aunt Agatha, evade the clutches of the forbidding Honoria Glossop, or simply having a punt on the length of local curates’ sermons, Bertie Wooster can always rely on his gentleman’s gentleman, Jeeves, for sound advice and an ingenious wheeze to get him out of a tight spot.
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Fourth Wing by Rebecca YarrosTwenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don't bond to "fragile" humans. They incinerate them. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother's daughter"
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Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri ManiscalcoEmilia and her twin sister Vittoria are strength - witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family's renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin...desecrated beyond belief. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister's killer and to seek vengeance at any cost-even if it means using dark magic that's been long forbidden. Then Emilia meets Wrath, one of the Wicked-princes of Hell she has been warned against in tales since she was a child. Wrath claims to be on Emilia's side, tasked by his master with solving the series of women's murders on the island. But when it comes to the Wicked, nothing is as it seems...
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Small Great Thingsby Jodi PicoultWhen her reluctance to treat the newborn of a white supremacist couple results in the child's death, a black nurse is placed on trial and is aided by a white public defender who urges her not to bring up race in the courtroom.
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The Best Kind of People by Zoe WhittallWhen a celebrated teacher is arrested for sexual impropriety at an elite prep school, his wife and children become social outcasts throughout an impossible defense proceeding that causes them to question their memories and motives.
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Woman Without Shame : poems by Sandra CisnerosIt has been twenty-eight years since Sandra Cisneros published a book of poetry. With dozens of never-before-seen poems, Woman Without Shame is a moving collection of songs, elegies, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as a woman artist. These bluntly honest and often humorous meditations on memory, desire, and the essential nature of love blaze a path toward self-awareness. For Cisneros, this is the culmination of her search for home--in the Mexico of her ancestors and in her own heart.
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The Hurting Kind : poems by Ada LimâonA National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist offers this extraordinary collection of poems about interconnectedness between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves.
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