Alexandra's Staff Picks

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1. Angels in America: a gay fantasia on national themes

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Author:
Kushner, Tony
Average Rating:
5 stars
Formats:
Book, Audiobook
Description:
Dramatizes the effects of AIDS on the United States through the experiences of lawyer Roy Cohn, a Mormon couple, and a young man called Prior Walter.

2. Circe: a novel

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Author:
Miller, Madeline
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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Description:
Follows Circe, the banished witch daughter of Helios, as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals.

3. Daisy Jones & the Six: a novel

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Author:
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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Description:
"Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne....

4. Educated: a memoir

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Author:
Westover, Tara
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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"An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University"--Amazon.com.

5. Eligible: a novel

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Author:
Sittenfeld, Curtis
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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Description:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Wonderfully tender and hilariously funny, Eligible tackles gender, class, courtship, and family as Curtis Sittenfeld reaffirms herself as one of the most dazzling authors writing today.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE TIMES (UK)

This version of the Bennet family—and Mr. Darcy—is one that you have and haven’t met...

6. Get a life, Chloe Brown: a novel

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Author:
Hibbert, Talia
Series:
The Brown sisters volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Description:
"Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost--but not quite--dying, she's come up with seven directives to help her 'Get a life', and she's already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamorous family's mansion. The next items? Enjoy a drunken night out; ride a motorcycle; go camping; have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex; travel the world with nothing but hand luggage; and do something...

7. The starless sea

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Author:
Morgenstern, Erin
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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Description:
"Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a rare 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 story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues--a bee, a key, and a sword--that lead him...

8. Wild: from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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Author:
Strayed, Cheryl, 1968-
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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Description:
The story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe-- and built her back up again. A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.