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Celebrity Book Clubs Emma Roberts' Belletrist
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The invisible life of Addie LaRue
by Victoria Schwab
Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early 18th-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name. By the best-selling author of the Villains series.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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When they call you a terrorist : a black lives matter memoir
by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
A lyrical memoir by the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement urges readers to understand the movement's position of love, humanity and justice, challenging perspectives that have negatively labeled the movement's activists while calling for essential political changes. Co-written by the award-winning author of The Prisoner's Wife.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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Creatures
by Crissy Van Meter
A bride explores the complexities of love, abandonment and forgiveness when her California wedding is upended by a trapped whale carcass, the groom’s disappearance at sea and the unexpected return of her long-absent mother.
Available on Overdrive
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We wish you luck : a novel
by Caroline Zancan
A group of students take revenge on a wunderkind professor after she destroys one of their own—a story of collective drive to create, sabotage, and ultimately, to love.
Available on Overdrive
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These ghosts are family : a novel
by Maisy Card
A man on his deathbed reveals that he stole another man’s identity decades earlier, traces the family’s history from colonial Jamaica to present-day Harlem and reconnects with the firstborn daughter he never knew. A first novel.
Available on Overdrive and in print
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Writers & lovers : a novel
by Lily King
A follow-up to the award-winning Euphoria follows the story of a former child golf prodigy-turned-unemployed writer whose determination to live a creative life is complicated by her relationships with two very different men.
Available on Overdrive and in print
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The book of V. : a novel
by Anna Solomon
This propulsive historical novel intertwines the lives of the Bible's Queen Esther, a senator's wife in the 1970s, and a Brooklyn mother in 2016, whose stories trace surprising and moving parallels across centuries.
Available on Overdrive
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The vanishing half
by Brit Bennett
Separated by their embrace of different racial identities, two mixed-race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a black daughter in their southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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The dragons, the giant, the women : a memoir
by Wayétu Moore
The author shares her experiences of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the United States, shining the light on the great political and personal forces that continue to affect many migrants around the world.
Available on Overdrive and in print
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Luster
by Raven Leilani
Sharp, comic, disruptive, tender, Raven Leilani's debut novel, Luster, sees a young black woman fall into art and someone else's open marriage.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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Blue ticket : a novel
by Sophie Mackintosh
A mesmerizing, refracted vision of our society: In a world where women can't have it all, but are selected as either mothers or workers at the beginning of their adult lives, is choice the biggest burden of all?
Available on Overdrive
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The lightness : a novel
by Emily Temple
One year after her father leaves home for a meditation retreat and never returns, Olivia, yearning to make sense of his departure and to escape her overbearing mother, runs away and retraces his path to a place known as the Levitation Center. A first novel.
Available on Overdrive
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