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• The Stranger Diaries

  Griffiths, Elly

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  "Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic writer R. M. Holland, she teaches a course on it every year. But when one of Clare’s colleagues and closest friends is found dead, with a line from R.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Special Topics in Calamity Physics

  Pessl, Marisha

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  "Calamity Physics: The resulting explosion of energy, light, heartbreak, and wonder as Blue van Meer enters a small, elite school in a sleepy mountain town. Blue’s highly unusual past draws her to a charismatic group of friends at St. Gallway and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Babel

  or the Necessity of Violence : An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

  Kuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.),

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  "1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he'll enroll in Oxford University's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Shadow of the Wind

  Ruiz Zafón, Carlos, 1964-

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  "Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ace of Spades

  Àbíké-Íyímídé, Faridah,

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  "When two Niveus Private Academy students, Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, are selected to be part of the elite school’s senior class prefects, it looks like their year is off to an amazing start. After all, not only does it look great on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Secret History

  Tartt, Donna,

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  "Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Disorientation

  Chou, Elaine Hsieh,

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  "Twenty-nine-year-old PhD student Ingrid Yang is desperate to finish her dissertation on the late canonical poet Xiao-Wen Chou and never read about “Chinese-y” things again. But after years of grueling research, all she has to show for her efforts…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Real Life

  Taylor, Brandon, (Brandon L. G.),

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  "Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Starless Sea

  Morgenstern, Erin,

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  "Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a…Read moreRead more of this annotation