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My Last Lament

James William Brown · Berkley Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A poignant and evocative novel of one Greek woman's story of her own - and her nation's - epic struggle in the aftermath of World War II. Aliki is one of the last of her kind, a lamenter who mourns and celebrates the passing of life. She is part of an evolving Greece, one moving...
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The Dark Flood Rises: A Novel

Margaret Drabble · Farrar
Pages: 327
Format: Print book

From the great British novelist Dame Margaret Drabble comes a vital and audacious tale about the many ways in which we confront aging and living in a time of geopolitical rupture.Francesca Stubbs has an extremely full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself...
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The Shadow Land: A Novel

Elizabeth Kostova · Ballantine Books
Pages: 478
Format: Hardcover

From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes a mesmerizing novel that spans the past and the present - and unearths the troubled history of a gorgeous but haunted country.A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve...
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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

Lisa See · Scribner
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple.Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been...
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Anything Is Possible: A Novel

Elizabeth Strout · Random House
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout comes a brilliant latticework of fiction that recalls Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity. Written in tandem with My Name Is Lucy Barton and drawing on the small-town characters...
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Music of the Ghosts

Vaddey Ratner · Touchstone
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of In the Shadow of the Banyan comes a novel about a young woman who returns to her homeland after receiving a letter from a mysterious man who claims to have known her father before he disappeared in the Cambodian holocaust.Teera,...
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Goodnight from London: A Novel

Jennifer Robson · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson - author of Moonlight Over Paris and Somewhere in France - comes a lush historical novel that tells the fascinating story of Ruby Sutton, an ambitious American journalist who moves to London in 1940 to report on the Second World War, and to start...
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