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Before the swallows come back
by Fiona Curnow
Tommy struggles with people, with communicating, preferring solitude, drifting off with nature. He is protected by his Tinker family who keep to the old ways. A life of quiet seclusion under canvas is all he knows. Charlotte cares for her sickly father. She meets Tommy by the riverside and an unexpected friendship develops. Over the years it becomes something more, something crucial to both of them. But when tragedy strikes each family they are torn apart. Charlotte is sent far away. Tommy might have done something very bad.
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Lula Dean's little library of banned books, a novel
by Kirsten Miller
When Lula Dean, trying to rid public libraries of“pornographic” books, starts her own lending library in front of her home, Lindsay, the daughter of Lula's arch nemesis, sneaks in nightly, secretly filling it with banned books wrapped in“wholesome” dust jackets, changing the lives of those who borrow them in unexpected ways.
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Malas
by Marcela Fuentes
When her beloved grandmother passes away, 14-year-old Lulu is drawn to the glamorous stranger who crashed the funeral and their unexpected kinship picks at the secrets of Lulu's family and a curse that reverberates across generation as one woman must make peace with the past and one girl must embrace her future.
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The people we keep
by Allie Larkin
Chronicling her life in the songs she writes, April Sawicki, after leaving home for good, finds her way to Ithaca, New York, where she finally finds a sense of belonging, but cannot shake the feeling that she'll hurt her new friends the way she's been hurt
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Same as it ever was : a novel
by Claire Lombardo
Finally at age 57, Julie Ames feels she has a firm handle on things, but a surprise announcement from her straight-arrow son, an impending separation from her teenaged daughter and a seductive resurgence of the past threaten to draw her back into the patterns that had previously kept her on a razor's edge.
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Sylvia's second act
by Hillary Yablon
Divorcing her cheating husband, 63-year-old Sylvia and her best friend, Evie, a glamorous older widow, set up a new life in Manhattan, pawning jewelry and roughing it in tiny apartments, until Sylvia revives her decades-old wedding-planning business and realizes her entire second act is right in front of her.
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