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• The Book of Doors

  a Novel

  Brown, Gareth,

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  When one of her favorite customers collapses and dies in the book shop where Cassie works, she discovers a mysterious book in his possession—and a strange, newfound power: the ability to walk through any door and emerge wherever she desires.

• Starling House

  Harrow, Alix E.,

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  When Opal takes a job at Starling House to help her brother escape smalltown Eden, Kentucky, she uncovers dark secrets that force her and the house's owner, Arthur to confront their fears or let the town be consumed by nightmares.

• The Invisible Hour

  a Novel

  Hoffman, Alice,

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  Abandoning the rules of the Community, an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden and books are considered evil, Mia Jacob, after secretly reading The Scarlet Letter, discovers the power of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cartographers

  Shepherd, Peng,

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  When her estranged father is found dead with a seemingly worthless map hidden in his desk, cartographer Nell Young soon discovers the map is extremely valuable -- and that a mysterious collector will stop at nothing to destroy it and anyone who gets…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Measure

  Erlick, Nikki,

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  When every person, all over the globe, receives a small wooden box bearing the same inscription and a single piece of string inside, world is thrown into a collective frenzy, in this novel told through multiple perspectives that introduces an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• North Woods

  a Novel

  Mason, Daniel (Daniel Philippe)

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  Exploring the many ways we're connected to our environment and to one another across time, language and space, this sweeping collection of stories about a single house in the woods of New England is told through the lives of an extraordinary…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Remarkably Bright Creatures

  Van Pelt, Shelby,

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  A luminous debut novel about a widow's unlikely friendship with a giant Pacific octopus reluctantly residing at the local aquarium--and the truths she finally uncovers about her son's disappearance 30 years ago.

• The Cemetery of Untold Stories

  a Novel

  Alvarez, Julia,

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  When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Strange Folk

  a Novel

  Dyer, Alli,

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  A woman returns to her estranged, magical family in Appalachia, where a conjuring meant to protect the community may have summoned something sinister.

• Life of Pi

  Martel, Yann

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  Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Glass Hotel

  Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-

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  A captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it.

• The Night Circus

  Morgenstern, Erin

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  Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways.

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

  Clarke, Susanna

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  In nineteenth-century England, all is going well for rich, reclusive Mr. Norrell, who has regained some of the power of England's magicians from the past, until a rival magician, Jonathan Strange, appears and becomes Mr. Norrell's pupil.

• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  Schwab, Victoria,

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  Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early 18th-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name.

• The Last Chairlift

  Irving, John, 1942-

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  Growing up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past, Adam goes to Aspen, where he was conceived, to learn the truth about his mother, a former slalom skier and ski instructor, and meets some ghosts, which…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Midnight Library

  Haig, Matt, 1975-

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  Nora Seed finds herself faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lone Women

  a Novel

  LaValle, Victor, 1972-

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  In 1915, Adelaide Henry, after her secret sin killed her parents, sets out for Montana, dragging an enormous steamer trunk that's locked at all times, to become one of the "lone women" taking advantage of the government's offer of free land where…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Night Watchman

  a Novel

  Erdrich, Louise,

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  A historical novel based on the life of the author’s grandfather traces the experiences of a Chippewa Council night watchman in mid-19th-century rural North Dakota who fights Congress to enforce Native American treaty rights.