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by Ann Patchett

In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family’s orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared…

by Rachel O’Donoghue

Rachel is 20, finishing up her English degree, working in a bookstore, and contemplating what comes next as she launchers into adulthood just as the Irish economy begins to crash. But when James is hired as a temp at th…

by Colson Whitehead

CROOK MANIFESTO is a darkly funny tale of a city under siege, but also a sneakily searching portrait of the meaning of family.  Colson Whitehead’s kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem is sure to stand as one of the all-time…

by GennaRose Nethercott

“The Yaga siblings–Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist–have been estranged since childhood, separated both by resentment and by wide miles of American highway. But whe…

by Maggie O’Farrell

Lucrezia de Medici is vividly bought to life in this stunning new novel from Maggie O’Farrell . Lucrezia is the odd one among her sisters: a keen observer of the world around her, passionate about art and nature, more i…

by Chana Porter

I devoured this book (pun intended). The world Chana Porter has created is a beautifully realized fun house mirror of our own, where our attitudes about sex are reflected in their attitudes about food. In this world, we…

by Katy Hays

When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and…

by Victor Lodato

From the very first pages, young Edgar captures the reader’s heart. He is so fragile and so vulnerable. While his bond with his grandmother is storing and loving, his relationship with his mother, Lucy, is distant and c…

by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

The rare kind of book that completely lives up to its reputation! This smart and hilarious romp though the apocalypse is the perfect balance  of sweet and cynical, and light and dark, much like the angel and demon duo t…

by Akwaeke Emezi

A reimagining of the love story from the author of The Death of Vivek Oji. Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again. It’s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she’s almo…

by Richard Osman

A new mystery is afoot in the third book in the Thursday Murder Club series from million-copy bestselling author Richard Osman.  It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except tr…

by Susan Cain

Bittersweetness is a tendency to states of long­ing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute aware­ness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the world. It recognizes that light and dark, birth and deat…