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Adjustment day
Palahniuk, Chuck
Paper Book
The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire. People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They've been reading a mysterious book and memorizing its directives. They are ready for the reckoning. ...
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A wizard of Earthsea
Le Guin, Ursula K.
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The first novel of Ursula K. Le Guin's must-read Earthsea Cycle. "The magic of Earthsea is primal; the lessons of Earthsea remain as potent, as wise, and as necessary as anyone could dream." (Neil Gaiman) Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless...
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The librarianist : a novel
deWitt, Patrick
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and affecting narrative in itself. Bob Comet is a retired librarian...
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Sometimes a great notion
Kesey, Ken.
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The plover : a novel
Doyle, Brian.
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Declan O Donnell has sailed out of Oregon and deep into the vast, wild ocean, having had just finallyenough of other people and their problems. He will go it alone, he will be his own country, he will be beholden to and beloved of no one.No man is an island, my butt, he thinks.I...
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Heartbroke : stories
Bieker, Chelsea
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Winner of the California Book Award From the acclaimed author of Godshot and "a pitch-perfect ventriloquist of extraordinary talent and ferocity" (T Kira Madden) comes a defining book of Californian stories where everyone is seeking or sabotaging love United...
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Crow talk : a novel
Garvin, Eileen
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Nationally bestselling author of The Music of Bees Eileen Garvin returns with a moving story of hope, healing, and unexpected friendship set amidst the wild natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest. Frankie O'Neill and Anne Ryan would seem to have nothing in common. Frankie...
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"You just need to lose weight" : and 19 other myths about fat people
Gordon, Aubrey
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN INDIE BESTSELLER "One of the great thinkers of our generation . . . I feel fresher and smarter and happier for sitting down with her."-Jameela Jamil, iWeigh Podcast The co-host of the Maintenance Phase...
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Stay dead
Henry, April
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New York Times bestselling author April Henry delivers a thrilling murder mystery featuring a teen with an assassin on her trail fighting to uncover the truth behind a government cover up, perfect for fans of Karen McManus. "A page-turning...
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Fencing with the king : a novel
Abu-Jaber, Diana
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The King of Jordan is turning 60! How better to celebrate the occasion than with his favorite pastime--fencing--and with his favorite sparring partner, Gabriel Hamdan, who must be enticed back from America, where he lives with his wife and his daughter, Amani. Amani, a divorced poet, jumps...
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Dragonfruit
Lucier, Makiia
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From acclaimed author Makiia Lucier, a dazzling, romantic fantasy inspired by Pacific Island mythology. In the old tales, it is written that the egg of a seadragon, dragonfruit, holds within it the power to undo a person's greatest sorrow. But as with all things that offer hope when hope...
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Black girl you are Atlas
Watson, Renaee
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A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renee Watson. In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renee Watson writes about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections of race, class, and gender.
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The Light on Farallon Island: A Novel
Wheeler, Jen.
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From debut author Jen Wheeler comes a spellbinding tale about the dangers a nineteenth-century woman encounters as she flees a tragic past to the menacing Farallon Islands. Thirty miles off the coast of San Francisco lie the Farallon Islands, known to sailors as the Devil's Teeth....
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Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Strayed, Cheryl
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NATIONAL BEST SELLER * Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection. * A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought...
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Olive Branches Don't Grow on Trees Book One
Mattioli, Grace
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The first book in a trilogy about the Greco's-a quirky, New Jersey Italian family. 23 year old middle child, Silvia, tries to unite them in hopes of saving them from devolving into a feuding, unloving family like those of her parents. Filled with humor, wit, insight and unforgettable characters!
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Toad
Dunn, Katherine
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A previously unpublished novel of the reflections of a deeply scarred and reclusive woman, from the cult icon Katherine Dunn, the author of Geek Love. Sally Gunnar has withdrawn from the world. She spends her days alone at home, reading drugstore mysteries, polishing...
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Swamplandia!
Russell, Karen
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From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (“How I wish these were my own words, instead of the breakneck demon writer Karen Russell’s . . . Run for your life. This girl is on...
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The book of Joan : a novel
Yuknavitch, Lidia
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A New York Times Notable Book * BuzzFeed 50 Books We Can't Wait to Read this Year * New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice * National Bestseller "Brilliant and incendiary." -- Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times Book Review "Stunning. . . . Yuknavitch understands that our...
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My own two feet : a memoir
Cleary, Beverly.
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Told in her own words, My Own Two Feet is Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary's second heartfelt and relatable memoir. The New Yorker called Beverly Cleary's first volume of memoirs, A Girl From Yamhill, "a warm, honest book, as interesting as any novel....
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