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• Violeta

  a Novel

  Allende, Isabel

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  Living out her days in a remote part of her South American homeland, Violeta finds her life shaped by some of the most important events of history as she tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others. (NoveList)…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Spy

  a Novel

  Wilkinson, Lauren, 1984-

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  A Cold War FBI intelligence officer joins an undercover task force to seduce a revolutionary African Communist president she secretly admires and comes to love. (NoveList). #literary fiction #spy fiction

• Lessons in Chemistry

  Garmus, Bonnie

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  In the early 1960s, chemist and single mother Elizabeth Zott, the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show due to her revolutionary skills in the kitchen, uses this opportunity to dare women to change the status quo. (NoveList).…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Trail of Lightning

  Roanhorse, Rebecca

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  When a small town needs her help in finding a missing girl, Maggie Hoskie, a Dinetah monster hunter, reluctantly enlists the help of an unconventional medicine man to uncover the terrifying truth behind the disappearance and her own past.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mexican Gothic

  Moreno-Garcia, Silvia

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  A reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel follows the experiences of a courageous socialite in 1950s Mexico who is drawn into the treacherous secrets of an isolated mansion. (NoveList). #gothic fiction #canadian

• The Handmaid's Tale

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  Offred, a Handmaid, describes life in what was once the United States, now the Republic of Gilead, a shockingly repressive and intolerant monotheocracy, in a satirical tour de force set in the near future. (NoveList). #dystopian fiction #science…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pride and Prejudice

  Austen, Jane, 1775-1817

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  Human foibles and early nineteenth-century manners are satirized in this romantic tale of English country family life as Elizabeth Bennet and her four sisters are encouraged to marry well in order to keep the Bennet estate in their family.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Disenchantment

  Bell, Celia

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  This radiant and thrilling debut follows a passionate love affair between two noblewomen who wish to free themselves from their repressive society, whatever the cost. (NoveList). #historical fiction #LGBTQIA

• Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

  Hwang, Po-rŭm

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  Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life and follows her dream. A heart-warming story about finding comfort and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bringing Down the Duke

  Dunmore, Evie

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  Recruiting men of influence to champion the rising women’s suffrage movement of 1879 England, a daring Oxford rebel targets a cold and calculating duke before their unexpected romance threatens to upend the British social order. (NoveList).…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Plague of Doves

  Erdrich, Louise

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  Unaware of a violent event that marked the beginning of her mixed ancestry, ambitious young Evelina Harp, a part-Ojibwe, part-white girl prone to falling hopelessly in love, learns disturbing truths from her gifted storyteller grandfather, while a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Outlander

  Gabaldon, Diana

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  Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution and haunted by her growing feelings for James…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Once and Future Witches

  Harrow, Alix E

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  In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in a Hugo award-winning author's novel of magic amid the suffragette movement. (NoveList). #historical fantasy #LGBTQIA

• The Sea Queen

  a Novel

  Hartsuyker, Linnea

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  Ragnvald navigates increasingly treacherous political and military uprisings on behalf of King Harald, while his adventure-craving sister, Svanhild, longs for a more stable home for her son. (NoveList). #historical fiction

• The Fifth Season

  Jemisin, N. K.

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  When her husband murders their son and abducts their daughter, grief-stricken and vengeful Essun pursues him across The Stillness, a vast and dynamic super-continent on the brink of catastrophe. Although she's spent much of her life hiding from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Calculating Stars

  Kowal, Mary Robinette, 1969-

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  On a cold spring night in 1952, a meteorite falls to earth and destroys much of the eastern seaboard of the United States. The Meteor, as it is popularly known, decimates the U.S. government and paves the way for a climate cataclysm that will…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

  Larsson, Stieg, 1954-2004,

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  Journalist Mikael Blomkvist and hacker Lisbeth Salander investigate the disappearance of Harriet Vanger, which took place forty years ago. (NoveList) #mystery #crime #translation

• Ithaca

  North, Claire

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  This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before: On the isle, it is the choices of the abandoned women—and their goddesses—that will change the course of the world. (NoveList) #mythological fiction

• Binti

  Okorafor, Nnedi

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  Binti is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• True Grit

  [the Classic Novel]

  Portis, Charles

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  With her papa's pistol tied to her saddlehorn and a supersized ration of audacity, fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross sets out to avenge her father's murder. (NoveList) #western