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24) My murder
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"A tautly paced novel in which a young mother who was cloned and brought back to life following her own murder comes to suspect that there is more to the story of her life and death than anyone is telling her. What if the murder you had to solve was your own? Lou is a happily married mother of an adorable toddler. She's also the clone of the original Louise who, along with four other victims of a local serial killer, has been brought back to life...
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xi, 322 pages ; 21 cm
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"A kaleidoscopic anthology of essays published by Catapult magazine about the stories our bodies tell, and how we move within -- and against -- expectations of race, gender, health, and ability. Bodies are serious, irreverent, sexy, fragile, strong, political, and inseparable from our experiences and identities as human beings. Pushing the dialogue and confronting monolithic myths, this collection of essays tackles topics like weight, disability,...
26) Machine: a novel
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"Follows a group of teens during a seaside summer and the efforts of a guilt-driven girl to piece together the events that led to a drowning." --
A group of teenagers-- some locals, some wealthy out-of-towners-- were together on the night one girl drowned. Hoping to assuage her guilt and evade a similar fate, the narrator pieces together the details of this tragedy, as well as the breakdown of her own family. What she learns is that no one, not even...
27) Flings: stories
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Collects twelve stories of men and women living through uncertainty about their futures.
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296, 8 pages ; 21 cm
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"Answering a call that summons her to a stranger's deathbed, a reluctant Sophie Shepard is too late to hear what he was so anxious to tell her. What was so important that a dying man would think of her in his final moments? With the help of Dr. Drew McCarren, Sophie begins to dig into her past, setting off a chain of events that chills the quiet town of Clearfield, Virginia to its roots. With part of her wanting nothing more than to put Clearfield...
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294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"You swab your cheek or spit in a vial, then send it away to a lab somewhere. Weeks later you get a report that might tell you where your ancestors came from or if you carry certain genetic risks. Or the report could reveal long-buried family secrets and upend your entire sense of identity. Soon a lark becomes an obsession, a relentless drive to find answers to questions at the core of your being, like "Who am I?" and "Where did I come from?" Welcome...
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156 pages ; 21 cm
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"French Vietnamese writer Line Papin's stunning English-language debut, The Girl Before Her offers a window onto the existential anguish of displacement as experienced by a child on the cusp of becoming a woman. Uprooted without explanation from the sunshine and chaos of Hà Nội at the age of ten, the narrator finds herself adrift in the unfamiliar, gray world of France and grappling with a deep sense of uncertainty about who she is and where she...
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xvi, 256 pages ; 25 cm
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"Who do you think you are? That's a question bound up in another: What do you think you are? Gender. Religion. Race. Nationality. Class. Culture. Such affiliations give contours to our sense of self, and shape our polarized world. Yet the collective identities they spawn are riddled with contradictions, and cratered with falsehoods. Kwame Anthony Appiah's The Lies That Bind is an incandescent exploration of the nature and history of the identities...
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xxi, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"An examination of how individuals strive for social status and how this creates our culture as a whole. Contrary to belief, status signaling isn't just the province of the immature or insecure but a fundamental human need to secure social standing. It drives our behavior, forms our tastes, determines what we buy, and ultimately shapes who we are. It's what's behind 'cool' and what drives fashion, music, food, sports, slang, travel, hairstyles, and...
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"Theo Benton decides to move to the United States to finally finish her novel, and she is soon drawn into a literary labyrinth where identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of sales and readership. When her mentor and lover is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. But when the prime suspect turns out to be her older brother, Gus, Theo does what is necessary to protect him--to save him....
34) Brass: a novel
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295 pages ; 25 cm
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A fierce debut novel about mothers and daughters, haves and have-nots, and the stark realities behind the American Dream. A waitress at the Betsy Ross Diner, Elsie hopes her nickel-and-dime tips will add up to a new life. Then she meets Bashkim, who is at once both worldly and naive, a married man who left Albania to chase his dreams -- and wound up working as a line cook in Waterbury, Connecticut. Back when the brass mills were still open, this bustling...
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"Midwife Clara Perry is accustomed to comforting her pregnant patients, calming fathers-to-be as they anxiously await the birth of their children, and ensuring the babies she delivers come safely into the world. But when Clara's life takes a nosedive, she realizes she hasn't been tending to her own needs and does something drastic: she runs away and starts over again in a place where no one knows her or the mess she's left behind in West Virginia....
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255 pages ; 22 cm
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In the wake of his divorce, Christian Franco's entire life is falling apart. Losing his career and friendships, he begins to hang out in bars and pick fights, finding that his only way to meditative solace is through being beaten. After he dies in a bar brawl, he suddenly recovers a childhood memory long lost to him. When he's resuscitated, he begins an increasingly desperate quest to die and be revived in order to uncover more memories and find out...
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