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• Ariel Crashes a Train

  Cole, Olivia A.,

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  Ariel grapples with her fear of her own mind and violent fantasies, driven by her desire to meet her parents' expectations and societal norms, until a summer job at a carnival leads her to new friends who help her discover her struggle with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Audre & Bash Are Just Friends

  Williams, Tia, 1975-

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  It's the last day of school at Cheshire Prep, Brooklyn's elite academy -- and Audre Mercy-Moore's life is a mess. Her dad cancelled her annual summer visit to his Malibu beach house. Now? She's stuck in a claustrophobic apartment with her mom,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Death by Bubble Tea

  Chow, Jennifer J.,

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  When two cousins open a food stall at a Los Angeles night market, a customer dies after drinking their bubble tea, and they set out to find the killer and clear their names.

• Drop Dead

  Chu, Lily,

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  Obituary writer Nadine Barbault doesn't mind being called "Lady Death." It suits the ice queen persona she's cultivated to survive the fast-paced Toronto Herald. So when Nadine learns that famous (and reclusive) author Dot Voline has died, she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Empire's Ghost

  Steiger, Isabelle, 1989-

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  Isabelle Steiger has crafted a powerful and masterful debut with The Empire's Ghost, the first book in a haunting new epic fantasy series. The empire of Elesthene once spanned a continent, but its rise heralded the death of magic. It tore itself…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Faerie Ring

  Hamilton, Kiki

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  The year is 1871, and Tiki has been making a home for herself and her family of orphans in a deserted hideaway adjoining Charing Cross Station in central London. They survive by picking pockets. One December night, Tiki steals a ring, and sets off a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Half-life

  a Novel

  Raymond, Jonathan

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  Cookie Figowitz is the cook for a party of volatile fur trappers trekking through the Oregon Territory in the 1820s, desperate to find their way to the newly created Hudson Bay Company before their meager supplies run out. As he forages for food one…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Homeless

  Against All Odds

  Brown, Alfonso L.,

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  What does, you need to "get on top of your s** mean?" Some argue that homelessness results primarily from a broken housing policy system. Others believe individual behavioral factors and lifestyle choices mainly cause homelessness. This is important…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Honey Witch

  Shields, Sydney J.,

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  Twenty-one-year-old Marigold Claude has always preferred the company of the spirits of the meadow to any of the suitors who've tried to woe her. So, when her grandmother whisks her away to her cottage on the tiny Isle of Innisfree with an offer to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Sin Eater

  Rivers, Francine, 1947-

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  Set in the 1850s Smoky Mountains, this Gold Medallion-winner tells the gripping tale of a girl who's desperate to remove the guilt of her sister's death and anxious to absolve her departed grandmother of sins. While seeking the elusive Sin Eater,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Life in Parts

  Cranston, Bryan, 1956-

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  Bryan Cranston landed his first role at seven, when his father cast him in a United Way commercial. Acting was clearly the boy's destiny, until one day his father disappeared. Destiny suddenly took a backseat to survival. Now, in his riveting…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Lotus Grows in the Mud

  Hawn, Goldie

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  With her trademark effervescent humor, Goldie tells us about the lessons she's learned and the wisdom she feels she's been given, in the hope of giving something back. Not a Hollywood "tell-all," this book is a very personal look at moments private…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nefertiti

  the Book of the Dead

  Drake, Nick, 1961-

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  She is called "The Perfect One," the most famous and beautiful woman in the ancient world. She rules with her husband Akhenaten over the most powerful, sophisticated and affluent society the world has ever seen and across an empire that stretches…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Night Child

  Quinn, Anna,

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  Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girl's face appears above the students' desks and terror rushes through…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Night Moves

  Hopper, Jessica,

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  Written in taut, mesmerizing, often hilarious scenes, Night Moves captures the fierce friendships and small moments that form us all. Drawing on her personal journals from the aughts, Jessica Hopper chronicles her time as a DJ, living in decrepit…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No Ivy League

  Newlevant, Hazel,

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  When 17-year-old Hazel Newlevant takes a summer job clearing ivy from the forest in her home town of Portland, Oregon, her only expectation is to earn a little money. Homeschooled, affluent, and sheltered, Hazel soon finds her job working side by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Noise of Time

  Barnes, Julian,

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  1936: Shostakovich, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant figure, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his latest opera. Now, certain he will be exiled to Siberia (or, more likely, shot dead…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Play It as It Lays

  Didion, Joan,

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  A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, 'Play It as It Lays' captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Redemptive Path Forward

  From Incarceration to a Life of Activism

  Lucky, Antong,

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  Growing up in poverty-stricken East Dallas, TX, with his father incarcerated and use of crack cocaine and heroin on the rise, Lucky was a strong student but was pulled into the orbit of gang life. In the early 1990s, he formed the Dallas Bloods…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Revenge of Kali-Ra

  Beck, K. K.

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  Nadia Wentworth is a Hollywood star. A big star. And she's so dreadfully bored on location in the South Pacific, she begins reading the first thing her assistant can dig up: a piece of gloriously bad pulp fiction by 1920s author Valerian Ricardo.…Read moreRead more of this annotation