17 New South Street, Sullivan 302, Northampton, MA W: Massachusetts Center for the Book Yonder: A Novel by Jabari Asim In a beautiful, powerful, and elegiac novel that examines intimacy and longing in the quarters, Jabari Asim asks the vital...
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South Carolina State Library, 1500 Senate Street, Columbia, SC 29201FL W: South Carolina Center for the Book You Made Me Love you by John Edgar Wideman Comprised of thirty-five stories drawn from past collections (American Histories, Briefs, God’s Gym, All Stories Are True, Fever,...
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599 2nd Street S, St. Petersburg, FL W: Florida Humanities Center for the Book Florida by Lauren Groff A finalist for the 2018 National Book Award, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies—in Lauren Groff’s Florida,...
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Decatur Library, 215 Sycamore Street, Decatur, GA W: Georgia Center for the Book Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian A magical realist coming-of-age story, Gold Diggers skewers the model minority myth to tell a hilarious and moving story about immigrant identity,...
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320 E. 9th Street, Suite 404, Charlotte, NC W: North Carolina Humanities | North Carolina Center for the Book Songbirds and Stray Dogs by Meagan Lucas In Songbirds and Stray Dogs, Jolene has been abandoned by her addict mother on...
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946 Grady Avenue, Suite 100, Charlottesville, VA W: Virginia Center for the Book My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor...
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901 G St. NW, Washington, DC W: District of Columbia Center for the Book All Aunt Hagar’s Children by Edward P. Jones Set in Washington, DC, Edward P. Jones, a prodigy of the short story, returns to the form that...
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502 Paterno Library, University Park, PA W: Pennsylvania Center for the Book Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon A made-into-a-movie satirical classic, Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon ventures into the brooding hijinks of a flawed English professor and his protégé who...
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108 West Centre Street, Baltimore, MD W: Maryland Center for the Book at Maryland Humanities Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother and singing in her church choir. Shy, quiet,...
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121 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd North, Dover, DE W: Delaware Center for the Book A Little Hope by Ethan Joella A Little Hope explores the intertwining lives of a dozen neighbors as they confront everyday desires and fears: a...
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