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• All the Gold Stars

  Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive

  Stauffer, Rainesford,

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  All the Gold Stars looks at how the cultural, personal, and societal expectations around ambition are driving the burnout epidemic by funneling our worth into productivity, limiting our imaginations, and pushing us further apart.

• Ambition Monster

  Romolini, Jennifer,

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  A deeply personal memoir about workaholism, the addictive nature of ambition, and the humbling process of picking yourself up when the world lets you down-an anti-girlboss tale for our times.

• The Block Party

  Day, Jamie,

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  This summer, meet your neighbors. The residents of the exclusive cul-de-sac on Alton Road are entangled in a web of secrets and scandal utterly unknown to the outside world, and even to each other. On the night of the annual Summer block party,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Creation Lake

  Kushner, Rachel,

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  Creation Lake is a novel about a freelance agent, a 34-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics and bold opinions and clean beauty, who is sent to do dirty work in France. "Sadie Smith" is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Death Behind Every Door

  Graham, Heather,

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  When FBI special agent Luke Kendrick discovers chilling evidence of dozens of victims at a crime scene in London, he recognizes the calling card of the notorious H. H. Holmes Society.

• Dishing the Dirt

  Beaton, M. C.,

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  When therapist Jill Davent moved to the village of Carsely, Agatha Raisin was not a fan. Not only was this therapist romancing Agatha's ex-husband but she dug up details of Agatha's not-too-glamorous origins. Jill also counsels a woman, Gwen Simple,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Giant Days. Early Registration

  Allison, John, 1976-

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  Take a trip through the past in these previously little-known Giant Days stories, to learn the origin of Daisy, Esther, and Susan's friendship, and see them embark on orientation, getting-to-know-you-exercises, and collisions with a secret society…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Gospel of Orla

  Walls, Eoghan,

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  A hilarious coming-of-age story, road novel, and meditation on the mysteries of faith and grief, this debut novel heralds an important new voice in world literature.

• Hiking the Wonderland Trail

  the Complete Guide to Mount Rainier's Premier Trail

  Asars, Tami,

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  Fully updated second edition of the comprehensive guide to the hiking trail around Washington's Mount Rainier.

• The Lake of Lost Girls

  Greene, Katherine (Author),

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  It's 1998, and female students are going missing at Southern State University in North Carolina, but freshman Jessica Fadley, once a bright and responsible student, is going through her own struggles. Just as her life seems to be careening…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lawn Boy

  Evison, Jonathan,

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  Mike Muñoz is a young Mexican American not too many years out of high school--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew. Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Master Class

  Dalcher, Christina,

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  From the critically acclaimed author of Vox comes a suspenseful new novel that explores a disturbing alternate reality where the government has legalized eugenics.

• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

  Andrews, Jesse

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  Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Not So Perfect Life

  Kinsella, Sophie,

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  When Katie Brenner is fired from her dream job in advertising in London, she's desperate to get away from her mad boss Demeter, and her crush, Alex, who she thought shared her feelings of adoration but didn't. Seeking refuge, she goes home to her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Night Mother. Volume One,

  Lambert, Jeremy, 1989-

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  The moon is stuck like a broken clock in the midnight sky, the sun a distant memory. No one in this quiet seaside town can remember how long this unnatural darkness has lasted. No one, that is, except for the curious girl who lives in the graveyard,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Punk Rock Karaoke

  Xunise, Bianca,

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  Ariel has dreams of leaving her southside Chicago neighborhood and making it big as a punk rocker with her best friends and bandmates, now that they've graduated from high school, but the realities of young adulthood make that challenging and strain…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River

  Chŏng, Yŏng-mun, 1965-

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  In his inimitable, recursive, meditative style that reads like a comedic zen koan but contains universes, Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River recounts Korean cult writer's Jung Young Moons time spent at an artists and writers residency in small-town…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Spindle and Dagger

  Coats, J. Anderson (Jillian Anderson),

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  As her family lies dead and the farm burns around them, Elen saves herself from a similar fate with her quick wits, which sets her on a new path as the companion-protector to roguish Prince Owain.

• Spoiler Alert: the Hero Dies

  a Memoir of Love, Loss, and Other Four-letter Words

  Ausiello, Michael,

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  Television industry journalist Michael Ausiello tells the story of his final year with his partner of thirteen years, Kit Cowan--diagnosed with a rare and very aggressive form of neuroendocrine cancer--while revisiting the many memories that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Is How We Fly

  Meriano, Anna,

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  Vegan feminist Ellen Lopez-Rourke has one muggy Houston summer left before college. When she is grounded for the entire summer by her (sometimes) evil stepmother, all her plans are thrown out the window.