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• The Seven Daughters of Dupree

  Williams, Nikesha Elise,

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  In 1995, 14-year-old Tati uncovers a legacy of family secrets while trying to learn the identity of her father. Bound by a mysterious malediction that means they will only give birth to daughters, the Dupree women confront a legacy of pain,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Leave It Up to You

  a Novel

  Chong, Jinwoo,

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  When Jack Jr. awakens from a two-year coma having lost his job and the love of his life, he makes a reluctant homecoming back to the bustling Korean American enclave of Fort Lee, New Jersey, back into the waiting arms of his parents, who he last saw…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Family Recipe

  a Novel

  Huynh, Carolyn,

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  A stunning family dramedy about estranged siblings competing to inherit their father's Vietnamese sandwich franchise and unravel family mysteries. The Family Recipe is about rediscovering one's roots, different types of fatherly love, legacy, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Julia Song Is Undateable

  a Novel

  Lee, Susan (Novelist),

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  30-year-old Julia Song has a successful career, but when her beloved grandmother's dying wish is for Julia to marry, she enlists her family to help her find The One.

• The Inheritance

  Sakhlecha, Trisha,

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  The Agarwals have gathered on a private, luxury island off the west coast of Scotland for a much-anticipated family reunion at which their billionaire patriarch will announce the succession plan for his company, but at least one person won't make it…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fun for the Whole Family

  a Novel

  Smith, Jennifer E., 1980-

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  The four Endicott siblings--Gemma, Connor, Roddy, and Jude--were once inseparable, a bond created by the absence of their dazzling, mercurial mother, who would return for a few weeks each summer to whisk them off on sprawling road trips around the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hollow Spaces

  a Novel

  Suthammanont, Victor,

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  Estranged brothers, spurred on by their mother's failing health, decide to reconcile their differences regarding their father's murder acquittal by reinvestigating the murder to come to a definitive conclusion, and, in the process, salvage what's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Beautiful Family

  a Novel

  Trevelyan, Jennifer,

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  Over the course of one sunbaked summer family vacation, ten-year-old Alix and her new friend, Kahu, set out to solve the disappearance of a child who was presumed drowned the year before. When someone else goes missing, Alix's family find themselves…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Run for the Hills

  a Novel

  Wilson, Kevin, 1978-

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  An unexpected road trip across America brings a family together in this raucous and moving new novel from the bestselling author of Nothing to See Here.

• Long After We Are Gone

  a Novel

  Harris, Terah Shelton,

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  Told in alternating viewpoints, Long After We Are Gone is a searing portrait on the power of family and letting go of things that no longer serve you, exploring the burden of familial expectations, the detriment of miscommunication, and the lessons…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sandwich

  a Novel

  Newman, Catherine, 1968-

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  While on her family's yearly escape to Cape Cod, Rocky, sandwiched between her half-grown kids and fully aging parents, relives the tenderness and sorrow of a handful of long-ago summers, coming face-to-face with her family's history and accepting…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

  Stevenson, Benjamin,

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  During a family reunion at a snowy Australian ski resort, which becomes the backdrop for unraveling secrets, multiple deaths, and a whodunit investigation, Ernie Cunningham, a self-aware narrator, reveals that every member of his family has caused…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Covenant of Water

  a Novel

  Verghese, Abraham, 1955-

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  Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning--and in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Any Other Family

  Brown, Eleanor, 1973-

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  Though they look like any other family, they aren't one - not quite. They are three sets of parents who find themselves intertwined after adopting four biological siblings, having committed to keeping the children as connected as possible.

• Light Years From Home

  Chen, Mike,

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  When their brother who has been missing for fifteen years suddenly returns, changed, Evie and Kass Shao must cast aside their differences to hide him from the FBI and an entire alien army who are in fast pursuit.

• Island Time

  a Novel

  Clark, Georgia,

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  The Kellys are messy, loud, loving Australians. The Lees are sophisticated, aloof, buttoned-up Americans. They have nothing in common... except for the fact that their daughters are married. When a nearby volcano erupts during their short vacation…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Find Your Way Home

  Regan, Katy,

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  What if the person you thought you'd lost forever walked back into your life? A warm, life-affirming novel about what happens when a sister discovers that the brother she hasn't seen in more than a decade is homeless, and in reconnecting with him…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Memphis

  a Novel

  Stringfellow, Tara M.,

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  In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father's violence to the only place they have left: her mother's ancestral home in Memphis.

• The Lifeguards

  a Novel

  Ward, Amanda Eyre, 1972-

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  The bonds between three picture-perfect, viciously protective mothers are tested when their sons uncover a horrible crime in this provocative novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Jetsetters.

• Perish

  a Novel

  Watkins, LaToya,

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  In a tight-knit, rural Black Texan community of Jerusalem, the Turner clan comes together as the family says good-bye to their matriarch on her deathbed. The family's reunion unearths long-kept secrets and forces each member to ask themselves…Read moreRead more of this annotation