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October 26
Book discussion & Skype with author

The Other Einstein: A Novel

Marie Benedict · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In the tradition of The Paris Wife and Mrs. Poe, The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. It is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special...

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November 28
2016 Balleys Women's Prize for Fiction, Longlisted

A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding: A Novel

Jackie Copleton · Penguin Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

In the tradition of Memoirs of a Geisha and The Piano Teacher, a heart-wrenching debut novel of family, forgiveness, and the exquisite pain of love

When Amaterasu Takahashi opens the door of her Philadelphia home to a badly scarred man claiming to be her grandson,...
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December 12
2014 Amazon Book of the Year and 2015 Alex Award
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Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Celeste Ng · Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet . . . So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright...
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