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Accidents of Providence
Stacia Brown - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Rachel Lockyer is under investigation for murder.It is 1649. King Charles has been beheaded for treason. Amid civil war, Cromwell's army is running the country. The Levellers, a small faction of political agitators, are calling for rights to the people. And a new law targeting unwed... |
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Afterwards: A Novel
Rosamund Lupton - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Sister comes a compelling, thrilling story of a mother who will do anything to protect her child.The school is on fire. Her children are inside.Grace runs toward the burning building, desperate to reach them.In the aftermath of the devastating... |
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The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion: A Novel
Fannie Flagg - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe one and only Fannie Flagg, beloved author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You, is at her hilarious and superb best in this new comic mystery novel about two women who are forced... |
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All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation... |
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American Dervish: A Novel
Ayad Akhtar - Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina... |
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American Pastoral: American Trilogy
Philip Roth - Vintage; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century - a compulsively readable elegy for Americas promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss, and "one of Roths most powerful... |
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American Wife: A Novel
Curtis Sittenfeld - Random House Audio; Abridged edition
Format: Audio CD
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On what might become one of the most significant days in her husband’s presidency, Alice Blackwell considers the strange and unlikely path that has led her to the White House–and the repercussions of a life lived, as she puts it, “almost in opposition to itself.”A... |
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Barbara Kingsolver - Harper Perennial; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural lifevowing that, for one year, theyd only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable,... |
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Another Piece of My Heart
Jane Green - Wheeler Publishing; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestselling Author -- Andi has spent much of her adult life looking for the perfect man, and at thirty-seven, she's finally found him. Ethan -- divorced with two daughters, Emily and Sophia -- is a devoted father and even better husband. Always hoping one day she would... |
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The Art Forger: A Novel
B. A. Shapiro - Algonquin Books; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Almost twenty-five years after the infamous art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum -- still the largest unsolved art theft in history -- one of the stolen Degas paintings is delivered to the Boston studio of a young artist. Claire Roth has entered into a Faustian bargain with... |
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The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel
Garth Stein - Harper Perennial; First Paper edition
Format: Paperback
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A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope--a captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life . . . as only a dog could tell it. |
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The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story
Lily Koppel - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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AN ABC TV SERIES PREMIERING JUNE 18, 2015!As America's Mercury Seven astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television cameras focused on the brave smiles of their young wives. Overnight, these women were transformed from military spouses into American royalty. They had tea with... |
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The Aviator's Wife: A Novel
Melanie Benjamin - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book
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In the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America's most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. "The history [is] exhilarating. . . . The Aviator's... |
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Baking Cakes in Kigali: A Novel
Gaile Parkin - Delacorte Press; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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Once in a great while a debut novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, who takes us to bold new places and into previously unimaginable lives. Gaile Parkin is just such a talent - and Baking Cakes in Kilgali is just such a novel. This gloriously written tale... |
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Beach Music: A Novel
Pat Conroy - Dial Press Trade Paperback; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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PAT CONROY, Americas preeminent storyteller, delivers a sweeping novel of lyric intensity and searing truththe story of Jack McCall, an American expatriate in Rome, scarred by tragedy and betrayal. His desperate desire to find peace after his wifes suicide draws him into a painful, intimate... |
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Beautiful Lies: A Novel
Lisa Unger - Random House Large Print
Format: Large Print]
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If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the beautiful lie she used to call her life. She would still be the privileged daughter of a doting father and a loving mother. Her life would still be perfect—with... |
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A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
Sylvia Nasar - Touchstone
Format: Paperback
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How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages?" the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner. "Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way my mathematical... |
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Beautiful Ruins: A Novel
Jess Walter - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 . . . and is rekindled in Hollywood... |
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The Beekeeper's Apprentice: or, On the Segregation of the Queen
Laurie R. King - Picador/Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Paperback
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An Agatha Award Best Novel NomineeNamed One of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers AssociationFrom New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King comes the book that introduced us to the ingenious Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes mysteries, The... |
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo - Random House; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai... |
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Beloved
Toni Morrison
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Shifting in time between the years preceding the Civil War and the years immediately following it. "Beloved" is the story of how an escaped slave tries to overcome the tragic death of her daughter. Morrison's lyrical narrative weaves together the supernatural and the tan |
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Between, Georgia
Joshilyn Jackson - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Nonny Frett understands the meaning of the phrase "inbetween a rock and a hard place" better than any womanalive. She's got two mothers, "one deaf-blind and theother four baby steps from flat crazy." She's got twomen: a husband who's easing out the back door;... |
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Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty - Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Large Print Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestselling Author Pirriwee Public?s annual school Trivia Night has ended in a shocking riot. One parent is dead. The school principal is horrified. As police investigate what appears to have been a tragic accident, signs begin to indicate that this devastating death might... |
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Big Stone Gap
Adriana Trigiani - Ballantine Books; Mti edition
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Now a major motion picture written and directed by Adriana Trigiani, starring Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson, Whoopi Goldberg, John Benjamin Hickey, Jane Krakowski, Anthony LaPaglia, and Jenna Elfman * Features behind-the-scenes bonus material from the film - including... |
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Blue Highways: A Journey into America
William Least Heat-Moon - Little Brown & Co
Format: Hardcover
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William Least Heat-Moon's journey into America began with little more than the need to put home behind him. At a turning point in his life, he packed up a van he called Ghost Dancing and escaped out of himself and into the country. The people and places he discovered on his roundabout... |
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Tony Horwitz - Henry Holt and Co.; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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In an exhilarating tale of historic adventure, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confederates in the Attic retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook, the Yorkshire farm boy who drew the map of the modern world Captain James Cook's three epic journeys in the 18th century were the last... |
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Michael Pollan
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In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant - thought this time the obsessions revolves around... |
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Bound: A Novel
Sally Gunning - Harper
Format: Print book
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Brought to New England and bound into servitude to pay her father's debts, Alice Cole, at fifteen, can barely remember the time when she was not a servant to John Morton. His daughter, Nabby - only three years older than Alice - begins as Alice's childhood companion, but when Nabby... |
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Boy's Life
Robert R. McCammon
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Don't miss the thrilling novel from #1 New York Times bestselling award-winning author Robert McCammon, in a book that Publishers Weekly calls "both a mystery that will satisfy the most finicky aficionado and a boisterous travelogue."Zephyr, Alabama |
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Bread Alone: A Novel
Judith R. Hendricks - William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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The life of 31-year-old trophy wife Wynter Morrison suddenly changes course when her husband announces one evening that their marriage is over. Emotionally devastated and desperate for a change of scenery, Wyn moves to Seattle where she spends aimless hours at a local bakery, sipping coffee... |
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The Bridge
Doug Marlette - HarperCollinsPublishers
Format: Print book
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Doug Marlette comes a captivating story of family and forgiveness, of indomitable women and their courageous, headstrong men. It is the story of an enduring friendship, and of a bittersweet longing as old as Shakespeare and as contemporary as today's... |
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Brooklyn: A Novel
Colm Toibin - Scribner; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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“One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must... |
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Bruno, Chief of Police: A Novel of the French Countryside
Martin Walker - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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The first installment in the delightful, internationally acclaimed series featuring Chief of Police Bruno.Meet Benot Courrges, aka Bruno, a policeman in a small village in the South of France. He's a former soldier who has embraced the pleasures and slow rhythms of country life. He has a gun but never... |
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The Burgess Boys: A Novel
Elizabeth Strout - Random House
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post * NPR * Good HousekeepingElizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," wrote The New Yorker on the publication of her Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge. The San Francisco... |
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Caleb's Crossing: A Novel
Geraldine Brooks - Penguin Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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A New York Times bestselling tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure from the Pulitzer Prize–winning authorBethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve,... |
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The Care and Management of Lies: A Novel of the Great War
Jacqueline Winspear - Harper Perennial; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series turns her prodigious talents to this World War I standalone novel, a lyrical drama of love struggling to survive in a damaged, fractured world.By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since... |
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The Chilbury Ladies' Choir: A Novel
Jennifer Ryan - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER"A delightful debut." - People For readers of Lilac Girls and The Nightingale, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir unfolds the struggles, affairs, deceptions, and triumphs of a village choir during World War II.As England becomes enmeshed... |
