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Weiner (The Breakaway) excels at capturing the complex relationships among sisters, mothers, and daughters, and the novel’s nonlinear structure and multiple viewpoints add both nuance and interest. An excellent addition to the current crop of Y2K pop culture–themed novels; this will satisfy Weiner’s many fans.
A sensitively narrated account, providing a window into the toll addiction takes and how it is possible to come out on the other side. Listeners will connect to Hoppe’s story of simultaneously longing for and losing control.
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Be Gay, Do Crime
For large short story collections and those who enjoy droll and satirical writing.
Whether exposing his favorite guilty-pleasure Little Debbie treat or the meals he won’t ever return to, Brown writes like he cooks (and judges cooking competitions), with confidence punched up with a shake of the curmudgeon and an extra dash of comedy.
This themed anthology lives up to its promise; horror readers will enjoy getting lost in this book. Pair with anthologies edited by Ellen Datlow, as well as Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World, edited by Eric J. Guignard.
Santopietro has amassed a large amount of research and interviews into a compelling and flowing narrative, while photos with fashion commentary by designer Banks enlighten the text.
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A Proposal To Die For
Harper skillfully blends cozy mystery elements with the unique premise of professional proposal planning, creating an engaging read that will keep readers guessing.
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All Fired Up
This heartfelt sapphic romance is the perfect book for readers wanting a lighthearted, steamy story with mental health awareness and a hilarious queer found family.
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Entitlement
An unsettling novel about the corrosive power of wealth and the slippery nature of class, race, and social constructs. Recommended for readers of Yasmin Zaher’s The Coin or Romesh Gunesekera’s Suncatcher.
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Katharine, The Wright Sister
This fictionalized portrait of Katharine Wright captivates and is recommended for fans of aviation and women’s history. Pair with Patty Dann’s The Wright Sister, which has a different take on Katharine’s life.
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Plays Well with Others
Bringing to mind Emma McLaughlin’s The Nanny Diaries and Amy Poeppel’s Small Admissions, this is highly recommended for those who enjoy stories about how one’s love for one’s children can make any parent lose track of priorities and self.
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The Secret Painter
Reporting about outsider art is usually told from a third-person perspective, often ending up clinical, cold, and distant. This book’s first-person narrative skillfully avoids this, as the author’s discoveries about himself go hand-in-hand with discoveries about his uncle.
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Gaslight
Filmmaker Joris-Peyrafitte and YA author Shepard (the “Pretty Little Liars” series) offer a tense thriller that will have listeners deeply invested in the characters’ unraveling lives.
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A Lethal Engagement
Fans of Anna Lee Huber’s Verity Kent books or Clara McKenna’s “Stella and Lyndy” series will welcome this equally entertaining addition to the genre of historical mystery.
This book glides through the complex, networked entanglements of power that are the infrastructure of our existence in space and time among computational devices designed to foster certain types of belonging.
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The Women
A moving, skillfully narrated story about women’s friendships and the ongoing physical and mental consequences of war.
An introspective examination of the biographer’s craft that interrogates how a Marshall’s vocation has shaped her memories of the past. A writer’s memoir for those who enjoyed Colm Tóibín’s A Guest at the Feast.
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The Crimson Crown
Walters’s (Misrule) slow-burn fantasy introduces a lush world and offers a captivating portrait of a young witch destined for villainy. Share with fans of fairy-tale retellings and those who enjoyed Marianne Gordon’s The Gilded Crown.
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A Reason To See You Again
An intricate portrait of one family’s struggles and triumphs over nearly four generations. Recommended for fans of contemporary Jewish American fiction and authors such as Lynda Cohen Loigman, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, and Nicole Krauss.
A fizzy and fun follow-up to Gamez’s debut, The Next Best Fling. Press into the hands of readers who are looking for more asexual rep in their romance reads and those who enjoyed Alison Cochrun’s Kiss Her Once for Me or Anita Kelly’s How You Get the Girl.
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Goat-Footed Gods
Assured and succinct, Driskell articulates a personal philosophy of life that, while tending toward pessimism, might still envision “the thought that everything / will be okay wrestling down / the thought that it won’t.”
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All I Want Is You
Highly recommended for fans of The Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley Austin Siegemund-Broka and for readers who enjoy open-door intimacy with their holiday romance reads.
