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At the Edge of the Haight
At the Edge of the Haight
by Katherine Seligman
Reviewed: Sep 21, 2020
 
Published: Jan 19, 2021
 
The Winner of the 2019 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, At the Edge of the Haight follows Maddy Donaldo, who is homeless at twenty, and the lives of those who depend on makeshift homes and communities in a rapidly changing San ...
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(3.9/5)
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The Prophets
The Prophets
by Robert Jones Jr.
Reviewed: Sep 14, 2020
 
Published: Jan 5, 2021
 
A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence.
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(4.5/5)
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The Fortunate Ones
The Fortunate Ones
by Ed Tarkington
Reviewed: Oct 5, 2020
 
Published: Jan 5, 2021
 
For fans of Ann Patchett's Commonwealth and Kevin Wilson's Nothing to See Here, The Fortunate Ones is an engrossing story of class, love, and loyalty.
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(4.2/5)
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The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
by Marie Benedict
Reviewed: Oct 19, 2020
 
Published: Dec 29, 2020
 
A master storyteller whose clever mind may never be matched, Agatha Christie's untold history offers perhaps her greatest mystery of all.
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(4.5/5)
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Big Girl, Small Town
Big Girl, Small Town
by Michelle Gallen
Reviewed: Oct 12, 2020
 
Published: Dec 1, 2020
 
Meet Majella O'Neill, a heroine like no other, in this captivating Irish debut that has been called Milkman meets Derry Girls. For fans of Sally Rooney, Ottessa Moshfegh, and accessible literary fiction with an edge.
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(3.4/5)
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The Thirty Names of Night
The Thirty Names of Night
by Zeyn Joukhadar
Reviewed: Aug 3, 2020
 
Published: Nov 24, 2020
 
The author of the "vivid and urgent…important and timely" (The New York Times Book Review) debut The Map of Salt and Stars returns with this remarkably moving and lyrical novel following three generations of Syrian Americans who are linked by a...
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(3.9/5)
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Stories from Suffragette City
Stories from Suffragette City
by M.J. Rose & Fiona Davis (editors)
Reviewed: Oct 12, 2020
 
Published: Oct 27, 2020
 
Stories from Suffragette City is a collection of short stories that all take place on a single day: October 23, 1915.
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(4.7/5)
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The Blind Light
The Blind Light : A Novel
by Stuart Evers
Reviewed: Sep 21, 2020
 
Published: Oct 13, 2020
 
A multigenerational story about two families bound together by the tides of history and the bittersweet complexity of love.
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