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• Queenie

  a Novel

  Carty-Williams, Candice, 1989-

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  Queenie Jenkins, a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman, is reeling from a messy breakup with her long-term boyfriend. She’s having an awful year: She’s suddenly single, she’s overlooked by her boss, and her Caribbean family doesn’t listen…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Turtles All the Way Down

  Green, John, 1977-

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  A story of shattering, unflinching clarity in this brilliant novel of love, resilience, and the power of lifelong friendship.

• The Sympathizer

  Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-

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  The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the novel follows a narrator that’s a communist double agent, a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon. While building a new…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Interior Chinatown

  a Novel

  Yu, Charles, 1976-

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  Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. After…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Nickel Boys

  a Novel

  Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

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  When Elwood Curtis, a Black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Cake

  a Novel

  Wilkerson, Charmaine

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  When Eleanor Bennett died, she left her two children, estranged siblings Bryon and Benny, an odd inheritance – a voice-recorded message. In it, she tells the story of a young woman who escaped her island home under suspicion of murder. As…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Red, White & Royal Blue

  a Novel

  McQuiston, Casey

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  The Amazon Studios production is an adaptation of Casey McQuiston’s 2019 best-seller which centers on a star-crossed power couple — the Latiné character of Alex Claremont-Diaz, the son of the president of the United States, and his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• It Ends With Us

  a Novel

  Hoover, Colleen

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  Before the lawsuit, the texts, and the florals, there was the Colleen Hoover best-seller. When she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily's life suddenly seems almost too good to be true. You can…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

  the Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Downfall, Giving Birth to Modern-day Black Ops

  Lewis, Damien,

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  This true story of a top-secret combat unit working under Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s command chronicles the military group tasked with stopping the advances of Nazi Germany. The “butcher-and-bolt” unit was led by an assortment of…Read moreRead more of this annotation