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2020

The Taste of Sugar: A Novel

By Marisel Vera - Published 2020

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Reading The Taste of Sugar will make you hang your head over what America has done to Puerto Rico these past 100+ years: the ...Read Review

The Sea Gate

By Jane Johnson - Published 2020

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It is rare to find a dual-narrative novel in which both strands of the narrative are equally compelling. Often the present-day strand exists ...Read Review

I Am Here Now

By Barbara Bottner - Published 2020

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Children/Young Adult

When this free-verse novel begins in 1960, fourteen-year-old Maisie lives with her unhappily married parents and misfit younger brother, David, in a cramped apartment ...Read Review

Walking

By Kim Kelly - Published 2020

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In 1948 Sydney, Australia, Lucy Brynne, a physiotherapist at the Sydney Hospital, is puzzled after reading a newspaper obituary of Dr. Hugo Winter: “He ...Read Review

Murder at Kingscote (A Gilded Newport Mystery)

By Alyssa Maxwell - Published 2020

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Mystery/Crime

Each book in Alyssa Maxwell’s Gilded Age/architectural/historical/crime series (Murder at Kingscote is the eighth) centers around one of the ...Read Review

Trouble the Saints

By Alaya Dawn Johnson - Published 2020

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Historical Fantasy

Best known for her YA science fiction and fantasy, Johnson returns to adult fiction in this alternate-reality noir adventure set in New York ...Read Review

Death of a Prominent Citizen (A Reverend Mother Mystery)

By Cora Harrison - Published 2020

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Mystery/Crime

I have read the six previous installments in this series and, from the outset, I must say that this is my favorite yet—...Read Review

The Rag and Bone Girl

By Maggie Ford - Published 2020

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Saga

This is initially a story about a new romance founded on secrets. Nora has had to make the hard choice between her sister ...Read Review

Golden Poppies: A Novel

By Laila Ibrahim - Published 2020

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The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1870, guarantees the right to vote despite race, color, or previous servitude. In Golden ...Read Review