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2023 Tournament of Books March 13-April 6
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Black Cake by Charmaine WilkersonTwo estranged siblings try to reclaim the closeness they once shared while trying to piece together their late mother's life story and fulfill her last request of sharing a traditional Caribbean black cake when the time is right.
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Book Lovers by Emily HenryAgreeing to a holiday escape to the country, literary agent Nora keeps running into a bookish, hardheaded, arrogant editor she knows from Manhattan, and wishes she didn't, even as she discovers they have more in common than previously thought.
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Demon Copperhead by Barbara KingsolverThe son of an Appalachian teenager uses his good looks, wit and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves and crushing losses, in the new novel from the best-selling author of Unsheltered.
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Dr. No by Percival EverettA professor of mathematics who claims to be an expert at nothing partners with an aspiring villain who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal a shoebox containing nothing, with the help of a brainwashed astrophysicist.
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Fairy Tale by Stephen KingA troubled teenager befriends an elderly recluse, who dies and leaves him a taped message explaining that his shed is the portal to another world, in the new novel by the extremely prolific and popular best-selling author of It.
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Gallant by Victoria Schwab Olivia Prior has grown up at the grim Merilance School for Girls with no past except for her one treasure, her mother's journal, so when a letter arrives inviting her to come home to ruinous manor, Gallant, she seizes the chance to find out about her family.
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Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie GarmusIn the early 1960s, chemist and single mother Elizabeth Zott, the reluctant star of Americas most beloved cooking show due to her revolutionary skills in the kitchen, uses this opportunity to dare women to change the status quo.
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The Maid by Nita ProseWhen she discovers the dead body of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black in his suite, hotel maid Molly Gray finds her orderly life upended as she becomes the prime suspect in the case and is caught in a web of deception that she has no idea how to unravel.
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Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin WilsonTwenty years after secretly causing panic in her hometown through the written word and artwork, along with a fellow loner named Zeke, famous author, mom and wife Frances Eleanor Budge gets a call that brings her past rushing back, threatening to upend everything.
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Our Missing Hearts by Celeste NgIn a near-future society, 12-year-old Bird Gardner receives a mysterious letter and sets out on a quest to find his mother, a Chinese-American poet who left when he was 9 years old. His journey leads him to NYC where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change.
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The Paris Apartment by Lucy FoleyArriving in Paris to stay with her brother Ben, Jess learns that he has gone missing, and to find him, starts digging into his life, realizing even though she has come to the City of Lights to escape her past, it's his future hanging in the balance.
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Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van PeltAfter her husband dies, widow Tova Sullivan starts working at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, where she forms a special bond with a giant Pacific octopus who holds the key to solving the mysterious disappearance of her 18-year-old son, Erik, over thirty years ago on the Puget Sound.
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Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John MandelIn order to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, a detective travels hundreds of years in the past and meets a young Englishman exiled to Canada in 1912 and a famous writer who lives on a moon colony but is on a book tour on Earth in 2203.
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle ZevinEmbarking on a legendary collaboration launching them to stardom, two friends, intimates since childhood, have the world at their feet until they discover that their success, brilliance and money won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of the heart.
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Unlikely Animals by Annie HartnettEmma Starling, a natural-born healer who lost her way, and her father, who is dying from a mysterious brain injury, team up to find Emma's former best friend from high school who has gone missing, setting in motion a miracle the town needs. Illustrations. Maps.
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The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D JacksonWhen her classmates discover her biracial identity, Maddy, a white-passing senior, becomes the target of their bullying and discovers she possesses secret powers that pose a risk to all who wronged her.
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