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1) Resurrection
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With an Introduction by Anthony Briggs Translated by Louise Maude This powerful novel, Tolstoy's third major masterpiece, after War and Peace and Anna Karenina, begins with a courtroom drama (the finest in Russian literature) all the more stunning for being based on a real-life event. Dmitri Nekhlyudov, called to jury service, is astonished to see in the dock, charged with murder, a young woman whom he once seduced, propelling her into prostitution....
2) 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...
4) 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.
7) Sisterhood
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In just one night, Lou's world has imploded. Her mother has kept a secret hidden all her life that changes everything. Along with her sister, Toni, who is facing her own crisis, the two women set out on a life-changing journey, one that will take them through Ireland's wildest coastline and to Sicily's sun-baked rocky shores. It will also take Lou deep into her relationships with her mother, her sister, and her daughter to figure out how to stop pleasing...
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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.
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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...
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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...
11) 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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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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A time travel romance, a speculative spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingeniously constructed exploration of the nature of truth and power and the potential for love to change it all: Welcome to The Ministry of Time, the exhilarating debut novel by Kaliane Bradley. In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry...
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PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: THE FURIES, ISBN 9781982177003. In the 21st entry of the 'Charlie Parker' series, Parker senses that the case of a woman accused of the abduction and possible murder of her child has another twist, one involving a husband too eager to accept his wifes guilt, a group of fascists arming for war, a disgraced psychic seeking redemption, and an old, twisted house deep in the Maine woods, a house that should never have been built....
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