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• The Berry Pickers

  Peters, Amanda

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  2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; 2024 Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence (First Novel). A four-year-old girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that remains unsolved…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Girl, Woman, Other

  Evaristo, Bernardine

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  2019 Man Booker Prize. From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Pronounce Knife

  Stories

  Thammavongsa, Souvankham, 1978-

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  2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize; 2021 Trillium Book Award (English Prose). This revelatory book of fiction from O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa establishes her as an essential new voice in Canadian and world literature. Told…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Moon of the Crusted Snow

  Rice, Waubgeshig, 1979-

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  2019 Evergreen Award. This is a gripping, post-apocalyptic novel set in an isolated Anishinaabe community in northern Canada, where the sudden collapse of modern society forces residents to confront their survival.

• Shuggie Bain

  a Novel

  Stuart, Douglas, 1976-

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  2020 Man Booker Prize; 2021 British Book Awards (Book of the Year; Debut Book of the Year). A stunning debut novel by a masterful writer telling the heartwrenching story of a young boy and his alcoholic mother, whose love is only matched…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Linghun

  Jiang, Ai

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  2023 Bram Stoker Award (Superior Achievement in Long Fiction); 2024 Nebula Award (Best Novella). Told from alternating perspectives, Linghun is a contemplative horror based in a housing community called HOME (Homecoming Of Missing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Last Call

  a True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

  Green, Elon

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  2022 Edgar Award (Best Fact Crime). The gripping true story, told here for the first time, of the Last Call Killer and the gay community of New York City that he preyed upon.

• Ducks

  Two Years in the Oil Sands

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  2023 Evergreen Award; 2023 Eisner Award (Best Graphic Memoir; Best Writer/Artist); 2023 Harvey Award (Book of the Year); 2023 Canada Reads Winner. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is an untold story of Canada: a country that prides…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Is How You Lose the Time War

  El-Mohtar, Amal

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  2020 Edgar Award (Best Novella); 2020 Nebula Award (Best Novella); 2019 British Science Fiction Association Award (Best Shorter Fiction); 2020 Locus Award for Best Novella. From award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone comes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Nickel Boys

  a Novel

  Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

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  2020 Pulitzer Prize (Fiction); 2019 Kirkus Prize for Fiction; 2020 Alex Award; 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. This follow-up to The Underground Railroad brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Less People Know About Us

  a Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity

  Betz-Hamilton, Axton

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  2020 Edgar Award (Best Fact Crime). In this powerful true crime memoir, an award-winning identity theft expert tells the shocking story of the duplicity and betrayal that inspired her career and nearly destroyed her family.

• Say Nothing

  a True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

  Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976-

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  2019 National Book Critics' Circle Award (Non Fiction). From the author of Empire of Pain—a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions.

• Demon Copperhead

  a Novel

  Kingsolver, Barbara

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  2023 Pulitzer Prize (Fiction); 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction; 2022 James Tait Black Prize for Fiction. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver is a powerful, coming-of-age novel set in Appalachia, following the life of a boy named Damon…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Finding the Mother Tree

  Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

  Simard, S. (Suzanne)

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  2021 National Outdoor Book Award (Natural History); 2021 Banff Mountain Book Competition Awards (Grand Prize); 2022 BC and Yukon Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award. From the world’s leading forest ecologist who forever changed how…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• His Name Is George Floyd

  One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

  Samuels, Robert, 1984-

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  2023 Pulitzer Prize (General Non Fiction); 2023 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd’s life and legacy—from his family’s roots…Read moreRead more of this annotation