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The Circle
Dave Eggers - Vintage Books
Format: Print book
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The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author ofA Hologram for the King,a finalist for the National Book Award.When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the worlds most powerful internet company, she feels shes been given the opportunity of a lifetime.... |
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond - Viking Adult; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A study of the downfall of some of historys greatest civilizations, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, includes coverage of such cultures as the Anasazi, the Maya, and the Viking colony on Greenland, tracing patterns of environmental damage, climate... |
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The Color of Water: A Black Mans Tribute to His White Mother
James McBride - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, and Kill Em and Leave, a James Brown biography. Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love... |
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Comet's Tale: How the Dog I Rescued Saved My Life
Lynette Padwa - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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Comets Tale is a story about a friendship between two former winners, both a little down on their luck, who together stage a remarkable comeback. A former hard-driving attorney, Steven Wolf has reluctantly left his job and family and moved to Arizona for its warm winter climate. There he is drawn... |
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The Commoner: A Novel
John Burnham Schwartz - Nan A. Talese
Format: Print book
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It is 1959 when Haruko, a young woman of good family, marries the Crown Prince of Japan, the heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne. She is the first non-aristocratic woman to enter the longest-running, almost hermetically sealed, and mysterious monarchy in the world. Met with cruelty and suspicion... |
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A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole - Grove Weidenfeld
Format: Paperback
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A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans'... |
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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Anthony Marra - Hogarth; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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A National Book Awards Longlist SelectionA New York Times and Washington Post bestsellerA story of the transcendent power of love in wartime, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is a work of sweeping breadth, profound compassion, and lasting significance. Two doctors risk everything to save... |
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
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Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but finds it hard to understand other people. When he discovers a dead dog on a neighbour's lawn he decides to solve the mys |
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Cutting for Stone: A novel
Abraham Verghese - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Book
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A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel - an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis... |
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The Daring Ladies of Lowell: A Novel
Kate Alcott - Random House Inc
Format: Print book
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"Alice is cast in the mold of a character created by an earlier Alcott, the passionate and spunky Jo March. A refreshingly old-fashioned heroine, she makes THE DARING LADIES OF LOWELL appealing"--The New York Times Book Review"Offers up a compelling slice of both feminist... |
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Erik Larson - Random House Large Print
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times BestsellerFrom the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the LusitaniaOn May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York,... |
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Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams
Lynne Withey - Books On Tape
Format: Audio CD
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This is the life of Abigail Adams, wife of patriot John Adams, who became the most influential woman in Revolutionary America. Rich with excerpts from her personal letters, Dearest Friend captures the public and private sides of this fascinating woman, who was both an advocate of slave... |
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Defending Jacob
William Landay - Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover
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Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in suburban Massachusetts for over twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home. Then a shocking crime shatters their town, and Andy is blindsided by what happens next His fourteen-year-old... |
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant: A Novel
Anne Tyler - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback
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"Beautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . superb entertainment." -The New York Times"A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read."-The Boston GlobePearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not of her memory. It was a Sunday... |
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel
Rebecca Wells - HarperCollins
Format: Print book
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"A big, blowzy romp through the rainbow eccentricities of three generations of crazy bayou debutantes." - Atlanta Journal-Constitution"A very entertaining and, ultimately, deeply moving novel about the complex bonds between mother and daughter." - Washington Post"Mary... |
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The Done Thing
Tracy Manaster - Tyrus Books
Format: Print book
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Lida Stearl prides herself on always knowing the most appropriate thing to do in any given situation--confidence that has served her well in building her career as an orthodontist, maintaining a happy marriage, and raising her young niece in the wake of a violent tragedy. But now she's... |
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The Dovekeepers: A Novel
Alice Hoffman - Scribner; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman’s most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of imagination and research, set in ancient Israel. In 70 C.E., nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain in the Judean... |
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The Dry Grass of August
Anna Jean Mayhew - Kensington Publishing Corporation; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case In this beautifully written debut Anna Jean Mayhew offers a riveting depiction of Southern life in the throes of segregation and what it will mean for a young girl on her way to adulthood and for the woman who means the world... |
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery - Europa Editions
Format: Paperback
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The international bestseller that has sold over 10 million copies worldwide. The Elegance of the Hedgehog is a moving, funny, atmospheric novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us. We are in an elegant htel particulier in the center of Paris. Rene, the building's... |
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Empress Orchid
Anchee Min - Wheeler
Format: Hardcover
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Into China's Forbidden City in the last days of its imperial glory comes seventeen-year-old Tzu Hsi, known as Orchid. A minor concubine among hundreds of women vying to provide the Emperor an heir, Orchid takes matters into her own hands. Bribing her way into the royal bedchamber, she seduces... |
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Everything I Never Told You: A Novel
Celeste Ng - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Winner of the Alex Award Winner of the APALA Award for Fiction NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: NPR San Francisco Chronicle Entertainment Weekly The Huffington Post Buzzfeed Amazon Grantland Booklist... |
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Exit West: A Novel
Mohsin Hamid - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE 2018 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2017, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "A breathtaking novel ... [that] arrives at an urgent time." -NPR "It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America... |
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Family Tree
Barbara Delinsky - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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Dana Clarke has always longed for the stability of home and family - her own childhood was not an easy one. Now she has married a man she adores who is from a prominent New England family, and she is about to give birth to their first child. But what should be the happiest day of her life... |
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Fates and Furies: A Novel
Lauren Groff - Riverhead Books
Format: Print book
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AMAZON'S 2015 BEST BOOK OF THE YEARNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A FINALIST FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NPR MORNING EDITION BOOK CLUB PICKNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, TIME, THE SEATTLE TIMES, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, SLATE, LIBRARY JOURNAL,... |
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Fates and Traitors: A Novel of John Wilkes Booth
Jennifer Chiaverini - Dutton
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker returns with a riveting work of historical fiction following the notorious John Wilkes Booth and the four women who kept his perilous confidence. John Wilkes Booth, the mercurial son of an acclaimed British... |
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The Fault In Our Stars
John Green - Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover
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A 1 New York Times Bestseller An Amazon Best Book of the Month, January 2012 Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augusta Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support... |
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A Fierce Radiance: A Novel
Lauren Belfer - Harper; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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"An engrossing and ambitious novel that vividly portrays a critical time in American history." - Booklist (starred review) "Enthralling. A Fierce Radiance shines with fascinating detail.... Belfer's powerful portrayal of how people are changed in pursuit of a miracle... |
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Finding George Orwell in Burma
Emma Larkin - Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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Over the years the American writer Emma Larkin has spent traveling in Burma, she's come to know all too well the many ways this brutal police state can be described as "Orwellian." The life of the mind exists in a state of siege in Burma, and it long has. But Burma's connection... |
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Sheri Fink - Crown; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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One of the New York Times's Best Ten Books of the YearWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionWinner of the 2014 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Ridenhour Book Prize, the 2014 American Medical... |
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Flight Behavior: A Novel
Barbara Kingsolver
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"Kingsolver is a gifted magician of words." - TimeThe extraordinary New York Times bestselling author of The Lacuna (winner of the Orange Prize) , The Poisonwood Bible (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize) , and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingso |
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Flower Net: A Red Princess Mystery
Lisa See - Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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“Lisa See begins to do for Beijing what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did for turn-of-the-century London or Dashiell Hammett did for 1920s San Francisco: She discerns the hidden city lurking beneath the public facade.”–The Washington Post Book WorldIn the depths of a Beijing... |
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The Forgotten Garden: A Novel
Kate Morton - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the internationally bestselling author of The House at Riverton, an unforgettable new novel that transports the reader from the back alleys of poverty of pre-World War I London to the shores of colonial Australia where so many made a fresh start, and back to the windswept coast of Cornwall,... |
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Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Barnes & Noble Classics
Format: Hardcover
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Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some... |
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The Friday Night Knitting Club
Kate Jacobs - Putnam Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A charming and moving novel about female friendship and the experiences that knit us together-even when we least expect it. Walker and Daughter is Georgia Walker's little yarn shop, tucked into a quiet storefront on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The Friday Night Knitting Club was started... |
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Friday Nights at Honeybee's
Andrea Smith
