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  • Burnt Sugar
    Burnt Sugar
    by Avni Doshi
    Hardcover: Jan 2021
    Paperback: Mar 2022
     
    Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, a searing literary debut novel set in India about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal.
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  • Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
    Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
    by Victoria E. Schwab
    Hardcover: Jun 2025
    Paperback: Aug 2026
     
    From V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger.
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  • Bury Your Dead
    Bury Your Dead : A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, #6
    by Louise Penny
    Hardcover: Sep 2010
    Paperback: Aug 2011
     
    It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has come not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wrong. But violent death is inescapable, even in the ...
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  • Buses Are a Comin'
    Buses Are a Comin' : Memoir of a Freedom Rider
    by Charles Person, Richard Rooker
    Hardcover: Apr 2021
    Paperback: Jan 2022
     
    A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward - written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers.
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  • The Butterfly Cabinet
    The Butterfly Cabinet : A Novel
    by Bernie McGill
    Hardcover: Jul 2011
    Paperback: May 2012
     
    Vivid, mysterious, and unforgettable, The Butterfly Cabinet is Bernie McGill's engrossing portrayal of the dark history that intertwines two lives - a haunting novel full of frightening silences and sorrowful absences that build toward an unexpected,...
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  • By The Light of My Father's Smile
    By The Light of My Father's Smile
    by Alice Walker
    Hardcover: Oct 1998
    Paperback: Aug 1999
     
    Explores the richness and coherence of alternative culture, experience of sexuality as a celebration of life, of trust in Nature and the Spirit.
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    Chelsea Girls
    by Catherine Lloyd
    A glamorous biographical novel on Mary Quant, whose daring design of the miniskirt revolutionized fashion.
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    A young woman’s coming-of-age story set in the early American frontier, shaped by tragedy, nature, and resilience.

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    Meet Nadia Davis, loving mom, devoted wife, secret assassin… and she needs a babysitter.
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