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• Ask Again, Yes

  a Novel

  Keane, Mary Beth,

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  A lifelong friendship and love blossoms between Kate Gleeson and Peter Stanhope, born six months apart. One shocking night their loyalties are divided, and their bond will be tested again and again over the next thirty years. Heartbreaking and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Florence Adler Swims Forever

  Beanland, Rachel,

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  The Summer begins with a shocking tragedy that results in three generations of the Adler family grappling with heartbreak, romance, and the weight of family secrets across the course of one summer.

• The Love Story of Missy Carmichael

  Morrey, Beth,

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  A life-affirming, deeply moving "coming-of-old" story, a celebration of how ordinary days are made extraordinary through friendship, family, and the power of forgiving yourself - at any age and that it's never too late to love.

• Home Fire

  a Novel

  Shamsie, Kamila, 1973-

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  The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences.

• A Woman Is No Man

  a Novel

  Rum, Etaf,

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  Three generations of Palestinian-American women living in Brooklyn are torn between individual desire and the strict mores of Arab culture in this powerful debut - a heart-wrenching story of love, intrigue, courage, and betrayal that will resonate…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Adults Here

  Straub, Emma,

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  A warm, funny, and keenly perceptive novel about the life cycle of one family--as the kids become parents, grandchildren become teenagers, and a matriarch confronts the legacy of her mistakes.

• Cutting for Stone

  a Novel

  Verghese, Abraham, 1955-

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  A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel - an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.

• Black Cake

  a Novel

  Wilkerson, Charmaine,

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  In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother’s death and her hidden past - a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Summer of Ada Bloom

  Murray, Martine,

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  A big-hearted story of a family filled with secrets, and the ways they grow up - and apart - over the course of a single, life-altering summer. In a small Australian country town during one long, hot summer, the Bloom family is beginning to unravel.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Celine

  a Novel

  Heller, Peter, 1959-

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  A luminous, masterful novel of suspense - the story of Celine, an elegant, aristocratic private eye who specializes in reuniting families, trying to make amends for a loss in her own past.

• Afterlife

  a Novel

  Alvarez, Julia,

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  Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Behold the Dreamers

  a Novel

  Mbue, Imbolo

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  Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself; his wife, Neni; and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bewilderment

  a Novel

  Powers, Richard, 1957-

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  I never believed the diagnoses the doctors settled on my son. When a condition gets three different names over as many decades, when it goes from non-existent to the country's most commonly diagnosed childhood disorder in one generation, when two…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• At Home in Mitford

  Karon, Jan, 1937-

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  It's easy to feel at home in Mitford. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are generally lovable.

• Big Summer

  a Novel

  Weiner, Jennifer,

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  A deliciously funny, remarkably poignant, and simply unpauseable novel about the power of friendship, the lure of frenemies, and the importance of making peace with yourself through all life’s ups and downs.

• The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

  Waxman, Abbi,

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  The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner, and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Breathe

  a Novel

  Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-

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  Amid a starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape in New Mexico, a married couple from Cambridge, MA, takes residency at a distinguished academic institute. When the husband is stricken with a mysterious illness, misdiagnosed at first, their lives are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Burnt Sugar

  Doshi, Avni, 1982-

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  “I would be lying if I say my mother’s misery has never given me pleasure,” says Antara, Tara’s now-adult daughter. In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her marriage to join an ashram, and while Tara is busy as a partner to the ashram’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Chicken Sisters

  Dell'Antonia, K. J.,

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  Three generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster. In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken Mimi's and Chicken Frannie's have spent a century vying to serve up the best fried chicken in the state - and the legendary feud between their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Children's Bible

  a Novel

  Millet, Lydia, 1968-

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  A Children's Bible is a prophetic, heartbreaking story of generational divide - and a haunting vision of what awaits us on the far side of Revelation.