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The Crane Husband

By Kelly Barnhill Pages: 120 Published: 2023 The book: Somewhere in the American Midwest, a teenage girl lives with her artist mother and young brother. She’s the backbone of the family and the
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Shutter

Rita Todacheene, a Navajo, is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. She is exceptionally good at what she does. Her secret? She has some extra help: Ghosts talk to her.
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All the Light We Cannot See

A blind twelve-year-old, Marie-Laure LeBlanc, and her father flee Paris, which is under German occupation. They seek refuge in Saint-Malo, an ancient walled French town.
In Germany, an orphan boy, Werner Pfennig, learns how to make and repair radios. His radio skills take him first to a Nazi youth camp and from there into the German army, where he tracks resistance radio operators.
This novel is the story of Marie-Laure and Werner’s lives as their paths intersect during the war.
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The Fair Botanists

It is 1822. Recently, widowed Elizabeth arrives in Edinburgh to live with her late husband’s aunt.
Elizabeth meets Belle Brody, a young woman who shares her passion for botany. However, Belle has a secret she wants to keep from Elizabeth. But secrets are hard to keep in Edinburgh…
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The Glass Hotel

Vincent and her half-brother, Paul, work in the exclusive and remote Hotel Caiette on Vancouver Island. A strange message etched in acid, appears on a hotel window.
Who left the message and why? How will working at the hotel impact the lives of Vincent and Paul?
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City of Girls

1940 and nineteen-year-old Vivian is kicked out of Vassar College. Her parents send her to live with her Aunt Peg in New York, who owns a run-down theatre. Vivian is thrown into a heady life of showgirls, late-night clubs, parties, and men, a far cry from her previous life in the suburbs.
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The Bird King

Spain, 1491. Fatima is a concubine in the court of a sultan in the last Spanish emirate. Her best friend, Hassan, has magical powers and is the royal mapmaker. A delegation from the Spanish monarchy arrives. Within in it is a representative of the Inquisition who takes a particular interest in Fatima and Hassan. Why are they of interest to the Inquisitor? What will become of them?
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January

It’s America in 1901. Seven-year-old January Scaller lives in an old rambling mansion in Vermont. Her father travels constantly to far-flung corners of the world so she is the ward of his employer, Mr. Locke. On a trip to Kentucky with her guardian, January discovers a magical door to another world.
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My Sister The Serial Killer

Korede is a nurse in Lagos, Nigeria. She lives at home with her mother and her sister Ayoola, who is her mother’s favorite. Ayoola has murdered at least one of her boyfriends. Korede is infatuated with a handsome doctor she works with. Will the doctor notice Korede? Will Ayoola find a new boyfriend, and what will be his fate?
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Circe

In the ancient Greek epic, The Odyssey, journeying home after the fall of Troy, Odysseus, encounters the witch Circe. Circe’s appearance in his story is fleeting. This wonderful novel is Miller’s reimagining and retelling of Circe’s life.
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