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Everyone who's anyone in the Harlem music scene has heard of Honeybee McColor and the famous Friday night gathers that fill her brownstone to bursting. In the early 1960s, nowhere but "The Big House" attracts so many renowned jazz and blues musicians--and no one but Miss |
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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Now a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts. MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST The perennially bestselling, extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly)... |
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Go Set a Watchman: A Novel
Harper Lee - Harper
Format: Print book
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"Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch -- "Scout"--Returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming... |
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The Gods of Gotham
Lyndsay Faye - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: eBook
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One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Mystery/Thrillers of the YearOne of Kirkus Reviews' Ten Best Crime Novels of the YearOne of Gillian Flynn's "Recommendations for the Season" on TodayEdgar(R) Award Nominee for Best NovelALA Reading List Award for Best... |
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The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt - Hachette Audio
Format: Paperback
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Audie Award Winner, Solo Narration - Male, 2014Audie Award Winner, Literary Fiction, 2014The author of the classic best-sellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. Composed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted... |
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Good in Bed
Jennifer Weiner
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"At first my eyes wouldn't make sense of the letters. Finally, they unscrambled." Loving a Larger Woman, "said the headline, by Bruce Guberman. Bruce Guberman had been my boyfriend for just over three years, until we'd decided to take a break three months ago. And t |
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The Good Lord Bird: A Novel
James McBride - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2013 National Book Award for FictionSoon to be a major motion picture starring Liev Schreiber and Jaden SmithA Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Oprah Magazine Top 10 Book of the YearWinner of the Morning News Tournament of Champions"A magnificent new novel by the best-selling... |
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Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
Ben Montgomery - Chicago Review Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundred dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old... |
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The Great Gatsby
F Scott Fitzgerald
Format: Book
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September 10, 2018
The Great Gatsby is regarded as "The Great American Novel". A first edition of "The Great Gatsby" came up for auction on June 10, 2009 and was knocked down for the astounding price of $155,000. The picture in that auction catalog has been used to create... |
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A Great Reckoning: A Novel
Louise Penny - MacMillan Audio
Format: Audiobook
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When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes.Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering... |
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: A Novel
Annie Barrows - The Dial Press
Format: Book
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As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends - and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking... |
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
JARED DIAMOND - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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"Fascinating.... Lays a foundation for understanding human history." -- Bill Gates In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped... |
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H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald - Grove Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Book
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"A beautifully written and utterly magical journey through grief and hope. Macdonald moves so easily between the different threads of her story, it never loses grip on its reader. Even if you don't normally read memoirs, or nature books, this reads like a novel and I highly... |
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Hanna's Daughters: A Novel
Marianne Fredriksson - Ballentine Books
Format: Paperback
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Sweeping through one hundred years of Scandinavian history, this luminous story follows three generations of Swedish women--a grandmother, a mother, and a daughter--whose lives are linked through a century of great love and great loss. Resonating with truth and revelation, this moving novel... |
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The Help
Kathryn Stockett - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film - a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't - nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.Aibileen is a black maid... |
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Hild: A Novel
Nicola Griffith - Picador; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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WINNER OF THE WASHINGTON STATE BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONIn seventh-century Britain, a new religion is coming ashore and small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. Hild is the king's youngest niece, with a glittering mind and a natural authority.She is destined to become one of the pivotal... |
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Home Front: A Novel
Kristin Hannah - St. Martin's Press; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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In her bestselling novels Kristin Hannah has plumbed the depths of friendship, the loyalty of sisters, and the secrets mothers keep. Now, in her most emotionally powerful story yet, she explores the intimate landscape of a troubled marriage with this provocative and timely portrait of a husband... |
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Homegoing: A novel
Yaa Gyasi - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the NBCC's John Leonard First Book PrizeA New York Times 2016 Notable BookOne of Oprah's 10 Favorite Books of 2016NPR's Debut Novel of the YearOne of Buzzfeed's Best Fiction Books Of 2016One of Time's Top 10 Novels of 2016, Winner of 2017 PEN Hemingway award for debut... |
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Honolulu
Alan Brennert - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of the "dazzling historical saga" (The Washington Post), Moloka'i, comes the irresistible story of a young immigrant bride in a ramshackle town that becomes a great modern city |
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback
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In the opening pages of Jamie Ford's stunning debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery:... |
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The House on Tradd Street
Karen White - New American Library
Format: Paperback
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A brilliant, chilling series debut, featuring a Charleston real estate agent who loves old houses?and the secret histories inside them. Practical Melanie Middleton hates to admit she can see ghosts. But she?s going to have to accept it. An old man she recently met has died, leaving her his historic... |
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The Hundred Story Home: A Journey of Homelessness, Hope, and Healing
Kathy Izard - Grace Press
Format: Paperback
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A powerful true story about finding faith in yourself and something bigger. The Hundred Story Home leads you on an inspirational journey that begins with a question, "Where are the beds?" and ends with over one hundred formerly homeless people living in homes of their own. Kathy... |
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If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska
Heather Lende - Algonquin Books; 1ST edition
Format: Book
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Tiny Haines, Alaska, is ninety miles north of Juneau, accessible mainly by water or air—and only when the weather is good. There's no traffic light and no mail delivery; people can vanish without a trace and funerals are a community affair. Heather Lende posts both the obituaries... |
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The Illuminator
Brenda Rickman Vantrease - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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It is England, in the late fourteenth century, a time when the whim of a lord or the pleasure of a bishop can seal nearly anyone's fate. The printing press has yet to be invented. Books, written only in Latin or Norman French, are rare and costly, painstakingly lettered and illuminated... |
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot - Crown Publishers
Format: Book
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Wednesday, February 21, 2018 ~ 7:00pm
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools... |
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In Patagonia
Bruce Chatwin - Penguin classics
Format: Paperback
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The masterpiece of travel writing that revolutionized the genre and made its author famous overnight An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Bruce Chatwin's exquisite account of his journey through Patagonia teems with evocative... |
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In the Midst of Winter: A Novel
ISABEL ALLENDE - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller Worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala... |
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The Invention of Wings: A Novel
Sue Monk Kidd - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Book
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"The moment I finished 'The Invention of Wings, ' I knew this had to be the next Book Club selection... These strong female characters represent the women that have shaped our history and, through Sue's imaginative storytelling, give us a new perspective on slavery, injustice and the search... |
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The Island
Victoria Hislop - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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The Petrakis family lives in the small Greek seaside village of Plaka Just off the coast is the tiny island of Spinalonga where the nations leper colony once was locateda place that has haunted four generations of Petrakis women Theres Eleni ripped from her husband and two young daughters... |
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Ishmael:A Novel
Daniel Quinn - Bantam
Format: Paperback
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One of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following. This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author. "A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role... |
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The Italians
John Hooper - Viking
Format: Book
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A vivid and surprising portrait of the Italian people from an admired foreign correspondent How did a nation that spawned the Renaissance also produce the Mafia? And why does Italian have twelve words for coat hanger but none for hangover? John Hooper's entertaining and perceptive new book... |
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Jayber Crow
Wendell Berry - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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In a new set in a small-town "Heave,n" the rural Kentucky farmer-philosopher returns to his fictional Port William to explore themes of love, suffering, and joy. 40,000 first printing. |
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A Judgement in Stone
Ruth Rendell - Doubleday
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What on earth could have provoked a modern day St. Valentine's Day massacre?On Valentine's Day, four members of the Coverdale family -- George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles -- were murdered in the space of 15 minutes. Their housekeeper, Eunice Parchman, shot them, one by one, in the blue... |
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Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami - Knopf
Format: Print book
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With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read... |
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The Keeper of Lost Things: A Novel
Ruth Hogan - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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A charming, clever, and quietly moving debut novel of of endless possibilities and joyful discoveries that explores the promises we make and break, losing and finding ourselves, the objects that hold magic and meaning for our lives, and the surprising connections that bind us.Lime green... |
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The Kitchen House: A Novel
Kathleen Grissom - Touchstone; Reissue edition
Format: Hardcover
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Now available in hardcover for the first time - in this gripping New York Times bestseller and book club favorite, Kathleen Grissom brings to life a thriving plantation in Virginia in the decades before the Civil War, where a dark secret threatens to expose the best and worst in everyone... |
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The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback
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REASONS CHALLENGED: Offensive language, unsuited to age group, violence.
The New York Times bestseller and international classic loved by millions of readers.
