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Rules for Visiting: A Novel by Jessica Francis Kane
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Friendship keeps you human in 'Rules for Visiting' At forty, May Attaway is more at home with plants than people. Over the years, she's...
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Disappearing Earth: A novel by Julia Phillips
BUY Amazon | IndieBound One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls--sisters, eight and eleven--go missing. In the ensuing weeks, then months,...
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The Plotters: A Novel by Un-su Kim
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: An assassin walks into a library Behind every assassination, there is an anonymous mastermind--a plotter--working in the shadows. Plotters quietly dictate the moves of...
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Alienation by Ines Estrada
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Virtual reality eases the reality of natural destruction (somewhat) in 'Alienation' Drawn in hazy gray pencil and printed in blue pantone ink, this book...
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Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak by Adi Alsaid
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Falling in love with love in 'Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak' Has heartbreak broken her for good?Dumped by her boyfriend the summer after...
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The Bride Test by Helen Hoang
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: In Helen Hoang's novels, autism is no bar to love and happiness Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move...
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Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: Belonging and betrayal drive the action in 'Storm of Locusts' It’s been four weeks since the bloody showdown at Black Mesa, and Maggie Hoskie,...
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Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century by Lorene Cary
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Ladysitting' offers candor and a singular take on a tale familiar to many Lorene Cary’s grandmother moves in, and everything changes: day-to-day life, family...
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Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination by Brian Jay Jones
BUY Amazon | IndieBound Featured on The Thread: 'Becoming Dr. Seuss' reveals Theodor Geisel as a complicated icon Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. Whimsical and wonderful, his work has defined...
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