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The Translation of Love: A Novel

Lynne Kutsukake · Doubleday
Pages: 318
Format: Print book

An emotionally gripping portrait of post-war Japan, where a newly repatriated girl must help a classmate find her missing sister.After spending the war years in a Canadian internment camp, thirteen-year-old Aya Shimamura and her father are faced with a gut-wrenching choice: Move east of the Rocky...
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At the Edge of the Orchard

Tracy Chevalier · Viking
Pages: 289
Format: Print book

From internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier, a riveting drama of a pioneer family on the American frontier1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck - in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their five children work relentlessly...
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The Girl From the Train

Irma Joubert · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 370
Format: Print book

Six-year-old Gretl Schmidt is on a train bound for Aushwitz. Jakób Kowalski is planting a bomb on the tracks. As World War II draws to a close, Jakób fights with the Polish resistance against the crushing forces of Germany and Russia. They intend to destroy a German troop transport,...
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Sister Dear

Laura McNeill · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

All Allie Marshall wants is a fresh start. But when dark secrets refuse to stay buried, will her chance at a new life be shattered forever? Convicted of a crime she didn't commit, Allie watched a decade of her life vanish - time that can never be recovered. Now, out on parole, Allie is determined...
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America's First Daughter: A Novel

Stephanie Dray · William Morrow
Pages: 16
Format: Print book

In a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources, bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph - a woman who kept...
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Dear Mr. Knightley: A Novel

Katherine Reay · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 327
Format: Paperback

"Katherine Reay's Dear Mr. Knightley kept me up until 2:00 a.m.; I simply couldn't put it down." -- Eloisa James, New York Times best-selling author of Once Upon a TowerSamantha Moore has always hidden behind the words of others -- namely, her favorite characters in literature....
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When the Moon Is Low: A Novel

Nadia Hashimi · William Morrow & Co
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

Mahmoud's passion for his wife Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she's ever known. But their happy, middle-class world - a life of education, work, and comfort - implodes when their country is engulfed in war, and the Taliban rises to power.Mahmoud, a civil engineer, becomes...
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