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's... |
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A Land More Kind Than Home: A Novel
Wiley Cash - William Morrow; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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“Bold, daring, graceful, and engrossing.”—Bobbie Ann Mason“This book will knock your socks off….A first novel that sings with talent.”—Clyde EdgertonIn his phenomenal debut novel—a mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers... |
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The Language of Flowers: A Novel
Vanessa Diffenbaugh - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Victorian language of flowers was used to express emotions: honeysuckle for devotion, azaleas for passion, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it has been more useful in communicating feelings like grief, mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster care... |
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The Last Ballad: A Novel
WILEY CASH - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of the celebrated A Land More Kind Than Home and This Dark Road to Mercy returns with this eagerly awaited new novel, set in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina in 1929 and inspired by actual events. The chronicle of an ordinary woman's struggle... |
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The Last Time They Met: A Novel
Anita Shreve
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From the last time Linda and Thomas meet, at a charmless hotel in a distant city, to the moment, thirty-five years earlier, when a chance encounter on a rocky beach binds them fatefully together, this hypnotically compelling novel unfolds a tale of intense passion, drama, and susp |
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The Last Town on Earth: A Novel
Thomas Mullen - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Set against the backdrop of one of the most virulent epidemics that America ever experienced–the 1918 flu epidemic–Thomas Mullen’s powerful, sweeping first novel is a tale of morality in a time of upheaval.Deep in the mist-shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest is a small... |
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Left Neglected
Lisa Genova - Gallery Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From Lisa Genovawhose novel Still Alice is soon to be a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore Alec Baldwin Kate Bosworth and Kristen Stewartcomes this New York Times bestselling novel of resilience in the face of a devastating diagnosis A vibrant mother in her thirties learns what... |
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Life of Pi
Yann Martel - Mariner Books; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for FictionPi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity... |
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The Light Between Oceans: A Novel
M. L. Stedman - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The years-long New York Times bestseller soon to be a major motion picture from Spielberg's Dreamworks that is "irresistible ... seductive ... with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page" (O, The Oprah Magazine) .After four harrowing years... |
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Lilac Girls
Martha Hall Kelly - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * For readers of The Nightingale and Sarah's Key, inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this remarkable debut novel reveals the power of unsung women to change history in their quest for love, freedom, and second chances.New... |
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The Little Paris Bookshop: A Novel
Nina George - Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Format: Book
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February 18. Monsieur Perdu can prescribe the perfect book for a broken heart. But can he fix his own? Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using... |
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Lucy
Ellen Feldman
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An utterly absorbing novel about a famous political marriage and an epic infidelity. On the eve of World War I, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt, fiercely ambitious and still untouched by polio, falls in love with his wife's social secretary, Lucy M |
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Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life
Jenna Woginrich - Storey Publishing, LLC; Second Edition,New edition,new ISBN for paperback edition #2 replaces old hardback edition #1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Discovering the pleasures of a handmade life was a longtime dream for urban homesteader Jenna Woginrich. At 24 years old, living in an apartment in Knoxville, Tennessee, and working as a computer designer, Woginrich was nurturing her dream of learning to homestead. Now, at 27, she’s... |
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Maisie Dobbs
Jacqueline Winspear - Soho Crime
Format: Paperback
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"A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander." - Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air, on Maisie DobbsMaisie Dobbs got her start as a maid in an aristocratic London household when she was thirteen. Her employer, suffragette Lady... |
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel
Helen Simonson - Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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In the small village of Edgecombe St. Mary in the English countryside lives Major Ernest Pettigrew retired, the unlikely hero of Helen Simonsons wondrous debut. Wry, courtly, opinionated, and completely endearing, the Major leads a quiet life valuing the proper things that Englishmen have... |
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A Man Called Ove: A Novel
Fredrik Backman - Atria Books
Format: Paperback
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Read the New York Times bestseller that has taken the world by storm!Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon - the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call... |
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Me Before You: A Novel
Jojo Moyes - Pamela Dorman Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me. They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . . Louisa... |
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt - Alexandria Library
Format: Book
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Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's... |
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Midwives
Chris Bohjalian - Vintage Books
Format: Print book
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"Superbly crafted and astonishingly powerful. . . . It will thrill readers who cherish their worn copies of To Kill A Mockingbird. " --PeopleWith a suspense, lyricism, and moral complexity that recall To Kill a Mockingbird and Presumed Innocent, this compulsively readable novel... |
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The Miniaturist: A Novel
Jessie Burton - Ecco
Format: Book
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Recommended by Claire D.
Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam—a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion—a masterful debut steeped in atmosphere and shimmering with mystery, in the tradition of Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, and Sarah Dunant.”There... |
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Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Nando Parrado - Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family members and supporters, to an exhibition game in Chile had crashed... |
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The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee
Marja Mills - Penguin Group USA
Format: Print book
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel's celebrated author, Harper Lee, has said almost nothing on the record. Journalists have trekked to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, where Harper... |
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Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee
Charles J. Shields - Henry Holt
Format: Book
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The colorful life of the remarkable woman who created To Kill a Mockingbird--the classic that became a touchstone for generations of AmericansTo Kill a Mockingbird, the twentieth-century's most widely read American novel, has sold thirty million copies and still sells a million... |
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Mountain Top
Robert Whitlow - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback
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Can he trust his client's dreams and visions-even when they threaten to destroy his future?Supernatural visions filled with images of keys, hatchets, hammers, and fires. An eccentric old man in jail-accused of robbing a church and knowing things he has no right to know. A lawyer turned... |
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Mrs. Lincoln's Rival
Jennifer Chiaverini - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker and Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule, Jennifer Chiaverini, reveals the famous First Lady's very public social and political contest with Kate Chase Sprague, memorialized as "one of the most remarkable women ever known... |
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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry: A Novel
Fredrik Backman - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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A charming, warmhearted novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller A Man Called Ove Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy - as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also... |
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My Name Is Mary Sutter: A Novel
Robin Oliveira - Penguin Books; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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A New York Times bestseller and a moving Civil War novel about a young midwife who dreams of becoming a surgeon Fans of Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks, Cold Mountainby Charles Frazier, and Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker by Jennifer Chiaverini will love this New York... |
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Necessary Lies
Diane Chamberlain - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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Recommended by Rebecca W.
Bestselling author Diane Chamberlain delivers a breakout book about a small southern town fifty years ago, and the darkest—and most hopeful—places in the human heartAfter losing her parents, fifteen-year-old Ivy Hart is left to care for her grandmother,... |
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A New Earth: Awakening to Your Lifes Purpose (Oprahs Book Club, Selection 61)
Eckhart Tolle - Penguin
Format: Paperback
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. "A wake-up call for the entire planet . . . [A New Earth] helps us to stop creating our own suffering and obsessing over the past and what the future might be, and to put ourselves in the now." - Oprah Winfrey With his bestselling spiritual guide... |
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The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation. With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin... |
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On Folly Beach
Karen White - New American Library; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Folly Beach, South Carolina, has survived despite hurricanes and war. But it's the personal battles of Folly Beach's residents that have left the most scars, and why a young widow has been beckoned there to heal her own... To most people, Folly Beach is simply the last barrier... |
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women - brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic... |
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Orhan's Inheritance
Aline Ohanesian - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Print book
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When Orhan's brilliant and eccentric grandfather, Kemal Trkoglu, who built a dynasty out of making kilim rugs, is found dead, submerged in a vat of dye, Orhan inherits the decades-old business. But Kemal has left the family estate to a stranger thousands of miles away, an aging woman... |
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Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline - William Morrow
Format: Paperback
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The #1 New York Times BestsellerChristina Baker Kline's Orphan Train is an unforgettable story of friendship and second chances that highlights a little-known but historically significant movement in America's past - and it includes a special PS section for book clubs featuring insights,... |
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The Other Boleyn Girl
Philippa Gregory - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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The #1 New York Times bestseller from "the queen of royal fiction" (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory is a rich, compelling novel of love, sex, ambition, and intrigue surrounding the Tudor court of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the infamous Boleyn family.When Mary Boleyn... |
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Outside the Ordinary World
Dori Ostermiller - Mira; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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Sylvia Sandon is at a crossroads in her life. A wife and mother of two daughters, she and her city-planner husband grapple with the escalating renovation of their antique farmhouse--a situation that mirrors the disarray in Sylvia's life. Facing a failing marriage and a famished career... |
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Oxygen: A Novel
Carol Cassella - Simon & Schuster; 1st Simon & Schuster Hardcover Ed edition
Format: Hardcover
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With the compassion of Jodi Picoult and the medical realism of Atul Gawande, Oxygen is a riveting new novel by a real-life anesthesiologist, an intimate story of relationships and family that collides with a high-stakes medical drama. Dr. Marie Heaton is an anesthesiologist at the height... |
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Pachinko
MIN JIN LEE - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Paperback
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST National BestsellerRoxane Gay's Favorite Book of 2017, Washington PostIn this bestselling, page-turning saga, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan, exiled from a home they never knew."There... |
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The Paris Wife: A Novel
Paula McLain - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback
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A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures the love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley. Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness - until... |
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People of the Book: A Novel
Geraldine Brooks - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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The bestselling novel that follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and war, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March and of The Secret Chord, coming from Viking in October 2015Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is a novel of sweeping historical... |
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The Persian Pickle Club
Sandra Dallas
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the warmly received Buster Midnight's Cafe traces the lives of a group of women in a rural, Depression-era Kansas town, who meet to share gossip and their talent for quilting. National ad/promo. |
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Pretending to Dance: A Novel
Diane Chamberlain - St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Molly Arnette is very good at keeping secrets. She and her husband live in San Diego, where they hope to soon adopt a baby. But the process terrifies her.As the questions and background checks come one after another, Molly worries that the truth she's kept hidden about her North Carolina... |
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Format: Book
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In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters. |
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The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
William Goldman - Harcourt
