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Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
by Sue Halpern
A trio of oddballs finds a home of sorts in the Carnegie library of a declining industrial town in New Hampshire. Authentic characters, unexpected and evolving relationships, and multiple narrators keep the story moving forward..
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The balcony
by Jane Delury
A century-spanning portrait—from the Belle Époque to the present day—of the inhabitants of a French village reveals the deception, despair, love and longing beneath the calm surface of their ordinary lives.
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| Speak No Evil by Uzodinma IwealaStar athlete Niru is bound for the Ivy League...until his loving but traditional Nigerian parents discover that he's gay. The repercussions are violent and far-reaching.Cross-generational misunderstandings, as well as cross-cultural complications, are sensitively portrayed.
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Anatomy of a miracle
by Jonathan Miles
Confined to a wheelchair after a paralyzing injury, an Afghanistan War veteran endures a hardscrabble existence in his sister's ramshackle Mississippi home before spontaneously regaining his ability to walk, an apparent miracle that subjects him to scientific and religious debates and exposes his most private secrets.
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Circe
by Madeline Miller
A highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning The Song of Achilles follows the banished witch daughter of Titans as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals.
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Alternate side : a novel
by Anna Quindlen
Living in a quiet Manhattan brownstone that has become its own little community, Nora discovers her true self in the wake of a violent attack that exposes the racial, economic, martial and interpersonal tensions beneath her neighbors' façade of harmony.
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Girls Burn Brighter
by Shobha Rao
Motherless Poornima and penniless Savitha, whose deep friendship sustains them in their rural Indian town. Separated by acts of cruelty and abuse, the two young women must navigate the world alone, each searching for the other.
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The female persuasion
by Meg Wolitzer
A shy college freshman finds her perspectives transformed by a mentor activist at the center of the women's movement who challenges her to discover herself in ways that take her far from the traditional life she envisioned at the side of her boyfriend.
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The Arctic & the Antarctic
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White plague
by James Abel
When a technically advanced sub carrying a lethal plague goes adrift in the Arctic, bio-terror expert Joe Rush must rescue the survivors and prevent the plague from falling into enemy hands.
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Arctic drift
by Clive Cussler
When a series of unexplained deaths and international hostilities occurs in the wake of a breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming, NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children investigate a mysterious silvery mineral with links to a fabled northwest passage expedition.
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| Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria SempleEighth-grader Bee Branch has been promised a trip to Antarctica by her parents, tech guru Elgin Branch and architect Bernadette Fox. Until Bernadette -- whose creative genius is outstripped only by her social anxiety and agoraphobia -- disappears.
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Frozen solid : a novel
by James M. Tabor
When a zealous group of scientists launches a plot to release a pandemic virus to end overpopulation, Hallie Leland races against time during a brutal week at the South Pole to save the world from mass annihilation. By the best-selling author of The Deep Zone.
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| Sun at Midnight by Rosie ThomasA story of self-discovery in a beautiful but unforgiving environment. Geologist Alice Peel, who seeks change after ending a relationship and accepted an invitation to join a group working at the end of the earth: Antarctica. James Rooker has taken a job working on the same small Antarctic research station.And it is in Antartica that Alice discovers something else that will change her life forever, if she survives it.
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