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1) The wonders
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"Through the rich inner lives of two ordinary, unforgettable women, award-winning Spanish poet Elena Medel brings a half-century of the feminist movement to life, revealing the simmering truth that money is ultimately the limiting factor in most women's lives"--
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"When the pandemic hits, Kristofer is forced to shutter his successful restaurant in Reykjavik, sending him into a spiral of uncertainty, even as his memory seems to be failing. But an uncanny bolt from the blue-a message from Miko Nakamura, a woman whom he'd known in the sixties when they were students in London-both inspires and rattles him, as he is drawn inexorably back into a love story that has marked him for life. Even as the pandemic upends...
3) Lucky turtle
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"When privileged white sixteen-year-old Cindra is sent to a reform camp in Montana, she becomes transfixed by Lucky, a mysterious camp employee. As the connection between them grows, Lucky and Cindra become lovers and escape into the Rocky Mountains to create an idyllic life, living off Lucky's vast knowledge of the wilderness."--
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"In a near-future northern settlement, the fate of a young woman intertwines with those of a college professor and a collective of women soldiers in this mesmerizing and transportive novel in the vein of Station Eleven and The Power. In the far north of Canada, a team led by a visionary American architect is building a project called Camp Zero. With its fresh, clean air and cold climate, it's intended to be the beginning of a new community and a new...
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Guncle volume 2
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PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: THE GUNCLE, ISBN 9780525542285. In this highly anticipated second entry of the 'Guncle' series, Patrick OHara is called back to his guncle duties - this time for a big family wedding in Italy. 'The Guncle Abroad' is all about the complicated bonds of family, love, and what it takes to rediscover yourself, even at the ripe age of 50.
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One weekend. The elite underbelly of a Nigerian city. A breakup that starts a spiral. A party that goes awry. A tangled web of sex and lies and corruption that leaves no one unscathed. 'Little Rot' is a whirling journey through the citys dark side, told through the eyes of five people, each determined to run from the twisted powers out to destroy them. A Dewey Diva Pick. #diversity.
7) Thorn Tree
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Weaving the idealism and the darkness of the late 1960s with the glossy surfaces of modern Los Angeles celebrity, and thrumming with the sound of the Grateful Dead, the mania of Charles Manson and other cults, and secrets harbored for 50 years, 'Thorn Tree' is a beautifully wrought novel on the relationship between trauma and the creative impulse. Perfect for readers of Emma Cline and Jennifer Egan.
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A Nordic Gothic laced with the horrors of life in a patriarchy both hostile to and reliant on its women, 'The Blue Maiden' is a debut novel of two sisters growing up on an isolated Northern European island in the shadow of their late mother and the Devil. From the author of the short story collection 'Goodnight, Beautiful Women', which was a finalist for the Story Prize and the New England Book Award, a NYT Editors' Choice, Indie Next Pick, Barnes...
9) Monster
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From the bestselling author of Drunk Mom and Possessed comes MONSTER, a mesmerizing, brave new work of autofiction. MONSTER is a shattering, feminist manifesto exploring sexual awakening, motherhood, immigrant trauma and the power of female rage. Yoveeta is angry. But her rage is quiet, internal, festering inside and forming a mysterious creation that she refers to as "Monster", something that began as longing when she lost her first...
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In this electrifying novel, Richard Price, the author of Clockers and a writer on The Wire, shines a light in every corner of New York City. East Harlem, 2008. In an instant, a five-story tenement collapses into a fuming hill of rubble, pancaking the cars parked in front and coating the street with a thick layer of ash. As the city's rescue services and media outlets respond, the surrounding neighborhood descends into chaos. At day's end, six bodies...
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'All Things Too Small' is Becca Rothfeld's glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in culture in favour of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from topics such as skewing the cult of Sally Rooney to taking down Marie Kondo and a celebration of sadomasochism.
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'Table for Two' is a richly detailed and sharply drawn collection of stories set in New York and Los Angeles. Throughout the stories, two characters often find themselves sitting across a table for two where the direction of their futures may hinge upon what they say to each other next. From the author of 'The Lincoln Highway'.
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Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own familys history, Claire Messud's 'This Strange Eventful History' spans over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, and follows the Cassars family who live in an itinerant state - separated in the chaos of WWII, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all. Messud grew up in the US, Australia, and Canada.
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Sofia Bottom lives in a small country that Europe has forgotten. But inside its borders, the old myths of trees that come alive and faeries who live among their roots have given way to an explosion of the arts and the consolations of philosophy. No one, from the clarinetists to the cabaret singers, is as revered in the arts as Sofias brilliant mother, the writer Clara Bottom. How can 14 year old Sofia, with a tin ear and an enduring love of the old...
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