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Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel

Zora Neale Hurston - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick"A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don't know how to live properly." - Zadie SmithOne of the most important...
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Divergent

Veronica Roth - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Paperback

This first book in Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy is the novel the inspired the major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, and Kate Winslet. This dystopian series set in a futuristic Chicago has captured the hearts of millions of teen and adult...
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Olive Kitteridge: Fiction

Elizabeth Strout - Random House; 2 edition
Format: Book

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • SOON TO BE AN HBO MINISERIESIn a voice more powerful and compassionate than ever before, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout binds together thirteen rich, luminous narratives into a book with the heft of a novel, through the presence...
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The Bonesetter's Daughter

Amy Tan - G.P. Putnam's
Format: Audio CD

In memories that rise like wisps of ghosts, LuLing Young searches for the name of her mother, the daughter of the Famous Bonesetter from the Mouth of the Mountain. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhile,...
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The White Queen: A Novel

Philippa Gregory - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

New Hardcover with dust jacket
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The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood - Anchor
Format: Paperback

From the bestselling author of Alias Grace and the MaddAddam trilogy, here is the #1 New York Times bestseller and seminal work of speculative fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author.Now a Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss, Samira Wiley, and Joseph Fiennes. Includes...
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The Book Thief

Markus Zusak - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

DON'T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK'S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF. This 10th-anniversary edition of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller features pages of bonus content, including marked-up manuscript pages, original sketches, and pages from the author's...
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel

GAIL HONEYMAN - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick"Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human connection. I fell in love with Eleanor, an eccentric and regimented loner whose life beautifully unfolds after a chance...
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The Paris Wife: A Novel

Paula McLain - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "A beautiful portrait of being in Paris in the glittering 1920s - as a wife and as one's own woman." - Entertainment Weekly A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures the love affair between...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Series Book 1)

Stieg Larsson - Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Format: Hardcover

Murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue combine into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel, the first in Stieg Larssons thrilling Millenium series featuring Lisbeth Salander."Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman...
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