We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
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View ArticleThe Lost Sisterhood by Anne Fortier
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View ArticlePrayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement
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View ArticleCure for the Common Breakup by Beth Kendrick
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View ArticleHistory of the Rain by Niall Williams
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View ArticlePatchwork Loves Embroidery by Gail Pan
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View ArticleBroadchurch
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View ArticleBarbie All Dolled Up: Celebrating 50 Years of Barbie by Jennie D’Amato
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View ArticleStation Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Mercy SaisPost-apocalypticLibraryPoint BlogShelf Life BlogIn Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel creates a literary post-apocalyptic novel with a gentle touch.
View ArticleThe Precious One by Marisa de los Santos
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View ArticleDog Crazy by Meg Donohue
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View ArticleSpeak by Louisa Hall
Mercy SaisScience Fictionartificial intelligence -- fictionneuroethics -- fictionShelf Life BlogReading Room BlogI have a challenge for readers of Speak, by Louisa Hall. Read the first chapter and...
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Mercy SaisHumor/SatireLiterary Fiction1960s -- fictionFriendship -- fictionLibraryPoint BlogReading Room BlogThere’s the car, the landscape, the people in the car, and the baggage, both real and...
View ArticleMy Brilliant Friend: Childhood, Adolescence by Elena Ferrante
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View ArticleThe Flood Girls by Richard Fifield
Mercy SaisHumor/Satiresmall towns -- fictiondysfunctional families -- fictionShelf Life BlogReading Room BlogSmall Southern towns have their share of eccentric characters, but they have nothing on...
View ArticleThe Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell
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