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Fiction A to Z August 2021 |
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| The Startup Wife by Tahmima AnamStarring: brilliant coder Asha; her first love Cyrus (newly returned after a multi-year disappearance); his best friend Jules. Together, they're poised to disrupt social media by providing a way for people to connect based on what gives their lives meaning.
What happens: Though their startup uses Asha's programming, it's based on Cyrus' values and practices, and what once brought them together may be what tears them apart.
Read it for: a romance, a satire of start-up culture, and an insightful look at gender and racial politics in the tech world. |
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| Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily AustinWhat it is: the dark but humorous tale of an anxious young woman who falls into a receptionist job at a Catholic church and becomes obsessed with her predecessor’s mysterious death.
What's the problem? Gilda is not Catholic (she's an atheist) and doesn't conform to Catholic ideals (she's gay). She also ends up impersonating her predecessor (Grace) and stalking the priest as she investigates Grace's death -- which make her a person of interest to the police.
Reviewers say: "What starts out as a genuinely bleak affair, with a depressed Gilda considering suicide, becomes a brisk story underpinned by a vibrant cast" (Publishers Weekly). |
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The four winds
by Kristin Hannah
A Depression-era woman confronts a wrenching choice between fighting for the Dust Bowl-ravaged land she loves in Texas or pursuing an uncertain future in California. By the best-selling author of The Nightingale. 1.5 million first printing. Illustrations.
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Great circle
by Maggie Shipstead
A century after daredevil female aviator Marian Graves’s disappearance in Antarctica, actress Hadley Baxter is cast to play her and immerses herself in the role as their fates — and their dreams — become intertwined.
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Girl, 11
by Amy Suiter Clarke
A true-crime podcaster tackles an unsolved serial-killer case from her years as a social worker only to trigger a series of events involving eerily similar murders. A first novel. 30,000 first printing.
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The lost apothecary
by Sarah Penner
Secretly dispensing poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them, a London apothecary triggers unintended consequences that shape three lives across multiple centuries. A first novel. 200,000 first printing.
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2034 : a novel of the next world war
by Elliot Ackerman
Two former military officers and award-winning authors present a near-future geopolitical thriller that depicts a naval clash between America and Asia in the South China Sea of 2034. Co-written by the National Book Award-nominated author of Waiting for Eden.
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The betrayals : a novel
by Bridget Collins
Exiled back to Montverre, an ancient and elite academy hidden in the mountains where his fate hangs in the balance, Leo Martin, in the rarified world of learning he once loved, feels a strange connection to the new Magistar as the legendary Midsummer Game approaches. 50,000 first printing.
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