A crime novel written by a former IRA bank robber about a bank robber who's trying to keep his theft a secret from the IRA. If you've been watching Money Heist, this is the perfect read while you're waiting for the next season.
Sarah
Filipina-Spanish-American Alba goes to live with her grandmother in Barcelona, where she finds her people -- Abuela Lola, baker Toni, and Toni's son Joaquim -- and her place, a bakery that feels like home. Learning to bake helps Alba deal with her family's problems back in New York, but when Toni goes out of business, it's up to Alba to create a new space for everyone.
Sarah
An absolutely brilliant essay collection from an Emerson professor.
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When her older sister's rapist is sentenced to no jail time--and her own comment about learning to use a sword gets taken out of context--Em takes inspiration from a 15th-century woman who defended the women of her era.
Sarah
In 1946 Sydney, Billie Walker reopens her father's detective agency. Tracking down cheating husbands is ordinary work, but it leads her to dead bodies and postwar corruption, and all sorts of danger.
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Lily Hu wants a lot of things that are out of reach in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1954: She wants to build rockets. She wants to avoid the communist witch hunts. And -- much to her surprise -- she wants Kathleen Miller, who is definitely not the nice Chinese boy everyone expects for her.
Sarah
A half-Chinese girl in frontier South Dakota brings a new perspective to the pioneer story.
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A hapless millennial's smart appliances decide she needs some help with her career, her love life, and her relationship with her mother. Always listen to your refrigerator.
Sarah
When a single mom visiting a friend at the hospital helps out an AIDS patient the nurses won't touch, she has no idea she'll spend the next decade as an advocate and caretaker for gay men in Arkansas, even burying them in her family's cemetery plot when their families reject them. The book is both a time capsule -- including an appearance by early-career Bill Clinton -- and the compelling story of a woman who made a difference in the world without being remotely saintly.
Sarah
