Book Recommendations
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The Heat of the Day
Three of our fiction selections this week are from some of our favorite smaller presses who consistently discover indispensable writers for indie...
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Inner and Outer Space
Welcome to the inner workings of friends and family. This week we feature a Big Chill gathering of old friends during a week-long summer...
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Prejudice and Pride
This week’s titles explore race, sexuality, and ethics: an upstate hamlet is unsettled by the return of a couple imprisoned for murder; a shapeshifting...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Our Search for Meaning
We celebrate the beginning of the summer season with five novels that explore the meaning of life. One is a twisted take on a long-ago fable...
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Meeting New People
This week’s newsletter shares its title with one of the featured novels, and it is apt: you will encounter some very memorable characters in...
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Strangers in Strange Lands
This week we observe both fictional and real characters who have been influenced by their travels to unfamiliar places near and far
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Astonish Me
Irish noir, Danish divorce, Nigerian hauntings, a Bible-based female empowerment story, and women in Depression-era Mississippi fighting against...
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Dreams of Escape
A grieving young woman in the 1980s Midwest longs to escape her life and complete her dead uncle’s unfinished computer game; another young woman...
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Crimes of the Heart
There is a bit of tugging at the heartstrings this week. We celebrate the happy return of a prize-winning Scottish novelist with a family story...
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Taking Place
This week, we have two novels featured in upcoming events at The Center: a gorgeous and poignant story about sisters in Brazil that will be part...
