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Publication Date:  May 11, 2021 Format:  Paperback  Genre:   Romantic Comedy Publisher:  Berkley Length:  400  pages Buy:    Kindle  | Paperback Synopsis Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.     Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven't s...

  Publication Date:  June 5, 2018 Format:  paperback Genre:   Native American Lit Publisher:  Vintage Length:  292  pages Buy:    Paperback  |  Kindle Synopsis Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. Together, this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American—grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism.  Hailed as an instant classic,...

Publication Date:  March24, 2020 Format:  paperback Genre:   African-American Fiction  Publisher:  Ecco Length:  304  pages Buy:    Paperback  |  Audiobook  Synopsis Billie James' inheritance isn't much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was there when the accident happened, she has no memory of that day—and she hasn't been back to the South since.  Thirty years later, Billie returns but her father's home is unnervingly secluded: her only neighbors are the McGees, the family whose history has been entangled with hers since the days of slavery. As Billie e...