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• The River Is Waiting

  a Novel

  Lamb, Wally,

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  Sentenced to prison, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside, where he bears witness to frightful acts of brutality but also experiences small acts of kindness and elemental kinship with a prison librarian who sees his light and some of his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Broken Country

  a Novel

  Hall, Clare Leslie,

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  Beth is in mourning due to the death of her son when her first love moves back to town and a chain of events takes place that alters their lives. Unfolding with the urgency of a thriller, this novel deftly explores topics such as first love,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Heart the Lover

  a Novel

  King, Lily,

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  Decades after a tangled college love triangle shaped her life, a woman is forced to confront her old choices and hidden truths in this intimate novel of friendship and desire.

• Strange Sally Diamond

  Nugent, Liz

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  Reclusive Sally Diamond is thrust into the media spotlight when she tries to incinerate her dead father, causing widespread outrage. As she begins to discover the repressed memories of her horrific early childhood, Sally steps into the world for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Berry Pickers

  a Novel

  Peters, Amanda,

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  A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a community, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years

• The Correspondent

  a Novel

  Evans, Virginia, 1986-

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  At 73, retired lawyer and devoted letter writer Sybil Van Antwerp navigates her daily life and reflects on her past, but when unexpected letters open old wounds, she must confront a painful chapter that reshapes her understanding of herself and her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Silent Patient

  Michaelides, Alex, 1977-

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  Alicia Berenson is a famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, living in a posh area of London. One evening, her husband Gabriel returns home late. Alicia shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word.

• Listen for the Lie

  Tintera, Amy,

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  What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if the truth doesn't matter?

• I'll Be Gone in the Dark

  One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

  McNamara, Michelle,

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  I'll Be Gone in the Dark offers an atmospheric snapshot of a moment in history and a chilling account of a criminal mastermind and the wreckage he left behind.

• The Nightingale

  Hannah, Kristin,

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  The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France.

• Every Summer After

  a Novel

  Fortune, Carley,

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  Five summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right. A magazine writer has to make a choice when she returns to the lake she grew up on, and to the man she thought she'd never have to live without.

• Mad Honey

  a Novel

  Picoult, Jodi, 1966-

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  First love between golden boy Asher and intriguing new girl Lily ends with one teen dead and the other under suspicion of murder.

• The Drowning Woman

  a Novel

  Harding, Robyn,

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  Living in her car after her restaurant fails, Lee Gulliver meets Hazel, a woman trying to end her life to escape an abusive marriage. While forming an unlikely friendship, she agrees to help Hazel disappear, but soon learns she may not be the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

  a Novel

  Johnston, Anna, 1983-

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  Eighty-two-year-old Frederick Fife, kind at heart, is desperately lonely, broke and on the brink of homelessness until a case of mistaken identity lands him in a nursing home where he learns about the man's past and how he can return a life in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crying in H Mart

  a Memoir

  Zauner, Michelle,

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  Michelle Zauner's gripping and beautiful account of how she lost her mother to cancer, and reconnected with her Korean heritage as a way of coping with her profound grief.

• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

  Reid, Taylor Jenkins,

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  When an aging and reclusive Hollywood icon selects an unknown magazine reporter to write her life story, the baffled journalist forges deep ties with the actress during a complicated interview process that exposes their tragic common history.