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• Relative Strangers

  Kim, A. H.,

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  Amelia Bae-Wood’s life is falling apart. Unemployed, newly single and completely broke—for reasons she hasn’t told anyone yet—she finds herself hitchhiking across California to deal with the fallout of her mother’s eviction from the family…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sister Effect

  Mallery, Susan,

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  Finley McGowan is determined that the niece she’s raising will always feel loved and wanted. Unlike how she felt after her mom left to pursue a dream of stardom, and when the grandfather who was left to raise them abandoned her and her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pineapple Street

  a Novel

  Jackson, Jenny (Editor),

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  A deliciously funny, sharply observed debut of family, love, and class, this zeitgeisty novel follows three women in one wealthy Brooklyn clan Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected old money Stockton family, followed her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Half-life of a Stolen Sister

  Cantor, Rachel,

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  How did sisters Emily, Charlotte, and Anne write literary landmarks Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Agnes Grey? What in their lives and circumstances, in the choices they made, and in their close but complex relationships with one…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• April May June July

  a Novel

  Hart, Alison B.,

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  April, May, June, and July Barber don’t have much in common anymore. An upcoming family wedding will place the four siblings in the same room for the first time in years. But shortly before, when April spots their father, who went missing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Comeback Summer

  Brady, Ali,

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  Hannah and Libby need a miracle. The PR agency they inherited from their grandmother is losing clients left and right, and the sisters are devastated at the thought of closing. The situation seems hopeless—until in walks Lou, an eccentric…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Worry

  a Novel

  Tanner, Alexandra, 1991-

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  It’s March of 2019, and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Gold—anxious, artistically frustrated, and internet-obsessed—has been living alone in the apartment she once shared with the man she thought she’d marry when her younger sister Poppy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All-night Pharmacy

  a Novel

  Madievsky, Ruth,

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  On the night of her high school graduation, a young woman follows her older sister Debbie to Salvation, a Los Angeles bar patronized by energy healers, aspiring actors, and all-around misfits. After the two share a bag of unidentified…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mother Island

  a Daughter Claims Puerto Rico

  Figueroa, Jamie,

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  Growing up in the Midwest, raised by a Puerto Rican mother who was abandoned by her family, Jamie Figueroa and her sisters were estranged from their culture, consumed by the whiteness that surrounded them. In Mother Island, Figueroa traces…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

  Jimenez, Claire,

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  The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence. When thirteen‑year‑old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling. One night, twelve years later, oldest sister…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gilt

  a Novel

  Brenner, Jamie, 1971-

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  One perfect diamond is all it takes to divide a family. Could one summer be enough to fix it? The Pavlin family built an empire on love. As the first jewelers to sell diamond engagement rings, they started a tradition that has defined the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When We Were Sisters

  a Novel

  Asghar, Fatimah,

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  "When We Were Sisters" traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise one another. The youngest, Kausar, grapples with the incomprehensible loss of their parents as she also charts out…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream

  a Novel

  Zusy, Jeannie,

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  Every family has its fault lines, and when Maggie gets a call from the ER in Maryland where her older sister lives, the cracks start to appear. Ginny, her sugar-loving and diabetic older sister with intellectual disabilities, has overdosed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wolf at the Table

  a Novel

  Rapp, Adam

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  As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child of a large Catholic family, meets a young man she believes to be Mickey Mantle. He chats her up at a local diner and gives her a ride home. The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What We Found in Hallelujah

  a Novel

  Miller, Vanessa,

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  Good things never happen in November—at least not for the Reynolds women. It was the month they lost their patriarch. And the month when fourteen-year-old Trinity went missing during a tropical storm. So Hope Reynolds isn’t surprised when…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Stepsisters

  Mallery, Susan,

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  Once upon a time, when her dad married Sage’s mom, Daisy was thrilled to get a bright and shiny new sister. But Sage was beautiful and popular, everything Daisy was not, and she made sure Daisy knew it. Sage didn’t have Daisy’s smarts—she…Read moreRead more of this annotation