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JANUARY 15
Evicted : Poverty and Profit in the American City

by Matthew Desmond

A Harvard sociologist examines the challenge of eviction as a cause of poverty in America, revealing how people are forced from their homes and reduced to cycles of extreme disadvantage that are reinforced by legal systems.
 
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FEBRUARY 19
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

by Gail Honeyman

A 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.
 
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MARCH 18
The Leavers

by Lisa Ko

An award-winning debut novel follows the experiences of a Chinese youth who when his undocumented worker mother fails to return home is adopted by a family that attempts to make him over as an American teen while he struggles to reconcile his new life with memories of the family he left behind.
APRIL 15
The Stranger in the Woods : the Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

by Michael Finkel

Documents the true story of a man who endured a hardscrabble, isolated existence in a tent in the Maine woods, never speaking with others and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins, for 27 years, in a portrait that illuminates the survival means he developed and the reasons behind his solitary life.
MAY 20
Angle of Repose

by Wallace Stegner

An American masterpiece and iconic novel of the West by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner--a deeply moving narrative of one family and the traditions of our national past.
JUNE 17
Olive Kitteridge

by Elizabeth Strout

The larger-than-life world of Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher and unofficial town crier in a small coastal town in Maine, is revealed in a series of luminous stories that explore her diverse roles in many lives, including a lounge singer haunted by a past love, a young man grieving over his lost mother, her stoic husband, and her own resentful son.
 
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JULY 15
Chesapeake Requiem : a Year With the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island

by Earl Swift

The Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of The Big Roads presents a 200-year history of Chesapeake Bay's Tangier Island crabbing community while explaining how rapidly rising sea levels will render the island uninhabitable within 20 years. 100,000 first printing
AUGUST 19
There There

by Tommy Orange

A novel -- which grapples with the complex history of Native Americans; with an inheritance of profound spirituality; and with a plague of addiction, abuse and suicide -- follows 12 characters, each of whom has private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow. 
 
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SEPTEMBER 16
Clock Dance

by Anne Tyler

A lifetime of painful milestones and fading grandchild prospects compel a woman to help her son's ex, whose 9-year-old daughter needs protection from violent local dynamics. 
 
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OCTOBER 21
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a Memoir in Books

by Azar Nafisi

Describes growing up in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the group of young women who came together at her home in secret every Thursday to read and discuss great books of Western literature, explaining the influence of Lolita, The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, and other works on their lives and goals.
 
NOVEMBER 18
Fruit of the Drunken Tree

by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

A debut novel by an award-winning writer is set against the violence of 1990s Columbia and follows a sheltered girl and a teen maid, who forge an unlikely friendship that threatens to undo them both.
DECEMBER 16
 
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