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The Book of Kane and Margaret (2020)
Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi ’08
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Kane Araki and Margaret Morri are not only the names of teenage lovers living in a World War II Japanese relocation camp. Kane Araki is also the name of a man who, mysteriously, sprouts a pair of black raven’s wings overnight. Margaret Morri is the name of the aging healer who treats embarrassing conditions (smelly feet and excessive flatulence). It’s also the name of an eleven-year-old girl who communes with the devil, trading human teeth for divine wishes.
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To Sir, with Love (2021)
Perpetually cheerful and eager to please, Gracie Cooper strives to make the best out of every situation. So when her father dies just months after a lung cancer diagnosis, she sets aside her dreams of pursuing her passion for art to take over his Midtown Manhattan champagne shop. She soon finds out that the store’s profit margins are being squeezed perilously tight, and complicating matters further, a giant corporation headed by the impossibly handsome, but irritatingly arrogant Sebastian Andrews is proposing a buyout. But Gracie can’t bear the thought of throwing away her father’s dream like she did her own.
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Right Hand of the Father: Insurrection Legacy (2024)
Crisis events hold the seeds of great wisdom. This is the story of two congressmen; an independent and a Republican, who wait out an insurrection in the bowels of the Capitol and find a way forward for the country. Through a day of personal conflict, and potential attacks from the Insurrectionists, they discover the danger to democracy of party politics. This work of historical fiction is a quest for wisdom from chaos. |
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The Missing Tales of Sherlock Holmes (2017)
Peter Coe Verbica ’83, JD ’99
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“Peter Verbica’s clever and fast-moving short stories in The Missing Tales of Sherlock Holmes are a delight on every page, quickly engaging and transporting the reader to the mysteries that emanate from 221B Baker Street. The scenes are crisp, the characters are interesting and the mysteries are compelling. As Holmes might say, ‘Well done, Verbica, well done.’”
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My Days of Dark Green Euphoria (2022)
Thirtysomething Cara Foster is, one might say, eco-anxious--perhaps even eco-neurotic. She eats out of dumpsters (not because she wants to but because it's the right thing to do), does laundry as seldom as possible, takes navy showers every couple of days, and is reevaluating her boyfriend for killing a spider instead of saving a life.
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Love on the Rocks: A Positano Tale (2015)
Thirtysomething best friends Kit and Bridget flee their humdrum lives to spend the summer in Positano, the infamous "Pearl of the Amalfi," for a once-in-a-lifetime vacation filled with frivolously expensive and tantalizingly wonderful experiences-and that was just the food.
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Waiting at Hayden’s (2018)
From a fresh new voice in women's fiction comes a page-turning, relatable love story about the complicated nature of timing in modern-day relationships.
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The Pill (2017)
Small businessman, Cole Blue risks his future to research the mystery of a seemingly immortal shark from Belize, Central America. What he finds catapults him into power struggles, crime, betrayal, terrorism and revolution.
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At Full Brightness (2021)
When Mai Tran was born premature, and diagnosed with cerebral palsy at age one, it was obvious she was a fighter. She fought to live, to walk, and to prove she could be all she wanted to be...and more. The youngest daughter in a Vietnamese American family, Mai is weighed down by the expectations of culture and family, and is pushed toward a life path she does not want. Faced with self-doubt, a tumultuous relationship with her mother, and uncertainty about her future, Mai begins a journey of self-discovery and healing. She learns the importance of her own mental wellness, the value of self-love, and the power of forgiveness, while fighting for the future she wants.
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Bittersweet, A Coming of Age Historical Romance (2018)
“Bittersweet” captures the zeitgeist of 1960: America transitioning from the gray decade of Eisenhower and McCarthy to JFK and Camelot; The House on Un-American Activities Committee versus the flourishing Beatnik counterculture. Its two protagonists, Renny and Max, students at Berkeley, flirt with Beat poetry, Allen Ginsberg and Kenneth Rexroth, Bebop, and student led civil rights demonstrations. They join the SLATE organized anti-HUAC demonstration turned riot at San Francisco City Hall. The police billy clubs change their lives forever. To escape a withering culture of night sticks, sexual repression and censorship, they sail to France, land of the Enlightenment and sexual liberation where they shed their adolescence and become young men. Join them on their epic, unforgettable journey into an incandescent world of vivid characters, romance, sex and love.
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Sumerian Vortex: Music From A Lost Civilization (2020)
Dominic Geraghty MBA ’86
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Turn down the music on any blockbuster movie and you’ll realize that without the extraordinary power of music to stimulate emotion, it doesn’t stay engaging for long. What if musical harmonies could be encoded and weaponized to incite communities to behave in desired ways?
