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Daughters of the Deer by Danielle DanielWhat's it about: Marie, an Algonquin woman of the Weskarini Deer Clan, lost her first husband and her children to an Iroquois raid. In the aftermath of another lethal attack, her chief begs her to remarry for the sake of the clan. Pierre, the green-eyed ex-soldier is not the man she would choose. But her people are dwindling, wracked by white men's diseases and nearly starving every winter as the game retreats away from the white settlements.
This beautiful, powerful novel brings to life women who have literally fallen through the cracks of settler histories.
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| Don't Know Tough by Eli CranorThe game plan: The Christian head coach of a small-town Arkansas team and his family try to help Billy, the team's star running back, whose abusive home life begins to manifest as dangerous aggression on the field.
Foul play: When the cruel boyfriend of Billy's mother is found murdered, Billy is naturally the main suspect. Did he do it -- or is this already troubled teen being sold short?
For fans of: coming-of-age stories with an edgy mystery twist! |
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Take My Hand
by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
What's it about: In 1973 Montgomery, Alabama, Civil Townsend, a young Black nurse working for the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, grapples with her role when she takes two young girls into her heart and the unthinkable happens, and nothing will ever be the same for any of them.
Especially for historical fiction lovers.
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Unlikely Animals
by Annie Hartnett
Small towns with big characters: Emma Starling once had big plans for her life, but she's lost her way. A medical school dropout, she's come back home to care for her father, who is dying from a mysterious brain disease. Clive Starling has been hallucinating animals, as well as having visions of the ghost of a long-dead naturalist. Emma arrives home knowing she must face her dad's illness, her mom's judgment, and her younger brother's recent stint in rehab, but she's unprepared to find that her former best friend from high school is missing, with no one bothering to look for her.
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| True Biz by Sara NóvicWhat happens: After a failed cochlear implant, highschooler Charlie gains confidence at a residential school for the deaf. Fellow student Austin copes with the birth of a hearing sibling. February, the headmistress, battles bureaucracy and the prospect of a failing marriage.
Critics say: Publishers Weekly praises this own voices novel as an "electrifying narrative" and an "unforgettable homage to resilience."
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The Blood Trials
by N. E. Davenport
It's all about blood: The blood spilled between the Republic of Mareen and the armies of the Blood Emperor long ago. The blood gifts of Mareen's deadliest enemies. The blood of the former Legatus, Verne Amari, murdered. For his granddaughter, Ikenna, the only thing steady in her life was the man who had saved Mareen. The man who had trained her in secret, not just in martial skills, but in harnessing the blood gift that coursed through her. Who trained her to keep that a secret. Ikenna is willing to risk it all because she needs to find out who murdered her grandfather...and then she needs to kill them.
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Portrait of a Thief
by Grace D. Li
Starring: A Chinese American art history major at Harvard, Will Chen is offered a (very illegal) chance to reclaim five priceless treasures China lost centuries ago and assembles a team of fellow students, chosen for their skills and loyalty, to help him on his mission—and make history.
This psychological thriller is sure to capture your attention in between the passages of surprising intrigue with .
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Things We Lost to the Water
by Eric Nguyen
With new beginnings: Leaving Vietnam behind, Huong and her two sons adapt to life in New Orleans in different ways as they search for identity as individuals and as a family until disaster strikes the city, forcing them to find a new way to come together.
For fans of: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, Exit West by Mohsin Hamid, and If you leave me by Crystal Hana Kim.
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The Swimmers
by Julie Otsuka
When a crack appears in the pool, a fellowship of swimmers who take comfort in their laps are cast out, including Alice, who, slowly losing her memory, is reunited too late with her estranged daughter, in this intimate story of mothers and daughters, and the sorrows of implacable loss.
For fans of: Afterlife by Julia Alvarez and a Funny Kind of Paradise by Jo Owens.
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A Light Beyond the Trenches
by Alan Hlad
By April 1916, throughout Germany, essentials are rationed. Hope, too, is in short supply. Anna Zeller, whose fiancé, Bruno, is fighting on the western front, works as a nurse at an overcrowded hospital in Oldenburg. During a visit from Dr. Stalling, the director of the Red Cross Ambulance Dogs Association, she witnesses a rare spark of optimism: as a German shepherd guides a battle-blinded soldier over a garden path, Dr. Stalling is inspired with an idea--to train dogs as companions for sightless veterans.
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The Books of Jacob
by Olga Tokarczuk
In the mid-eighteenth century, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in Poland. Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts a following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires with throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then Catholicism, is pilloried as a heretic and revered as the Messiah, and wreaks havoc on the conventional order, Jewish and Christian alike, with scandalous rumors of his sect's secret rituals and the spread of his increasingly iconoclastic beliefs.
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The Others
by Sarah Blau
What happens: Dina Kaminer--one of Israel's preeminent feminist scholars and Sheila's oldest friend--has been found murdered, the word 'mother' carved into her forehead. For Sheila, that word is a warning. Two decades before, she and Dina had joined a group of women who swore they would never have children. They would follow the example of the Others, women the Torah considered childless, but they saw as willingly child-free. Sheila has upheld her vow year after year, even as her friendship with Dina fell apart. But now, as more women turn up dead, each transformed into a mother against her will, Sheila must decide if she's made the right choice . . . and who might want to make her pay the ultimate price
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