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• The Amateur

  Bohjalian, Chris, 1962-

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  When a young woman kills a caddy with a stray ball at the country club, the investigation of this freak accident reveals a dark and shocking tale of secret affairs and predatory men.

• Asha in Her Garden

  Badami, Anita Rau,

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  Asha Mohan's well-loved backyard garden in Montréal, shaded by a cherished old maple tree, has been witness to all the events in her life since she and husband and children moved to Canada from India decades ago. It is also under the magnificent…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Big Little Truths : A Novel

  Moriarty, Liane

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  In this highly anticipated sequel, Liane Moriarty examines the complexities of modern women's lives, shining light on family dynamics and long-hidden truths with wit and compassion. Whether you've read Big Little Lies or not, this is the perfect…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brain Damage

  McFadden, Freida,

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  Dr. Charly McKenna had the perfect life: a thriving dermatology practice, a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park and a handsome husband who adored her. Until the night a bullet tore through her skull and stole everything. Now Charly wakes in a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brain Defenders

  Harness the Power of Your Immune Cells to Protect Your Brain for Life

  Perlmutter, David, 1954-

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  For decades, medicine has pointed its weapons at symptoms like memory loss, tremors, headaches and lethargy, while ignoring the root causes of diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and major depression. In Brain Defenders , neurologist Dr. David…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eliza Sunshine

  Good, Michelle,

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  When Eliza comes home from her first year at residential school, she is barely recognizable to her Nôhkom, Swan. Once bright-eyed and curious, Eliza is now stick-thin with roughly shorn hair and dull, listless eyes. Gathering bag in hand, Swan…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Embrace

  Khabra, Bal,

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  An unexpected spark between a hockey player and the coach’s daughter might cause them to cross the line in the next Dalton University book from Bal Khabra.

• Heart of Glass

  Hillier, Jennifer

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  A serial killer recants his long-ago confession regarding a small-town high school girl and her then-best friends are forced to confront what really happened that night and what's happening now.

• How to Grow Up Without Becoming a Grown-up

  Big Lessons From Little Kids

  Shapiro-Barnum, Julian,

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  Julian Shapiro-Barnum—comedian, former child and creator/host of the viral, beloved show Recess Therapy— has spent the past five years interviewing thousands of children. He's talked to them about everything from love, anger and death to Spider-Man…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lion & the Deathless Dark

  Broadbent, Carissa,

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  Under an eternal night, the world has been ravaged by ten years of war between humans and vampires. Kyrene scrapes by as a bounty hunter, bearing a blessed sword from the goddess of justice. But in the wake of a devastating loss, Kyrene commits a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Nerd Reich

  Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy

  Gil Durán,

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  When Silicon Valley says it is ''moving fast and breaking things,'' the world interprets the chaos as a necessary cost of innovation. Gil Durán reveals something far more sinister: a decades-long campaign to replace elected governments with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Not a Word : A Novel

  Barclay, Linwood

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  Every family has secrets, but when Reece visits his parents' house, he's shocked to find them in bed, dead. At first glance it looks like a murder-suicide perpetrated by his father, but on closer inspection there's clearly more to the story. As…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Queen Mab

  McBride, Emily, 1983-

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  Madeleine is young for motherhood, a promising grad student, twenty-three and not long married. Even her mother worries about the timing. But Madeleine’s ambivalence is pushed aside by Tom’s elation and her own joy at bringing new life to the world.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Secrets We Hide

  Slaughter, Karin, 1971-

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  Welcome back to North Falls, a small town with big secrets. Sheriff Emmy Clifton and her sister, ex-federal agent Jude Archer, investigate a brutal attack that shatters their town's fragile peace. But the deeper Emmy digs, the more dangerous it…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Seventy : A Diary of My Seventy-First Year

  Brown, Ian

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  Seventy-year-old Ian Brown is not going gently into his eighth decade. The outlook is more perilous than it was at age sixty, but Brown is determined (however hopelessly) not to let time get the better of him. During the course of his seventy-first…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Story of Your Life

  How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything

  Jezer-Morton, Kathryn,

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  Through rigorous research and engaging interviews, Jezer-Morton explores how the platforms on which we have told our life stories for the past twenty years have determined what those stories have come to look and sound like. Whether we prefer to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Table Boss

  How to Build a Restaurant When Your Life Falls Apart (a Love Story)

  Agg, Jen, 1975-

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  Jen Agg had a thriving restaurant group, a beautiful marriage to a handsome artist husband and extremely good skin. If anyone could give advice on living well in your forties, it was her. Then, disaster struck. As a global pandemic threw the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Tender Age

  Lee, Chang-rae

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  The natural descendent of characters like Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caufield, Korean-American Jeon-Gi is torn between competing ideas of himself. At home, his working-class parents dote on him. Outside, he is part of a roving pack of kids with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• That Night

  McAllister, Gillian,

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  On vacation in Europe, Frannie makes two urgent phone calls to her sister and brother. The siblings come running and find their sister covered in blood, kneeling over an unmoving body. There's been an accident: Frannie has hit a man with her car and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Under the Falls

  Russo, Richard, 1949-

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  Tyler Sinclair left Stone Mountain at eighteen with no plans of returning. With only a duffel bag full of clothes, a few bucks stolen from his father and a guitar, Tyler disappeared without so much as a goodbye. Eighteen years later, Tyler, now the…Read moreRead more of this annotation