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• Shadow and Bone

  Author:Leigh Bardugo

  Rating: 4 out of 5 stars(774)ratings

  “Shadow and Bone” plays plenty of tropes straight — it features a literal battle between light and dark, and two childhood best friends, Alina and Mal, who have romantic eyes for no one but each other — but that’s really part of what makes it so unputdownable. The twists and turns come quick and ramp up fast, and you’re always left needing to know how Alina and Mal will manage to get out of their current jam.

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• Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

  Author:Jessica Bruder

  Rating: 4 out of 5 stars(101)ratings

  From the beet fields of North Dakota to the wilderness campgrounds of California to an Amazon warehouse in Texas, people who once might have kicked back to enjoy their sunset years are hard at work. Underwater on mortgages or finding that Social Security comes up short, they're hitting the road in astonishing numbers, forming a new community of nomads: RV and van-dwelling migrant laborers, or "workampers." Building on her groundbreaking Harper's cover story, "The End of Retirement," which brought attention to these formerly settled members of the middle class, Jessica Bruder follows one such RVer, Linda, between physically taxing seasonal jobs and reunions of her new van-dweller family, or "vanily." Bruder tells a compelling, eye-opening tale of both the economy's dark underbelly and the extraordinary resilience, creativity, and hope of these hardworking, quintessential Americans―many of them single women―who have traded rootedness for the dream of a better life.

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• TIME

  Issue:June 21, 2021

  Time captures the events that shape our lives through exceptional reporting, writing, video and photography.

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• The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel

  Author:Laura Dave

  Rating: 4 out of 5 stars(732)ratings

  Instant #1 New York Times bestseller Now a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Selection! A gripping mystery about a woman who thinks she’s found the love of her life—until he disappears. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss, as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen’s true identity—and why he really disappeared. Hannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realize they’re also building a new future—one neither of them could have anticipated. With its breakneck pacing, dizzying plot twists, and evocative family drama, The Last Thing He Told Me is a riveting mystery, certain to shock you with its final, heartbreaking turn.

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