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Fiction A to Z September 2019
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The Beekeeper of Aleppo
by Christy Lefteri
A beekeeper and his artist wife have their lives upended and must flee after war destroys their home in Aleppo, Syria and they set off on a dangerous journey through Turkey and Greece, towards an uncertain future in England.
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A Philosophy of Ruin
by Nicholas Mancusi
A young philosophy professor finds himself in the middle of a drug-running operation after his personal life derails in this taut, white-knuckle debut for fans of Breaking Bad.
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The Dearly Beloved
by Cara Wall
In a novel that spans decades, two young couples’ lives become intertwined when the husbands are appointed co-ministers of a venerable New York City church in the 1960s.
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A Door in the Earth
by Amy Waldman
An Afghan-American college student in California travels to a remote village in Afghanistan to work for a professor’s charitable foundation and, after surviving a horrific bombing, must side with either the villagers or the American soldiers.
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
by Olga Tokarczuk
When her neighbor turns up dead, and then other bodies turn up under strange circumstances, Janine, a recluse in a remote Polish village who prefers the company of animals over humans, inserts herself into the investigation, certain she knows whodunit.
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Famous People
by Justin Kuritzkes
A young pop star traces the story of his unlikely rise to fame and his struggles with his father's suicide, sharing philosophical, darkly whimsical observations about the clash between celebrity and the human condition.
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Gods with a Little G
by Tupelo Hassman
A group of teen outcasts in an isolated town run by evangelicals band together when the woman who watches over them, Aunt Bev, becomes victim to both threats and violence because of her local business, the Psychic Encounter Shoppe. From the acclaimed author of Girlchild
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Polite Society
by Mahesh Rao
In a modern reimagining of Jane Austen’s Emma,Delhi’s polite society is often anything but polite. Pairing razor-sharp observation and social comedy with moments of true tenderness, this delicious whirl through the mansions of India's dazzling elite celebrates that there's no one route to perfect happiness.
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Everything Inside : Stories
by Edwidge Danticat
A single-volume collection of short stories by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Brother, I’m Dying is set in such locales as Miami, Port-au-Prince and the Caribbean and poignantly explores the forces that unite and divide.
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Going Dutch
by James Gregor
Enmeshed with a straight woman, Anne, and increasingly romantically involved with successful lawyer Blake, 20-something gay graduate student Richard soon finds himself on a romantic and existential collision course—one that brings about surprising revelations.
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