On earth we're briefly gorgeous

By Vuong, Ocean, 1988- author | 2019

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Fifty words for rain : a novel

By Lemmie, Asha, author | 2021

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The storied life of A.J. Fikry : a novel

By Zevin, Gabrielle, author | 2020

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Jane easily falls in love with Duncan: he's charming, good-natured, and handsome. He has also slept with nearly every woman in Boyne City, Michigan. Jane sees Duncan's old girlfriends everywhere - at restaurants, at the grocery store, even three towns away. While she may be able to come to terms with dating the world's most prolific seducer of women, she wishes she didn't have to share him quite so widely. His ex-wife, Aggie, still has Duncan mow her lawn. And his coworker Jimmy comes and goes from Duncan's apartment at the most inopportune times. Jane wonders how the relationship is supposed to work with all these people in it. But any notion Jane has of love and marriage changes with one tragic accident. Now her life is permanently intertwined with Duncan's, Aggie's, and Jimmy's, and she knows she will never have Duncan to herself. But is it possible that a deeper kind of happiness is right in front of her eyes?

How the one-armed sister sweeps her house : a novel

By Jones, Cherie, 1974-, author | 2021

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"In the tradition of Zadie Smith and Marlon James, a debut novel, set in Barbados, about four people confronting violence and love in a beachfront "paradise" In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers and go into the Baxter's Tunnels. When she's grown-up, Lala lives on the beach with her husband, Adan, a petty criminal with endless charisma whose thwarted burglary of one of the beach mansions sets off a chain of events with terrible consequences. A gunshot no one was meant to witness. A new mother whose baby is found lifeless on the beach. A woman torn between two worlds and incapacitated by grief. And two men, driven into the Tunnels by desperation and greed, who attempt a crime that may cost them their freedom--and their lives. How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House is an intimate and visceral portrayal of interconnected lives across race and class in a rapidly changing resort town, told by an astonishing new author of literary fiction."-- Provided by publisher.

Looking for Jane

By Marshall, Heather (Heather J.), author | 2022

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St. Paul Municipal Library

Book Club 2023 / 2024

Feature Books

We were never here

By Gilmore, Jennifer, author | 2016

A woman is no man

By Rum, Etaf, author | 2019

On earth we're briefly gorgeous

By Vuong, Ocean, 1988- author | 2019

In five years : a novel

By Serle, Rebecca, author | 2020

Fifty words for rain : a novel

By Lemmie, Asha, author | 2021

The storied life of A.J. Fikry : a novel

By Zevin, Gabrielle, author | 2020

Early morning riser

By Heiny, Katherine, author. | 2021

How the one-armed sister sweeps her house : a novel

By Jones, Cherie, 1974-, author | 2021

Looking for Jane

By Marshall, Heather (Heather J.), author | 2022