Contemporary

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Adichie’s powerful and rich prose expos[es] the fault lines of cruelty and the multi-layered elements of cultures.

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“The characters in A Forty Year Kiss are realistic, and many of the scenes are quite well-written, but the story itself falls short of feeling true to life.”

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“For heaven’s sake, what kind of a nitwit parks in a marked space that doesn’t belong to them?” Charlotte fumes as she spies a car in Patricia Walker’s private parking slot.

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As the earth seasons in cycles, so do women, as shown in this humorous and touching novel.

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“Well-written with glorious descriptions, The Tree Doctor is a highly recommended tour de force.”

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Jillian Cantor’s novel The Fiction Writer starts out with this premise: Olivia Fitzgerald is a writer—a once successful writer, but her most recent story, Becky, is a takeoff on D

Told through multiple perspectives, Leslie Rasmussen’s novel focuses on two protagonists, Katie and Rachel, who are charming and relatable.

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“This is a very funny, easy to read novel that has an edge thanks to its main character’s charade.”

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Phoebe Adams is a reporter for the Weekly Sentinel, a small New England newspaper that is petering out, and she is trying desperately to save it.

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One Italian Summer tells a story of grand proportions in which love transcends all things.

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Miriam Stolzfus has just returned from Ohio to Lost Creek after taking care of her aunt who had surgery.

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The Invisible Husband of Frick Island links the modern world with the past on a small island struggling to stay afloat literally and figuratively

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Marvelous and painful, truthful and penetrating, this novel, with every page, requires the reader to sense, to live in and cherish the present moment.

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It’s 2016, Mumbai.

“I cannot stop this moving train,” says Sharifa who has returned to the country of her childhood, India, with her husband and their seven-year-old daughter, Zee.

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“This delightful Christmas story can be enjoyed any time of the year.”

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“A steady undercurrent of tension runs through The Frightened Ones as Suleima’s relationship with her inner world and the one around her are constantly on the point of fracturing.”

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Readers will find Zadie Smith’s short story collection a mixed bag with a few interesting bits and pieces, and a few good short works.

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“A clever story with a well-written and worked out plot, a window into the world of neuroscience and a meditation on consciousness and identity, Mr.

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“Topics of Conversation is a smart, well-articulated and -designed novel.

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The opening chapter of Fishnet, the debut novel by Kirsten Innes, is a mystery that takes almost the entire novel to piece together. Who is speaking? What is happening?

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A year has passed, and Irene Steele is still trying to understand how her husband Russ could have deceived her.

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Emilie Richards is well known for penning engaging tales.

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Avery Greer always thought she'd leave her coastal hometown of Littleport, Maine, but she is still there. When she was 14, her parents died in a car crash, from which her grandmother s

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“Against all odds, this is a feel-good novel.”

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“Sisters of Summer's End is a passionate, sensual, and steamy novel.

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