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• The 57 Bus

  Slater, Dashka,

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  "One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Alcoholic

  Ames, Jonathan

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  "Jonathan A. is a boozed-up, coked-out, sexually confused, hopelessly romantic and, of course, entirely fictional novelist who bears only a coincidental resemblance to real-life writer Jonathan Ames, critically acclaimed author of Wake Up, Sir!, The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Anthropocene Reviewed

  Essays on a Human-centered Planet

  Green, John, 1977-

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  "The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, John Green reviews different…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chasing the Boogeyman

  Chizmar, Richard, 1965-

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  "In the summer of 1988, the mutilated bodies of several missing girls begin to turn up in a small Maryland town. The grisly evidence leads police to the terrifying assumption that a serial killer is on the loose in the quiet suburb. But soon a rumor…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Divine Comedy

  Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321

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  "The Divine Comedy is a narrative poem by Dante Alighieri that describes the author's travels through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise (Paradiso). This trio of books, or canticas, is one example of the number three as a theme…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Don Quixote

  Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616,

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  "Don Quixote is the classic story. Called the first modern novel, this marvelous book has stood the test of time to become irrevocably intertwined with the fabric of society. Sixteenth-century Spanish gentleman Don Quixote, fed by his own delusional…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Enigma of Room 622

  Dicker, Joël, 1985-

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  "One night in December, a corpse is found in Room 622 of the Hotel Verbier, a luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps. A police investigation begins without definite end, and public interest wanes with the passage of time. Years later, the writer Joel…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Freshman Year

  Mai, Sarah,

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  "Chronicles the constant angst, hilarity, and self-doubt enmeshed in the experience of going away to college--all through the eyes of an eighteen-year-old burgeoning comics artist."

• The Garner Files

  Garner, James, 1928-2014

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  "The revered actor and quintessential self-made man recalls "trying to decipher" William Wyler with Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine, breaking Doris Day's ribs, having a "heart-to-heart and eyeball-to-eyeball" with Steve McQueen, being "a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

  a Novel

  Yu, Charles, 1976-

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  "Charles Yu, time travel technician, helps save people from themselves in Minor Universe 31, a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction. When he's not taking client calls, Yu visits his mother and searches for his father, who invented time…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Say Babylon

  a Memoir

  Sinclair, Safiya,

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  "Throughout her childhood, Safiya Sinclair's father, a volatile reggae musician and militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari, became obsessed with her purity, in particular, with the threat of what Rastas call Babylon, the immoral and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki

  Paek, Se-hŭi, 1990-

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  "Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her - what to call it? - depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgmental…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Indian Card

  Who Gets to Be Native in America

  Schuettpelz, Carrie Lowry, 1984-

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  "A groundbreaking and deeply personal exploration of Tribal enrollment, and what it means to be Native American in the United States. "Candid, unflinching....Her thorough excavation of the painful history that gave rise to rigid enrollment policies…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Map and the Territory

  Houellebecq, Michel

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  "Traces the experiences of artist Jed Martin, who rises to international success as a portrait photographer before helping to solve a heinous crime that has lasting repercussions for his loved ones."

• Maybe Next Time

  Major, Cesca,

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  "One Day meets Groundhog Day, in this heartwarming and emotionally poignant novel about a stressed woman who must relive the same day over and over, keeping her family and work life from imploding as she attempts to spare her husband from an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My European Family

  the First 54,000 Years

  Bojs, Karin,

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  "Karin Bojs grew up in a small, broken family. At her mother's funeral she felt this more keenly than ever. As a science journalist, she was eager to learn more about herself, her family and the interconnectedness of society using DNA research.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Operation Shylock

  a Confession

  Roth, Philip,

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  "In this fiendishly imaginative, dizzyingly paced bestseller, Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Someone with that name has been touring the State of Israel, promoting a bizarre exodus in reverse, and it is up to Roth to stop…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Passport

  Glock, Sophia,

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  "Young Sophia has lived in so many different countries, she can barely keep count. Stationed now with her family in Central America because of her parents' work, Sophia feels displaced as an American living abroad, when she has hardly spent any of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Princess Bride

  An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

  Goldman, William, 1931-2018

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  "A tale of true love and high adventure, pirates, princesses, giants, miracles, fencing, and a frightening assortment of wild beasts. As Florin and Guilder teeter on the verge of war, the reluctant Princess Buttercup is devastated by the loss of her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sentence

  Erdrich, Louise,

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  "A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after…Read moreRead more of this annotation