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The Animators
by Kayla Rae Whitaker
Two female animators create a hit film, but their personal lives unravel as they confront their past traumas.
In the male-dominated field of animation, Mel Vaught and Sharon Kisses are a dynamic duo, the friction of their differences driving them: Sharon, quietly ambitious but self-doubting; Mel, brash and ... (Goodreads)
The Portable Dorothy Parker
by Dorothy Parker
A collection of witty, satirical, and candid stories and poems.
This collection ranges over the verse, stories, essays, and journalism of one of the twentieth century's most quotable authors. ... (Goodreads)
Attachments
by Rainbow Rowell
A budding online romance between two co-workers, hindered by an unlikely obstacle.
"Hi, I'm the guy who reads your e-mail, and also, I love you..." Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It's ... (Goodreads)
The Round House
by Louise Erdrich
A teenage boy seeks justice for a crime committed against his mother in a Native American community.
The novel opens with Joe Coutts and his father, Judge Bazil Coutts, pulling out saplings from their house's garden and foundation. They realize Joe's mother and Bazil's wife, Geraldine Coutts, has ... (Wikipedia)
An American Marriage
by Tayari Jones
A newlywed couple's lives are torn apart when the husband is wrongfully convicted of a crime. The novel explores love, loyalty, and injustice.
Roy, a sales representative for a textbook company, and Celestial, an artist specializing in custom made baby dolls, are newlyweds who live in Atlanta. After their first year of marriage they travel ... (Wikipedia)
Charmed Thirds
by Megan McCafferty
The third book in the Jessica Darling series, following her college years and the ups and downs of her relationship with Marcus Flutie.
Jessica Darling's in college! Things are looking up for Jessica Darling. She has finally left her New Jersey hometown/hellhole for Columbia University in New York City; she's more into her boyfriend, ... (Goodreads)
Bastard Out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison
A young girl's coming of age amidst poverty, abuse, and a broken family.
The book opens with Bone relating the details of her birth. Bone's 15-year-old mother Anney gives birth to her after being seriously injured in a car accident. Anney, who is comatose during the ... (Wikipedia)
The Story of a New Name
by Elena Ferrante
Two young women's search for identity and independence in a patriarchal society.
In 2012, Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend introduced readers to the unforgettable Elena and Lila, whose lifelong friendship provides the backbone for the Neapolitan Novels. The Story of a New ... (Goodreads)
American Housewife
by Helen Ellis
A collection of witty and satirical short stories that explore the absurdities of modern-day domesticity and societal expectations of women.
A sharp, funny, delightfully unhinged collection of stories set in the dark world of domesticity,, American Housewife, features murderous ladies who lunch, celebrity treasure hunters, and the best ... (Goodreads)
Falling Angels
by Tracy Chevalier
Family drama spanning three generations of two Victorian families in London.
In her New York Times bestselling follow-up, Tracy Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters. Told through a variety of shifting perspectives- wives ... (Goodreads)
A Simple Favor
by Darcey Bell
A mommy blogger investigates the disappearance of her best friend, uncovering dark secrets and twists.
She’s your best friend. She knows all your secrets. That’s why she’s so dangerous. A single mother's life is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes in this chilling debut thriller in the ... (Goodreads)
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
A multi-generational saga exploring identity, race, and culture in modern-day London.
On New Year's Day 1975, Archie Jones, a 47-year-old Englishman whose disturbed Italian wife has just walked out on him, is attempting to take his own life by gassing himself in his car when a chance ... (Wikipedia)
The Astonishing Color of After
by Emily X.R. Pan
After her mother's suicide, Leigh travels to Taiwan to meet her grandparents and uncovers family secrets through her mother's vividly colored bird visits.
A stunning, heartbreaking debut novel about grief, love, and family, perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson and Celeste Ng. Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by ... (Barnes & Noble)
A Conspiracy of Paper
by David Liss
A historical mystery set in 18th century London, following a Jewish detective as he uncovers a conspiracy involving the stock market and his own family.
Benjamin Weaver, a Jew and an ex-boxer, is an outsider in eighteenth-century London, tracking down debtors and felons for aristocratic clients. The son of a wealthy stock trader, he lives estranged ... (Goodreads)
1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
A surreal journey of two people entangled in a mysterious dual-world conspiracy.
