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Daughters-in-Law

Joanna Trollope - Touchstone
Format: Paperback

An elegant, wry, and superbly nuanced story about a woman with three sons - and three daughters in law - who must come to terms with the new configuration of her family.As Anthony and Rachel Brinkley welcome their third daughter-in-law to the family, they don't quite realize the profound...
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Surfside Sisters

Nancy Thayer - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

A Nantucket woman returns home to find that reunions aren't always simple, in this heartwarming novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Nantucket Wedding and Secrets in Summer. Keely Green always dreamed of leaving the beautiful shores of Nantucket to become...
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The Last Year of the War

Susan Meissner - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and As Bright as Heaven comes a novel about a German American teenager whose life changes forever when her immigrant family is sent to an internment camp during World War II. Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old...
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Iris and Ruby: A Novel

Rosie Thomas - Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover

Rosie Thomas, a "master storyteller" (Cosmopolitan) has been delighting readers with her globe-spanning romantic sagas for more than three decades. Here, in Iris and Ruby, she has written her most touching story yet, set in the haunting and seductive vistas of Egypt.The unexpected...
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Sweet Tooth: A Novel

Ian McEwan - Nan A. Talese
Format: Print book

In this stunning new novel, Ian McEwan's first female protagonist since Atonement is about to learn that espionage is the ultimate seduction.Cambridge student Serena Frome's beauty and intelligence make her the ideal recruit for MI5. The year is 1972. The Cold War is far from over....
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Hush

James Patterson - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Top cop. Devoted sister. Now Inmate 3329. But prison bars won't stop Harriet Blue from seeking justice for the murder of her brother. Prison is a dangerous place for a former cop - as Harriet Blue is learning on a daily basis.So, following a fight for her life and a prison-wide lockdown,...
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Blindside

James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The mayor of New York has a daughter who's missing and in danger. Detective Michael Bennett has a son who's in prison. The two strike a deal. Bennett and the mayor have always had a tense relationship, but now the mayor sees in Bennett a discreet investigator with family worries of his own....
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Finding Casey: A Novel

Jo-Ann Mapson - Bloomsbury USA; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Glory Vigil, newly married, unexpectedly pregnant at forty-one, is nesting in the home she and her husband, Joseph, have just moved to in Santa Fe, a house that unbeknownst to them is rumored to have a resident ghost. Their adopted daughter, Juniper, is home from college for Thanksgiving...
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A Spear of Summer Grass

Deanna Raybourn - Harlequin MIRA; Original edition
Format: Paperback

Paris, 1923The daughter of a scandalous mother, Delilah Drummond is already notorious, even among Paris society. But her latest scandal is big enough to make even her oft-married mother blanch. Delilah is exiled to Kenya and her favorite stepfather's savanna manor house until gossip...
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The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope: A Novel

Rhonda Riley - Ecco
Format: Deckle Edge]

The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope is an unconventional and passionately romantic love story that is as breathtaking and wondrous as The Time Traveler’s Wife and The Story of Edgar Sawtelle.During WWII, teenager Evelyn Roe is sent to manage the family farm in rural North Carolina, where...
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Then Came You: A Novel

Jennifer Weiner - Atria Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Jules Strauss is a Princeton senior with a full scholarship, acquaintances instead of friends, and a family shes ashamed to invite to Parents Weekend. With the income shell receive from donating her pedigree eggs, she believes she can save her father from addiction. Annie Barrow married...
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Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet : a novel

Jamie Ford - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback

Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, this debut novel tells the heartwarming story of widower Henry Lee, his father, and his first love Keiko Okabe.
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The Seven Sisters: A Novel

Lucinda Riley - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

The first book in a major new series from the #1 internationally bestselling author Lucinda Riley.Maia D'Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, "Atlantis" - a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva - having been told...
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The Time Between

Karen White - Wheeler Publishing
Format: Large Print

Seeking atonement over her guilt that she caused her sisters paralysis, Eleanor takes a job caring for an elderly woman and becomes caught up in the womans life of passion, danger, heartache, and deception in Hungary during World War II.
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A Little Night Magic

Lucy March - St. Martin's Griffin; Original edition
Format: Paperback

In New York Times bestselling author Lucy March's new novel, Olivia Kiskey needs a change. She's been working at the same Nodaway Falls, New York, waffle house since she was a teenager; not a lot of upward mobility there. She's been in love with Tobias, the cook, for the last...
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Say You're Sorry

Michael Robotham - Mulholland Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

TWO MISSING GIRLS. TWO BRUTAL MURDERS. ALL CONNECTED TO ONE FARM HOUSE. WHO IS TO BLAME?When pretty and popular teenagers Piper Hadley and Tash McBain disappear one Sunday morning, the investigation captivates a nation but the girls are never found.Three years later, during the worst blizzard...
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Map of the Heart: A Novel

Susan Wiggs - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Print book

Love and family. War and secrets. Betrayal and redemption. #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs returns with a deeply emotional and atmospheric story that spans oceans and decades, from the present-day Delaware shore to the battlefields of WWII France. Widowed by an unspeakable...
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Traveler

Ron McLarty - Viking

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to Ron McLarty's poignant and deep-souled debut, The Memory of Running When Ron McLarty's debut novel, The Memory of Running, appeared, the publishing world sat up and took notice. Now, McLarty is back with another reason to cheer the arrival...
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