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Eligible: A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice

Curtis Sittenfeld - Random House
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Wonderfully tender and hilariously funny, Eligible tackles gender, class, courtship, and family as Curtis Sittenfeld reaffirms herself as one of the most dazzling authors writing today. This version of the Bennet family - and Mr. Darcy - is one that...
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Vinegar Girl: A Novel

Anne Tyler - Hogarth
Format: Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies. Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty...
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Longbourn

Jo Baker - Alfred A. Knopf
Format:  Print book : Fiction : English : First U.S. EditionView all editions and formats

Pride and Prejudice was only half the story If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, shed most likely be a sight more careful with them. In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants take center stage. Sarah,...
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Caroline: Little House, Revisited

SARAH MILLER - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

In this novel authorized by Little House Heritage Trust, Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty, hardship, and joys of the frontier in a dazzling work of historical fiction, a captivating story that illuminates one courageous, resilient, and loving pioneer woman as never before--Caroline...
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Unmarriageable: A Novel

SONIAH KAMAL - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

In this one-of-a-kind retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in modern-day Pakistan, Alys Binat has sworn never to marry - until an encounter with one Mr. Darsee at a wedding makes her reconsider. A scandal and vicious rumor concerning the Binat family have destroyed their fortune...
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Jane Steele

Lyndsay Faye - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Nominated for the 2017 Edgar Award for Best NovelThe reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer that The New York Times Book Review calls "wonderfully entertaining" and USA Today describes as "sheer mayhem meets Victorian propriety." "A...
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