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Break the Cycle
Adult Nonfiction. “Drawing on wisdom gleaned from years of professional experience as a psychologist as well as her own troubled family history, Buqué presents a ‘comprehensive recipe to shedding intergenerational trauma and an immersive orientation into how to do this work.’ With the proper tools and a courageous commitment to recovery, the author explains, one will discover that ‘every problem is survivable’ and that longstanding patterns of dysfunction can be re-formed into healthier alternatives. A field-tested, practical guidebook for reclaiming health in the face of intergenerational trauma.†Publishers Weekly
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Come and Get It
Adult Fiction. “It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardized by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue. A fresh and intimate portrait of desire, consumption, and reckless abandon, Come and Get It is a tension-filled story about money, indiscretion, and bad behavior…†Publisher description
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Come Together
Adult Nonfiction. “’Solving sex problems isn't all therapy and feelings,’ stresses sex educator Nagoski. Writing that long-term sexual satisfaction relies less on a ‘spark’ than fostering a ‘context that makes it easier to access pleasure,’ Nagoski focuses on such practical tools as creating ‘mental floorplans’ to map out emotional states and how to navigate through them to reach ‘a sexy state of mind.’ Nagoski's prose is spry and inviting as she marshals research and anecdotes (many featuring nonbinary couples) to dispel notions of ‘normal’ sex, ban sexual expectations and judgments, and advocate ‘live with confidence and joy’ in one's body.†Publishers Weekly
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Cold Victory
Adult Fiction. “The year is 1947. Louise Koski… accompanies her attaché husband, Arnie, on a posting to Helsinki, where a fragile calm hides deep fissures. Her foil is Natalya Bobrova, the reserved, wary wife of Red Army officer Mikhail. When the men’s drunken boasting prompts an endurance challenge—a frigid week-long trek across northern Finland—Louise and Natalya reach a tentative détente and find common cause in raising money for a cash-strapped orphanage. But Louise’s well-intentioned plan to use the ski race as a fundraising vehicle collides with the Stalin regime’s ruthlessness, and terrible things will happen if Mikhail loses the race.†Booklist
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The Djinn Waits A Hundred Years
Adult Fiction. “Trying to cope with the loss of her mother, Sana and her father move from the farm she grew up on to the coast of South Africa and into the manor house Akbar Manzil. The dilapidated manor house… is inhabited by eccentric tenants, abandoned rooms, and secrets lurking behind locked doors. While her father navigates his grief, 15-year-old Sana is left to her own devices. Sana roams the house uncovering artifacts of the past owners and their mysteries, but Sana has secrets of her own, ghosts that haunt her just as the past haunts this house.†Booklist
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Family Family
Adult Fiction. “India Allwood has been a talented, determined actress from a young age. She works her way from stage plays in college to Broadway and finally to a TV role in Hollywood. After starring in a melodramatic movie about adoption, India tells a reporter that she believes the film misrepresents adoption; as an adoptive mother herself, India knows firsthand that not every such story is tragic. The media feedback to India's interview is ruthless, and soon secrets from her past come to light. Suddenly her career is at risk, and India must decide if she wants to save face or continue defending her choices.†Library Journal
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Rental Person Who Does Nothing
Adult Nonfiction. “Morimoto was constantly being told by his boss, ‘It makes no difference whether you're here or not,’ and that his presence contributed nothing to the company. Morimoto began to wonder whether a person who ‘does nothing’ could still have actual value and a place in the world. Perhaps he could turn ‘doing nothing’ into a service? With one tweet, Rental Person was born. He chronicles his extraordinary experiences…and reflects on how we consider relationships, jobs and family in our search for meaningful connection and purpose in life.’ Publisher description
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The Tusks of Extinction
Adult Fiction. “Moscow has resurrected the mammoth. But someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out again. Dr. Damira Khismatullina, an expert in elephant behavior, was brutally murdered trying to defend the world's last elephants from the brutal ivory trade. Now, her digitized consciousness has been downloaded into the mind of a mammoth. As the herd's new matriarch, can Damira help fend off poachers long enough for the species to take hold? Or will her own ghosts, and Moscow's real reason for bringing the mammoth back, doom them to a new extinction?†Publisher description
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The Seattle Book of Dates
Adult Nonfiction. “From the authors of the bestselling Portland Book of Dates comes this cheeky insider's guide to the coolest spots in Seattle and Washington State. Authors (and married couple) Eden Dawn and Ashod Simonian seek out the obscure and fascinating, and the date descriptions are motivating enough to prompt even the most dedicated Netflix-and-chillers to head out the door. The book is an essential resource and armchair read for Seattle's couples of all ages (and singles with friends) interested in learning about off-the-beaten-path things to do, see, and taste.†Publisher description
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Absolution
Adult Fiction. “The opening cocktail party in McDermott’s sublime ninth novel is a marvel of emotional, sensual, and social acuity as a young, shy, recently married woman from Yonkers tries to find her footing in the brash, moneyed American expat circle in early 1960s Saigon. Blueblood Charlene quickly enlists Tricia in a fundraising scheme to help Vietnamese orphans and leprosy patients sequestered at a coastal retreat. McDermott is a resplendent writer… illuminating shades of good and evil within a bubble of Western privilege and prejudice in a country on the brink of war… †Booklist
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