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• Agrippa

  Harris, Robert, 1957-

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  In the turbulent aftermath of Julius Caesar's assassination, two young men seize the chance to shape the future of Rome: Octavius, Caesar's cunning heir, and his brilliant common-born ally, Marcus Agrippa. Together, they fight for control of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Hagwon

  Lee, Min Jin

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  Once comfortably middle class in Korea, John and Helen Koh and their three children—Bo, DH and Mido—find their lives upended, first by a shocking betrayal by John's oldest friend, then by the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Desperately striving to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Way of Killing : The Invention of An Epidemic

  Gladwell, Malcolm

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  The United States has far more homicides than any of its peers around the world. Why? In this groundbreaking book, Malcolm Gladwell explores the American "peculiarity" of how the world's wealthiest country came to suffer from a problem typically…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Birthing Tree

  Peters, Amanda,

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  In 1955, Aliet's mother dies in childbirth beneath the birthing tree, a large old oak, where Indigenous women have been giving birth for longer than anyone can remember. After her mother's death, Aliet is raised by her grandmother and becomes an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crossing the Wine Dark-Sea : Journeys Through Ancient Literature

  Wilson, Emily

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  In this sharp and often entertaining tour through antiquity, Emily Wilson—whose renditions of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad have captured a generation's imagination—explores the complicated terrain of reading and writing about the ancient past.

• The Disappearers

  James, Marlon, 1970-

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  In 1988, eight men in Kingston, Jamaica, begin rehearsals for a play. The men are strangers to one another and each has a different reason for being involved. But they all share one inescapable truth: All of them are gay—a "batty man" in Jamaican…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dying Light

  Cleeves, Ann

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  Detective Matthew Venn is called in to investigate a puzzling death. The body of a young woman has been found in the swimming pool of a lavish holiday home in North Devon and her best friend is missing. The property, Tide House, belongs to Paul…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• End Times Fascism

  and the Fight for the Living World

  Klein, Naomi, 1970-

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  Celebrated activists and authors Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor explore how religious fundamentalists, Silicon Valley technologists and ethno-nationalists share more than one might think: they are united in their belief that some kind of cleansing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Exit Party

  Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-

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  Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city and the curfew is finally lifted. Ari Waker and her roommate pass the gauntlet of bomb-sniffing dogs, the shanty towns and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Final Solution to the Jewish Question

  a Love Story for the Living

  Horn, Dara, 1977-

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  A masterful new work of nonfiction that boldly confronts and dismantles the myths and lies that have spread antisemitism from ancient times until today—and then offers an audacious but achievable vision for the future.

• French Illusion : A Novel

  Grisham, John

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  After Paul and Chelsea Tanner's fairytale wedding, their future is full of promise. But their honeymoon to Paris takes a dark, shocking turn when they are kidnapped while on a day trip to the French countryside. The search for clues soon stretches…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hollow Bones

  Picoult, Jodi, 1966-

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  On September 11, 2001, when Molly Fitzgerald was only two months old, her mother went to an appointment at the World Trade Center and never came home. Her father and the stepmother who raised her couldn't have loved her more, but she still grew up…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hollywood, Ending

  Green, John

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  For rising young actors Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo, being cast in the buzzy biopic Andy Warhol Never Gets Old is the opportunity they've both been waiting for. They're on the verge of breaking out and maybe even falling in love. Soon, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mary's Comfort Classics : Food to Fill Your Plate

  Berg, Mary

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  If you're looking for a meal to pull on nostalgic heartstrings or something that will hit the spot on a down day, you can count on Mary to help you find the perfect idea. In Mary's Comfort Classics, there are recipes full of golden-brown…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Our Noble Selves

  Atkinson, Kate,

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  When foreign correspondent turned war reporter Harry Flynn returns to Britain in 1949 from Singapore, held for years as a POW, he takes a quiet office job with The Festival of Britain, a nostalgic government-funded endeavor to celebrate British…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Pirate Queen

  Lawhon, Ariel,

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  A sweeping historical adventure inspired by the life of Grace O'Malley, the legendary Irish folk heroine who risked everything to defend her people. As the only daughter of a powerful chieftain, her role is to secure a strong alliance and bear…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Receipts From the Bookshop

  a Bookseller's Year in An English Seaside Town

  Clapham, Katie (Bookseller),

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  One summer not long ago, bookseller Katie Clapham began chronicling life at the small independent bookstore she runs with her mother in the English seaside town of Lytham St Annes. Her cozy bookshop diaries detail the romance and frustration of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Redwood : The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy

  Macintyre, Ben

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  In 1981, KGB Major Vladimir Kuzichkin, codenamed "Redwood," was the best Soviet officer in Iran, running spies in the wake of the Islamic revolution and working with a hidden network of Iranian communists to undermine the new regime. But Kuzichkin…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Said the Dead

  Ní Ghríofa, Doireann

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  In November 1896, a young doctor named Lucia Strangman walks through the door of a lunatic asylum, where she will devote many years to recording her patients' lives in a series of thick casebooks. More than a century later, a stranger finds these…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Summerland

  Family, Loss, and the Inheritance of Dreams

  Humphreys, Helen, 1961-

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  In March of 1941, Helen Humphreys's grandfather, Dudley, disappeared near the island of Malta. He was travelling with a crew on a Wellington bomber to the island, where he would take command of the RAF station. At 5:45 a.m. the pilot of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation