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• The Lincoln Highway

  a Novel

  Towles, Amor

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  A charming, big-hearted debut novel in the vein of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and The Rosie Project about an oddball heroine named Germaine Johnson who is great with numbers but not so great with people. (Publishers Weekly)

• The Island of Sea Women

  a Novel

  See, Lisa

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  A novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island.

• Memphis

  a Novel

  Stringfellow, Tara M.

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  This vivid debut novel examines the tragedies, joys, and deep connections of one extraordinary Memphis family throughout three generations. (Booklist)

• Miracle Creek

  a Novel

  Kim, Angie, 1969-

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  A literary courtroom thriller about a mother accused of murdering her eight-year-old autistic son.

• The Mermaid From Jeju

  a Novel

  Hahn, Sumi

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  A talented young deep-sea diver from occupied 1948 Korea's neighboring Jeju Island visits Mt. Halla for her family's annual trading trip before her romance with a mountain youth is upended by family tragedy and political turbulence.

• Meet Me in Bombay

  a Novel

  Ashcroft, Jenny

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  It's New Year's Eve in Bombay, 1913, and Madeline Bright, new to the sweltering heat of colonial India, is yearning for all she has left behind in England. Then, at the stroke of midnight, Maddy meets Luke Devereaux, and as the year changes so do…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Mayor of Maxwell Street

  Cunningham, Avery

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  When a rich Black debutante enlists the help of a low-level speakeasy manager to identify the head of an underground crime syndicate, the two are thrust into the dangerous world of Prohibition-era Chicago.

• The Lives of Lake Ontario

  An Environmental History

  Macfarlane, Daniel, 1979-,

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  In The Lives of Lake Ontario Daniel Macfarlane details the lake’s relationship with the Indigenous nations, settler cultures, and modern countries that have occupied its shores.

• The Sicilian Inheritance

  a Novel

  Piazza, Jo

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  From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza, comes "A Journey to the Boot of Italy, With Murder, Romance and Ricotta” (The New York Times) about a disputed inheritance and a family secret that some will kill to protect . . .

• Southern Man

  a Novel

  Iles, Greg

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  Fifteen years after the events of the Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, his old allies gone. But Penn's self-imposed exile comes to an abrupt end when a brawl at a Bienville music festival triggers a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The God of the Woods

  Moore, Liz, 1983-,

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  “Part riveting thriller and part family drama, Liz Moore’s novel plays on the uncomfortable truths of favoritism and family dynamics in this nail-biter that will keep you from wandering alone in the woods for quite some time.” —Huffington Post

• Midnight on Beacon Street

  a Novel

  Verona, Emily Ruth,

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  A suspenseful and entertaining debut thriller—and love letter to vintage horror movies—in which a teenager must overcome her own anxiety to protect the two children she’s babysitting when strangers come knocking at the door.

• North Woods

  a Novel

  Mason, Daniel (Daniel Philippe)

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  A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—“a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic” (The Washington Post) from the Pulitzer Prize…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mars on Earth : Wanderings in the World's Driest Desert

  Johanson, Mark

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  Embark on an extraordinary odyssey through the heart of the world's driest nonpolar desert – the Atacama. In Mars on Earth, intrepid journalist Mark Johanson navigates this otherworldly terrain, a sliver of camel-coloured hills, windswept dunes, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On Isabella Street

  Graham, Genevieve

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  From #1 bestselling author Genevieve Graham comes a gripping novel set in Toronto and Vietnam during the turbulent sixties about two women caught up in powerful social movements and the tragedy that will bring them together—perfect for fans of…Read moreRead more of this annotation