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The fifteen wonders of Daniel Green
by Erica Boyce
"Daniel travels through America's countryside, creating astonishing crop circles that leave communities mystified. But when a dying Vermont corn farmer hires Daniel in an effort to breathe new life into the town he loves, Daniel is drawn into a communitystruggling to stitch itself back together. For once he is forced to stand still, and face the past he's been running from all this years. For fans of Phaedra Patrick and Fredrick Backman, this astonishing debut explores the healing power of forgiveness, the quirky definition of family, and the realization that home is not the walls you build but the people you choose to build them with."
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A million aunties : a novel
by Alecia McKenzie
"After a personal tragedy upends his world, American-born artist Chris travels to his mother's homeland in the Caribbean hoping to find some peace and tranquility. He plans to spend his time painting in solitude and coming to terms with his recent loss and his fractured relationship with his father. Instead, he discovers a new extended and complicated 'family,' with their own startling stories, including a love triangle. The people he meets help him to heal, even as he supports them in unexpected ways, through his art. Told from different points of view, this is a compelling novel about unlikely love, friendship, and community, with several surprises along the way"
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One last stop
by Casey McQuiston
Cynical August starts to believe in the impossible when meets Jane on the subway, a mysterious punk rocker she forms a crush on, who is literally displaced in time from the 1970s and is trying to find her way back. Original. 250,000 first printing.
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Skye falling : a novel
by Mia McKenzie
When a 12-year-old girl tracks her down during one of her brief visits to Philadelphia, claiming to be “her egg,” Skye, a loner and egg donor, decides that it might be time to actually have a meaningful relationship with another human being, which is easier said than done.
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Still life
by Sarah Winman
In 1944 Tuscany, as Allied troops advance, a young English soldier has a chance encounter with a middle-aged art historian with whom he finds a kindred spirit and who sets him off on a course of events that will shape his life for the next four decades.
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Catch us when we fall : a novel
by Juliette Fay
"On her own since the age of eighteen, Cass Macklin dated brilliant, troubled Ben McGreavy..They partied their way through their twenties...Now Ben is dead, and Cass is broke, homeless, scared, and pregnant. Determined to have a healthy pregnancy and raise Ben's baby...Cass turns to the only person with the means to help her: Ben's brother Scott, third basemen for the Boston Red Sox, a man with a temper and problems of his own"
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Cantoras
by Carolina De Robertis
Enduring the rampant violence against women and the LGBTQ community in the decades of the Uruguayan dictatorship, five women heartbreakingly unite as lovers, friends and family. By the award-winning author of The Invisible Mountain.
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The after party
by A. C. Arthur
"Venus McGee, Draya Carter, and Jackie Benson are coworkers with a lot in common. They're smart...and deserving of recognition--certainly more than they've been handed by a demoralizing boss. He's the topic of conversation at their impromptu get-togetherafter the company holiday party...When morning comes, Venus, Draya, and Jackie are blindsided by murder--a twist of fate that brings a startling new challenge to the table and forces them to navigate a hair-raising detour they never saw coming"
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All of you every single one : a novel
by Beatrice Hitchman
After leaving her famous, Swedish playwright husband, Julia Lindqvist begins a passionate love affair with a female tailor in Vienna in the early 1900s until her yearning for a child throws their lives into chaos. 20,000 first printing.
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Chilean poet : a novel
by Alejandro Zambra
A young Chilean man who inherited his love of poetry from his stepfather, helps an American journalist both literally and figuratively lost in Santiago and encourages her to focus her article on the living, everyday poets that surround them. Illustrations.
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The Circus Infinite
by Khan Wong
A mixed-species fugitive, Jes tries to blend in on a pleasure moon, but instead catches the attention of a crime boss who owns the resort-casino where he lands a circus job and is forced to bend to the mobster’s will until he decides to take the big boss down. Original.
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Probably Ruby : a novel
by Lisa Bird-Wilson
Spanning time and multiple points of view, a new voice in indigenous fiction introduces us to Ruby, a bold, complex and unapologetic woman who, adopted by white parents, goes in search of her identity as her life spins wildly out of control.
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The unplanned life of Josie Hale
by Stephanie Eding
When she and two old friends from high school, Ben and Kevin, make a life pact to move in together and turn their lives around, divorced and pregnant Josie Hale, despite her growing feelings for Ben, has finally found a place to call home. Original.
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Not exactly what I had in mind : a novel
by Kate Brook
When her sister and her wife come to stay with her and Alfie, her roommate/lover, Hazel finds all of their lives colliding, setting off a complicated chain of events that reshapes their relationships in ways no one quite predicted. Original.
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The monsters we defy
by L. Penelope
In 1925 Washington, D.C., Clara Johnson, in debt to the spirit world, must steal a magical ring from the wealthiest woman in the District, and to pull off this daring heist, assembles an unlikely team to do the impossible to save their communityand their lives. Original. 25,000 first printing.
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