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• Smothermoss

  Alering, Alisa,

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  Set in 1980s Appalachia, this story follows two sisters as they become embroield in a deadly mystery amidst the backdrop of an ominous mountain.

• Atlas of the Heart

  Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

  Brown, Brené

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  Acclaimed author and researcher Brown brings readers on a journey exploring 87 emotions & experiences that define what it means to be human.

• Sky Full of Elephants

  Campbell, Cebo,

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  After an event that sees all of the white people in America disappearing, a former convict turned professor meets his daughter for the first time as they embark on a journey into a new America.

• Guillotine

  Dawson, Delilah S.,

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  An aspiring fashionista tries to get her name in front of a legendary fashion editor via her obnoxious son, but when he invites her to their ancestral home for an Easter reunion, things take a dark turn.

• Death in Mud Lick

  a Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic

  Eyre, Eric, 1965-

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  "An urgent and heartbreaking investigation into the corporate greed and governmental corruption that pumped millions of pain pills into small Appalachian towns." For fans of Dopesick or Empire of Pain.

• Granny Cloud

  Fathi, Farnoosh, 1981-

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  The second poetry collection from poet Fathi offers formal innovation and linguistic play that poetry enthusiasts will devour.

• When the Sea Came Alive

  An Oral History of D-day

  Graff, Garrett M., 1981-

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  Graff uses his Pulitzer Prize finalist writing to tell the story of World War II's D-Day, one of the most unbelievable military and human triumphs in history.

• Stay True

  a Memoir

  Hsu, Hua, 1977-

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  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or Autobiography, New Yorker staff writer Hsu's Stay True is powerful coming of age memoir about friendship, growing up and finding a place for yourself in the world.

• What the River Knows

  Ibañez, Isabel (Novelist)

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  19 year old Inez sets off for Egypt to uncover the mystery surrounding her parents death and finds herself ensnared in a life-threatening game in this 1890s YA historical fiction.

• Dead Eleven

  Juliano, Jimmy,

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  A creepy island is the star of this horror thriller, where people are stuck on the same day in 1994. When a stranger comes to investigate the death of her son but then she herself disappears, the island's secrets are threatened to be exposed.

• Lies and Weddings

  Kwan, Kevin,

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  Fans of Kwan will be excited to return to his world of excess, this times featuring an impoverished earl who must decide between marrying for money and restoring his family's wealth or following his heart and marrying for love.

• The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern

  Loigman, Lynda Cohen,

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  An octogenarian is reunited with an old flame and must come to terms with the mistakes of her past in this romantic historical fiction.

• The Booklover's Library

  Martin, Madeline,

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  A bookstore provides solace to a mother separated from her daughter in wartime England. As she seeks to reunite with her daughter, she leans on her community and literature to get through the dark times of war.

• Adam & Evie's Matchmaking Tour

  Nguyen, Nora,

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  This grumpy sunshine romance follows two strangers who find themselves falling in love, in spite of themselves, on a matchmaking tour throughout Viet Nam.

• Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions

  a Novel in Interlocking Stories

  Ogunyemi, Omolola,

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  from Goodreads: "Nigerian author Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi makes her American debut with this dazzling novel which explores her homeland's past, present, and possible future through the interconnected stories of four fearless globe-trotting women."

• The Year of What If

  Patrick, Phaedra,

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  After a forturne teller tells her that her groom to be isn't the love of her life, a woman trying to dispel a family curse travels across Europe and reconnects with past loves in an attempt to determine which one was the one that got away.

• Hip-hop Is History

  Questlove,

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  Renowned musician Questlove gives readers a comprehensive history of the hip-hop genre from the past five decades.

• There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven

  Stories

  Reyes, Ruben, Jr.,

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  In this short story collection, author Reyes creates dreamlike worlds to examine what we would do if we were to wake up one morning and realize our lives were unrecognizable.

• How to Say Babylon

  Sinclair, Safiya

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  This powerful memoir details the author's journey to escape her restrictive Rastafarian upbringing, ruled by her father's patriarchal oppression, in an effort to find her voice as a women and poet. For fans of Educated by Tara Westover or Born a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Banyan Moon

  Thai, Thao,

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  Spanning decades and continents, from 1960s Vietnam to the untamed swamps of the Florida coast, Banyan Moon is a breathtaking and poignant tale of mothers and daughters, the legacies we inherit, and the lives shaped from these inheritances.