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Glow Glow Jessica Maria Tuccelli " A breathtaking Georgia-mountain epic about the complex bond of mothers and daughters across a century. In the autumn of 1941, Amelia J. McGee, a young woman of Cherokee and Scotch-Irish descent, a… OL16167783W
Zombie Zombie J. R. Angelella Fourteen-year-old Jeremy Barker, facing his first year of Catholic high school and major family issues, sees the code he lives by, gleaned from zombie movies, put to the test as he tries to set right… OL16557712W
色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年 色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年 村上春樹 Tsukuru Tazaki reexamines his simple life as he searches for his closest high school friends to discover why he was suddenly ostracized from their group. "Cuando Tsukuru Tazakiera adolescente, se … OL16810121W
Shotgun Lovesongs Shotgun Lovesongs Nickolas Butler "Hank, Leland, Kip and Ronny were all born and raised in the same Wisconsin town--Little Wing--and are now coming into their own (or not) as husbands and fathers. One of them never left, still farmin… OL17067399W
Sweetbitter Sweetbitter Stephanie Danler A lush, raw, thrilling novel of the senses about a year in the life of a uniquely beguiling young woman, set in the wild, alluring world of a famous downtown New York restaurant. OL17356048W
For Today I Am A Boy For Today I Am A Boy Kim Fu,Kim Fu Peter Huang, a Chinese Canadian and only son in his family, struggles with his inner desires to be a girl while his father tries to map out his future in a very masculine way. Peter deals with variou… OL17576343W
The death of bees The death of bees Lisa O'Donnell Trying to keep the death of their parents a secret, Marnie and her little sister Nelly are on their own until several residents in Glasgow's Hazelhurst housing estate suspect that something is not ri… OL17706140W
The remarkable courtship of General Tom Thumb The remarkable courtship of General Tom Thumb Nicholas Rinaldi "An irresistible novel set against the backdrop of the American Civil War and based on the real life of Tom Thumb, a young man only twenty-five inches tall, who became America's first internationally… OL17822314W
Sing, Unburied, Sing Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward **A SEARING AND PROFOUND SOUTHERN ODYSSEY BY NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER JESMYN WARD** In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning *Salvage the Bones*, this singular American… OL17826879W
No. 4 Imperial Lane No. 4 Imperial Lane Jonathan Weisman "From post-punk Brighton to revolutionary Angola, an incredible coming-of-age story that stretches across nations and decades, reminding us what it really means to come home. It's 1988 at the Univers… OL17848034W
Island of a thousand mirrors Island of a thousand mirrors Nayomi Munaweera "Before violence tore apart the tapestry of Sri Lanka and turned its pristine beaches red, there were two families. Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything … OL17883318W
A doubter's almanac A doubter's almanac Ethan Canin "Milo Andret, the genius who solved the Malosz Conjecture and won the Fields Medal for mathematics, had an unusual, even eerie mind from birth, but not until he moves to Berkeley in the 1970s to purs… OL17903213W
Where the dead sit talking Where the dead sit talking Brandon Hobson "A spare, lyrical Native American coming of age story set in rural Oklahoma in the late 1980s. With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with… OL18155801W
Where the Crawdads Sing Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect K… OL18766691W
My Absolute Darling: A Novel My Absolute Darling: A Novel Gabriel Tallent "Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known… OL19353452W
Infinite summer Infinite summer Edoardo Nesi "A novel set in Tuscany during the magical years when thousands of businesses blossomed, manufacturing objects for everyday life as well-made and beautiful as the Renaissance art that inspired them. … OL19712754W
Like a dog Like a dog Tara Jepsen "Paloma is aimlessly winging it through life. A skateboarder in her early 30s, she takes low-paying jobs, drinks neon-colored wine coolers in the park with her best friend, and drives to the Central … OL19715509W
On the come up On the come up Hannah Weyer "Willful, outspoken, and precariously naive, thirteen-year-old AnnMarie Walker dreams of a world beyond Far Rockaway, where the sway of the neighborhood keeps her tied to old ideas about success. The… OL19969093W
Second chance boyfriend Second chance boyfriend Monica Murphy "The exhilarating conclusion to Drew and Fable's story--the star-crossed young romance that began in One Week Girlfriend"-- OL19971828W
Eat my heart out Eat my heart out Zoe Pilger "Craving whatever she hasn't got and detesting whatever she has, Zoe Pilger's brilliant and psychically bulimic narrator is everyone's anti-Bridget Jones. An awareness of the pathology of romantic lo… OL20002003W
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