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“We had made a fetish out of our misfortune, fallen in love with it.” Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House is a book about family, love,…
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“I saw the world from the stars’ point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.” Shaun David Hutchinson’s We Are the Ants may be deceptively…
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Sixteen year-old Grace is an only child who, after delivering baby Peach and putting her up for adoption, finds herself ostracized, hollow and empty. Being…
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An almost painfully realistic story of youth, “This One Summer” is captivating from start to finish. The story follows teenager Rose who is visiting Awago…
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When ten strangers are invited to the newly-famous Soldier Island, they are looking to escape their everyday lives. They begin to suspect something is not…
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Sasha and Richard are both high school students living in Oakland, California. Because of their hometown’s vast diversity, their worlds could not be more different.…
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