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• Stay With Me

  Adebayo, Ayobami, 1988-

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  Despite cultural pressures for her husband to take a second wife, Yejide trusts that Akin would never do so... until, after four years of failing to conceive a child, he does. Under constant scrutiny to conceive and keeping secrets from one other,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Floating World

  a Novel

  Babst, C. Morgan, 1980-

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  Refusing to evacuate when Hurricane Katrina approaches the Louisiana Coast, Cora, the fragile eldest daughter of the Boisdores family, inadvertently triggers a chain of events that strains her parents' marriage and subjects her to a mysterious act…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Mothers

  a Novel

  Bennett, Brit,

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  In a contemporary black community, 17-year-old Nadia Turner mourns the suicide of her mother, leading her to take up with the local's pastor's son; but when she gets pregnant, the pregnancy and the subsequent cover-up will have an impact that goes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cape May

  Cheek, Chip,

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  Southern newlyweds honeymooning in 1957 Cape May are pulled into the dramas of a trio of sophisticated New England urbanites who render the deserted beach community an intimate playground of corruptive recklessness.

• The End of the Affair

  Greene, Graham, 1904-1991,

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  The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, Bendix…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fates and Furies

  Groff, Lauren,

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  Marrying in a glamorous whirlwind amid predictions of future greatness, Lotto and Mathilde are shaped throughout a subsequent shared decade by complications, secrets and powerful creative drives.

• A Farewell to Arms

  Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961,

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  An American's love for an English nurse during the First World War ends in tragedy.

• An American Marriage

  Jones, Tayari,

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  When her new husband is arrested and imprisoned for a crime she knows he did not commit, a rising artist takes comfort in a longtime friendship, only to encounter unexpected challenges in resuming her life when her husband's sentence is suddenly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Remind Me Again What Happened

  Luloff, Joanna, 1973-

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  A debut novel by the author of The Beach at Galle Road is told from the viewpoints of three characters and traces the experiences of a woman who tries to rebuild her injured memory while navigating a life-changing mystery.

• Early Work

  Martin, Andrew, 1985-

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  An aimless writer immerses himself in his notion of Yeats' "foul rag and bone shop of the heart" while pursuing an intimate affair with a sexually adventurous woman who evinces the talent and nerve he craves.

• The Mutual UFO Network

  Stories

  Martin, Lee, 1955-

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  A Pulitzer Prize finalist presents a new collection of short stories, including the tale of a man selling faked UFO footage who loses his wife to the promise of the extraordinary and a troubled marriage complicated by a midnight prowler.

• On Chesil Beach

  McEwan, Ian

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  On their wedding day, a young couple--Florence, daughter of an Oxford academic and a successful businessman, and Edward, an earnest history student with little experience of women--looks forward to the future while worrying about their upcoming…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The House of Deep Water

  McFarland, Jeni,

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  River Bend, Michigan, is the kind of small town most can't imagine leaving, but three women couldn't wait to escape. When each must return--Linda Williams, never sure what she wants; her mother, Paula, always too sure; and Beth DeWitt, one of River…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cloudbursts

  Collected and New Stories

  McGuane, Thomas,

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  An abundant collection of 45 short stories by the acclaimed author of Crow Fair depicts protagonists on the fringes of society whose twisted pasts complicate their future prospects, in a volume set in the seedy corners of Key West, the remote shores…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Normal People

  a Novel

  Rooney, Sally,

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  The unconventional secret childhood bond between a popular boy and a lonely, intensely private girl is tested by character reversals in their first year at a Dublin college that render one introspective and the other social, but self-destructive.

• Empire Falls

  Russo, Richard, 1949-

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  Milo Roby tries to hold his family together while working at the Empire Grill in the once-successful logging town of Empire Falls, Maine, with his partner, Mrs. Whiting, who is the heir to a faded logging and textile legacy.

• Property

  Stories Between Two Novellas

  Shriver, Lionel,

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  A collection of 10 short stories and two novellas by the author of the National Book Award finalist, "So Much for That", is set in America and Britain and explores the dynamics of real estate and personal possessions and how they act as both…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Angle of Repose

  Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993,

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  Traces the fortunes of four generations of one family as they attempt to build a life for themselves in the American West.

• Here We Are

  Swift, Graham, 1949-

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  It's the summer of 1959, and something magical can be witnessed at the end of the pier in beach town Brighton, England. Jack Robbins, Ronnie Deane, and Evie White are performing in a seaside variety show, starring as Jack Robinson the compere…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Memorial

  Washington, Bryan, 1993-

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  A Japanese-American chef and a Black daycare teacher begin reevaluating their stale relationship in the wake of a father's death and the arrival of an acerbic mother-in-law who becomes an unconventional roommate.