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We All Live Here

We All Live Here Jojo Moyes Fiction Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career…

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Uncommon Type

Uncommon Type Tom Hanks Short Stories A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A World War II veteran grappling with his emotional and physical scars. A second-rate actor plunged into sudden stardom and a whirlwind press…

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A Little Life

A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara LGBT 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. While their relationships, which are tinged by…

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The Chicken Sisters

The Chicken Sisters KJ Dell’Antonia Fiction In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken Mimi’s and Chicken Frannie’s have spent a century vying to serve up the best fried chicken in the state—and the legendary feud between their respective owners, the Moores and…

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Tell Me Everything

Tell Me Everything Elizabeth Strout Fiction With her remarkable insight into the human condition and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess,…

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No Longer Human

No Longer Human Osamu Dazai Japanese Literature Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo’s attempts to reconcile…

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Diary of an Oxygen Thief

Diary of an Oxygen Thief Anonymous  Dark Fiction Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer’s assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. He’s blinded by love. She…

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Daisy Jones & The Six

Daisy Jones & The Six Taylor Jenkins Reid Fiction  Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now. Daisy is a girl…

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