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  • 931.
    The Cliffs: Reese's Book Club: A novel
    The Cliffs: Reese's Book Club: A novel

    by J. Courtney Sullivan

    Summary: REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New York Times best-selling author of Friends and Strangers

    “A stunning achievement, and J. Courtney Sullivan’s best book yet. Sullivan weaves a narrative that’s fascinating and thought-provoking. I literally could not put this book down.”
    —Ann Napolitano, New York Times best-selling author of Hello Beautiful


    On a secluded bluff overlooking the ocean sits a Victorian house, lavender with gingerbread trim, a home that contains a century’s worth of secrets. By the time Jane Flanagan discovers the house as a teenager, it has long been abandoned. The place is an irresistible mystery to Jane. There are still clothes in the closets, marbles rolling across the floors, and dishes in the cupboards, even though no one has set foot there in decades. The house becomes a hideaway for Jane, a place to escape her volatile mother.

    Twenty years later, now a Harvard archivist, she returns home to Maine following a terrible mistake that threatens both her career and her marriage. Jane is horrified to find the Victorian is now barely recognizable. The new owner, Genevieve, a summer person from Beacon Hill, has gutted it, transforming the house into a glossy white monstrosity straight out of a shelter magazine. Strangely, Genevieve is convinced that the house is haunted—perhaps the product of something troubling Genevieve herself has done. She hires Jane to research the history of the place and the women who lived there. The story Jane uncovers—of lovers lost at sea, romantic longing, shattering loss, artistic awakening, historical artifacts stolen and sold, and the long shadow of colonialism—is even older than Maine itself.

    Enthralling, richly imagined, filled with psychic mediums and charlatans, spirits and past lives, mothers, marriage, and the legacy of alcoholism, this is a deeply moving novel about the land we inhabit, the women who came before us, and the ways in which none of us will ever truly leave this earth.
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  • 932.
    The God of the Woods: A Novel
    The God of the Woods: A Novel

    by Liz Moore

    Summary:

    As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow, Moore's multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore's most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet.

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  • 933.
    By Any Other Name: A Novel
    By Any Other Name: A Novel

    by Jodi Picoult

    Summary:

    From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mad Honey comes an "inspiring" (Elle) novel about two women, centuries apart--one of whom is the real author of Shakespeare's plays--who are both forced to hide behind another name.

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  • 934.
    The Disappeared
    The Disappeared

    by Kim Echlin

    Summary:

    Inspired by the real mothers and grandmothers who spoke out against Argentina's military dictatorship, The Disappeared is an award-winning debut about identity, family secrets, and those who endured decades of hardship to expose the truth.

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  • 935.
    The Only Jew In The Room: Searching For Understanding In An Arab Islamic College
    The Only Jew In The Room: Searching For Understanding In An Arab Islamic College

    by Avi Shalev

    Summary:

    This enlightening memoir provides a nuanced look at the lesser-known side of Arab-Jewish relations in Israel. At its heart is the belief that mutual understanding paves the path forward.

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  • 936.
    Slow Dance: A Reese's Book Club Pick, Perfect for Fans of Lost Love Stories and Second Chance Romance
    Slow Dance: A Reese's Book Club Pick, Perfect for Fans of Lost Love Stories and Second Chance Romance

    by Rainbow Rowell

    Summary:

    A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK

    AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell comes Slow Dance—her smartest, funniest, most powerful novel yet 

    “If you, like me, think thirty-somethings methodically working through their issues is very hot, Slow Dance is the book for you. The people in it feel like people you know or maybe even people you’ve been. Slow Dance is sexy, sweet, wise, and nostalgic—Jane Austen’s Persuasion for our times.”

       — Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

    Shiloh Butler was supposed to get out of north Omaha.

    She used to sit out on the front porch with her best friend, Cary, and plot their escape. Shiloh was going to be an actress – she had a scholarship to a good school – and Cary was laser-focused on the Navy. Sharp, stoic, golden-eyed Cary . . . thin as a stick of gum and poor as dirt. He was probably the most decent person Shiloh has ever known. She hasn’t spoken to him in fourteen years.

    When Shiloh gets an invitation to a high school friend’s wedding, Cary is the first and only thing on her mind.

    She desperately wants to see him again, but she doesn’t know if she can bear being seen by him. What would Cary think of Shiloh at thirty-three? A divorced mom living in the same house she grew up in. Someone who works behind a desk, not onstage.

    Would Cary even want to see Shiloh after all this time? After everything?

    The answer, it turns out, is yes.

    In her triumphant return to adult fiction, Rainbow Rowell has written a love story so honest and human – so cathartic – you’ll feel it in your bones. Slow Dance is a power ballad of a book, brimming with Rowell’s signature compassion and wit. It’s deeply affecting and profoundly romantic.

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  • 937.
    The Last Russian Doll
    The Last Russian Doll

    by Kristen Loesch

    Summary:

    A haunting, epic novel about betrayal, revenge, and redemption that follows three generations of Russian women, from the 1917 revolution to the last days of the Soviet Union, and the enduring love story at the center.

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  • 938.
    One Perfect Couple
    One Perfect Couple

    by Ruth Ware

    Summary:

    Harkening to Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None, this high-tension and ingenious thriller follows five couples trapped on a storm-swept island as a killer stalks among them—from Ruth Ware, the New York Times bestselling author who “is turning out to be as ingenious and indefatigable as the Queen of Crime” (The Washington Post).

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  • 939.
    What Once Was Promised
    What Once Was Promised

    by Louis Trubiano

    Summary:

    What Once Was Promised, is a multi-generational family saga packed with action, intrigue, love, and violence. It is a compelling story that is often inspiring and sometimes heartbreaking. Highly recommended." -Len Joy, award winning author of Dry Heat and Everyone Dies Famous.

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  • 940.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Deluxe Edition): A Novel (Vintage International)
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Deluxe Edition): A Novel (Vintage International)

    by James Baldwin

    Summary:

    A deluxe edition of James Baldwin's haunting coming-of-age story, with a new introduction by Roxane Gay and cover art featuring a stunning portrait by Baldwin’s mentor, Beauford Delaney. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem.

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