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Love in A F*cked-up World
Adult Nonfiction. "Lifelong activist and educator Dean Spade dares us to decide that our interpersonal actions are not separate from our politics of liberation and resistance. How do we divest from the idea that one romantic partner will be the solution to all our problems? How do we bring our best thinking about freedom and justice into step with our desires for healing and connection? Love in a F*cked-Up World is a resounding call to action and a practical manifesto for how to combat cultural scripts and take our relationships into our own hands, preparing us for the work of changing the world." Publisher description
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Mask of the Deer Woman
Adult Fiction. "Newly appointed tribal marshal Carrie Starr has just arrived at the Saliquaw reservation... Her first case is a young woman who has gone missing, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Starr knows that Indigenous women have been going missing for decades, but discovering proof that the crimes were mismanaged and ignored...seems impossible. ...Starr juggles many influences on the investigation, including politics, oil development, and a distrust of outsiders. This novel shines with Starr's outsider analysis of the reservation where her father grew up but doesn't consider her one of its own." Library Journal
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The Three Lives of Cate Kay
Adult Fiction. "Cate Kay knows how to craft a story. As the creator of a bestselling book trilogy that struck box office gold as a film series, she's one of the most successful authors of her generation. The thing is, Cate Kay doesn't really exist. She's never attended author events or granted any interviews. Her real identity had been a closely guarded secret, until now. ...when a devastating tragedy from her past resurfaces, she's forced to confront the secrets that derailed her dreams and return to the place she's been running from." Publisher description
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Three Wild Dogs (and the Truth)
Adult Nonfiction. "In this heartrending memoir, novelist Zusak (The Book Thief) recounts his family's love affair with three rowdy rescue dogs: Reuben, Archer, and Frosty. Writing after the last of the three died, Zusak...processes his grief on the page, beginning with the couple's adoption of Reuben in 2009 and ending with Archer's death in 2021. In the middle is a hilarious and occasionally harrowing tale of how not to train incorrigible canines. With a soft heart and a fluid pen, Zusak delivers an elegy for three misfit creatures that will resonate even with those who've never picked up a leash." Publishers Weekly
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Water Moon
Adult Fiction. "Hana and Kei meet at the sole intersection of their disparate worlds: Hana's pawnshop in Tokyo, where the lost can sell their regrets. Hana is desperate to solve the mystery of her father's disappearance, and Kei can never resist a puzzle. He is a man of science, while Hana's anime-inspired fantasy world breaks all the rules by which he has lived his life. He can't resist the mystery of her, and she can't help but charm him into being part of her dangerous quest, even though she knows it will end in bitterness and betrayal - unless the magic has one last impossible gift to give them both." Library Journal
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We Do Not Part
Adult Fiction. "Kang (The Vegetarian) delivers an indelible exploration of Korea's historical traumas through the story of a writer who discovers how her friend's family was impacted by the 1948–1949 Jeju MassacrE... Kyungha spends her days alone in her apartment outside Seoul... One morning, she's unexpectedly contacted by her friend Inseon, who has been hospitalized in Seoul and begs Kyungha to fly to her home on Jeju to care for her bird, Ama, who will not survive long without food. In dreamy yet devastating prose, Kang details Inseon's evolving relationship with her late motheR... The result is a meticulously rendered portrait of friendship, mother-daughter love, and hope in the face of profound loss." Publishers Weekly
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The Let Them Theory
Adult Nonfiction. "If you've ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated with where you are, the problem isn't you. The problem is the power you give to other people. Two simple words - Let Them - will set you free. Free from the opinions, drama, and judgments of others. Free from the exhausting cycle of trying to manage everything and everyone around you. The Let Them Theory will forever change the way you think about relationships, control, and personal power. Whether you want to advance your career, motivate others to change, take creative risks, find deeper connections, build better habits, start a new chapter, or simply create more happiness in your life and relationships, this book gives you the mindset and tools to unlock your full potential." Publisher description
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Orbital
Adult Fiction. "A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts - from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan - have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below. We glimpse moments of their earthly lives through brief communications with family, their photos and talismans; we watch them whip up dehydrated meals, float in gravity-free sleep, and exercise in regimented routines to prevent atrophying muscles; we witness them form bonds that will stand between them and utter solitude. Most of all, we are with them as they behold and record their silent blue planet. Their experiences of sixteen sunrises and sunsets and the bright, blinking constellations of the galaxy are at once breathtakingly awesome and surprisingly intimate." Publisher description
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Adult Fiction. "One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendiá family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad and alive with unforgettable men and women - brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul - this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction." Publisher description
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Cabin
Adult Nonfiction. "Wit's End isn't just a state of mind. It's the name of a gravel road, the address of a run-down off-the-grid cabin, 120 shabby square feet of fixer-upper Hutchison purchased on a whim in the mossy woods of the Cascades in Washington state. To say Hutchison didn’t know what he was getting into is no more an exaggeration than to say he's a man with nearly zero carpentry skills. Well, used to be. Cabin is the story of those renovations, but it's also a love story; of a place, of possibilities, and of the process of construction, of seeing what could be instead of what is." Publisher description
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