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Here's what we read this month:
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Lady Tan's circle of women : a novel
by Lisa See
Sent into an arranged marriage, Tan Yunxian, forbidden to continue her work as a midwife-in-training as well as see her forever friend Meiling, is ordered to act like proper wife and seeks a way to continue treating women and girls from every level of society in 15th-century China.
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Homecoming : a novel
by Kate Morton
A laid-off London journalist returns home to Sydney where she discovers a link between her family and an infamous 1959 crime, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of The Clockmaker's Daughter. 250,000 first printing.
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Hello stranger
by Katherine Center
After a routine surgery a struggling artist loses the ability to see people's faces but can still see animal faces in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of What You Wish For. 150,000 first printing.
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Lessons in chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus
In the early 1960s, chemist and single mother Elizabeth Zott, the reluctant star of Americas most beloved cooking show due to her revolutionary skills in the kitchen, uses this opportunity to dare women to change the status quo.
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The nature of fragile things
by Susan Meissner
Moving to early 20th-century San Francisco to escape New York tenement life, an Irish mail-order bride uncovers transformative secrets involving a silent child and two other women before her precarious existence is upended by the great earthquake of 1906.
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Meant to be : a novel
by Emily Giffin
When Joe Kingley, the free-spirited son of American royalty, and Cate Cooper, a famous model, have a chance encounter that leads to an instant and intense connection, they wonder if their relationship can survive the glare of the spotlight and the so-called Kingsley Curse.
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The royal nanny
by Karen Harper
Follows nanny Charlotte Bill as she, in April of 1897, arrives at the ancestral estate of the Duke and Duchess of York and cares for a generation of royals, who need the steadfast loyalty and unconditional affection she gives them, as their parents never could. Reading-group guide available. By a New York Times best-selling author. Original. 75,000 first printing.
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A week in winter
by Maeve Binchy
A final novel by the late best-selling author of Tara Road follows the efforts of a woman who against the opinions of local detractors turns a coastal Ireland mansion into a holiday resort and receives an assortment of first guests who throughout the course of a week share laughter and the heartache of respective challenges. 200,000 first printing.
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The five-star weekend
by Elin Hilderbrand
Inviting her best friend from each phase of her life, widow Hollis Shaw hosts an unforgettable weekend on Nantucket, during which things don't go as planned as each woman deals with heartbreak, infidelity, scandal and secrets, but things turnaround due to new friendships, unexpected romance and self-discovery.
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The girl who survived
by Lisa Jackson
The sole survivor of a brutal family massacre twenty years earlier, Kara McIntyre, when the person believed to be responsible for the killings is released, wonders how many times she can be the girl who survived as people around her die horrible deaths
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