The events of 1Q84 take place in Tokyo during a fictionalized year of 1984, with the first volume set between April and June, the second between July and September, and the third between October and ... (Wikipedia)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
An exploration of love, identity, and the power of fate in a family's struggles and triumphs.
Oscar de León (nicknamed Oscar Wao, a bastardization of Oscar Wilde ) is an overweight Dominican growing up in Paterson, New Jersey. Oscar desperately wants to be successful with women but, from a ... (Wikipedia)
The Unseen World
by Liz Moore
A young woman embarks on a quest to uncover the secrets of her father's past.
Ada Sibelius is raised by David, her brilliant, eccentric, socially inept single father, who directs a computer science lab in 1980s-era Boston. Home-schooled, Ada accompanies David to work every ... (Goodreads)
Ginny Moon
by Benjamin Ludwig
A young autistic girl's quest to be reunited with her birth mother.
Meet Ginny. She’s fourteen, autistic, and has a heart-breaking secret… Ginny Moon is trying to make sense of a world that just doesn’t seem to add up…. After years in foster care, Ginny is in her ... (Goodreads)
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
by Hannah Tinti
A father-daughter journey of healing, as they confront the secrets of the past.
A father protects his daughter from the legacy of his past and the truth about her mother's death in this thrilling new novel from the prize-winning author of, The Good Thief., After years spent ... (Goodreads)
Black-Eyed Susans
by Julia Heaberlin
A woman's quest for justice when she is the sole survivor of a serial killer.
For fans of Laura Lippman and Gillian Flynn comes an electrifying novel of stunning psychological suspense. I am the star of screaming headlines and campfire ghost stories. I am one of the four ... (Goodreads)
The Quiet Game
by Greg Iles
A lawyer returns to his hometown to defend a man accused of murder, uncovering dark secrets and corruption.
The novel is of investigative crime fiction genre, entailing the main character of Penn Cage . Cage travels back to his home town of Natchez, Mississippi with his young daughter after the death of ... (Wikipedia)
My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories
by Stephanie Perkins
A collection of twelve romantic holiday stories that explore the magic of the season and the power of love.
If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you’re going to fall in love ... (Goodreads)
The Comfort of Strangers
by Ian McEwan
A couple's romantic getaway in Venice takes a dark turn when they become entangled with a mysterious and sinister local couple.
Mary and Colin are an English couple on holiday abroad in an unnamed city. Mary is divorced with two children; Colin is her angelically handsome lover who has been with her for seven years. Although ... (Wikipedia)
Ragdoll
by Daniel Cole
A serial killer is on the loose, leaving behind a trail of dismembered bodies. Detective William Fawkes must race against time to catch the killer before he strikes again.
William Fawkes, a controversial detective known as The Wolf, has just been reinstated to his post after he was suspended for assaulting a vindicated suspect. Still under psychological evaluation, ... (Goodreads)
Goodbye, Vitamin
by Rachel Khong
A young woman returns home to help care for her father with Alzheimer's, reflecting on family, love, and memory.
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR;, O, The Oprah Magazine,;, Vogue,;, San Francisco Chronicl,e;, Esquire,;, Huffington Post,;, Nylon,;, Entertainment Weekly,;, BuzzFeed,;, Booklist,; and, The ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Lie Tree
by Frances Hardinge
A Victorian-era girl discovers a tree that feeds on lies and uncovers a web of secrets and murder.
The leaves were cold and slightly clammy. There was no mistaking them. She had seen their likeness painstakingly sketched in her father's journal. This was his greatest secret, his treasure and his ... (Goodreads)
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
by Eimear McBride
A young woman's inner journey through trauma and emotional turmoil.
Eimear McBride's debut tells, with astonishing insight and in brutal detail, the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour. Not so ... (Goodreads)
The Death of Bees
by Lisa O'Donnell
A teenage girl and her young brother struggle to survive after their parents' mysterious disappearance.
After Marnie discovers the dead bodies of her parents, she and her sister decide against reporting the deaths to the police and instead bury their bodies. Reporting the death would mean social ... (Wikipedia)
Imagine Me Gone
by Adam Haslett
A family learns to cope with mental illness and depression as they navigate their lives.
From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most? When Margaret's ... (Goodreads)
All Our Wrong Todays
by Elan Mastai
A man is accidentally sent back in time to an alternate reality, where he must confront his choices and find a way back home.
You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon ... (Goodreads)
