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• Babel

  or the Necessity of Violence : An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

  Kuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.)

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  From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes 'Babel', a thematic response to 'The Secret History' and a tonal retort to 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fairy Tale

  a Novel

  King, Stephen, 1947-

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  Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher -…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gone Girl

  Flynn, Gillian, 1971-

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  Flynn's bestselling novel is a dark and cynical treatise on how malignant a marriage can become when the wrong people say "I do."

• The Secret History

  Tartt, Donna,

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  Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cher

  the Memoir, Part One

  Cher, 1946-

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  After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail.

• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

  Zevin, Gabrielle

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  In this exhilarating novel by the best-selling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry two friends--often in love, but never lovers--come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Little Life

  a Novel

  Yanagihara, Hanya

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  A Little Life follows four college classmates— broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition— as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune.

• All the Light We Cannot See

  a Novel

  Doerr, Anthony, 1973-

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  From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

• The God of the Woods

  Moore, Liz, 1983-

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  When Barbara Van Laar is discovered missing from her summer camp bunk one morning in August 1975, it triggers a panicked, terrified search.

• The Covenant of Water

  a Novel

  Verghese, Abraham, 1955-

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  Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning--and in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Angels & Demons

  Brown, Dan, 1964-

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  When a world renowned scientist is found brutally murdered in a Swiss research facility, a Harvard professor, Robert Langdon, is summoned to identify the mysterious symbol seared onto the dead man's chest.

• The Demon of Unrest

  a Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

  Larson, Erik, 1954-

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  Larson's latest work of history is about an account of the bombardment of Fort Sumter and the events leading up to it (Booklist)

• Mad Honey

  a Novel

  Picoult, Jodi, 1966-

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  A soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behind, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here and the bestselling author of She's Not There.

• Jade City

  Lee, Fonda

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  In this World Fantasy Award-winning novel of magic and kungfu, four siblings battle rival clans for honor and power in an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis.

• The Devils

  Abercrombie, Joe

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  A brand-new epic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Joe Abercrombie, featuring a notorious band of anti-heroes on a delightfully bloody and raucous journey

• Becoming

  Obama, Michelle, 1964-

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  An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States.

• The Women

  a Novel

  Hannah, Kristin

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  Hannah's emotionally charged page-turner (after The Four Winds) centers on a young nurse whose life is changed by the Vietnam War. (Publishers Weekly)