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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William Goldman's modern fantasy classic is a simple, exceptional story about quests - for riches, revenge, power, and, of course, true love - that's thrilling and timeless. Anyone who lived through the 1980s may find it impossible - inconceivable, even - to equate The Princess Bride... |
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Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They're completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced... |
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The Reader
Bernhard Schlink - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.. "A formally beautiful, disturbing and finally... |
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The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
Katarina Bivald - Landmark
Format: Print book
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A debut novel to charm all readers, that shows beyond all doubt that it's books, along with love, that make the world go round. It all began with a correspondence between two quite different women: 28-year-old Sara from Haninge, Sweden, and 65-year-old Amy from the small town of Broken... |
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi - Random House
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We all have dreams - things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true.For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning... |
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The Red Tent: A Novel
Anita Diamant
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Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons.Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood-the... |
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Remarkable Creatures: A Novel
Tracy Chevalier - Plume
Format: Paperback
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A voyage of discovery, two remarkable women, and an extraordinary time and place enrich this New York Times bestselling novel by Tracy Chevalier, author of At the Edge of the Orchard and Girl With a Pearl Earring. On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English... |
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The rest of her life
Laura Moriarty - Hyperion
Format: Paperback
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In The Rest of Her Life, Laura Moriarty delivers a luminous, compassionate, and provocative look at how mothers and daughters with the best intentions can be blind to the harm they do to one another. Leigh is the mother of high-achieving, popular high school senior Kara. Their relationship... |
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Return (Redemption Series-Baxter 1, Book 3)
Karen Kingsbury - Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.; 1ST edition
Format: Paperback
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The Redemption series won Christian Retailing’s 2005 Retailer’s Choice Award for Best Series! This touching novel reunites readers with the Baxter family and focuses on the only Baxter son, Luke. He is determined to leave his faith and his past behind and embrace a new, free-thinking... |
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The Rosie Project: A Novel
Graeme Simsion - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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Now in paperback, the international bestselling romantic comedy bursting with warmth, emotional depth, andhumor, Entertainment Weekly featuring the oddly charming, socially challenged genetics professor, Don, as he seeks true love. The art of love is never a science Meet Don Tillman, a brilliant... |
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The Rossetti Letter
Christi Phillips - Gallery
Format: Deckle Edge]
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Alessandra Rossetti, a courtesan, becomes entangled in a conspiracy that threatens to destroy seventeenth century Venice. She alone has the power to reveal a Spanish plot. Centuries later, Claire Donovan is writing her dissertation on the young courtesan. She knows that Alessandra wrote... |
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The Round House: A Novel
Louise Erdrich - Harper Perennial; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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The Round House won the National Book Award for fiction.One of the most revered novelists of our time—a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life—Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with The Round House,... |
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Rules of Civility: A Novel
Amor Towles - Viking; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In a jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn't afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent knew: the location of every old church in Manhattan how to sneak into the cinema how to type eighty words a minute, five thousand... |
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The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson
Jeffrey Toobin
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An eye-opening, behind-the-scenes look at the "crime of the century" and the legal proceedings that followed sheds new light on the arrest and trial of O. J. Simpson, the evidence in the case, and the role of the prosecution and defense. 100,000 first printing. Tour. |
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Running with Scissors: A Memoir
Augusten Burroughs - Picador
Format: Hardcover
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Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated... |
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Salvage the Bones: A Novel
Jesmyn Ward - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the National Book AwardJesmyn Ward, two-time National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing, delivers a gritty but tender novel about family and poverty in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina.. A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal... |
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The Same Sweet Girls
Cassandra King - Hyperion; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The new novel by the celebrated author of The Sunday Wife chronicles the lives of a tight-knit group of lifelong friends.None of the Same Sweet Girls are really girls anymore and none of them have actually ever been that sweet. But this spirited group of Southern women, who have been holding... |
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The Sandcastle Girls
Chris Bohjalian - Vintage; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Aleppo, Syria, she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke, a crash course in nursing, and only the most basic grasp of the Armenian language. It’s 1915, and Elizabeth has volunteered to help deliver food and medical aid to refugees of the Armenian Genocide... |
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Sarah's Key
Tatiana de Rosnay - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book
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Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.Paris,... |
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The Savage Detectives: A Novel
Roberto Bolano - Picador
Format: Paperback
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National Bestseller In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Roberto Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through a darkening,... |
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Laura Hillenbrand - Alexandria Library
Format: Hardcover
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Laura Hillenbrand, author of the runaway phenomenon Unbroken, brilliantly re-creates a universal underdog story in this #1 New York Times bestseller.Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938,... |
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The Sense of Wonder: A Celebration of Nature for Parents and Children
Rachel Carson - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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First published a half-century ago, Rachel Carson's award-winning The Sense of Wonder remains the classic guide to introducing children to the marvels of natureIn 1955, acclaimed conservationist Rachel Carson - author of Silent Spring - began work on an essay that she would come to consider... |
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Serena: A Novel
Ron Rash - Ecco
Format: Print book
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A New York Times bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist, Serena by award-winning author Ron Rash is "masterfully written ... sprawling, engrossing and - from time to time - nightmarish," (San Francisco Chronicle); a remarkable novel that "recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac... |
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The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafon - Penguin Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Barcelona, 1945just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mothers face. To console his only child, Daniels widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates... |
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She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana
Haven Kimmel - Wheeler Publishing
Format: Large print book
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After twenty years of burrowing into the corner of the family couch, eating junk food, and reading science fiction, Indiana mother Delonda Jarvis did something that shocked her family: she went to college. Or, as her younger daughter, Haven Kimmel, writes, she "stood up, brushed away... |
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Shepherds Abiding
Jan Karon - Viking Penguin; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Since he was a boy growing up in Missisippi, Father Tim has lived what he calls "the life of the mind." Except for cooking and gardening and washing his dog, he never learned to savor the work of his hands. And then he finds a derelict nativity scene - twenty figures, including... |
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The Shoemaker's Wife: A Novel
Adriana Trigiani - Harper Paperbacks; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani returns with the most epic and ambitious novel of her career—a breathtaking multigenerational love story that spans two continents, two World Wars, and the quest of two star-crossed lovers to find each other again. The Shoemaker's... |
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The Silent Sister: A Novel
Diane Chamberlain - St Martin'S Press
Format: Hardcover
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In The Silent Sister, Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager. Now, over twenty years later, her father has passed away and she's in New Bern, North Carolina cleaning out his house when she finds evidence to the contrary.... |
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Silver Sparrow
Tayari Jones - Algonquin Books
Format: Paperback
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With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, “My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist,” author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man’s deception, a family’s complicity, and the two teenage girls caught in the middle.Set in a middle-class neighborhood... |
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Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel
Jesmyn Ward - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner... |
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Skipping Christmas
John Grisham - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they'll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on Hemlock Street... |
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Small Great Things: A Novel
Jodi Picoult - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * With richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race, Small Great Things is the stunning new page-turner from Jodi Picoult.SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE "[Picoult]... |
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A Small Place
Jamaica Kincaid - Farrar
Format: Paperback
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A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua.... |
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Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel
David Guterson
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner AwardAmerican Booksellers Association Book of the Year AwardSan Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drown |
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel
Lisa See - Random House; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, "old same," in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by sending Lily a silk fan on which she's... |
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Song Of Solomon
Toni Morrison
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Macon Dead, Jr., called Milkman, son of the richest Negro in town, moves from childhood into early manhood, searching, among the disparate, mysterious members of his family, for his life and reality. |
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A Spool of Blue Thread: A Novel
Anne Tyler - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE | NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PEOPLE AND USA TODAY | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * The Telegraph * BookPage Look... |
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State of Wonder
Ann Patchett - Harper; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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“Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett’s fiction.”—New York Times Book ReviewAward-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett returns with a provocative and assured novel of morality and miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon rainforest.... |
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Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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A National Book Award FinalistA PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within... |
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Still Alice
Lisa Genova - Simon & Schuster Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD
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Lisa Genova's New York Times bestselling debut novel is now available, unabridged, at a new low price. Fifty-year-old Alice Howland, a Harvard professor of cognitive psychology, is at the top of her game. Her kids are grown, her marriage secure, her career on fire when suddenly, after... |
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Still Life
Louise Penny - St. Martin's Minotaur
Format: Paperback
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The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel
Gabrielle Zevin - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Book
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A New York Times Bestseller, a #1 Indie Next Pick, and a #1 LibraryReads Selection"This novel has humor, romance, a touch of suspense, but most of all love--love of books and bookish people and, really, all of humanity in its imperfect glory." -- Eowyn Ivey, author of... |
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The Sweet By and By: A Novel
Todd Johnson - Harper
Format: Paperback
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Meet five North Carolina women who are about to change the way you think about friendship. For Rhonda, a gritty, fun-loving hairdresser in tight jeans, the sights and smells of Ridgecrest Nursing Center are depressing. But before she can change her mind about working there, two residents... |
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Sweet Tea and Sympathy
Molly Harper - Gallery Books
Format: Paperback
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Beloved author Molly Harper launches a brand-new contemporary romance series, Southern Eclectic, with this story of a big-city party planner who finds true love in a small Georgia town.Nestled on the shore of Lake Sackett, Georgia is the McCready Family Funeral Home and Bait Shop. (What,... |
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery
Alan Bradley - Bantam
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION DEBUT DAGGER AWARD and the AGATHA AND DILYS AWARD - "A wickedly clever story, a dead-true and original voice" - Laurie R. KingIt is the summer of 1950-and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist... |
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A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel
Ruth L Ozeki - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and EmptinessFinalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award"A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was,... |
