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Fiction A to Z January 2021
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Mind the gap, Dash & Lily
by Rachel Cohn
"After Dash gets accepted to Oxford University and Lily stays in New York to take care of her dogwalking business, the devoted couple are struggling to make a long distance relationship work. And when Dash breaks the news that he won't be coming home forChristmas, Lily makes a decision: if Dash can't come to her, she'll join him in London. Soon Dash and Lily are feeling more of a gap between them, even though they're in the same city"
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The sowing season : a novel
by Katie Powner
"Forced to sell his family farm after sacrificing everything, sixty-three-year-old Gerrit Laninga no longer knows what to do with himself. Fifteen-year-old Rae Walters has growing doubts about The Plan her parents set to help her follow in her father's footsteps. When their paths cross just as they need a friend the most, Gerrit's and Rae's lives change in unexpected ways"
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| Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi; translated by Geoffrey TrousselotIs time travel possible? It is in a tiny Tokyo café, where one particular chair allows its occupants to visit past experiences (though several rules apply).
Is it for you? The physics of time travel is not addressed here; instead, four characters simply get a second chance to revisit lost loved ones.
Book buzz: This English-language debut by Japanese playwright Toshikazu Kawaguchi was a bestseller in Japan. |
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The Embalmer by Alison BelshamRevenge is a dish best served cold... When the body of a woman is found hidden within an Egyptian mummy at the Museum of Natural History, Detective Francis Mullins is called in to investigate. It looks like murder - and when a second body is found propped up in the local football stadium a week later, it confirms the police's worst suspicions - they have a serial killer on their hands, a cold-blooded man who wants revenge on people from his past. Someone is on the warpath, and the streets of Brighton are no longer safe. Caught in a race against time, Francis must fight to uncover the truth about the murders, before it's too late.
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| The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi DaréStarring: Adunni, a 14-year-old rural Nigerian girl who longs for an education in a place where girls are meant to marry young and serve their husbands.
What happens: When Adunni flees her marriage and escapes to Lagos, she finds more degradation and abuse, but is just as determined to find her way.
For fans of: compelling, hopeful stories about fearless young women, like Shobha Rao's Girls Burn Brighter. |
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This tender land : a novel
by William Kent Krueger
Fleeing the Depression-era school for Native American children who have been taken from their parents, four orphans share a life-changing journey marked by struggling farmers, faith healers, and lost souls.
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Ashes of the sun
by Django Wexler
Torn apart in a magical war, Gyre comes face-to-face with his long-lost sister, Maya, who has become a magic-wielding warrior in the twelve intervening years in the first novel of a new series.
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Temptation on Ocean Drive by Jennifer ProbstYoung widow Bella Sunshine-Caldwell is focused only on raising her daughter and running the family business, Sunshine Bridal. There's no time for romance--especially with her fellow wedding planner, Gabe, whom she's growing increasingly attracted to. He's too enterprising to stay in Cape May for long, anyway. And too tall, dark, and handsome to be anything but a heartbreaker. Every woman in town has her sights on Gabe Garcia. The only woman he has eyes for doesn't seem interested. All he wants is to fall in love, be a father, and settle down. As he and Bella work together on a magical winter wedding, the distance between them closes, the nights grow warmer, and Bella might be seeing Gabe for who he really is: a man worth the effort. But all it takes is a single rumor for these two hearts' fragile love story to shatter. And now the happy ending Bella and Gabe hoped for is something they're going to have to fight for.
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Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa As Nahr sits, locked away in solitary confinement, she spends her days reflecting on the dramatic events that landed her in prison in a country she barely knows. Born in Kuwait in the 70s to Palestinian refugees, she dreamed of falling in love with the perfect man, raising children, and possibly opening her own beauty salon. Instead, the man she thinks she loves jilts her after a brief marriage, her family teeters on the brink of poverty, she's forced to prostitute herself, and the US invasion of Iraq makes her a refugee, as her parents had been. After trekking through another temporary home in Jordan, she lands in Palestine, where she finally makes a home, falls in love, and her destiny unfolds under Israeli occupation.
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| Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong WashburnThen: As a child, Nainoa fell overboard and was retrieved and returned by a pack of sharks, entering local Hawaiian lore.
Now: Nainoa is a paramedic in Oregon, his sister and brother similarly scattered. After he fails to save a young mother and her child, Nainoa returns to Hawaii and disappears.
Why you might like it: Covering 14 years and narrated in alternating sections by four of the five members of Nainoa's Filipino Hawaiian family, this lush debut tinged with magical realism explores the difficulties of modern Hawaiian life. |
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