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Castle of Water
Castle of Water
by Dane Huckelbridge
Reviewed: Nov 14, 2016
 
Published: Apr 4, 2017
 
Two very different people, one very small island.
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(4.6/5)
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The Half Wives
The Half Wives
by Stacia Pelletier
Reviewed: Dec 12, 2016
 
Published: Apr 4, 2017
 
Over the course of one momentous day, two women who have built their lives around the same man find themselves moving toward an inevitable reckoning.
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(3.7/5)
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Our Short History
Our Short History
by Lauren Grodstein
Reviewed: Jan 24, 2017
 
Published: Mar 21, 2017
 
"In Our Short History, Lauren Grodstein breaks your heart, then miraculously pieces it back together so it's bigger - and stronger - than before. This novel will leave you appreciating both the messiness of life and the immense depths of love." - ...
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(4.0/5)
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Lola
Lola
by Melissa Scrivner Love
Reviewed: Feb 13, 2017
 
Published: Mar 21, 2017
 
An astonishing debut crime thriller about an unforgettable woman who combines the genius and ferocity of Lisbeth Salander with the ruthless ambition of Walter White.
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(4.1/5)
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Mercies in Disguise
Mercies in Disguise : A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them
by Gina Kolata
Reviewed: Oct 17, 2016
 
Published: Mar 21, 2017
 
The phone rings. The doctor from California is on the line. "Are you ready Amanda?" The two people Amanda Baxley loves the most had begged her not to be tested - at least, not now. But she had to find out.
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(4.7/5)
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Before the War
Before the War
by Fay Weldon
Reviewed: Oct 17, 2016
 
Published: Mar 14, 2017
 
1922. Vivien is twenty-four and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and - almost worse - intelligent. At nearly six feet tall, she is known unkindly by her family as "the giantess."
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(3.1/5)
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The Barrowfields
The Barrowfields
by Phillip Lewis
Reviewed: Jan 24, 2017
 
Published: Mar 7, 2017
 
A richly textured coming-of-age story about fathers and sons, home and family, recalling classics by Thomas Wolfe and William Styron, by a powerful new voice in fiction.
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(4.0/5)
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Edgar and Lucy
Edgar and Lucy
by Victor Lodato
Reviewed: Oct 31, 2016
 
Published: Mar 7, 2017
 
A new literary novel from Weissberg Award winning playwright and PEN USA Award for Fiction winning writer Victor Lodato, Edgar and Lucy is a masterfully written story of a broken family struggling to stay together.
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(4.4/5)
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