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"Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn't exist. The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she's given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle...
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Jess and Josh are polar opposites - she's Black, he's white; she's liberal, he's conservative; she thinks he's a racist jerk, he finds her extremely immature - whose mutual hatred transforms into mutual attraction and love in this hilarious, thought-provoking debut novel about whether love really can trump all.
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The keeper of stories meets The lost apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets. "The thing about books," she said "is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of." On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found. For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three...
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'Rage the Night' is at once the intimate tale of one man's quest to discover the truth of his birth and a riveting account of a real-life Newfoundland tragedy from 1914, brilliantly and sensitively imagined by one of Canada's most beloved and bestselling authors. Donna Morrissey lives in Halifax, NS.
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"Set in New York and China over three decades, Paper Names explores what it means to be American from three different perspectives. There's Tony, a Chinese-born engineer turned Manhattan doorman, who immigrated to the United States to give his family a better life. His daughter, Tammy, who we meet at age nine and follow through adulthood, and who grapples with the expectations of a first generation American and her own personal desires. Finally, there's...
13) Empty spaces
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Re-imagining James Fenimore Coopers 19th-century text 'The Last of the Mohicans' from the contemporary perspective of an urban Nisgaa person whose relationship to land and traditional knowledge was severed by colonial violence, Jordan Abel's 'Empty Spaces' explores what it means to be Indigenous without access to familial territory and complicates popular understandings about Indigenous storytelling. Abel is a queer Nisgaa writer from Vancouver, BC....
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"When rumors fly that he's not just the master of sweets, due to his underground candy-selling hustle, but hearts, too, Kalvin, the son of two famous therapists, revels in his newfound fame helping heartbroken teens, but his ego, a jealous boyfriend and a vengeful competitor threaten everything"--
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"Stuck in neutral, Graham Patterson finds his decision to get tattooed by a brilliant tattoo artist in North Carolina setting off a series of extraordinary events that changes his life forever in ways he never could have imagined, including the opportunity to choose from three different lives."--
17) August blue
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Elsa M. Anderson is a classical piano virtuoso. In a flea market in Athens, she watches an enigmatic woman buy two mechanical dancing horses. Is it possible that the woman who is so enchanted with the horses is her living double? Is she also looking for reasons to live? Chasing their doubles across Europe, the two women grapple with their conceptions of the world and each other, culminating in a final encounter in a fateful summer rainstorm. A vivid...
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"The candid story of a young man abandoned by his family and religion and left searching for identity in an unfamiliar world. When Michael Dawouk is disowned by his Muslim family for being gay, he turns his back on the religion and culture he grew up with. He is forced out onto the street, only to be taken in by a former high school teacher who offers him room and board in exchange for sex. Michael is soon left with nothing to believe in, until he...
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"Sisters. Soulmates. Strangers. Molly Raven lives a quiet, structured life in London, finding comfort in security and routine. Her identical twin Katie, living in New York, is the exact opposite: outgoing, spontaneous, and adventurous. But when Molly hears that Katie has died, possibly murdered, she is thrown into unfamiliar territory. As terrifying as it is, she knows she must travel across the ocean and find out what happened. But as she tracks...
20) Sparrow
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Sparrow tells the story of Jacob, son of no one, last survivor of an abandoned British Roman town. Raised in a brothel on the Spanish coast in the waning years of the Roman Empire, a boy of no known origin creates his own identity. He is Sparrow, who sings without reason and can fly from trouble. His world is a kitchen, the herb-scented garden, then the loud and dangerous tavern, and finally the mysterious upstairs where the 'wolves' - prostitutes...
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