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January 17, 2019

The Great Alone

KRISTIN HANNAH - Center Point Pub
Format: Library Binding

In this powerful novel of endurance and resilience, Kristin Hannah introduces us to the struggling Allbright family. It is 1974, a time of social and political unrest in America. The Vietnam War has divided the country, the world is an increasingly dangerous place, and the idealism of a previous...
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February 21, 2019

How to Stop Time

MATT HAIG - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"A quirky romcom dusted with philosophical observations ... .A delightfully witty ... poignant novel." - The Washington Post "She smiled a soft, troubled smile and I felt the whole world slipping away, and I wanted to slip with it, to go wherever she was going...
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March 21, 2019

Last Bus to Wisdom: A Novel

Ivan Doig - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

Named a Best Book of the Year by the Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Kirkus ReviewThe final novel from a great American storyteller.Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country...
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April 18, 2019

The Library Book

Susan Orlean - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 "A constant pleasure to read ... Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book."...
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May 16, 2019

Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions

MARIO GIORDANO - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Break out the prosecco! There's a new detective in town - and she's 60, sexy, wise and utterly adorable. In the first book of what promises to be a smash series, Poldi moves from Munich to Sicily, intent on cheerfully drinking herself to death with a view of the sea....
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June 20, 2019

The Summer Wives: A Novel

BEATRIZ WILLIAMS - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams brings us the blockbuster novel of the season - an electrifying postwar fable of love, class, power, and redemption set among the inhabitants of an island off the New England coast . . .In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite,...
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July 18, 2019

Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent,...
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August 15, 2019

Carnegie's Maid: A Novel

Marie Benedict - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

From the author of The Other Einstein, the mesmerizing tale of what kind of woman could have inspired an American dynasty.Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor...
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September 19, 2019

The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

Michael Finkel - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this dream a reality; not out of anger at the world, but simply because he preferred to live on his own.A New York...
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October 17, 2019

The Night Child: A Novel

ANNA QUINN - Blackstone Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girl's face appears above the students' desks -- ''a wild numinous face with startling blue eyes, a face floating...
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November 21, 2019

The Immortalists

Chloe Benjamin - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A captivating family saga." - The New York Times Book Review"You won't be able to put it down." - The Skimm (Skimm Reads Pick) "This literary family saga is perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Donna...
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December 19, 2019

The Noel Diary

Richard Paul Evans - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller In this new holiday-themed novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Mistletoe Promise and The Walk, a man receives the best Christmas present he could ask for: the chance to re-write the past.Bestselling romance author...
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