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  • White heat : a novel
    Author:
    McGrath, M. J.
    Summary:

    Half Inuit, half outsider, Edie Kiglatuk is the best guide in her corner of the Arctic. When a man is murdered under her watch, she sets out to investigate but is shocked by the suicide of someone close to her. The events seem unrelated...
  • These ghosts are family : a novel
    Author:
    Card, Maisy
    Summary:

    Longlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A "rich, ambitious debut novel" ( T he New York Times Book Review ) that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations, in the...
  • The Transatlantic book club : a novel
    Author:
    Hayes-McCoy, Felicity
    Summary:

    To cheer up her recently widowed gran, Cassie Fitzgerald, visiting from Canada, persuades Lissbeg Library to set up a Skype book club, linking readers on Ireland's Finfarran Peninsula with the US town of Resolve. But when the club...
  • The Paris model : a novel
    Author:
    Joel, Alexandra
    Summary:

    Raised on a vast Australian sheep farm, the beautiful Grace Woods is compelled to travel to tumultuous, postwar Paris in order to start a new life. While working as a glamorous model for Christian Dior, Grace mixes with counts and...
  • The Kissing Fence
    Author:
    Thomas-Peter, B.A.
    Summary:

    1950s, New Denver: Pavel and Nina are among 200 Russian Doukhobor children separated from their families and community, and placed in a residential facility in the Kootenay region of BC. Forcibly removed from their homes by the RCMP,...
  • The hidden palace
    Author:
    Wecker, Helene
    Summary:

    Chava is a golem and Ahmad is a jinni. Can Chava and Ahmad find their places in the human world while remaining true to each other? Or will their opposing natures and desires eventually tear them apart?
  • The henna artist
    Author:
    Joshi, Alka
    Summary:

    Escaping from an arranged and abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone from her 1950s rural village to the vibrant pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the henna artist, and confidante, most in demand to the...
  • The girl with the louding voice : a novel
    Author:
    Daré, Abi.
    Summary:

    AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A READ WITH JENNA  TODAY  SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK!  "Brave, fresh ... unforgettable." - The New York Times Book Review "A celebration of girls who dare to dream."-Imbolo Mbue,...
  • The eighth life (for Brilka)
    Author:
    Haratischwili, Nino
    Summary:

    'That night Stasia took an oath, swearing to learn the recipe by heart and destroy the paper. And when she was lying in her bed again, recalling the taste with all her senses, she was sure that this secret recipe could heal wounds...
  • If I had your face : a novel
    Author:
    Cha, Frances
    Summary:

    A riveting debut novel set in contemporary Seoul, Korea, about four young women making their way in a world defined by impossible standards of beauty, after-hours room salons catering to wealthy men, ruthless social hierarchies, and K-...
  • How the one-armed sister sweeps her house : a novel
    Author:
    Jones, Cherie
    Summary:

    In Baxter Beach, Barbados, moneyed ex-pats clash with the locals who often end up serving them. Lala lives on the beach with her husband, Adan, a petty criminal with endless charisma whose thwarted burglary of one of the Baxter Beach...
  • House made of dawn
    Author:
    Momaday, N. Scott
    Summary:

    A young Native American, Abel has come home from war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his grandfather's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites...
  • Homeland elegies
    Author:
    Akhtar, Ayad
    Summary:

    A deeply personal novel about about finding identity in a nation coming apart at the seams, an American son and his immigrant father search for belonging in post-Trump America and with each other.
  • Grown-up pose
    Author:
    Lalli, Sonya
    Summary:

    A delightfully modern look at what happens for a young woman when tradition, dating, and independence collide, from acclaimed author Sonya Lalli. Adulting shouldn't be this hard. Especially in your thirties. Having been pressured...
  • Foreign Gods, Inc. : a novel
    Author:
    Ndibe, Okey
    Summary:

    Ike, a New York-based Nigerian cab driver, is desperate. Despite having a degree in economics, his strong accent has barred him from the corporate world. With gambling debt mounting, he travels back to Nigeria to steal the statue of an...
  • Black Bottom saints : a novel
    Author:
    Randall, Alice
    Summary:

    From the Great Depression through the post-World War II years, Joseph "Ziggy" Johnson, has been the pulse of Detroit's famous Black Bottom. As he lays dying in the black-owned-and-operated Kirkwood Hospital, Ziggy...
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