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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

Elizabeth Gilbert - Viking
Format: Hardcover

This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly...
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Big Little Lies

Liane Moriarty - Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2015. ©2014
Format: Print book

The new novel from the author of The Husband's Secret A #1 New York Times Bestseller Sometimes it's the little lies that turn out to be the most lethal. A murder ... A tragic accident ... Or just parents behaving badly? What's indisputable is that someone is dead. Madeline...
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The Help

Kathryn Stockett - Berkley
Format: Paperback

Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally...
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Unbroken A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Laura Hillenbrand - Random House
Format: Hardcover

#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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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

Jon Krakauer - Villard Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers...
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Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970

David Browne - Da Capo Press; Later Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

January 1970 the Beatles assemble one more time to put the finishing touches on Let It Be Crosby, Stills, Nash Young are wrapping up Dj Vu Simon and Garfunkel are unveiling Bridge Over Troubled Water James Taylor is an upstart singer-songwriter whos just completed Sweet Baby James. Over...
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Cheryl Strayed - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection.A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe - and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's...
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Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--And the Journey of a Generation

Sheila Weller - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook

Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and Carly Simon remain among the most enduring and important women in popular music. Each woman is distinct: King is the product of outer-borough, middle-class New York City; Mitchell is a granddaughter of Canadian farmers; and Simon is a child of the Manhattan...
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