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by Anne Tyler - Fiction

After presiding over a disastrous family picnic in Baltimore, fifty-three-year-old Rebecca Davitch suddenly begins to question who she is...and how she has turned into someone other than herself. The story of how she answers this question is beguiling, funny, and deeply moving.

by Daniel Clowes - Graphic Novel

Two best friends, Enid and Becky, face the prospect of growing up, and more importantly, apart.

by Joyce Carol Oates - Biography, Nonfiction

In her Author's Note, Joyce Carol Oates explains that Blonde is "a radically distilled 'life' in the form of fiction," not a biography of Norma Jean Baker, a.k.a. Marilyn Monroe. In fact, Blonde is perhaps Joyce Carol Oates' most ambitious novel.