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Behold the Dreamers: A Novel

Imbolo Mbue · Random House, 2015.
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

For fans of Americanah and The Lowland comes a debut novel about an immigrant couple striving to get ahead as the Great Recession hits home. With profound empathy, keen insight, and sly wit, Imbolo Mbue has written a compulsively readable story about marriage, class, race, and the trapdoors...
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel

Taylor Jenkins Reid · Atria Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

From Taylor Jenkins Reid, "a genius when it comes to stories about life and love" (Redbook) , comes an unforgettable and sweeping novel about one classic film actress's relentless rise to the top - the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public...
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The Lost Letter: A Novel

Jillian Cantor · Riverhead Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A historical novel of love and survival inspired by real resistance workers during World War II Austria, and the mysterious love letter that connects generations of Jewish families. A heart-breaking, heart-warming read for fans of The Nightingale, Lilac Girls, and Sarah's Key. Austria,...
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Arundhati Roy · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

A richly moving new novel--the first since the author's Booker Prize-winning, internationally celebrated debut, The God of Small Things, went on to become a beloved best seller and enduring classic.The Ministry of Utmost Happiness transports us across a subcontinent on a journey of many...
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Before We Were Yours: A Novel

LISA WINGATE · BALLANTINE
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's...
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The Alice Network: A Novel

Kate Quinn · William Morrow
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women - a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947 - are brought together in a mesmerizing...
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Salt Houses

Hala Alyan · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

"Reading Salt Houses is like having your coffee grounds read: cosmic, foreboding and titillating all at once. In this magnificent debut, Alyan's powerful and poetic voice guides us into the dark recesses of history and leads us right up to the present tensions between East & West,...
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The Coroner's Daughter: A Novel

Andrew Hughes · Pegasus Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

When a young woman uncovers evidence that a recent suicide may have been murder, her investigations attract the attention of a dangerous man stalking the streets of nineteenth-century Dublin. Dublin, 1816. A young nursemaid conceals a pregnancy and then murders her newborn in the home of the Neshams,...
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The Baker's Secret: A Novel

STEPHEN P KIERNAN · William Morrow
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the multiple-award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Hummingbird and The Curiosity comes a dazzling novel of World War II - a shimmering tale of courage, determination, optimism, and the resilience of the human spirit, set in a small Normandy village on the eve of D-Day.On...
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The Royal Nanny: A Novel

Karen Harper · William Morrow
Pages: 14
Format: Print book

Based on a seldom-told true story, this novel is perfect for everyone who is fascinated by Britain's royal family - a behind the scenes look into the nurseries of little princes and the foibles of big princes.April, 1897: A young nanny arrives at Sandringham, ancestral estate of the Duke...
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The Practice House

Laura McNeal · Little A
Pages: 492
Format: Paperback

Nineteen-year-old Aldine McKenna is stuck at home with her sister and aunt in a Scottish village in 1929 when two Mormon missionaries ring the doorbell. Aldine's sister converts and moves to America to marry, and Aldine follows, hoping to find the life she's meant to lead and the person...
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel

Mark T. Sullivan · Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 524
Format: Print book

Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man's incredible courage and resilience during one of history's darkest hours.Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed...
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