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The Yellow Bird Sings: A Novel

Jennifer Rosner - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

The girl is forbidden from making a sound, so the yellow bird sings. He sings whatever the girl composes in her head: high-pitched trills of piccolo; low-throated growls of contrabassoon. The bird chirps all the musical parts save percussion, because the barn rabbits obligingly thump...
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This Tender Land: A Novel

William Kent Krueger - Atria
Format: Hardcover

INSTANTNEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER! "If you likedWhere the Crawdads Sing,youll loveThis Tender Land...This story is as big-hearted as they come." - Parade The unforgettable story of four orphans who travel the Mississippi River on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression.....
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Lost Roses: A Novel

MARTHA HALL KELLY - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

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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The Water Dancer (Oprah’s Book Club): A Novel

Ta-Nehisi Coates - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

Number one New York Times best sellerOprahs Book Club PickFrom the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom."This potent book about Americas most disgraceful...
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The Pillars of the Earth

Ken Follett - Penguin Books
Format: Mass Market Paperback

#1 New York Times BestsellerOprah's Book Club SelectionIf you liked the Century Trilogy, you'll love the "extraordinary . . . monumental masterpiece" (BOOKLIST ) that changed the course of Ken Follett's already phenomenal career."Follett risks all and comes...
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

Kim Michele Richardson - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Hardcover

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...
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Sarah's Key

Tatiana de Rosnay - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book

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 Night Tiger: A Novel

Yangsze Choo - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club PickINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A sumptuous garden maze of a novel that immerses readers in a complex, vanished world." --Kirkus (starred review) From New York Times...
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Memoirs of a Geisha

Arthur Golden
Format: Hardcover

An alluring tour de force: a brilliant debut novel told with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism as the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells...
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Dragonfly in Amber

Diana Gabaldon - Seal Books
Format: Print book

NOW THE STARZ ORIGINAL SERIES OUTLANDER With her classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon introduced two unforgettable characters - Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser - delighting readers with a story of adventure and love that spanned two centuries. Now Gabaldon returns...
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The Island of Sea Women: A Novel

LISA SEE - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island.Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very...
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The Giver of Stars: A Novel

Jojo Moyes - Pamela Dorman Books
Format: Hardcover

"With characters so real they feel like dear friends and a compelling storyline, this is a beautiful, special novel. I loved it and didn't want it to end!" - Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies "Epic in scope and fiercely feminist....
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The Huntress: A Novel

Kate Quinn - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel, THE ALICE NETWORK, comes another fascinating historical novel about a battle-haunted English journalist and a Russian female bomber pilot who join forces to track the Huntress, a Nazi war criminal gone to ground in America.In...
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