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The Tears of Dark Water
Corban Addison - Thomas Nelson
Format: Print book
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Daniel and Vanessa Parker are an American success story. He is a Washington, DC, power broker, and she is a physician with a thriving practice. But behind the gilded faade, their marriage is a shambles, and their teenage son, Quentin, is self-destructing. In desperation, Daniel dusts off a long-delayed... |
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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe - Anchor
Format: Paperback
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Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo’s fall from grace with the tribal world.... |
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The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
Diane Setterfield - Washington Square Press
Format: Paperback
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Sometimes when you open the door to the past what you confront is your destinyReclusive author Vida Winter famous for her collection of twelve enchanting stories has spent the past six decades penning a series of alternate lives for herself Now old and ailing she is ready to reveal the truth... |
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Three cups of tea : one man's mission to promote peace-- one school at a time
Greg Mortenson - Viking Penguin; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people... |
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Three Junes
Julia Glass - Alexandria Library
Format: Print book
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Three Junes is a vividly textured symphonic novel set on both sides of the Atlantic during three fateful summers in the lives of a Scottish family. In June of 1989, Paul McLeod, the recently widowed patriarch, becomes infatuated with a young American artist while traveling through Greece... |
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Three Wishes: A Novel
Liane Moriarty - Harper Perennial; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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Lyn, Cat, and Gemma Kettle, beautiful thirty-three-year-old triplets, seem to attract attention everywhere they go. Together, laughter, drama, and mayhem seem to follow them. But apart, each is dealing with her own share of ups and downs. Lyn has organized her life into one big checklist,... |
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To Hold the Crown: The Story of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York
Jean Plaidy - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback
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From exile and war to love and loss - every dynasty has a beginning.Henry Tudor was not born to the throne of England. Having come of age in a time of political turmoil and danger, the man who would become Henry VII spent fourteen years in exile in Brittany before returning triumphantly... |
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Today Will Be Different
Maria Semple - Hachette Audio
Format: Audiobook
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A brilliant novel from the author of Whered You Go, Bernadette, about a day in the life of Eleanor Flood, forced to abandon her small ambitions and awake to a strange, new future. Eleanor knows shes a mess. But today she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will... |
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickThe American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century. From the moment she entered the world, Francie needed to be made of stern stuff, for the often harsh life of Williamsburg demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength... |
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True Colors
Kristin Hannah - St. Martin's Griffin; 1 Reprint edition
Format: Book
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Women across America laughed, cried, and reconnected with their friends after reading Kristin Hannah’s smash hit, Firefly Lane. Now, in True Colors, she explores the poignant, powerful, complex world of sisters… The Grey sisters had only each other when their mother died years... |
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Mitch Albom - Broadway Books; 10 Anv Rep edition
Format: Paperback
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Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie... |
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Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
Mark Adams - Plume; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu?In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and “discovered” Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless... |
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Unbroken A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: 2014's Unbroken and the upcoming Unbroken: Path to Redemption.On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific... |
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Under the Wide and Starry Sky: A Novel
Nancy Horan - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCHFrom Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank, comes her much-anticipated second... |
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead - Doubleday
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation... |
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: A Novel
Rachel Joyce - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYTHE WASHINGTON POSTRachel Joyces beguiling debut is a modest-seeming story of ordinary English lives that enthralls and moves you as it unfolds.People four stars Meet Harold Fry, recently retired.... |
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Very Valentine: A Novel
Adriana Trigiani - Harper Perennial; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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“Sex and the City meets Moonstruck….Sly, sensual, and dripping in style.”—People Poignant, funny, warm, and red hot, Very Valentine is a wonderful treat for Adriana Trigiani fans—a “delightful” (Boston Globe), “romance-soaked novel”... |
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Walden
Henry David Thoreau - Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback
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On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into the cabin he had built on the shore of Walden Pond, thus beginning the most famous experiment in simple living in American history. On the 150th anniversary of that event, Houghton Mifflin, successor to Thoreau's original publisher, is proud... |
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A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests... |
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities in search of a better life. From 1915... |
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Water for Elephants: A Novel
Sara Gruen - Algonquin Books
Format: Paperback
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Over 10,000,000 copies in print worldwide #1 New York Times Bestseller A Los Angeles Times Bestseller A Wall Street Journal Bestseller A Newsday Favorite Book of 2006 A USA Today Bestseller A Major Motion Picture starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, and Christoph Waltz Jacob Janowski's... |
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The Water Is Wide: A Memoir
Pat Conroy - Dial Press Trade Paperback; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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The island is nearly deserted, haunting, beautiful. Across a slip of ocean lies South Carolina. But for the handful of families on Yamacraw island, America is a world away. For years the people here lived proudly from the sea, but now its waters are not safe. Waste from industry threatens... |
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The water knife
Paolo Bacigalupi - Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Format: Print book
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The American Southwest has been decimated by drought. Nevada and Arizona skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado River, while California watches, deciding if it should just take the whole river all for itself. Into the fray steps Las Vegas water knife Angel Velasquez. Detective,... |
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: A Novel
Karen Joy Fowler - Plume
Format: Print book
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"A gripping, bighearted book." - Khaled HosseiniShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014Winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award One of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2013 and named by The Christian Science Monitor as one of the top 15 works... |
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We Were Liars
E LOCKHART
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A New York Times BestsellerOne of James Patterson's "Favorite Thrillers for the Beach" (New York Times) "Haunting, sophisticated . . . a novel so twisty and well-told that it will appeal to older readers as well as to adolescents. |
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We Were the Mulvaneys (Oprah's Book Club)
Joyce Carol Oates - Plume
Format: Paperback
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A New York Times Notable Book and a former Oprah Book Club® selection Moving away from the dark tone of her more recent masterpieces, Joyce Carol Oates turns the tale of a family struggling to cope with its fall from grace into a deeply moving and unforgettable account of the vigor... |
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West with the night
Beryl Markham - North Point Press
Format: Paperback
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A new edition of a great, underappreciated classic of our timeBeryl Markham's West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exupry, and Isak Dinesen. If the first... |
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When the Moon Is Low: A Novel
Nadia Hashimi - William Morrow & Co
Format: Print book
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Mahmoud's passion for his wife Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she's ever known. But their happy, middle-class world - a life of education, work, and comfort - implodes when their country is engulfed in war, and the Taliban rises to power.Mahmoud, a civil engineer, becomes... |
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel
Maria Semple - NHLA READS-TO-GO
Format: Paperback
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Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom.Then Bernadette... |
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White Dog Fell from the Sky: A Novel
Eleanor Morse - Viking Adult
Format: Paperback
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An extraordinary novel of love friendship and betrayal for admirers of Abraham Verghese and Edwidge DanticatEleanor Morses rich and intimate portrait of Botswana and of three people whose intertwined lives are at once tragic and remarkable is an absorbing and deeply moving storyIn apartheid... |
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The Whole Town's Talking: A Novel
FANNIE FLAGG - RANDOM House
Format: Print book
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The bestselling author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is at her superb best in this fun-loving, moving novel about what it means to be truly alive. Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is a small town like any other, but something strange is happening at the cemetery. Still Meadows,... |
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Gregory Maguire - Harper
Format: Paperback
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This is the book that started it all! The basis for the smash hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Gregory Maguire's breathtaking New York Times bestseller Wicked views the land of Oz, its inhabitants, its Wizard, and the Emerald City, through a darker and greener (not rosier) lens.... |
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The Widow's War: A Novel
Sally Cabot Gunning
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Married for twenty years to Edward Berry, Lyddie is used to the trials of being a whaler's wife in the Cape Cod village of Satucket, Massachusetts—running their house herself during her husband's long absences at sea, living with the daily uncertainty that Edward wil |
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Wild
Cheryl Strayed - Vintage; Mti edition
Format: Print book
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The official movie tie-in edition to the major motion picture, starring Reese Witherspoon and based on this sensational 1 New York Times Bestseller.At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mothers death, her family scattered and her own marriage... |
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The Wives of Henry Oades: A Novel
Johanna Moran - Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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When Henry Oades accepts an accountancy post in New Zealand, his wife, Margaret, and their children follow him to exotic Wellington. But while Henry is an adventurer, Margaret is not. Their new home is rougher and more rustic than they expected - and a single night of tragedy shatters the family... |
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The Wonder
EMMA DONOGHUE - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback
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Named a Notable Book of 2016 by the Washington Post, one of Kirkus Reviews' "Best 100 Fiction Books of 2016," and one of Fresh Air's Maureen Corrigan's 10 Best Books of 2016 *The latest masterpiece by Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room* In the latest masterpiece... |
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The World Without Us
Alan Weisman - Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive... |
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë - Harper Design; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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Oneof the most beloved novels of all time, Emily Brontë’sWuthering Heights gets a bold and beautiful new treatment in thisluminous illustrated edition from Harper Design. The gothic classic’sunabridged text is accentuated throughout by captivating watercolor artworkfrom... |
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The Yada Yada Prayer Group
Neta Jackson
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What do an ex-con, a former drug addict, a real estate broker, a college student, and a married mother of two have in common? Nothing, or so I thought. Who would have imagined that God would make a prayer group as mismatched as ours the closest of friends? I almost didn't even go |
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The Yellow Birds: A Novel
Kevin Powers - Back Bay Books; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive."The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private... |
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The Yellow House: A Novel
Patricia Falvey - Center Street
Format: Paperback
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THE YELLOW HOUSE delves into the passion and politics of Northern Ireland at the beginning of the 20th Century. Eileen O'Neill's family is torn apart by religious intolerance and secrets from the past. Determined to reclaim her ancestral home and reunite her family, Eileen begins... |
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Diane Ackerman - W.W. Norton
Format: Paperback
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The New York Times bestseller: a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. After their zoo was bombed, Polish zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three hundred people from the Nazis by hiding refugees in the empty animal... |
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Code talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two
Joseph Bruchac; Derrick Henry; Recorded Books LLC.; Playaway Digital Audio.; Findaway World LLC. - Playaway Digital Audio ; Prince Frederick
Format: Audiobook
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After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue. |
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The Colors of All the Cattle: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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Precious Ramotswe dips her toe into the world of politics in the newest addition to the beloved and best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.When Mma Potokwane suggests to Mma Ramotswe that she run for a seat on the City Council, Mma Ramotswe is at first unsure. But when she learns... |
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Deep South : four seasons on back roads
Paul Theroux - Recorded Books, 2015.
