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• Upward Bound

  a Novel

  Brown, Woody

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  A wondrous, deeply affecting portrait of the interlocking lives at an adult day care center in Southern California, depicting an often overlooked community with extraordinary wit and grace—by a major new literary voice hailed as a “groundbreaking…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Kiss Quotient

  Hoang, Helen,

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  From the author of The Bride Test comes a romance novel hailed as one of The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2018 and one of Amazon’s Top 100 Books of 2018! A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Convenience Store Woman

  Murata, Sayaka, 1979-

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  Shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award- Longlisted for the Believer Book Award- Longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation- A Los Angeles Times Bestseller- The English-language debut of an exciting young voice in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bewilderment

  a Novel

  Powers, Richard, 1957-

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  A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory. The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Rosie Project

  a Novel

  Simsion, Graeme C

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  The international bestselling romantic comedy “bursting with warmth, emotional depth, and…humor,” (Entertainment Weekly) featuring the oddly charming, socially challenged genetics professor, Don, as he seeks true love. The art of love is never a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Act Your Age, Eve Brown

  a Novel

  Hibbert, Talia,

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  In Talia Hibbert’s newest rom-com, the flightiest Brown sister crashes into the life of an uptight B&B owner and has him falling hard―literally. Featured on Parade, PopSugar, Marie Claire, Oprah Mag, Bustle, Shondaland, CNN.com, Kirkus Magazine,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Summer Reading

  McKinlay, Jenn,

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  When a woman who’d rather do anything than read meets a swoon-worthy bookworm, sparks fly, making for one hot-summer fling in New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay's new rom-com. For Samantha Gale, a summer on Martha’s Vineyard at her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

  Haddon, Mark, 1962-

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  NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic—both poignant and funny—about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor's dog and discovers unexpected truths about himself and the world. “Disorienting and reorienting the reader to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daniel Isn't Talking

  Leimbach, Marti, 1963-

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  Melanie Marsh is an American living in London with her British husband, Stephen, and their two young children. The Marshes’ orderly home life is shattered when their son Daniel is given a devastating diagnosis. Resourceful and determined not to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Maid

  a Novel

  Prose, Nita,

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  Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since Gran died a few months ago,…Read moreRead more of this annotation