What to Read and Why
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Valentine Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery, #5)
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A Woman in the Polar Night
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The Last Picture Show
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A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
A bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America from award-winning Haudenosaunee writer Alicia Elliott.
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The Morningside
From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a magical novel of mothers and daughters, displacement and belonging, and myths both old and new.
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Horseman, Pass By
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She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat, Vol. 2
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Quartet in Autumn
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief point of contact is that they work in the same office and they suffer the same problem - loneliness.…
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