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• A Marriage at Sea

  a True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck

  Elmhirst, Sophie

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  A Marriage at Sea tells the true story of Maurice and Maralyn, an unlikely couple who abandon ordinary life to sail the world--only to face disaster when a whale sinks their boat in the Pacific. Stranded in a raft with little hope of rescue, they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Three Lives of Cate Kay

  Fagan, Kate (Sports writer),

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  Cate Kay knows how to craft a story. As the creator of a bestselling book trilogy that struck box office gold as a film series, she's one of the most successful authors of her generation. The thing is, Cate Kay doesn't really exist. She's never…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Phoenix Pencil Company

  a Novel

  King, Allison,

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  Allison King's stunning debut novel asks: who owns and inherits our stories? The answers and secrets that surface on the page may have the unerasable power to reconnect a family and restore a legacy.

• Maine Characters

  a Novel

  Orenstein, Hannah,

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  Every summer, Vivian Levy and Lucy Webster spend a month with their father at his lake house -- separately. Raised in New York City, Vivian is an ambitious sommelier with a secret that could derail her future. Lucy grew up in a tiny Maine town,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dark Maestro

  Slocumb, Brendan,

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  From the author of The Violin Conspiracy and Symphony of Secrets comes a mesmerizing page-turner about a young Black musical virtuoso at the peak of his career who's forced into hiding when his family runs afoul of a ruthless international…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sleep

  a Novel

  Jones, Honor,

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  From a dazzling new talent, the story of a newly divorced young mother forced to reckon with the secrets of her own childhood when she brings her daughters back to the opulent house where she was raised.

• The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club

  a Novel

  Kelly, Martha Hall,

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  Two sisters living on Martha's Vineyard during World War II find hope in the power of storytelling when they start a wartime book club for women-a spectacular novel inspired by true events.

• Everything Is Tuberculosis

  the History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

  Green, John, 1977-

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  In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Famous Last Words

  a Novel

  McAllister, Gillian,

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  An addictive thriller about a new mother's world upended when her husband commits a terrifying crime-and then disappears. How well does she truly know the man she loves? And what danger does she face if her entire life has been built on a lie?

• Care and Feeding

  a Memoir

  Woolever, Laurie,

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  In this moving, hilarious, and insightful memoir, Laurie Woolever traces her path from a small-town childhood to working at revered restaurants and food publications, alternately bolstered and overshadowed by two of the most powerful men in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jane and Dan at the End of the World

  Oakley, Colleen,

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  Oakley's latest (after The Mostly True Adventures of Tanner & Louise) is a satirical exploration of a marriage at midlife that is upended by a terrorist attack.

• The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

  a Novel

  Johnston, Anna, 1983-

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  This novel is a feel-good, clever novel about grief, forgiveness, redemption, and finding family, from an exciting new voice in fiction. For fans of Remarkably Bright Creatures and The Pilgrimage of Harold Frye.

• Book and Dagger

  How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

  Graham, Elyse, 1985-

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  Thrillingly paced and rigorously researched, Book and Dagger is an inspiring and gripping true story about a group of academics who helped beat the Nazis-a tale that reveals the indelible power of humanities to change the world.

• Sandwich

  a Novel

  Newman, Catherine, 1968-

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  While on her family's yearly escape to Cape Cod, Rocky, sandwiched between her half-grown kids and fully aging parents, relives the tenderness and sorrow of a handful of long-ago summers, coming face-to-face with her family's history and future and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How the Light Gets in

  a Novel

  Maynard, Joyce, 1953-

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  Following the death of her former husband, Cam, fifty-four-year-old Eleanor has moved back to the New Hampshire farm where they raised three children to care for their brain-injured son, Toby, now an adult. Toby's older brother, Al, is married and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Midnight Feast

  a Novel

  Foley, Lucy (Novelist),

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  Foley's latest offers a locked-room mystery set in The Manor, a luxury resort playing host to a range of characters with agendas—and hidden pasts.

• How to Age Disgracefully

  Pooley, Clare,

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  When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens' Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she'll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards. However, when he city council threatens to sell the doomed community…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Same as It Ever Was

  Lombardo, Claire, 1988-

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  Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the placid plateau of mid-life. But Julia has never navigated the world with the equanimity of her current privileged class. Having nearly derailed herself…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bad Summer People

  Rosenblum, Emma,

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  A whip-smart, propulsive debut about infidelity, backstabbing, and murderous intrigue, set against an exclusive summer haven on Fire Island. None of them would claim to be a particularly good person. But who among them is actually capable of murder?

• Rogues

  True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels, and Crooks

  Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976-

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  Keefe brilliantly explores the intricacies of forging $150,000 vintage wines, examines whether a whistleblower who dared to expose money laundering at a Swiss bank is a hero or a fabulist, spends time in Vietnam with Anthony Bourdain, chronicles the…Read moreRead more of this annotation