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• The Man in the Iron Mask

  Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870

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  "In the Musketeers’ final adventure, D’Artagnan remains in the service of the corrupt King Louis XIV after the Three Musketeers have retired and gone their separate ways. Meanwhile, a mysterious prisoner in an iron mask wastes away deep inside the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hello Beautiful

  a Novel

  Napolitano, Ann,

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  "William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him—so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college, it’s as if the world has lit…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Man Jeeves

  Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975

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  "My Man Jeeves, first published in 1919, introduced the world to affable, indolent Bertie Wooster and his precise, capable valet, Jeeves. Some of the finest examples of humorous writing found in English literature are woven around the relationship…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stay True

  a Memoir

  Hsu, Hua, 1977-

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  "In the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken—with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity—is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Never Whistle at Night

  An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

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  "Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief takes many forms: for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai’po, the spirits of ancient warriors, and Native Mexicans say it calls Lechuza, a witch…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Flashlight

  a Novel

  Choi, Susan, 1969-

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  "One night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the beach. He’s carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later Louisa is found washed up by the tide, barely alive. Her father is gone. She is ten years old. In chapters that shift from one member to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Buckeye

  a Novel

  Ryan, Patrick, 1965-

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  "In Bonhomie, Ohio, a stolen moment of passion, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe, binds Cal Jenkins, a man wounded not in war but by his inability to serve in it, to Margaret Salt, a woman trying to obscure her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Night Watchman

  a Novel

  Erdrich, Louise,

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  "Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eight Perfect Murders

  a Novel

  Swanson, Peter, 1968-

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  "Years ago, bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre’s most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack—which he titled “Eight Perfect Murders”—chosen from among the best of the best including…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Love Hypothesis

  Hazelwood, Ali,

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  "As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships--but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Red Rising

  Brown, Pierce, 1988-

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  "Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he toils willingly,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Golden Son

  Brown, Pierce, 1988-

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  Sequel to Red Rising: "As a Red, Darrow grew up working the mines deep beneath the surface of Mars, enduring backbreaking labor while dreaming of the better future he was building for his descendants. But the Society he faithfully served was built…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Many Lives of Mama Love

  a Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

  Hardin, Lara Love,

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  "No one expects the police to knock on the door of the million-dollar two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac housewife. But soccer mom Lara Love Hardin has been hiding a shady secret: she is funding her heroin addiction by stealing her neighbors’…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Housemaid

  McFadden, Freida,

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  "Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Instructions for Traveling West

  Poems

  Sullivan, Joy,

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  "First, you must realize you’re homesick for all the lives you’re not living. Then, you must commit to the road and the rising loneliness. To the sincere thrill of coming apart. So begins Joy Sullivan’s Instructions for Traveling West—a lush debut…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Infamous

  Spencer, Minerva

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  "A mean girl reformed . . . Once the reigning beauty of her social set, Celia—whom the newspapers dubbed Lady Infamous—has fallen on hard times and is practically destitute, her reputation in shreds. When Celia is forced to attend a society wedding…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore

  Krempholtz, Emily,

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  "Guy Shadowfade is dead, and after a lifetime as the dark sorcerer’s right-hand, Violet Thistlewaite is determined to start over—not as the fearsome Thornwitch, but as someone kind. Someone better. Someone good. The quaint town of Dragon’s Rest,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Women

  Hannah, Kristin,

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  "Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In the Family Way

  a Novel

  Becker, Laney Katz,

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  "Set in the 1960s before Roe, a poignant and powerful book club novel in the vein of Lessons in Chemistry and Big Little Lies, about the friendship between a group of suburban housewives who help one another navigate through their personal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Moon of the Crusted Snow

  a Novel

  Rice, Waubgeshig, 1979-

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  "With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an…Read moreRead more of this annotation