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The Woman on the Ledge

March 7, 2024

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After a woman is found dead on the pavement in front of a London highrise office building, Tate Kinsella is brought in for questioning on suspicion of murder. She tells the police that she had met the as-yet unidentified woman on the building’s rooftop terrace and that the woman was going to kill herself by jumping until Tate had talked her out of it.  Either the woman had gone ... Read More...

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After Annie by Anna Quindlen

February 27, 2024

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Anna Quindlen is back (yes!) with her new novel, After Annie, a heartfelt exploration of the internal campaign grief wages on the individual members of one family. After 37-year-old Annie Brown dies while preparing dinner her husband, daughter, and her best friend slog through the next year trying to reassemble their lives without the glue that was Annie. After Annie is not a ... Read More...

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The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

February 20, 2024

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Siblings Gloria and Robert live on their own in a small Florida town after their father was run out of town for trying to get the local mill workers to unionize. Their position is precarious because it’s the 1950s and Jim Crow, the KKK, and racism are still strong in Florida. So, when 12-year-old Robert kicks a white teenage football player in the leg for making advances on ... Read More...

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Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones

February 9, 2024

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In 1979 a serial killer in Atlanta began targeting Black children. This disturbing truth is the premise for Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones. A painfully powerful novel it chronicles the lives of three 10-year-olds living in the neighborhoods where children were vanishing. For each, the disappearances and murders will have an impact on their lives, but in very different ways. I ... Read More...

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Mercury by Amy Jo Burns

February 7, 2024

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Marley’s had a nomadic life with her mother so when they pull into the small town of Mercury, Pennsylvania she’s hoping this is a place where they’ll stay awhile. In her first afternoon of exploring the town, she finds herself at a high school baseball game. As the game’s end two teens start fighting, ending up rolling on the ground. This is Marley’s introduction to the Joseph ... Read More...

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What Wild Women Do: A Novel

January 30, 2024

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When Rowan and her fiancé Seth stall out in their dreams of being a screenwriter (her) and a novelist (him) they decide to take a break from the dreary reality of moving back home to Michigan and rent a rustic cabin in the Adirondacks for a month. This simple decision, made to save money, leads to the discoveries that lie at the heart of What Wild Women Do by Karma Brown. The ... Read More...

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