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• The Bee Sting

  Murray, Paul, 1975-

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  2023 Shortlist - In a small town outside of Dublin, an economic downturn spells trouble for the once-affluent Barnes family. For Cass, finishing up high school, it's the worry that her parents won't be able to send her to university. For…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• If I Survive You

  Escoffery, Jonathan

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  2023 Shortlist - In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But America, as the couple and their two children learn, is far from the promised land. Excluded from society as Black…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Study for Obedience

  Bernstein, Sarah (Literature teacher)

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  2023 Shortlist - A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has recently left him. Soon after her arrival, a series of inexplicable events…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Small Things Like These

  Keegan, Claire

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  2022 Shortlist - It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Treacle Walker

  Garner, Alan, 1934-

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  2022 Shortlist - Living alone in an old house, Joseph Coppock, an introspective young boy, develops a mysterious friendship with a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker who introduces him to a world beyond his wildest imagination.

• Glory

  a Novel

  Bulawayo, NoViolet

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  2022 Shortlist - Jidada, a former colony, gained its independence during the Liberation War and has since been ruled by the ruthless "Father of the Nation," a horse who has maintained his 40-year reign through rigged elections and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No One Is Talking About This

  Lockwood, Patricia

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  2021 Shortlist - Having suddenly gained fame on social media, a woman traveling worldwide to meet her worshipful fans comes to believe that all the voices bubbling up from this vast portal, as she calls it, are dictating her thoughts. Then…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bewilderment

  a Novel

  Powers, Richard, 1957-

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  2021 Shortlist - The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Passage North

  a Novel

  Arudpragasam, Anuk,

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  2021 Shortlist - Krishan has returned home to Sri Lanka to help his mother take care of his grandmother. On the heels of receiving an unexpected correspondence from Anjum, with whom he had a brief but intense affair, Krishan hears from the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Burnt Sugar

  Doshi, Avni, 1982-

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  2020 Shortlist - In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents), and spent years chasing after a disheveled, homeless 'artist' -…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Shadow King

  a Novel

  Mengiste, Maaza

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  2020 Shortlist - With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid to Kidane and his wife Aster. Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilize his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Mournable Body

  a Novel

  Dangarembga, Tsitsi

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  2020 Shortlist - Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai moves to a widow's boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher. But at every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself she is faced…Read moreRead more of this annotation