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I See You’ve Called in Dead
This novel that will be most appreciated by readers who are content with the journey being more important than the destination. Book clubs will find much to discuss.
This fascinating book will be a hit among music fans and students of popular culture at public and academic libraries.
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The House on Buzzards Bay
Murphy establishes a palpable sense of foreboding as these unexplainable mysteries begin to accrue. He is less successful, or less interested, in resolving them, however, and the book’s final impact is dulled as a result.
A fascinating story of early Black America and the resulting generations of a family that came to prominence.
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Black Girls and How We Fail Them
There are times throughout each chapter where Halliday’s writing becomes repetitive. However, her message is loud and clear. Suggest this book to parents of Black girls as well as anyone who educates, works with, and engages with them.
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The Seventh Veil of Salome
While fans of Moreno-Garcia’s supernatural, horror-tinged novels may be surprised by the author’s foray into atmospheric historical fiction, this intricately plotted book about stardom, passion, and betrayal delivers.
This book is far more than a yoga book. It’s chock-full of historical information from key yoga texts and traditions, designed to increase a sense of stewardship for people’s individual and distinctive bodies, the land around them, and their communities. Give to fans of Jessamyn Stanley’s Every Body Yoga and Kathryn Budig’s Aim True. This title also makes a wonderful choice for activists and advocates.
A compelling tale of one man’s struggle against nature and himself, conveying the immense personal satisfaction to be gained if one steps off the beaten track.
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Karaoke Queen
A stellar queer rom-com, highly recommended for fans of Alexis Hall and Casey McQuiston or Andrew Grey’s Dragged to the Wedding.
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Exposure
A decades-spanning story exploring grief, guilt, and missed opportunities. This engaging coming-of-age tale is recommended for fans of the author and those who appreciated Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.
Beautifully written and thoroughly absorbing, Goodman’s book is a must-read, particularly for those interested in lesser known aspects of World War II history.
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Literature for the People: How the Pioneering Macmillan Brothers Built a Publishing Powerhouse
For all readers curious about the eventful lives and times of two tenacious brothers who brought real change to the publishing industry.
Ideal for fans of 1970s TV, Stewart’s enjoyable and thought-provoking essays will give Columbo fans an additional excuse to rewatch old episodes.
Harrington’s spellbinding performance of Stokes-Chapman’s gothic novel, which also brilliantly explores issues of class, religion, and science versus. folklore, makes this an excellent choice for historical mystery fans and listeners who appreciate richly drawn characters in lovingly crafted settings. (In her author’s note, Stokes-Chapman describes the book as a love letter to Wales.)
This business self-improvement guide will help negotiators at all skill levels to learn from their mistakes.
Mlotek’s multifaceted account of marriage and divorce is a modern social examination more than a personal story.
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The Names
This parallel-narrative story will be popular with readers of literary fiction and women’s fiction. Fans of Sue Miller and Jacquelyn Mitchard will also enjoy.
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Still Water Carving Light: Poems
These lyrics read like elegies, homages to those gone now or those who might go before us.
An incisive indictment of the banana industry, recommended for readers interested in the public health sciences, ecology, agriculture, workers’ rights, and environmental activism.
From its opening sentence through the author’s final note, this gut-wrenching novel will leave readers missing each character when the story concludes but feeling grateful for the relationships they forged and for their beautifully told stories.
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The Heartbeat Library
With this heartwarming tale, Messina reminds listeners of the enduring power of love and the transformative nature of shared experiences. This unforgettable tale is sure to resonate with anyone who has faced loss and sought healing through connection.
This book will appeal to those with backgrounds in music and medicine and listeners curious about music’s effects on health.
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A Tarnished Canvas
While the mystery is slow to take off, fans of Kiera, Sebastian, their companions in mystery-solving will again enjoy spending time with them.
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Colored Television
A rich blend of humor and social critique, recommended for those who enjoyed Percival Everett’s Erasure and R.F. Kuang’s Yellowface.
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The Keeper of Lost Art
This fascinating story can be read as a stand-alone, but readers unfamiliar with Morelli’s works may want to follow it up with her other novels based on art and art history.
Sturm’s advice on bridge-building and reimagination can help leaders in their work. Dense with examples and advice, the book includes thoughtful, critical responses from Goodwin Liu, Freeman Hrabowski, and Anurima Bhargava to balance Sturm’s own viewpoint as a white person.
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