Format: Audiobook
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Theroux explores a piece of America too often overlooked--the Deep South. He finds there a paradoxical place, full of incomparable music, unparalleled cuisine, and yet also some of the nation's worst schools, housing, and unemployment rates. It's these parts of the South, so often... |
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A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles - Random House Large Print
Format: Paperback
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More than half a million readers have fallen in love with the New York Times bestseller A Gentleman in Moscow"How delightful that in an era as crude as ours this finely composed novel stretches out with old-World elegance." - The Washington Post"'The... |
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Ginny Moon
Benjamin Ludwig - Harlequin Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly an average teenager, she plays flute in the school band, has weekly basketball practice, and reads Robert Frost poems for English class. But Ginny is autistic. And so what's important to her might seem a bit different: starting every day with exactly nine grapes... |
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If the Creek Don't Rise
Leah Weiss - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Library Binding
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..".masterful use of language....Weiss' novel is a great suggestion for fans of the Big Stone Gap books, by Adriana Trigiani, and Mitford series, by Jan Karon."--Booklist, STARRED ReviewHe's gonna be sorry he ever messed with me and Loretta LynnSadie Blue has been a wife... |
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Inherit the Dead: A Novel
Lee Child - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
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TWENTY THRILLING WRITERS. ONE CHILLING MYSTERY.More than twenty New York Times bestselling authors team up to create a first-rate serial novel - a collaboration among some of the most popular mystery and thriller writers in the English-speaking world today, producing a "well-told mystery... |
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann - Doubleday
Format: Paperback
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage... |
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Macbeth
Shakespeare, William
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One of the great Shakespearean tragedies, Macbeth is a dark and bloody drama of ambition, murder, guilt, and revenge. Prompted by the prophecies of three mysterious witches and goaded by his ambitious wife, the Scottish thane Macbeth murders Duncan, King of Scotland, in |
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Missing Isaac
Valerie Fraser Luesse - Revell
Format: Paperback
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There was another South in the 1960s, one far removed from the marches and bombings and turmoil in the streets that were broadcast on the evening news. It was a place of inner turmoil, where ordinary people struggled to right themselves on a social landscape that was dramatically shifting... |
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Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare, William
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Much Ado About Nothing includes two quite different stories of romantic love. Hero and Claudio fall in love almost at first sight, but an outsider, Don John, strikes out at their happiness. Beatrice and Benedick are kept apart by pride and mutual antagonism until others dec |
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The Power
Alderman, Naomi
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One of the New York Times's Ten Best Books of 2017A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2017One of the Washington Post's Ten Best Books of 2017An NPR Best Book of 2017One of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of 2017A Bustle Best Book of 201 |
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The Scarlet Pimpernel (Signet Classics)
Baroness Orczy, Emmuska Orczy - Signet
Format: Hardcover
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A timeless novel of adventure, intrigue, and romance is sparked by one mans defiance in the face of authority.... The year is 1792. The French Revolution, driven to excess by its own triumph, has turned into a reign of terror. Daily, tumbrels bearing new victims to the guillotine roll over... |
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The woman in the window : a novel
A J Finn - William Morrow
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"It isn't paranoia if it's really happening... Anna Fox lives alone -- a recluse in her New York City home, drinking too much wine, watching old movies... and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move next door: a father, a mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family.... |
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An Anonymous Girl
GREER HENDRICKS - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The instant #1 New York Times bestseller (January 2019) everyone is talking about! People Magazine's Book of the Week * Bookish's "Must-Read Books of Winter"... |
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As Bright as Heaven
Susan Meissner - Berkley
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and A Bridge Across the Ocean comes a new novel set in Philadelphia during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which tells the story of a family reborn through loss and love.In 1918, Philadelphia was a city teeming with... |
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Becoming Nicole : the transformation of an American family
Amy Ellis Nutt - Random House
Format: Print book : English
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The inspiring true story of a transgender girl, her identical twin brother, and an ordinary American family's extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning science reporter for The Washington Post When Wayne and Kelly... |
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Becoming Mrs. Lewis
Hof Den Haag. - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Large Print
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"Patti Callahan seems to have found the story she was born to tell in this tale of unlikely friendship turned true love between Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis, a relationship that tests the bounds of faith and radically alters both of their lives. Their connection comes to life in Callahan's... |
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Before We Were Yours
Lisa Wingate - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Hardcover
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The multi-week USA TODAY BESTSELLER!"Memphis,Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone ... one stormy night. Rill Foss ... must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi... |
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The Book Club
Mary Alice Monroe - Harlequin MIRA; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Mary Alice Monroe invites you to meet five remarkable characters as she explores the power of friendship with tenderness, honesty and understanding. On the surface, it is a monthly book club. But for five women, it is so much more. For Eve Porter, whose husband's sudden death cheats... |
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Kim Michele Richardson
Format: electronic resource
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The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything-everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's also... |
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Carnegie's Maid: A Novel
Marie Benedict - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback
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The USA Today BestsellerFrom the author of The Other Einstein comes the mesmerizing tale of what kind of woman could have inspired an American dynasty.Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest... |
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City of Girls: A Novel
Elizabeth Gilbert - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!A great holiday gift, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't have to be a good... |
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The Couple Next Door
Shari Lapena - Pamela Dorman Books
Format: Hardcover
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERShari Lapena's new thriller, A STRANGER IN THE HOUSE, is available now from Viking Books!"The twists come as fast [as] you can turn the pages." - People"Provocative and shocking." - Lisa Gardner, New York Times... |
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Daisy Jones and the Six: Library Edition
Taylor Jenkins Reid - Random House
Format: Audiobook
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A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup. I devoured Daisy Jones & The Six in a day, falling head over heels for it. Daisy and the band captured my heart.-Reese Witherspoon... |
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Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Taras older... |
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Hardcover
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"Eleanor Oliphant is a truly original literary creation: funny, touching, and unpredictable. Her journey out of dark shadows is absolutely gripping." --Jojo Moyes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You "Deft, compassionate and deeply moving--Honeyman's... |
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Enchantress of numbers : a novel
Jennifer Chiaverini - Findaway World
Format: Audiobook
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"The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. Estranged from Ada's father, who was infamously "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," Ada's mathematician mother... |
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The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell: A Novel
Robert Dugoni - Lake Union Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From #1 Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni.Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called "Devil Boy" by his classmates; "God's will" is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her words... |
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Finding Dorothy: A Novel
Elizabeth Letts - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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This richly imagined novel tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud. Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband's masterpiece for the screen,... |
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From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
Tembi Locke - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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This Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller is "a captivating story of love lost and found" (Kirkus Reviews) set in the lush Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food, family, and unexpected grace in her darkest... |
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The great alone
Kristin Hannah - St. Martins Press
Format: Print book
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Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. Its 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy... |
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How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi - One World
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a "groundbreaking" (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society... |
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It All Comes Back to You: A Book Club Recommendation!
