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April meeting:

The Music Shop: A Novel

RACHEL JOYCE · Random House
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A love story and a journey through music, the exquisite and perfectly pitched new novel from the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
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A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter

NIKKI GIOVANNI · William Morrow
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover

One of America's most celebrated poets looks inward in this powerful collection, a rumination on her life and the people who have shaped her.

The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She's been hailed as a firebrand, a radical,...

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Kitchens of the Great Midwest: A Novel

J. Ryan Stradal · Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pages: 312
Format: Print book

Who is Eva Thorvald? To her single father, a chef, she's a pint-sized recipe tester and the love of his life. To the chilli chowdown contestants of Cook County, Illinois, she's a fire-eating demon. To the fashionable foodie goddess of supper clubs, she's a wanton threat. She's an enigma,...
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The Woman in the Window: A Novel

A. J. Finn · William Morrow
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

"Astounding. Thrilling. Lovely and amazing....Finn has created a noir for the new millennium, packed with mesmerizing characters, stunning twists, beautiful writing and a narrator with whom I'd love to split a bottle of pinot. Maybe two bottles - I've got a lot of questions for her."...

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Iced In: Ten Days Trapped on the Edge of Antarctica

CHRIS TURNEY · Citadel
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
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Ali Reynolds Mystery #13

Johann Sebastian Bach · Touchstone
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The thirteenth book in New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance's popular series featuring Ali Reynolds, a former Los Angeles news anchor turned amateur sleuth.
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Every Note Played

LISA GENOVA · Gallery/Scout Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice comes a powerful and heartbreaking exploration of regret, forgiveness, freedom, and what it means to be alive.

An accomplished concert pianist, Richard received standing ovations from audiences...
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The Coincidence Makers

YOAV BLUM · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

In this genre-bending novel, there is no such thing as chance and every action is carefully executed by highly trained agents. You'll never looks at coincidences the same way again.What if the drink you just spilled, the train you just missed, or the lottery ticket you just found was not just...
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Between Friends

Debbie Macomber · MIRA Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Mira (June 1, 2002) Language: English ISBN: 1551669056 Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.6 x 1.1 inches Prolific Macomber's latest traces the lives and friendship of Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski through th"
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Prayers for Sale

Sandra Dallas · St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Hennie Comfort is eighty-six and has lived in the mountains of Middle Swan, Colorado since before it was Colorado.  Nit Spindle is just seventeen and newly married.  She and her husband have just moved to the high country in search of work.  Its 1936 and the depression has ravaged the country...
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The Engagements

J. Courtney Sullivan · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of Commencement and Maine comes a gorgeous, sprawling novel about marriage—about those who marry in a white heat of passion, those who marry for partnership and comfort, and those who live together, love each other, and have absolutely no intention...
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First Frost

Sarah Addison Allen · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Now a New York Times bestseller Two magical sisters. One cranky apple tree. It's October in Bascom, North Carolina, and autumn will not go quietly. As temperatures drop and leaves begin to turn, the Waverley women are made restless by the whims of their mischievous apple tree...and...
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A Redbird Christmas: A Novel

Fannie Flagg · Random House
Pages: 229
Format: Hardcover

A Redbird Christmas: A Novel
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