Fiction

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“The Affairs of the Falcóns, though marred by repetition, is a deep dive into the impossible world of the undocumented in today’s society.”

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Nell Freudenberger opens Lost and Wanted with wicked good literary instinct: “In the first few months after Charlie died, I began hearing from her much more frequently.

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“Since We Last Spoke is a compelling exploration of the power of love to overcome loss as seen through the eyes of two lovestruck teens caught between warring fami

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A parent's worst nightmare is to have a child kidnapped. This is what happens to Claire Rawlings—times two.

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Hold Fast Your Crown thrives on Haenel’s buoyant prose, which remains unabashedly overstuffed and declamatory, pell-mell and poetic, throughout a weird and winding tale.”

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Renee Gladman’s Morelia is a novella about the sentence. Well, no. Not really.

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Marlon James delivers a twisting, hallucinatory epic fairy tale that delivers a punch that can be felt ’round the world.”

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"Henaff creates the most eccentric, most humorous characters who also reveal an unexpected pathos."

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Once in a while, you read a book that, though clearly labeled “fiction,” tells a story that really happened.

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“The book aims to be truly helpful, including an index of topics, and a recipe for growing your own bean plant.”

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“My name is Theo and I live in a small town by the sea. A town just like any other, full of ordinary people like you and me. People we might not pay much attention to at first.

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Feel-good stories abound, but this one offers a fresh and creative context: crop circles.

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“My Island is the perfect soothing antidote to a busy day.”

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Divorce attorney Leigh Huyett believed she had it all: a loving second husband, a mixed family consisting of her 20-year-old twin sons and her delightful 14-year-old daughter Chrissy.

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“Parents looking for an uplifting bedtime (or anytime) story, would do well to grab a copy of Little Taco Truck.”

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“The Last Year of the War is timely and important today, when thousands of would-be immigrants from Latin America are cruelly being held in detention centers or de

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“The Razor is science fiction written at a thriller pace.

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“Matt's eyes were on me, but he was still looking right through me. ‘I think she's dead.’”

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“what is most important about this, the last of Brabcová’s gifts, what makes it deserving of a place in the most minimalist of bookshelves, is its honest, overwhelming beauty, its celebrati

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“Anyone who loves a study of human behavior under catastrophic circumstances will be swept away by Fields’ dynamic prose and intense psychological suspense.”

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“a great five-star read!”

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“Readers can get really caught up in S. H.’s discovery of her young self.

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“Un-su Kim takes us on a ride, but a ride with both action and contemplation. Highly recommended.”

“Readers can relax and enjoy a fast-moving romp through the shadows of Siberia in Finding Katarina M., learning about an area of the world that is strange, enticing, and also forbi

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“In American Duchess the reader is afforded a remarkable and realistic portrait of a life well-lived in spite of and often in opposition to societal expectations.

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