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• Peaces

  Oyeyemi, Helen,

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  The prize-winning, bestselling author of Gingerbread; Boy, Snow, Bird; and What is Not Yours is Not Yours returns with a vivid and inventive new novel about a couple forever changed by an unusual train voyage. When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Monstrilio

  Sámano Córdova, Gerardo,

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  Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago's lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Practical Magic

  Hoffman, Alice

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  For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Pisces

  a Novel

  Broder, Melissa,

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  Bottoming out after a dramatic breakup, doctoral student Lucy accepts her sister's invitation to dog-sit at her home on Venice Beach for the summer, where she meets an eerily attractive swimmer whose Sirenic identity transforms her understanding of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  Schwab, Victoria,

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  Bottoming out after a dramatic breakup, doctoral student Lucy accepts her sister's invitation to dog-sit at her home on Venice Beach for the summer, where she meets an eerily attractive swimmer whose Sirenic identity transforms her understanding of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Unmaking of June Farrow

  a Novel

  Young, Adrienne, 1985-

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  In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm--and the mysterious curse that has plagued their family line. The whole town remembers the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hike

  Magary, Drew,

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  When Ben, a suburban family man, takes a business trip to rural Pennsylvania, he decides to spend the afternoon before his dinner meeting on a short hike. Once he sets out into the woods behind his hotel, he quickly comes to realize that the path he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bunny

  Awad, Mona,

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  Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Like Water for Chocolate

  a Novel in Monthly Installments, With Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies

  Esquivel, Laura, 1950-

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  Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kafka on the Shore

  Murakami, Haruki, 1949-

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  Here we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Night Circus

  A Novel

  Morgenstern, Erin

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  The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love in the Time of Cholera

  García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014

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  In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Tale for the Time Being

  Ozeki, Ruth L

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  In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s lived more…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Immortalists

  Benjamin, Chloe,

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  If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Death Valley

  a Novel

  Broder, Melissa,

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  The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story In Melissa Broder's astounding new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Master and Margarita

  Bulgakov, Mikhail

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  The Master and Margarita is a masterful blend of political satire, philosophical inquiry, and supernatural elements set against the backdrop of Soviet Russia. Mikhail Bulgakov critiques authoritarianism and the suppression of artistic freedom while…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Charmed Wife

  Grushin, Olga, 1971-

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  Cinderella married the man of her dreams--the perfect ending she deserved after diligently following all the fairy-tale rules. Yet now, two children and thirteen and a half years later, things have gone badly wrong and her life is far from perfect.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Vampires in the Lemon Grove

  Stories

  Russell, Karen, 1981-

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  A collection of stories features a pair of centuries-old vampires whose relationship is tested by a sudden fear of flying, a dejected teen who communicates with the universe, and a massage therapist who heals a tattooed veteran by manipulating the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Get in Trouble

  Stories

  Link, Kelly

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  Kelly Link has won an ardent following for her ability, with each new short story, to take readers deeply into an unforgettable, brilliantly constructed fictional universe. The nine exquisite examples in this collection show her in full command of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Quichotte

  Rushdie, Salman,

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  Quichotte, an aging traveling salesman obsessed with the "unreal real" of TV, falls in impossible love with a queen of the screen; while obsessively writing her love letters, he wishes an imaginary son, Sancho, into existence. Together they set off…Read moreRead more of this annotation