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• Shutter

  Emerson, Ramona, 1973-

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  Set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation, equal parts gripping crime thriller, supernatural horror, and poignant portrayal of coming of age on the reservation.

• Moonrise Over New Jessup

  a Novel

  Minnicks, Jamila, 1977-

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  It’s 1957, and Alice Young steps off the bus into the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama, where residents have largely rejected integration as the means for Black social advancement. Instead, they seek to maintain the community they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Late Bloomers

  a Novel

  Varadarajan, Deepa,

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  Funny and heartbreaking: An Indian American family is turned upside down when the parents split up thirty-six years into their arranged marriage.

• Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea

  a Novel

  Chang-Eppig, Rita,

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  About a legendary Chinese pirate queen who fights to save her fleet from the forces allied against them. Big adventures abound!

• Sea Change

  Chung, Gina

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  Ro is stuck. She's just entered her thirties, she's estranged from her mother, and her boyfriend has just left her to join a mission to Mars. Her only companion is Dolores, a giant Pacific octopus...

• Hotel 21

  Rich, Senta

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  Noelle starts work at her 21st hotel, determined to beat her record of one month in a five star hotel before suspicion falls on her: she has a habit of taking "souvenirs" from guest's rooms.

• Maame

  George, Jessica, 1994-

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  It’s fair to say that Maddie’s life in London is far from rewarding. She's the primary caretaker for her father, who suffers from advanced stage Parkinson’s. When her mom returns from Ghana she flees her family to "start living."

• A Disappearance in Fiji

  Rao, Nilima,

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  Akal Singh, a 25 year old police officer, has been sent from India to Fiji as punishment for bungling a case. He investigates the disappearance of an indentured woman missing from the local sugar cane plantation. Lots of interesting…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Garnett Girls

  a Novel

  Moore, Georgina,

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  When her husband Richard walks out, Margo locks herself away, leaving her three daughters, Rachel, Imogen, and Sasha, to run wild. Can children ever be free of the mistakes of their parents?

• The Circus Train

  Parikh, Amita,

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  Lena Papadopoulos has never quite found her place within England's World of Wonders traveling circus. She's more interested in the real-world magic of science and medicine, but what can she really do while disabled?

• Amazing Grace Adams

  Littlewood, Fran,

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  Grace Adams has had enough, so, stuck in London's traffic, she hops out of her car and walks away.

• Calling for a Blanket Dance

  a Novel

  Hokeah, Oscar, 1975-

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  Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle as he tries to find strength in his tribal identity.

• The School for Good Mothers

  a Novel

  Chan, Jessamine,

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  The state has its eyes on mothers like Frida — ones who check their phones while their kids are on the playground; who let their children walk home alone. Now, government officials will determine if Frida is a candidate for a Big…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Solito

  a Memoir

  Zamora, Javier,

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  Javier's big adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border - at the age of nine.

• How High We Go in the Dark

  a Novel

  Nagamatsu, Sequoia,

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  This debut follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague.