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• Year of Wonders

  [a Novel of the Plague]

  Brooks, Geraldine

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  The year is 1665 and the Bubonic Plague has just broken out in a small English village. In an effort to stem the spread of the disease, the villagers agree to a self-imposed quarantine. During the course of the year, ¾ of the villagers die. The book…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Life in Parts

  Cranston, Bryan, 1956-

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  Cranston (Breaking Bad, Malcolm in the Middle) shares professional and personal stories from his life.

• Up From Freedom

  Grady, Wayne,

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  Virgil Moody would like to escape from his family's slaveholding ways but the legacy of slavery follows him into his new life. He escapes his father's control with an enslaved, pregnant woman named Annie. Although Virgil is saving her from a cruel…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Manhattan Beach

  a Novel

  Egan, Jennifer,

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  In 1934, 11-year old Anna Kerrigan goes for a walk on the beach with her father Eddie and an underworld figure named Dexter Styles. A decade later, Anna is working at the Brooklyn Naval Yard as a diver who performs underwater repairs. Eddie has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters

  the Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee

  Kashner, Sam,

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  The only thing more fabulous than a book about one Bouvier sister is a book about two Bouvier sisters. Drawn from interviews with Lee, the book does much to illustrate the relationship between the two sisters.

• The Reason You Walk

  Kinew, Wab, 1981-

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  Journalist, broadcast host, and activist Wab Kinew’s relationship with his father had always been distant, but when his father was diagnosed with terminal cancer, Kinew chose to reconnect with him. He delves into his own destructive past, his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pachinko

  Lee, Min Jin

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  Readers who like sweeping family sagas will enjoy this acclaimed novel about the fortunes of a Korean family over three generations. Beginning during the Japanese occupation of the Korean Peninsula and ending during the heady, black market days…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Inheritance

  a Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

  Shapiro, Dani

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  When a DNA test reveals that her father is not her biological father, Shapiro sets out to find out the truth of who she is and where she belongs.

• Swing Low

  Toews, Miriam, 1964-

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  Acclaimed novelist Miriam Toews offers a book about her father and the tragic circumstances that led him to take his own life.

• Dear Mrs. Bird

  a Novel

  Pearce, A. J. (Amanda-Jane),

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  In 1940s London, young Emmeline Lake dreams of becoming a war correspondent, but gets a job at a fusty women’s magazine vetting letters for Mrs. Bird’s problem page. Mrs. Bird ignores all letters with any ‘unpleasantness’. Secretly, Emmy begins to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Underground Railroad

  a Novel

  Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

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  This inspiring historical novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017. Cora and Caesar decide to make a run for it from the horrors of slavery. They join the underground railroad and their perils begin.

• The Unwinding of the Miracle

  a Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After

  Yip-Williams, Julie, 1976-2018

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  Before Julie Yip-­Williams, died at the age 42, she created a moving memoir of her life and her family's history that celebrates life.