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Reconstructing Amelia

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Reconstructing Amelia: A Novel By Kimberly McCreight Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780062225443
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Published: Harper Perennial - December 3rd, 2013

When Kate, a successful single lawyer, learns that her teenage daughter Amelia has been caught cheating in school, she rushes to the school in disbelief. Upon arrival she learns that the truth is much, much, worse: Amelia has jumped off the roof of the school. A month after Amelia's death, Kate receives a cryptic text: Amelia didn't jump. Kate then sets out to learn the truth about Amelia's death, and on the way, begins to uncover a mass of dark secrets about the social lives of New York City high school students. Incredibly detailed, well-written, and with characters so complex you'll wish you had known them your whole lives, Reconstructing Amelia is not to be missed. ~ Reviewed by Emily De Fiore


I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

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I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You: A Novel By Courtney Maum Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781476764559
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Published: Touchstone - April 7th, 2015

Maum's biting, heartfelt novel tells the tale of Richard, a young British artist in Paris on the verge of officially selling out. Once an edgy performance artist, he now provides for his elegant French wife and daughter by selling harmless landscape portraits. When his wife learns of Richard's affair with a wild American, he finds his life falling apart in ways he never imagined. Portraying an array of international relationships, cultures, and pretensions, Maum takes her readers on a ride through one man's journey to redemption. ~ Reviewed by Emily De Fiore


White Noise

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White Noise: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) By Don DeLillo, Richard Powers (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Don DeLillo, Richard Powers (Introduction by)
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ISBN: 9780143105985
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Published: Penguin Classics - December 29th, 2009

DeLillo's eerily prophetic 1980s novel focuses on consumer culture in middle America, with a hilarious and harshly observant eye. "White Noise" tells the story of Jack, a college professor of "Hitler Studies" at a prestigious liberal arts school. When a mysterious chemical leak occurs in the small town, Jack and his family struggle to not let their paranoia get the better of them. Funny, bizarre, and incredibly unique, this novel is not to be missed. ~ Reviewed by Emily De Fiore


Interestings

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The Interestings: A Novel By Meg Wolitzer Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781594632341
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Published: Riverhead Books - March 25th, 2014

Meg Wolitzer's most recent debut follows a group of friends who meet at an arts summer camp. Widely talented and eccentric, the group thrives at the camp- until a traumatic event tears them apart. Wolitzer dives deep into her character's anxieties and hopes, they are inherently human. A definite must read! Have some tissues at the ready. ~ Reviewed by Emily De Fiore


Station Eleven

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Station Eleven: A Novel (National Book Award Finalist) By Emily St. John Mandel Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780804172448
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Published: Vintage - June 2nd, 2015

Mandel has been rightfully praised for her incredibly powerful, sweeping and unmissable novel. After a famous actor dies onstage during a production of King Lear, the world spins into chaos as a fast-moving and contagious flu wipes out most of humanity. Twenty years later, a small traveling Shakespearean company travels from ravaged town to town, trying to bring joy to a seemingly joyless world. Mandel's poetic language and compelling characters make this a truly outstanding novel. ~ Reviewed by Emily De Fiore


Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

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The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse: A Novel By Louise Erdrich Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780061577628
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Published: Harper Perennial - August 16th, 2016

"Little No Horse" is one of Erdrich's more celebrated novels, and rightfully so. Erdrich tells the highly unique and complex tale of Father Damien, the elderly lone priest of a Native American reserve. As the end of his life nears, he reflects on the miracles he has seen performed at the reserve-both good and evil. He focuses on the two most important events at his time at Little No Horse- his suspicion of dark magic from one of the nuns, and his own, life-long secret that he has been keeping since arriving at Little No Horse. Dark, detailed, and truly one of a kind, this a must read. ~ Reviewed by Emily De Fiore


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