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Category: Brief Book Shout-Out
Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown—and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart.
Attack of the Black Rectangles by Amy Sarig King
In Attack of the Black Rectangles, acclaimed author Amy Sarig King shows all the ways truth can be hard… but still worth fighting for.
Lungfish by Meghan Gilliss
Meghan Gilliss’s debut is a brilliant and heartbreaking novel about addiction, doubt, marriage, motherhood, and learning to see in the dark.
The Lost Girls of Willowbrook: A Heartbreaking Novel of Survival Based on True History by Ellen Marie Wiseman
Girl, Interrupted meets American Horror Story in 1970s Staten Island, as the New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan Collector blends fact, fiction, and the urban legend of Cropsey for a haunting story about a young woman mistakenly imprisoned at Willowbrook State School – the real state-run institution that Geraldo Rivera would later expose for its horrifying abuses.
American Fever by Dur e Aziz Amna
American Fever marks the entrance on the international literary scene of the brilliant fresh voice of Dur e Aziz Amna.
Peril at the Exhibition by Nev March
Captain Jim Agnihotri and his new bride, Diana Framji, return in Nev March’s Peril at the Exposition, the follow up to March’s award-winning, Edgar finalist debut, Murder in Old Bombay.
Sugar and Salt by Susan Wiggs
A tale of friendship, hardship, redemption, and love between a San Francisco baker and a barbecue master from Texas.
The Tuesday Night Survivors’ Club (Book 1) by Lynn Cahoon
New-age Sedona, Arizona seemed like the perfect place to open up a bookstore devoted to healing. But when a member of a local cancer survivor support book club goes missing, will this group’s sleuthing skills be enough to find her?
Vacationland by Meg Mitchell Moore
A delicious summer read and an exploration of family, responsibility, ambition and loss, Vacationland is sure to be a novel to embrace and get lost in.
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