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We Must Be Brave

Frances Liardet · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Spanning the sweep of the twentieth century, We Must Be Brave explores the fierce love that we feel for our children and the power of that love to endure. Beyond distance, beyond time, beyond life itself.One woman. One little girl. The war that changed everything.December 1940. In the disorderly...
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The Huntress: A Novel

Kate Quinn · William Morrow
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel, THE ALICE NETWORK, comes another fascinating historical novel about a battle-haunted English journalist and a Russian female bomber pilot who join forces to track the Huntress, a Nazi war criminal gone to ground in America.In...
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The Island of Sea Women: A Novel

LISA SEE · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island.Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds....
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Daisy Jones & The Six: A Novel

Taylor Jenkins Reid · Ballantine Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup. "Beautifully layered and complex . . . I devoured Daisy Jones & The Six in a day, falling head over heels for it. Daisy...
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Daughters of Northern Shores

Joanne Bischof · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

From Christy Award-winning author Joanne Bischof comes the sequel to her beautiful novel Sons of Blackbird Mountain.Aven Norgaard understands courage. Orphaned within an Irish workhouse, then widowed at just nineteen, she voyaged to America where she was wooed and wed by Thor Norgaard,...
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Little Faith

Nickolas Butler · Ecco
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In this moving new novel from celebrated author Nickolas Butler, a Wisconsin family grapples with the power and limitations of faith when one of their own falls under the influence of a radical church Lyle Hovde is at the onset of his golden years, living a mostly content life in rural...
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A Woman Is No Man: A Novel

ETAF RUM · Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A Washington Post 10 Books to Read in March * A Refinery 29 Best Books of the Month * A The Millions Most Anticipated Books of 2019"Garnering justified comparisons to Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns... Etaf Rum's debut novel is a must-read about women mustering up the bravery...
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When All Is Said: A Novel

Anne Griffin · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"An extraordinary novel, a poetic writer, and a story that moved me to tears." -- New York Times John Boyne, bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas"I'm here to remember-all that I have been and all that I will never be again."If you had to pick five people...
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The Last Year of the War

Susan Meissner · Berkley
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and As Bright as Heaven comes a novel about a German American teenager whose life changes forever when her immigrant family is sent to an internment camp during World War II. Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943--aware...
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The Library of Lost and Found

Phaedra Patrick · Park Row
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A librarian's discovery of a mysterious book sparks the journey of a lifetime in the delightful new novel from the international bestselling author of The Curious Charms of Arthur PepperLibrarian Martha Storm has always found it easier to connect with books than people - though not for lack...
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The Old Drift: A Novel

Namwali Serpell · Hogarth
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover

An electrifying debut from the winner of the 2015 Caine Prize for African writing, The Old Drift is the Great Zambian Novel you didn't know you were waiting for On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called...
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Women Talking

MIRIAM TOEWS · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

"This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid's Tale." Margaret Atwood, on TwitterOne evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women,...
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