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Check Me Out ;) ONE ITALIAN SUMMER By Rebecca Serle Still reeling from her mother’s death, Carol embarks on their mother-daughter trip to Positano, Italy alone, where she encounters her mother in the flesh at 30 years old. She must reconcile the mother who knew everything with this young woman who does not yet have a clue.
THE PARIS APARTMENT By Lucy Foley
YOU MADE A FOOL OF DEATH WITH YOUR BEAUTY By Akwaeke Emezi
Arriving in Paris to stay with her brother Ben, Jess learns that he has gone missing. To find him, she starts digging into his life, realizing even though she has come to the City of Lights to escape her past, it’s his future hanging in the balance.
Learning how to feel joy while healing from loss, Feyi Adekola starts dating the perfect guy but discovers she has feelings for someone else who is offlimits and must decide just how far she is willing to go for a second chance at love.
THE CARTOGRAPHERS By Peng Shepherd
THE NINETIES: A BOOK By Chuck Klosterman
GALLANT By V. E. Schwab
When her estranged father is found dead with a seemingly worthless map hidden in his desk, cartographer Nell Young soon discovers the map is extremely valuable. And that a mysterious collector will stop at nothing to destroy it and anyone who gets in the way.
Remember the 90s? Think you have that decade sized up neatly in your rearview mirror? Think again! Blending cultural observation and historical clue gathering, Klosterman teases out the zeitgeist of a deceptive era, one surprise connection after another.
Olivia Prior has grown up at the grim Merilance School for Girls with no past except her one treasure, her mother’s journal. When a letter invites her to come home to the ruinous manor, Gallant, she seizes the chance to find out about her family.
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UNDER THE WHISPERING DOOR By T.J. Klune When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. But even in death, he’s not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days.
PRETTY PERFECT KITTY CORN By Shannon Hale & Leuyen Pham Unicorn is perfect. Everybody thinks so. He yearns to look the way everyone thinks he should. But when a fumble makes Unicorn feel like a big, ugly goof, he can’t help but wonder: If he’s not absolutely perfect and majestic all the time, will Kitty even want to be his best friend anymore?
THE SUITE SPOT By Trish Doller Moving across the country to an island on Lake Erie for a manager position at a brewery, single mother Rachel instead finds a handsome, moody man who offers her the chance to help build a hotel – and rebuild her own life – from the ground up.
KATT LOVES DOGG By James Patterson During a family reunion at the Eastern Wilderness Reserve, adventurers and expert trackers Molly the katt and Oscar the dogg must outsmart the rule-makers when two of their cousins run away together.