Beth Duke
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"It All Comes Back to You is one of those stories you need to savor. You want to put the book down so as to have more to read tomorrow, but you can't. It becomes attached to you, a part of you. "Dan Brown, Author of Reunion Alabama, 1947.War's over, cherry-print dresses, |
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The Kommandant's Girl
Pam Jenoff - Park Row
Format: Paperback
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In her luminous and groundbreaking debut, New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff shows the unimaginable sacrifices one woman must make in a time of warNineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks thunder into her native Poland. Within days Emma's... |
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Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda
Carr, Rosamond Halsey
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In 1949, Rosamond Halsey Carr, a young fashion illustrator living in New York City, accompanied her dashing hunter-explorer husband to what was then the Belgian Congo. When the marriage fell apart, she decided to stay on in neighboring Rwanda, as the manager of a flower plantation |
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The Last Days of Night: A Novel
Graham Moore - Random House
Format: Print book
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From Graham Moore, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and New York Times bestselling author of The Sherlockian, comes a page-turning historical thriller - based on actual events - about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America.... |
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The Last House Guest
Megan Miranda - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"Once again, Megan Miranda has crafted the perfect summer thriller. The Last House Guest is twisty and tense, with a pace that made my heart race. An edge-of-your-seat, up-all-night read." - Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Time I Lied... |
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The Last Mrs. Parrish: A Novel
LIV CONSTANTINE - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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"Deliciously duplicitous. . . . equally as twisty, spellbinding, and addictive as Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl or Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train." - Library Journal (starred review) The mesmerizing debut about a coolly manipulative woman and a wealthy "golden couple,"... |
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The Last Year of the War
Gale, A Cengage Company - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Large Print
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A German-American teen finds her life and identity turned upside-down when her father is accused of being a Nazi sympathizer, triggering her family's forced relocation into a Texas internment camp. |
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Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Soon to be a Hulu limited series, starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington!Named a Best Book of the Year by: People, The Washington Post, Bustle, Esquire, Southern Living, The Daily Beast, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Audible, Goodreads,... |
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott - Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Print book
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Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) , which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher. The novel follows the lives of four sisters-Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March-detailing... |
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The Lost Girls of Paris
Pam Jenoff - Park Row
Format: Paperback
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From the author of the runaway bestseller The Orphan's Tale comes a remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female spies during World War II.1946, ManhattanOne morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, Grace Healey... |
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Lost Roses: A Novel
MARTHA HALL KELLY - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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The million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. Now Lost Roses, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline's mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St. Petersburg to Paris... |
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Missing Isaac
Valerie Fraser Luesse - Fleming H. Revell Company
Format: Hardcover
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When a black field hand disappears, a wealthy white boy he has befriended sets out to find him. But Pete McLean discovers more than he bargained forincluding unexpected love and difficult truths about race and class in 1960s Alabama. |
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Next Year in Havana
Chanel Cleeton - Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Format: Audiobook
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After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity --and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolutionHavana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's high... |
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One Day in December
Josie Silver - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Large Print
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"Josie Silver writes with a warmth so palpable her characters sneak their way into your heart and stay for a long time."--Jill Santopolo, New York Times-bestselling author of The Light We Lost (a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick) Two people. Ten chances. One unforgettable love... |
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One-in-a-Million Boy
Wood, Monica - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback
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The story of your life never starts at the beginning. Don't they teach you anything at school? So says 104-year-old Ona to the 11-year-old boy who's been sent to help her out every Saturday morning. As he refills the bird feeders and tidies the garden shed, Ona tells him about her long... |
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The Only Woman in the Room: A Novel
Marie Benedict - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Hardcover
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She possessed a stunning beauty. She also possessed a stunning mind. Could the world handle both?Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while... |
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The Other Einstein: A Novel
Heather Terrell - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Print book
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In the tradition of The Paris Wife and Mrs. Poe, The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. tTis is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special... |
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The Overstory: A Novel
RICHARD POWERS - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller A monumental novel about trees and people by one of our most "prodigiously talented" (The New York Times Book Review) novelists.An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits... |
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
Deborah Blum - Penguin Books; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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PBSs AMERICAN EXPERIENCE released a film based on The Poisoners Handbook in January 2014Equal parts true crime, twentieth-century history, and science thriller, The Poisoners Handbook is a vicious, page-turning story that reads more like Raymond Chandler than Madame Curie The New York ObserverA... |
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The Scent Keeper: A Novel
Erica Bauermeister - St. Martins Griffin
Format: Hardcover
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Erica Bauermeister, the author of the February Reeses Book Club pick The Scent Keeper, presents a moving and evocative novel about childhood stories, families lost and found, and how a fragrance conjures memories capable of shaping the course of our lives.. Emmeline lives on a remote island... |
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo : a novel
Taylor Jenkins Reid - Atria Books
Format: Paperback
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From Taylor Jenkins Reid, "a genius when it comes to stories about life and love" (Redbook) , comes an unforgettable and sweeping novel about one classic film actress's relentless rise to the top, the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public... |
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Someone Knows
Lisa Scottoline - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook
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From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a pulse-pounding domestic thriller about a group of friends who have been bound for twenty years by a single secret--and will now be undone by it. Someone Knows is an emotional exploration of friendship and family, as well as a psychological... |
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The Story of Arthur Truluv
ELIZABETH BERG - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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"I dare you to read this novel and not fall in love with Arthur Truluv. His story will make you laugh and cry, and will show you a love that never ends, and what it means to be truly human." - Fannie FlaggAn emotionally powerful novel about three people who each lose the one they... |
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Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.Alix... |
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This Is How It Always Is
Laurie Frankel - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Large Print
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A family reshapes their ideas about family, love and loyalty when youngest son Claude reveals increasingly determined preferences for girls' clothing and accessories and refuses to stay silent. By the author of Goodbye for Now. (general fiction) . |
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The Tuscan Child
Rhys Bowen - Lake Union Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Rhys Bowen comes a haunting novel about a woman who braves her father's hidden past to discover his secrets ... "Pass the bread, the olives, and the wine. Oh, and a copy of The Tuscan Child to savor... |
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Varina
Charles Frazier - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook
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In his powerful fourth novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold Mountain, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil WarWith her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects... |
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We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Anchor Books
Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The highly acclaimed, provocative essay on feminism and sexual politics - from the award-winning author of Americanah . "A call to action, for all people in the world, to undo the gender hierarchy." - MediumIn this personal, eloquently-argued essay... |
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Robin J DiAngelo - Beacon Press
Format: Paperback
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The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this "vital, necessary, and beautiful book" (Michael Eric Dyson) , antiracist... |
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The Wife Between Us
Rechtbank Zwolle. - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Library Binding
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When you read this book, you will make many assumptions.You will assume you are reading about a jealous wife.You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement - a woman who is about to enter a new marriage with the man she loves.You will assume you know the anatomy of the relationships.Assume... |
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The Woman in Cabin 10
Ruth Ware - Scout Press
Format: Print book
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF IN A DARK, DARK WOOD Featured in TheSkimm An Entertainment Weekly "Summer Must List" Pick A New York Post "Summer Must-Read" Pick Included in Summer Book Guides... |
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14. The Wright Brothers
David G McCullough - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times bestseller Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown... |
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Before I Fall
Lauren Oliver - Harper
Format: Print book
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The Before I Fall movie - based on Lauren Oliver's beloved first novel and starring Zoey Deutch, Halston Sage, and Kian Lawley - is opening in theaters in spring 2017.With this stunning debut novel, New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver emerged as one of today's foremost authors... |
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Come Away with Me
Karma Brown - Mira Books
Format: Paperback
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An unexpected journey leads one woman to discover that life after loss is possible, if only you can find the courage to let go ... One minute, Tegan Lawson has everything she could hope for: an adoring husband, Gabe, and a baby on the way. The next, a patch of black ice causes a devastating... |
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The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
Phaedra Patrick - MIRA Books
Format: Print book
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"Phaedra Patrick understands the soul. Eccentric, charming, and wise ... The Curious Charms is not just for those who are mourning over love or the past. This book will illuminate your heart." - Nina George, New York Times bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop"Tender,... |
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Last child in the woods : saving our children from nature-deficit disorder
Richard Louv - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: eBook : Document : English : Updated and expandedView all editions and formats
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Louv talks with parents, children, teachers, scientists, religious leaders, child-development researchers, and environmentalists to find ways for children to experience the natural world more deeply. |
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Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption
Bryan Stevenson - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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#1 New York Times Bestseller | Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times * The Washington Post * The Boston Globe * The Seattle Times * Esquire * Time Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction | Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Nonfiction | Winner... |
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An American Marriage
Afdeling bestuursrechtspraak van de Raad van State. - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Library Binding
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Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could... |
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Bitter Orange
CLAIRE FULLER - Tin House Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Our Endless Numbered Days and Swimming Lessons, Bitter Orange is a seductive psychological portrait, a keyhole into the dangers of longing and how far a woman might go to escape her past.From the attic of Lyntons, a dilapidated English country mansion, Frances Jellico... |
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The Indigo Girl: Library Edition
Natasha Boyd - Blackstone Audiobooks
Format: Audiobook
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The year is 1739. Eliza Lucas is sixteen years old when her father leaves her in charge of their family's three plantations in rural South Carolina and then proceeds to bleed the estates dry in pursuit of his military ambitions. Tensions with the British, and with the Spanish in Florida,... |
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Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the YearLONGLISTED 2015 - International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a dazzling new novel: a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face... |
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Lady Clementine: A Novel
Marie Benedict - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Hardcover
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New from Marie Benedict, the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room! An incredible novel that focuses on one of the people who had the most influence during World War I and World War II: Clementine Churchill. |
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What Alice Forgot
Liane Moriarty - Bolinda Publishing
Format: Audio CD
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"She was floating, arms outspread, water lapping her body, breathing in a summery fragrance of salt and coconut. She had to squint through spangles of light to see her feet. Her toenails were each painted a different colour. Red. Gold. Purple. Funny." When Alice Love surfaces... |
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The Queen's Gambit: A Novel
Walter Tevis - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Engaging and fast-paced, this gripping coming-of-age novel of chess, feminism, and addiction speeds to a conclusion as elegant and satisfying as a mate in four. Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game... |
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