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  • Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

    BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured on The Thread: Novel by Yaa Gyasi explores addiction, immigration and family ties Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of...

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  • Real Men Knit by Kwana Jackson

    BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured on The Thread: Romance meets the real world in 'Real Men Knit' Jesse Strong is known for two things: his devotion to his adoptive mom, Mama Joy,...

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  • Bestiary by K-Ming Chang

    BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured on The Thread: This 'Bestiary' Lives In A Family's Multigenerational Stories One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman’s...

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  • Cherry by Nico Walker

    BUY Amazon | Bookshop It's 2003, and as a college freshman in Cleveland, our narrator is adrift until he meets Emily. The two of them experience an instant, life-changing connection. But when...

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  • The Killings at Kingfisher Hill by Sophie Hannah

    BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured on The Thread: Poirot's the star, but his sidekick shines in 'Kingfisher Hill' Hercule Poirot is traveling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate....

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  • Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand

    BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured on The Thread: A book that gives you 'Some Kind of Happiness' on lonely, blue days Things Finley Hart doesn’t want to talk about:-Her parents, who are...

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  • Never Look Back by Lilliam Rivera

    BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured on The Thread: 'Never Look Back' updates an ancient story of love and loss Eury comes to the Bronx as a girl haunted. Haunted by losing everything...

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  • Monogamy by Sue Miller

    BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured on The Thread: Exploring the depths of family relationships with author Sue Miller Graham and Annie have been married for nearly thirty years. A golden couple, their...

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  • Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

    BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured on The Thread: Home sweet labyrinth: Susanna Clarke's mysterious 'Piranesi' will lock you in Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless,...

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