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| Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss by Rajeev BalasubramanyamStarring: ambitious, internationally known economics professor P.R. Chandrasekhar (known to all as Chandra), who -- in a move that is wholly out of character -- decides to attend a meditation retreat.
What happens: An accumulation of tiny epiphanies ultimately challenges Chandra's perspective on his long-time prioritization of career over family.
Why you might like it: This is a complex book about an analytical man rethinking his choices, told with dry (and sometimes acerbic) humor. |
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| The Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvis GravesStarring: two former college sweethearts who haven't spoken in ten years.
What happens: a chance meeting between shy but independent Annika, who's on the autism spectrum, and divorced, gun-shy Jonathan sparks interest in both parties. But can they resolve their pasts?
Why you might like it: Told primarily from Annika's perspective, this is a "heartwarming, neurodiverse love story" (Kirkus Reviews) great for fans of Graham Simsion's The Rosie Project or Rosie Walsh's Ghosted. |
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| The Other Americans by Laila LalamiWhat happens: A Moroccan immigrant living in California is killed in a hit and run. Was it an accident? Or was it murder?
Why you might like it: With a notably diverse cast and nine characters who share narrative duties, this complex novel draws an impressive portrait of an American community.
Reviewers say: "an eloquent reminder that frame of reference is everything when defining the 'other'" (Booklist). |
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The guest book
by Sarah Blake
What happens: The bereaved matriarch of a powerful early-20th-century American family makes a fateful decision that reverberates throughout two subsequent generations further impacted by racism, reversed circumstances and disturbing revelations. By the best-selling author of The Postmistress.
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If cats disappeared from the world
by Genki Kawamura
What happens: When the devil extends the end of his life while banishing ubiquitous luxuries from the world in turn, a dying man weighs each forfeiture on poignant, existentially reflective days, in a U.S. release of a best-seller from Japan.
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The silk road : a novel
by Kathryn Davis
What happens: After a yoga participant ironically dies in the corpse pose, his classmates embark on a physical and spiritual pilgrimage through a forever-changing landscape, in a dreamlike narrative from the author of Duplex.
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That Time I Loved You: Stories
by Carrianne Leung
What it is: a compilation of linked short stories by Canadian author Carrianne Leung, who makes her U.S. debut with this book and uses suburban Toronto in 1979 as her setting.
Starring: June, the young daughter of Chinese immigrants, and other members of her community, many of whom are affected by racial and social prejudice.
Reviewers say: "crystalline prose, sharp storytelling, and pitch-perfect narration" (Publishers Weekly).
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Vacuum in the dark : a novel
by Jen Beagin
What happens: A young house cleaner in New Mexico balances a bad, junkie boyfriend with a bad, unstable boyfriend who happens to be married to one of her clients as she embarks on an eccentric journey of self-discovery and redemption.
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The wall : a novel
by John Lanchester
What happens: When the island nation of an Earth-like world builds a concrete barrier around its entire coastline, a Defender charged with protecting his section of the Wall from the desperate Others trapped outside begins questioning the political divides of his insular existence.
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Woman 99 : a novel
by Greer Macallister
What happens: Going undercover to rescue her wrongly committed sister from a notorious asylum, Charlotte uncovers a dangerous secret about the institution and why their fellow inmates were put away. By the author of The Magician's Lie.
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100 Tamberline Street
Brandon, Mississippi 39042
601-825-0100
http://www.cmrls.lib.ms.us
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