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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION  A New York Times "Ten Best Books of 2022 * An Oprah's Book Club Selection * An Instant New York Times Bestseller * An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller *A #1 Washington Post Bestseller "Demon is a voice for the...
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Funny Story by Emily Henry

A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.  Daphne always loved the way her fiancé, Peter, told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an...
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House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen

On the outside they were the golden family with the perfect life. On the inside they built the perfect lie.  A young nanny who plunged to her death, or was she pushed? A nine-year-old girl who collects sharp objects and refuses to speak. A lawyer whose job it is to...
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The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over. 1940. As England...
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The Trees by Percival Everett

When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi, to investigate a series of brutal murders, they find at each crime scene an unexpected second body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till. After meeting resistance...
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Eleanore of Avignon by Elizabeth DeLozier

Provence, 1347. Eleanore (Elea) Blanchet is a young midwife and herbalist with remarkable skills. But as she learned the day her mother died; the most dangerous thing a woman can do is draw attention to herself. She attends patients in her home city of Avignon, spends...
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While You Were Out by Meg Kissinger

From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, as well as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them.  Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of...
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Somewhere Beyond The Sea by TJ Klune

Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the hugely anticipated sequel to TJ Klune’s House in the Cerulean Sea, one of the best-loved and best-selling fantasy novels of the past decade. Featuring gorgeous orange sprayed edges!  A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could...
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The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate…only to discover he lives seven years in the past, in this witty and wise new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dead...
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The House in the Cerulean Sea By TJ Klune

I read this book a couple years ago, as we were coming out of the pandemic. It had been a long couple years for me, when my son purchased this book and told me it was a “must read.” It did not look like my typical read and I was hesitant, but I found this book to be...

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