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• Advice No One Asked for

  Essays

  Hagel, Jenny,

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  Jenny is so obsessed with (addicted to?) offering unsolicited wisdom that she runs a sold-out live show in New York City called, appropriately, Jenny Hagel Gives Advice. With her debut essay collection, Jenny sets out to backseat drive for as many…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Alan Opts Out

  Maum, Courtney, 1978-

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  In this timely and comedic take on ambition, consumerism and the sticker price of privilege, an ad exec who bombs the biggest pitch of his career decides to forgo capitalism and live off the land of his suburban Connecticut home.

• Based on a True Story

  Vaughan, Sarah, 1972-

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  Famed children's author Dame Eleanor Kingman has summoned her family and friends to her exquisite manor house on the cliffs. They're celebrating her birthday and her latest number one bestseller in her series of books based on a mother fox and her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Checkmate

  Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess

  Mezrich, Ben, 1969-

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  In September 2022, the unthinkable happened: nineteen-year-old American chess prodigy Hans Niemann defeated world champion Magnus Carlsen in a stunning face-to-face match. Within days, Carlsen accused Niemann of cheating in a bombshell allegation…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daughters of the Sun and Moon

  See, Lisa,

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  In 1870, three Chinese women arrive in the small, dusty, and violent pueblo of Los Angeles. Each woman has her own desires. Dove wants to love and be loved, Petal desires freedom and Moon seeks justice. Together they face a larger society that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Down With the Shipmans

  Moore, Meg Mitchell,

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  It's the week after Fourth of July, and the Shipman sisters are returning to their picturesque summer home on the New Hampshire coast for what they believe is a family reunion, the first without their late mother. However, their tranquil setting…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fine Art of Lying

  Andrews, Alexandra,

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  Clare Bast's love of art saved her from a bleak, predictable life in upstate New York and drew her into the cultured world of Manhattan's Upper East Side. After she discovers that an important work of art painted by the artist who is the subject of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Housemaid's Wedding

  McFadden, Freida

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  Today is supposed to be the happiest day of my life. In a few short hours, I'm going to stand before a judge, who will declare us husband and wife. There's only one problem: someone out there doesn't want me to live long enough to say my vows. And…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Eat the Stars : How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World

  Wilson, Sarah

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  Drawing on many years of research and wisdom gained from philosophers, poets, game theorists and spiritual leaders, Sarah Wilson takes readers on an intimate journey as she lays out a path for living fully, meaningfully and beautifully through these…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Instructions for the End of the World

  Homilies of Comfort and Resistance

  Helwig, Maggie, 1961-

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  An activist priest's sermons remind us that one of the first social justice frameworks was the Bible. The homilies in this book, selected from those presented to her congregation over the last five years, talk about the Bible, and by extension, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• It Could Have Been Her : A Novel

  Jewell, Lisa

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  Jane Trevally is walking her dogs on her country estate one May afternoon when a small white dog appears. The teenaged girl that had been staying nearby with the dog is nowhere to be found and Jane decides to return it to his registered owner hours…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Land

  O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972-

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  On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865 and, in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Missed Connection

  Williams, Tia, 1975-

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  On a flight to Paris for work, Sasha's seated next to a broodingly attractive mystery man and sparks fly, but they never exchange contact information. Convinced she's lost out on her soulmate, Sasha emails her work friend for help, but accidentally…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Murder in Paris '68

  a True Story of Death and Glamour

  Chisholm, Edward,

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  October 1968. When a body discovered on the outskirts of Paris was identified as Stefan Marković, a former bodyguard and friend of the international film star Alain Delon, what began as a simple murder investigation quickly developed into an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Year in Paris With Gertrude Stein

  a Fiction

  Levy, Deborah,

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  In contemporary Paris, a narrator and two companions explore the life and work of Gertrude Stein: a subversive imagining of a truly subversive female artist.

• Pool House

  Choi, Mary H. K.,

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  Stevie and Moon can’t afford to quit each other. And their cost of living forces them into a glass-walled pool house in the backyard, while their home is rented out to pay the bills. But when Adam, Moon's former TV son and Stevie's forever crush,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI

  Doctorow, Cory

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  A short, provocative guide to what's good, bad and stupid about AI and the discourse around AI. For Cory Doctorow, it is imperative to see through the hype to the real story, to understand the technology not just for what it does, but for who it…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shampoo Effect : A Novel

  Jackson, Jenny

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  An ambitious young woman insinuates herself into a tight-knit social set, shaking up friendships and marriages in a small seaside town. A frothy novel of love, money, sex and friendship.

• Someday Garden

  Poston, Ashley

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  When Sophie Drear plans her escape to coastal Maine for a temporary job revitalizing the storied grounds at Lilymoor House, she doesn't expect to fall in love. But she does: With the beguiling land, the fragrant flowers,and the towering hedge maze.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stolen Revolution

  Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran

  Torbati, Yeganeh

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  A moving and harrowing portrait of the lives of Iranians across five decades, tracing the promise of the 1979 Iranian revolution, its betrayal by forces of autocracy and a people's undying spirit of resistance.