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Fiction
Second Place by Rachel Cusk. A woman invites a famed artist to visit the remote coastal region where she lives, in the belief that his vision will penetrate the mystery of her life and landscape. His provocative presence provides the frame for a study of female fate and male privilege, of the geometries of human relationships, and of the struggle to live morally in the intersecting spaces of our internal and external worlds.
Short Stories
What You Are by M.G. Vassanji. Weaving between memories of youth and the comforts of age, between the streets of Dar es Salaam and Toronto, the characters in these stories must negotiate distance--between here and there; between lives imagined and lives lived; between expectation and disappointment; between inclusion and exclusion.
Non Fiction
Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers by Marcello Di Cintio. Every cab is a space both private and public: accessible to all, and yet, once the doors close, strangely intimate. Taxis transcend everyday barriers, and yet, though driver and fare are close enough to reach out and touch one another, most trips are characterized by complete silence. In a series of interviews with North American taxi drivers, Di Cintio seeks out those missed conversations, revealing the untold lives of the people who take us where we want to go.
Young Adult
The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He. Cee has been trapped on an abandoned island for three years without any memories. All she knows is that somewhere she has a sister named Kay, and it’s up to Cee to cross the ocean and find her. In a world apart, 16-year-old STEM prodigy Kasey Mizuhara lives in an eco-city. With natural disasters on the rise due to climate change, eco-cities provide clean air, water, and shelter. Their residents, in exchange, must spend at least a third of their time in stasis pods to reduce their environmental footprint. While Kasey doesn’t mind the lifestyle, her sister Celia hated it, preferring the outside world. But no one could have predicted that Celia would take a boat out to sea, never to return. Now it’s been three months since Celia’s disappearance, and Kasey has given up hope. Logic says that her sister must be dead. But nevertheless, she decides to retrace Celia’s last steps. Where they’ll lead her, she does not know. Her sister was full of secrets. But Kasey has a secret of her own.
Junior Easy
Sleep Like Me written and illustrated by Tatia Nadareishvili. A little boy can’t fall asleep, so he asks the animals how they do it. Will he doze off if he floats on his back like an otter? If he keeps one eye open like a duck? If he hangs upside down like a bat? Nothing seems to help, but all this trying is getting tiring. This whimsically illustrated book features the real sleeping habits of ten different animals. Whether you snooze like a whale or nod off like a giraffe, Sleep Like Me is the perfect bedtime story for restless nights.
More New Books
21st Birthday by James Patterson
The Newcomer by Mary Kay Andrews
Find You First by Linwood Barclay
Family Reunion by Nancy Thayer
The Final Twist by Jeffery Deaver
The Lady Has a Past by Amanda Quick
