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| Weyward by Emilia HartStarring: the captivating and unique Weyward women, whose lives affirm the power of desire, sex, personal freedom, and a legacy of magic that transcends centuries.
Read it for: "a tale of magic and female empowerment" that is also an "atmospheric, gripping read" (Booklist).
What to read next? One Thousand and One Nights by Hanan al-Shaykh or The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey by Serena Burdick. |
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| The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlaneAustralia, 1883: A small, remote farming community pulls together to find a missing boy, but racial tension, ulterior motives, and personal secrets may prove as treacherous as the vast terrain they must search.
Read it for: a sweeping novel with a large cast of well-realized characters that vividly portray the scope of colonial life in Southern Australia.
Try this next: Benevolence by Julie Janson. |
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| Hello Beautiful by Ann NapolitanoWhat happens: William, a reserved college basketball scholarship recipient, begins dating Julie, the eldest of four boisterous sisters in 1970s Chicago. His acceptance into the family becomes a defining moment for all concerned.
What it's about: "the deep, maddeningly frustrating, and ever-present love of family, whether tied by genetics or by choice" (Booklist).
Try this next: The Darlings by Cristina Alger, This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper, or Crossing California by Adam Langer. |
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| Commitment by Mona SimpsonWhat happens: Walter, Lina, and Donny -- teen siblings in 1970s California -- lean on one another after their devoted single mom succumbs to debilitating depression. From turmoil emerges resilience, tenacity, and an enduring commitment to one another's joy.
Read it for: a warm-hearted, "kaleidoscopic portrait" of "sacrifices that keep a family together even when it's coming apart" (Kirkus Reviews).
Try this next: Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee. |
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Picture in the Sand
by Peter Blauner
To save his teenaged grandson, Alex, who has run off to Syria to become a holy warrior, Ali Hassan, an Egyptian-American businessman, reveals a secret past of activism and heartbreak to Alex through a series of letters recounting his involvement in events that changed the course of history.
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Maror
by Lavie Tidhar
How do you build a nation? It takes statesmen and soldiers, farmers and factory workers, of course. But it also takes thieves, prostitutes and policemen. Nation-building demands sacrifice. And one man knows exactly where those bodies are buried: Cohen, a man who loves his country. A reasonable man for unreasonable times. A car bomb in the back streets of Tel Aviv. A diamond robbery in Haifa. Civil war in Lebanon. Rebel fighters in the Colombian jungle. A double murder in Los Angeles. How do they all connect? Only Cohen knows. Maror is the story of a war for a country's soul, a dazzling spread of narrative gunshots across four decades and three continents. It is a true story. All of these things happened.
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Strange Loops
by Liz Harmer
Francine and her twin brother Philip share a powerful bond in childhood that fades as they became young adults. When Philip unexpectedly becomes intensely religious, his sister decides to join his Christian youth group and soon becomes infatuated with the youth pastor. Obsessed by this transgression and what he sees as his sister's moral impropriety, Philip eventually uncovers a dark secret that threatens to shatter his faith and estranges the two siblings for decades. Later, as an adult, even as the storm clouds of resentment and a mutual sense of betrayal between her and her brother still churn around them, Francine finds herself both stirred and alienated by her attraction to an ex-student who has recently reappeared in her life, making her feel caught in a condition of perpetual departure toward the same inevitable calamity.
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The Sisters We Were
by Wendy Willis Baldwin
Pearl and Ruby's choices drove them apart. Finding their way back to each other might be the only way forward. Life-altering events throw the sisters back into living under the same roof as they try to put back together the pieces of their lives, in a story of hope and redemption that celebrates the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
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Goddess
by Deborah Hemming
An up-and-coming writer is invited to the Goddess summit, an exclusive wellness retreat on a remote Greek island led by Geia Stone, a famous actress turned wellness guru, but becomes disturbed by strange happenings and vows to investigate.
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The Sweet Spot
by Amy Poeppel
In the Sweet Spot, a dive bar at the heart of Greenwich Village, three women, when a baby lands on their collective doorstep, rise to the occasion in order to forgive, to forget and to track down the wayward parents, unexpectedly finding their own happily-ever-afters along the way.
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The Lost English Girl
by Julia Kelly
During World War II, Viv Byrne, with her husband serving in the Royal Air Force, discovers the countryside safe haven she sent her daughter to wasn't immune from the horrors of war, and it is only years later, with his help, that she learns what it will take to put their family back together again.
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Worthy Opponents
by Danielle Steel
The CEO of the most respected and luxurious department store in NYC, Spencer Brooke goes up against Mike Weston, a wealthy investor who threatens to take over, but when bad luck strikes and she is backed into a corner, she must decide what's best for the family business.
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