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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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Terrible Virtue: A Novel

Ellen Feldman · Harpercollins, 2016.
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

In the spirit of The Paris Wife and Loving Frank, the provocative and compelling story of one of the most fascinating and influential figures of the twentieth century: Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood - an indomitable woman who, more than any other, and at great personal...
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Father's Day: A Novel

Simon Van Booy · Harpercollins
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The moving story of an orphaned girl named Harvey and the troubled uncle who raises her - an unforgettable tale of loss and redemption from the author of The Illusion of Separateness.At the age of six, a little girl named Harvey learns that her parents have died in a car accident. As she struggles...
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Lust & Wonder

Augusten Burroughs · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

In chronicling the development and demise of the different relationships he's had while living in New York, Augusten Burroughs examines what it means to be in love, what it means to be in lust, and what it means to be figuring it all out. With Augusten's unique and singular observations...
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Emperor of the Eight Islands: Book 1 in the Tale of Shikanoko

Lian Hearn · Farrar
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

In the opening pages of the action-packed Book One of Lian Hearn's epic Tale of Shikanoko series--all of which will be published in 2016--a future lord is dispossessed of his birthright by a scheming uncle, a mountain sorcerer imbues a mask with the spirit of a great stag for a lost...
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The Versions of Us

Laura Barnett · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 402
Format: Print book

In one moment, two lives will be changed forever . . . and forever . . . and forever. The one thing that s certain is they met on a Cambridge street by chance and felt a connection that would last a lifetime. But as for what happened next . . . They fell wildly in love, or went their separate...
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Complicit: A Novel

Stephanie Kuehn · Griffin, 2016.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

A YALSA 2015 Best Fiction for Young Adults PickTwo years ago, fifteen-year-old Jamie Henry breathed a sigh of relief when a judge sentenced his older sister to juvenile detention for burning down their neighbor's fancy horse barn. The whole town did. Because Crazy Cate Henry used to be a nice...
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Midnight in Berlin: A Novel

James MacManus · Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Berlin in the spring of 1939. Hitler is preparing for war. Colonel Noel Macrae, a British diplomat, plans the ultimate sacrifice to stop him. The West's appeasement policies have failed. There is only one alternative: assassination. The Gestapo, aware of Macrae's hostility, seeks to compromise...
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Solemn

Kalisha Buckhanon · St Martin'S Press, 2016.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Solemn Redvine is a precocious Mississippi girl who senses a nearby baby may be her half-sibling: the outcome of her father's mistakes with a married woman who lives in their trailer park. After Solemn witnesses a man throw the baby down a community well, she struggles to understand the event,...
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Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee: From Scout to Go Set a Watchman

Charles J Shields · Henry Holt
Pages: 352

An extensively revised and updated edition of the bestselling biography of Harper Lee, reframed from the perspective of the recent publication of Lee's Go Set a WatchmanTo Kill a Mockingbird -- the twentieth century's most widely read American novel -- has sold thirty million copies and still...
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