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• The Big Door Prize

  a Novel

  Walsh, M. O. (Milton O'Neal),

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  "What would you do if you knew your life's potential? That's the question facing the residents of Deerfield, Louisiana, when the DNAMIX machine appears in their local grocery store. It's nothing to look at, really--it resembles a plain photo booth.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Boyfriend Material

  Hall, Alexis J.,

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  "Wanted: One (fake) boyfriend Practically perfect in every way Luc O'Donnell is tangentially-and reluctantly-famous. His rock star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next twenty years cruising in and out of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Broken (in the Best Possible Way)

  Lawson, Jenny, 1973-

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  "As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken, Jenny brings readers along on her mental and physical health journey, offering heartbreaking and hilarious anecdotes along the way."

• Darling Rose Gold

  a Novel

  Wrobel, Stephanie,

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  "For the first eighteen years of her life, Rose Gold Watts believed she was seriously ill. She was allergic to everything, used a wheelchair and practically lived at the hospital. Neighbors did all they could, holding fundraisers and offering…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Death of Vivek Oji

  Emezi, Akwaeke,

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  "One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son’s body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at her feet. What follows is the tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one family’s struggle to understand a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Interior Chinatown

  Yu, Charles, 1976-

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  "Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet every day, he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Luster

  Leilani, Raven,

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  "A young black artist falls into an affair with a man in an open marriage before gradually befriending his wife and adopted daughter against a backdrop of dynamic racial politics."

• Memorial

  Washington, Bryan, 1993-

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  "A Japanese-American chef and a Black daycare teacher begin reevaluating their stale relationship in the wake of a father’s death and the arrival of an acerbic mother-in-law who becomes an unconventional roommate."

• Memorial Drive

  a Daughter's Memoir

  Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966-

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  "At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Minor Feelings

  An Asian American Reckoning

  Hong, Cathy Park,

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  "Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Mirror & the Light

  Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022

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  "A tale inspired by the final years of Thomas Cromwell describes how after the execution of Anne Boleyn and childbed death of Queen Jane, the former blacksmith’s son orchestrates a desperate plot to fortify England and save his own life."

• The Switch

  O'Leary, Beth,

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  "Ready for an adventure in the months after her husband of 60 years departs, a woman from a picture-postcard Yorkshire village offers to swap places with her burned-out adult granddaughter to pursue romance in bustling London."

• A Star Is Bored

  Lane, Byron, 1978-

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  "A debut novel by Carrie Fisher's former personal assistant follows the experiences of an assistant to an award-winning celebrity who becomes a close friend and possibly more as she conducts him through the wonders of Hollywood life."

• Transcendent Kingdom

  Gyasi, Yaa,

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  "A follow-up to the best-selling Homegoing finds a sixth-year PhD candidate grappling with the childhood faith of the evangelical church in which she was raised while researching the science behind the suffering that has devastated her Ghanaian…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Vesper Flights

  New and Collected Essays

  Macdonald, Helen, 1970-

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  "The award-winning author of H Is for Hawk presents a collection of top-selected essays about humanity's relationship with nature, exploring subjects ranging from captivity and immigration to ostrich farming and the migrations of songbirds from the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wow, No Thank You

  Essays

  Irby, Samantha,

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  "A new collection of humorous and edgy essays from the author of Meaty and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life that highlight the ups and downs of aging, marriage and living with step-children in small-town Michigan."