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The Woman Who Wasn't There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception

Robin Gaby Fisher - Touchstone
Format: Book

Tuesday, September 21, 2021 ~ 12:00 PM It was a tale of loss and recovery, of courage and sorrow, of horror and inspiration. Tania Head's astonishing account of her experience on September 11, 2001 - from crawling through the carnage and chaos to escaping the seventy-eighth-floor...
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This Tender Land: A Novel

William Kent Krueger - Atria Books
Format: Book

Tuesday, October 19, 2021 ~ 12:00 PM
"If you liked Where the Crawdads Sing, you'll love This Tender Land...This story is as big-hearted as they come." - Parade

A magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing...
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Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad

Gordon H. Chang - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Book

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 ~ 12:00 PM A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now.

From across the sea, they...
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The Paris Library: A Novel

Janet Skeslien Charles - Atria Books
Format: Book

Tuesday, December 21, 2021 ~ 12:00 PM Based on the true World War II story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris, this is an unforgettable story of romance, friendship, family, and the power of literature to bring us together, perfect for fans of The Lilac...
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

Jon Krakauer - Anchor
Format: Paperback

Tuesday, January 18, 2022 ~ 12:00 PM
A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong....
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Lilac Girls: A Novel

Martha Hall Kelly - Ballantine Books
Format: Book

Tuesday, February 15, 2022 ~ 12:00 PM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * For readers of The Nightingale and Sarah's Key, inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this remarkable debut novel reveals the power of unsung women to change...
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Thunderstruck

Erik Larson - Crown
Format: Book

Tuesday, March 15, 2022 ~ 12:00 PM A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world's "great hush."

In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men - Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo...
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

Kim Michele Richardson - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Book

Tuesday, April 19, 2022 ~ 12:00 PM The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything -- everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy...
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A Buffalo in the House: The True Story of a Man, an Animal, and the American West

R. D. Rosen - New Press, The
Format: Book

Tuesday, May 17, 2022 ~ 12:00 PM Marley and Me meets All Creatures Great and Small, as an ailing but lovable orphan buffalo joins a Santa Fe household.A sprawling suburban house in Santa Fe is not the kind of home where a buffalo normally roams, but Veryl Goodnight and Roger...
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The Forgotten Home Child

Genevieve Graham - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback

Tuesday, June 21, 2022 ~ 12:00 PM The Home for Unwanted Girls meets Orphan Train in this unforgettable novel about a young girl caught in a scheme to rid England's streets of destitute children, and the lengths she will go to find her way home - based on the true story...
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