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Once There Was
by Kiyash Monsef
“Once was, once wasn’t,” is the way all Iranian fairy tales begin. How can something be and not be at the same time? In this magical young adult novel, 15 year old Marjan inherits her father’s veterinary clinic after hi…
A Fever in the Heartland
by Timothy Egan
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan’s rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped the…
Woman, Eating: A Literary Vampire Novel
by Claire Kohda
Lydia is hungry. She’s always wanted to try Japanese food. Sashimi, ramen, onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside – the food her Japanese father liked to eat. And then there is bubble tea and iced-coffee, ice cream and c…
Romantic Comedy
by Curtis Sittenfeld
A comedy writer thinks she’s sworn off love, until a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions in the new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Eligible, Rodham, and Prep.
With her keen ob…
The Dawn of Everything
by David Graeber & David Wengrow
This is the big book everyone is talking about. It presents a dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution – from the development of agriculture an…
Hang the Moon
by Jeannette Walls
This novel takes place in western Virginia during Prohibition. The rich and powerful Kincaid family, under the patriarchy of Duke Kincaid, control the region. Amidst all the painful family relations, young Sallie Kincai…
Sea of Tranquility
by Emily St. John Mandel
1912, Vancouver Island; 2020, New York City; 2203, a globe-spanning book tour; 2401, Moon Colonies 1 & 2. Seemingly disparate characters are linked across time and space though a singular experience, and when Gasper…
Young Mungo
by Douglas Stuart
A brilliantly constructed and deeply moving story of queer love and working-class families by the Booker Prize–winning author of Shuggie Bain. Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under di…
City Under One Roof
by Iris Yamashita
When a local teenager discovers a severed hand and foot washed up on the shore of the small town of Point Mettier, Alaska, Cara Kennedy is on the case. A detective from Anchorage, she has her own motives for investigati…
The Light Pirate
by Lily Brooks-Dalton
Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state’s infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern coast. Kirby Lowe, an e…
The Candy House
by Jennifer Egan
Tech genius Bix Bouton is searching for the next big innovation when he stumbles upon a group of Colombia professors who give him the very things he is looking for. Their conversations provide the inspiration for “Own Y…
Poverty, by America
by Matthew Desmond
In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. Those of us who are financi…