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"The summer Bria Powers turns 16 is sinister. Waves of insects plague her hometown of Beauchamp, where fentanyl has recently infiltrated the drug stream. Forest fires muddy the normally wide-open skies, and everything smells like a barbecue all the time. It's also the summer Bria goes from having saved a life to ruining her own. Since her drug-dealing father disappeared and his girlfriend overdosed, Bria has lived with her aunt Tash and best friend/cousin...
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Arsenal Pulp Press
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In this stunning debut story collection set largely in Nigeria, questions abound: What happens when we fall short of society's-- and our own-- expectations? When our personal desires conflict with the duties we are bound with? The characters in Perfect Little Angels confront these dilemmas and more in these brilliantly imagined tales. In a boarding school, tensions brew between students and vengeful staff. An addict seeks a fresh start in pottery...
4) Paper houses
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Coach House Books
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A whimsical and misanthropic imagining of Emily Dickinson's life. Paper Towns is a novelized account of Emily Dickinson's life, focusing on her childhood, the homes she lived in throughout her life, her family relationships, and her gradual reclusiveness, as she becomes consumed by getting words down on paper, and writing becomes an end in itself. Dickinson's childhood seems idyllic, and the headstrong Emily is both serious and fanciful. As she presses...
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Arden Moore enjoyed an affluent life thanks to her husband's high-paying job. But a year after his death, the 36-year-old is a grieving single mother deeply in debt and living paycheck to paycheck with her three children. Then an unexpected call from a well-known estate lawyer in New York offers a glimmer of hope. It is the beginning of a complex legal journey that could mean the difference between a life of abject poverty and unthinkable wealth thanks...
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McClelland & Stewart
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English
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There's a hole in the ozone layer. Are teenage girls to blame? Floods and wildfires, toxic culture, billionaires in outer space, or a purse-related disaster while on mushrooms--in today's hellscape world, there's no shortage of things to worry about. Last Woman, the new collection of short fiction by author Carleigh Baker, wants you to know that you're not alone. In these 13 new stories, Baker and her perfectly-drawn characters are here for you--in...
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Simon & Schuster Canada
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English
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It's been years since Daniel Kennicott's brother, Michael, was shot and killed the night before he was about to depart for Gubbio, Italy. The case, never solved, has haunted Daniel ever since. Long suspecting the killing was tied to Michael's planned trip but overwhelmed with grief, Daniel has put off going there-- until now, the tenth anniversary of the murder. As he's about to leave, Daniel learns that his two mentors, detectives Ari Greene and...
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Doubleday Canada
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English
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The bottom of Jess's world is falling out. Cocooned in her dorm in the winter of 1998, she's reeling, looking to be left alone. But a chance encounter with the older, other-worldly, elusive Clara has Jess yearning for her comforting company. Clara, newly returned from a two-year trek drifting around the world is taking a stab at normalcy for once. Upon meeting Jess, though, an instant connection is forged between them, and everything seems brighter....
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Montlake
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When human bones are found beneath an old chapel in the woods, evidence suggests the remains could be linked to the decades-old case of missing teen Annalise Jansen. Homicide detective Jane Munro pregnant and acutely attuned to the preciousness of life hopes the grim discovery will finally bring closure to the girls family. But for a group of Annalises old friends, once dubbed the Shoreview Six by the media, it threatens to expose a terrible pledge...
10) The afterpains
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Random House Canada
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English
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A heartbreaking portrait of two families trying to cope with grief, isolation, and living far from one's homeland-- told in the voices of four distinct narrators. Twenty years after the death of her infant daughter, Rosy still feels-- acutely-- all that she's lost. But she's determined to try to lay her grief to rest, desperate to repair the connections to the family she does have: her husband, Desmond, and her nineteen-year-old son, Eddie. At the...
11) Autokrator
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Cormorant Books
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English
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Born nameless, in a rigid, autocratic society that has relegated all women to non-person status -- Unmales -- two women fight against their invisibility. The disappearance of yet another Domestic means Cera must take on extra duties and tend the rooms of The Cratorling, the young successor to the autocracy. Face-to-face with him, Cera realizes he is her son, taken from her at birth. She vows to make herself known to him, no matter the cost. Driven...
12) Music for tigers
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Pajama Press
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English
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Middle-schooler Louisa wants to spend the summer practicing violin for a place in the youth symphony, but is instead sent to the Tasmanian rainforest camp of her Australian relatives. There she learns that her family secretly protects the last of the supposedly extinct Tasmanian tigers. When an encroaching mining operation threatens the hidden sanctuary, Louisa realizes her music can help.
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