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Mean Spirit

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By Linda Hogan — 1991

The Grayclouds discover oil on their Oklahoma ranch in the 1920's and that sets off a continuous round of crime and suffering.

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The Night Watchman

Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C.

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Louise Erdrich
2020
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The Rosie Result (Don Tillman Series, 3)

Don and Rosie are about to face their most important project. Their son, Hudson, is having trouble at school: his teachers say he isn’t fitting in with the other kids, and they'd like Don and Rosie to think about getting an autism assessment.

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Graeme Simsion
2019
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The Rosie Project: A Novel

The art of love is never a science: Meet Don Tillman, a brilliant yet socially inept professor of genetics, who’s decided it’s time he found a wife.

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Graeme Simsion
2014
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Spoon Knife 4: A Neurodivergent Guide to Spacetime

If time and space held no constraints upon you — what would you change? who would you protect? what would you be willing to sacrifice? Welcome to A Neurodivergent Guide to Spacetime.

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B. Allan (editor), Dora M. Raymaker (editor)
2024
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Hard Laughter: A Novel

Writer (and sometime housecleaner) Jennifer is twenty-three when her beloved father, Wallace, is diagnosed with a brain tumor.

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Anne Lamott
1979
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Novel

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Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
2021
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Sharks in the Time of Saviors: A Novel

In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears for the worst.

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Kawai Strong Washburn
2024
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On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel

Poet Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read.

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Ocean Vuong
2019
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Ayiti

Clever and haunting by turns, Ayiti explores the Haitian diaspora experience. A married couple seeking boat passage to America prepares to leave their homeland. A mother takes a foreign soldier into her home as a boarder, and into her bed.

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Roxane Gay
2018
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The Best American Short Stories 2018

“I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed,” writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2018, “but I also love when a story has a powerful message, when a story teaches me something about the world.

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Roxane Gay, Heidi Pitlor
2018
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