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• All the Birds in the Sky

  Anders, Charlie Jane

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  Winner of the Booklist Editors' Choice - Adult Fiction for Young Adults: 2016, Locus Awards: Fantasy Novel, and Nebula Awards: Best Novel. Patricia and Laurence are two misfits who are drawn together as outcasts but driven apart by their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

  a Novel

  Cronin, Marianne

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  Winner of LibraryReads Favorites in 2021 and the Alex Award in 2022. Two dying hospital patients, one 17 and one 83, begin an art project to chronicle their collective century of life.

• Magic for Liars

  Gailey, Sarah

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  Winner of LibraryReads Favorites in 2019. Ivy Gamble is a private investigator who is hired for her first murder case - which is unfortunately at the magician academy where her estranged sister teaches. Playing on the "magic school" concept of Harry…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Music of Bees

  a Novel

  Garvin, Eileen

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  Winner of LibraryReads Favorites in 2021. Alice Holtzmann, a middle-aged widow beset by panic attacks, takes solace in her beekeeping. This draws her and two young men, each damaged in their own ways, together as a corporation threatens the safety…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

  Honeyman, Gail

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  Winner of the British Book Awards: Book of the Year and Debut Fiction of the Year, the Costa Book Awards: First Novel category, Librarians' Choice (Australia): 2017, and LibraryReads Favorites: 2017. Eleanor Oliphant leads a solitary life…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The House in the Cerulean Sea

  Klune, TJ

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  Winner of the Alex Award, the Mythopoeic Award: Adult Literature, and The Reading List (RUSA) in 2021. Linus Baker is a caseworker for the Department in Charge of Magical Youths (DICOMY), placing magical children in DICOMY-sanctioned orphanages. But…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Night Circus

  a Novel

  Morgenstern, Erin

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  Winner of the Booklist Editors' Choice - Adult Fiction for Young Adults, Library Journal Best Books, and School Library Journal's Adult Books 4 Teens in 2011 and the Alex Award, Locus Awards: First Novel, and The Reading List (RUSA) in 2012. Celia's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hello Beautiful

  a Novel

  Napolitano, Ann

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  Winner of the LibraryReads Favorites: 2023. William comes from a quiet, grief-stricken home, and marrying into Julia's loving and boisterous family brings a new warmth and light into his life. When depression begins to strain the family, will their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Remarkably Bright Creatures

  a Novel

  Van Pelt, Shelby

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  Winner of the LibraryReads Favorites in 2022. After a tragic loss of her husband and son, Tova Sullivan finds her solace in her nighttime work at Sowell Bay Aquarium, where she befriends Marcellus, a clever Giant Pacific octopus. As their unlikely…Read moreRead more of this annotation