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• The Women

  Hannah, Kristin,

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  Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Boyfriend

  McFadden, Freida,

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  Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She's seen it all: men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill, and worst of all, men who can't shut up about their mothers. But…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Atmosphere

  a Love Story

  Reid, Taylor Jenkins,

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  Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The God of the Woods

  Moore, Liz, 1983-

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  When Barbara Van Laar is discovered missing from her summer camp bunk one morning in August 1975, it triggers a panicked, terrified search. Losing a camper is a horrific tragedy under any circumstances, but Barbara isn't just any camper, she's the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Onyx Storm

  Yarros, Rebecca,

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  After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there's no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty. Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Broken Country

  a Novel

  Hall, Clare Leslie,

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  Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth’s brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn’t realize that the gunshot will alter the course…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wedding People

  a Novel

  Espach, Alison, 1984-

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  It's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Housemaid Is Watching

  McFadden, Freida,

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  "You must be our new neighbors!" Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my daughter's hand and smile back: but the second Mrs. Lowell sees my husband a strange expression crosses her face. In that moment I make a promise. We…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• James

  a Novel

  Everett, Percival,

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  When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Friends

  a Novel

  Backman, Fredrik, 1981-

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  Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it’s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fourth Wing

  Yarros, Rebecca,

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  Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Great Big Beautiful Life

  Henry, Emily,

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  Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: to write the biography of a woman no…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Crash

  McFadden, Freida,

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  Tegan is eight months pregnant, and her world is crashing down around her. The father of her baby wants nothing to do with her and has promised to make her life hell. She's lost her job at the convenience store. And she has no idea what she's going…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Housemaid

  McFadden, Freida,

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  Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ward D

  McFadden, Freida,

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  Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital's inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Say You'll Remember Me

  Jimenez, Abby,

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  There might be no such a thing as a perfect guy, but Xavier Rush comes disastrously close. A gorgeous veterinarian giving Greek god vibes--all while cuddling a tiny kitten? Immediately yes. That is until Xavier opens his mouth and proves that even…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Funny Story

  Henry, Emily,

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  Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Frozen River

  a Novel

  Lawhon, Ariel,

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  A gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history. Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Remarkably Bright Creatures

  a Novel

  Van Pelt, Shelby,

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  After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One Golden Summer

  Fortune, Carley,

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  Good things happen at the lake. That's what Alice's grandmother says, and it's true. Alice spent just one summer at a cottage with Nan when she was seventeen--it's where she took that photo, the one of three grinning teenagers in a yellow speedboat,…Read moreRead more of this annotation