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Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng. In this near future dystopian novel, 20-year-old Bird Gardner has not seen his mother, an acclaimed Chinese American poet and activist, since she vanished eleven years previously. Bird and his father live a quiet existence in a small room just off Harvard Square. One day, Bird receives a letter containing only a cryptic drawing, and he realizes the drawing contains clues as to the whereabouts of his mother. This novel was named a Best Book of 2022 by multiple news organizations and comes highly recommended by our reader. AH
The Paris Orphan by Natasha Lester. Jessica May is an American
photojournalist who comes to Paris during World War II, and faces an uphill
battle as a woman on the front lines. Friendships with other war correspondents
and military men help, but the love of an orphaned girl thrust into the arms of
the soldiers is what keeps Jessica going. Skip to 2005 and D’Arcy Hallworth has
come to a chateau outside of Paris to curate a collection of World War II
photographs – an assignment that will upend everything she thinks she knows
about her family. This historical fiction is loosely based on true events, was
heavily researched and is an absolute page-turner. Our reader said that she
couldn’t put it down. WJ
The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis. Romance, murder, high art and a true-life famous family all come together in this historical novel. In 1920, Lillian Carter, down-on-her-luck former model, starts working with the Frick family heiress and slowly but surely becomes entangled in the messy life of the family – affairs, stolen jewels, and high drama, culminating in a possible murder. Fifty years later, English model Veronica Weber chances upon a series of hidden messages in the Frick mansion (now a museum), a discovery that sets off a whirlwind adventure that could finally unlock the truth behind what really happened in the gilded halls of the opulent manor. Our reader was thrilled with this combination of romance, history, and art. MH
Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive by Philipp
Dettmer is an incredibly engaging, accessible deep dive into the human immune
system. Each chapter delves into a different facet of the immune system that is
engaged in a never-ending war against bacteria, viruses, fungi, and cancers. Our
reader particularly loved the informative, colorful diagrams throughout the
book, finding that they really helped clarify and emphasize the descriptions in
the text, and found the book to be completely fascinating. KM
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