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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
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
A Little Life A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life is a 2015 novel by American novelist Hanya Yanagihara. The novel was written over the course of eighteen months. Despite the length and difficult subject matter, it became a bestseller. OL17370186W
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
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
The last kings of Sark The last kings of Sark Rosa Rankin-Gee "My name is Jude. And because of Law, Hey and the Obscure, they thought I was a boy."Jude is twenty-one when she flies in a private plane to Sark, a tiny carless Channel Island and the last place in … OL17871733W
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
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
The captain's daughter The captain's daughter Meg Mitchell Moore "Growing up in Little Harbor, Maine, the daughter of a widowed lobsterman, Eliza Barnes could haul a trap and row a skiff with the best of them. But she always knew she'd leave that life behind. Now … OL19665273W
Casebook Casebook Mona Simpson "From the acclaimed and award-winning author of Anywhere But Here and My Hollywood, a powerful new novel about a young boy's quest to uncover the mysteries of his unraveling family. What he discovers… OL19709431W
Affections Affections Rodrigo Hasbún "A haunting novel about an unusual family's breakdown--set in South America during the time of Che Guevara and inspired by the life of Third Reich cinematographer Hans Ertl--from the literary star Jo… OL19718452W
The Hotel Tito The Hotel Tito Ivana Simić Bodrožić "Winner of the Prix Ulysse for best debut novel in France Winner in Croatia and the Balkan region of the Kočićevo Pero Award, the Josip and Ivan Kozarac Award, and the Kiklop Award for the best work … OL19733826W
All the birds, singing All the birds, singing Evie Wyld "From one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful new novel about an outsider haunted by an inescapable past: a story of loneliness and survival, guilt… OL19975877W
Adam Adam Ariel Schrag "When Adam Freedman--a skinny, immature, and lackluster high school student from Piedmont, California--is sent by his parents to join his older sister Casey in New York City, he is hopeful that his l… OL19980038W
Meeting the English Meeting the English Kate Clanchy "In response to a job advertisement, Struan Robertson, orphan, genius, and just seventeen, leaves his dour native town in Scotland, and arrives in London in the freakishly hot summer of 1989. His job… OL19996196W
Under the same blue sky Under the same blue sky Pamela Schoenewaldt "1914, smoky Pittsburgh eighteen-year-old Hazel Renner has a talent for drawing and dreams of traveling the world, a life free of the grand expectations her loving, ambitious immigrant parents want f… OL20005956W
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