Tag: 2020 Release
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A Very Punchable Face
From growing up in a family of firefighters on Staten Island to commuting three hours a day to high school, to attending Harvard while Facebook was created, to hosting Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live, Jost shares how he has navigated the world like a slightly smarter Forrest Gump.
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Black Sun
A fantasy story inspired by Pre-Columbian American civilizations. It makes for a unique and intriguing story about celestial prophecies, political intrigue, and forbidden magic.
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Beach Read
A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily everafters.
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The Night Watchman
Based upon Erdrich’s grandfather’s life as a night watchman and a tribal chairman of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota as he fights the Native American dispossession in the 1950s.
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What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat
Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social justice movements to be inclusive of plus-sized people’s experiences.
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The House in the Cerulean Sea
As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, Linus Baker spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel to Marsyas Island Orphanage, where six dangerous children reside, he must set aside his fears and determine whether…
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Fifty Words for Rain
Nori, a young, biracial girl ends up living with her grandparents after her mother abandons her at their front gate. Mom disappears. An embarrassment to her aristocratic family due to her race, Nori is hidden away until her brother arrives and becomes her ally.
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Blacktop Wasteland
Bug – loving husband, father, and car mechanic. As Bug falls into some financial troubles, he resurrects his past and agrees to be a getaway driver to a heist that should solve all his problems. Only the heist goes very wrong.
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What You Wish For
The story of elementary school librarian Sam who loves her school, her community, and her life. When tragedy strikes, a new principal takes over the school and runs it in a very different direction. That new principal just happens to be Sam’s old crush, who she remembers as starkly different.
Read Between the Spines 