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Murder at the Boarding House (2023)
Elizabette Guecamburu '03
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Set in a 1940s boardinghouse, this novel chronicles teenager, Anna Elissetche, as she investigates a murder that happens right under her very nose. A witty tale with relatable characters, Murder at the Boardinghouse will delight readers and leave them asking, "WHODUNIT?"
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Mariette in Ecstasy (1994)
A novel about convent life at the turn of the century? Hardly the makings of a page-turner, yet Ron Hansen's Mariette in Ecstasy is a gripping, even life-changing book. For the Sisters of the Crucifixion, each day is a ceaseless round of work, study, and prayer--one hardly separate from the other.
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The Kite Runner (2013)
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a tense and crucial moment of change and destruction. Check out other titles by Khaled Hosseini ’88 »
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Milburn Avenue (2020)
It’s 1960 America, where optimism abounds, music is fun, cars sport chrome wings, beats study Kerouac, and residents are secure, working, and happy. And yet in ‘Milburn Avenue’s’ fictional city of Sylvania, a family business owner clashes with his patriarch father and mistrusted in-laws; the controller has launched an embezzlement scheme; an out of town cop pursues a factory worker over an old homicide; a high school girl has a crush on a negro student; strip clubs thrive; a college sophomore grapples with his sexuality; a young single woman finds herself pregnant and her boyfriend womanizing; local bars witness human frailties; and teenagers grow up in large inner city high schools where social class, money, race, and academic levels are as varied as the city’s neighborhoods.
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The Valley of Heart's Delight (2023)
Did you know, during the past decade, less than 2% of Silicon Valley identified as Black? You best believe Joseph Hart does! Got something to say about it, too. As do the rest of the Hart family. Especially, when Joseph mistakenly discovers a secret life hack inside a spammy new email. A fictional account of the peaks and valleys of a brazenly Black family and their creative DIY life-hacks at work in Y2K Silicon Valley.
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A Revolution of the Mind (2022)
From the chilly gray of her hometown on Chicago’s North Shore to a palm-speckled, sun-drenched California campus, young Ellen "Boo" Harvey is caught in a spiral into mania and melancholy that no one around her has the language, energy, or courage to look squarely in the face. Unheard or dismissed by her family and friends, Boo is forced to grapple with the ferocity of her Madness and the intricacies of her mind alone -- careening from mental paralysis and near-invalidity to recovery and back again.
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Your Typical Outlaw and Other Stories of the Old West (2021)
YOUR TYPICAL OUTLAW is a comedy set in Texas in 1885, following the hilarious escapades of three very inept outlaws. Along with this novella, John Porter brings you fifteen original and entertaining short stories of the Old West. |
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Myriad Lands Vol. 2: Beyond the Edge (2016)
Beyond the familiar tropes of knights and castles, elves and dragons, there is a whole world of possibilities for fantasy literature. This anthology collects fantasy stories whose inspiration lies beyond the traditional medieval European basis. It brings exciting new stories and overlooked voices into the fantasy genre.
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The Buried Spitfires of Burma: A ‘Fake’ History (2020)
Andy Brockman and Tracy Spaight '93
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This is the story of Lincolnshire farmer David Cundall’s quixotic quest to unearth dozens of Spitfire fighters he believes were buried at the end of WWII. Armed with a high-tech survey showing mysterious shapes under the sunbaked surface of Yangon Airport, David’s expedition is equipped with state of the art JCB excavators, supported by a crack team of archaeologists, and bankrolled by Wargaming.net. This real-life treasure hunt, an enthralling mix of Indiana Jones and Sherlock Holmes, took a team of researchers deep into Myanmar on a quest to find legendary Spitfires. But instead, the team unearths a tale of fake history highlighting the conflict between those want to believe and those who demand evidence.
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The Jersey (2020)
The Jersey, the impressive debut novel by author Alvin Strane, is an addictive page-turning romp bridging baseball’s early origins with the corporate drama of today’s national pastime. Toss in the discovery of when and how the sport may have actually been integrated based on modern forensic science and you have a classic in the making.
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The Mystery of the Lace Wedding Dress: The Lacemaker's Secret (2024)
Inspired by an antique Belgian lace wedding dress, this story traces the origins of the dress from the original romance of a couple at the turn of the 19th century through the First World War. The journey takes the reader back in time through the ravages of war and the redemptive power of love. You will discover who the intended bride to be was and why this handmade dress was never worn.
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Never Have I Ever (2021)
Spells and stories, urban legends and immigrant tales: the magic in Isabel Yap’s debut collection jumps right off the page, from the joy in her new novella, “A Spell for Foolish Hearts” to the terrifying tension of the urban legend “Have You Heard the One About Anamaria Marquez.”
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Sophia of Silicon Valley: A Novel (2018)
Sharp, dramatic, and full of insider dish, “Sophia of Silicon Valley” is one woman’s story of a career storming the corridors of geek power and living in the shadow of its outrageous cast of maestros.
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