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| Little Faith by Nickolas ButlerWhat it is: a moving, reflective novel in which a mother's involvement in religious extremism threatens her child's life. Inspired by real events, this is a thoughtful look at faith, love, family, and community.
Read it for: the beautifully depicted rural Wisconsin setting, fully developed characters, and descriptive writing.
Read this next: Robert Hillman's The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted, which is set in 1960s Australia and similarly focuses on a family torn apart by dangerous religious beliefs. |
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| Queenie by Candice Carty-WilliamsStarring: young Jamaican British Queenie, who finds herself in a downward spiral after a relationship ends.
What happens: Dating disasters (the white men she meets tend to fetishize her) and impulsive decisions spell trouble, but Queenie has friends to lean on, and she eventually takes control of her mental health.
Reviewers say: "This smart, funny, and tender debut embraces a modern woman's messiness" (Booklist). |
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Good Riddance
by Elinor Lipman
Discarding her late mother's cherished and heavily annotated high school yearbook, Daphne is entangled in a series of absurdities when the yearbook is discovered by a busybody documentary filmmaker.
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California Girls
by Susan Mallery
Three sisters wrestling with difficulties in their personal and professional lives tackle secrets and old wounds while helping their mother relocate from the family home to a condo.
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Gingerbread
by Helen Oyeyemi
The award-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird draws on the classic fairy-tale element of gingerbread in the story of a British family whose surprising legacy and secret past are tied to a favourite recipe.
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Tomorrow There Will Be Sun
by Dana Reinhardt
Organizing a group birthday vacation in Mexico for her loved ones, Jenna is dismayed when her friends' personalities change, her husband begins making clandestine calls and her teen daughter bonds with a local delinquent.
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The Secret of Clouds
by Alyson Richman
An English teacher with haunting childhood memories gains perspective and inspiration while tutoring a young Ukrainian immigrant whose serious health issues prevent him from taking any day for granted.
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The Altruists
by Andrew Ridker
On the brink of losing the family home, a Midwestern college professor and widower reaches out to his estranged children under the guise of a reconciliation, only to unleash a maelstrom of age-old resentments. Includes one diagram.
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The Volunteer
by Salvatore Scibona
The abandonment of a child at an international airport is tied to the Vietnam War experiences of a restless recruit into a clandestine branch of the U.S. government. By the National Book Award finalist author of The End
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Côte Saint-Luc Public Library 5851 Cavendish Blvd. Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec H4W 2X8 514-485-6900csllibrary.org/ |
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