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Everything / Nothing / Someone
by Alice Carriáere
This compelling literary debut tells the story of a young woman coming of age in the bohemian‘90s as she navigates through the challenges of adolescence and grapples with dissociative disorder.
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The Book Club Hotel
by Sarah Morgan
While dealing with her fully booked inn for the holidays, widow and single mom Hattie Coleman just wants to make it through the festive season and is not prepared when her own story becomes entwined in those of three lifelong friends, changing all their lives during the most enchanting time of the year.
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Fair Rosaline
by Natasha Solomons
Romeo Montague falls instantly in love with Rosaline Capulet and the pair begin a clandestine relationship until a destitute young woman appears claiming to be carrying his child, in a feminist retelling of Romeo and Juliet.
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The Traitor Among Us
by Anne Perry
Infiltrating Wyndham Hall, where the body of a longtime MI6 agent was found, Elena Standish, as Hitler's control spreads across Europe, covertly investigates his murder, working to uncover the true loyalties of the people in the house while protecting her sister from her beau's potentially dangerous relatives.
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Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance
by Paulette Jiles
After recovering from a traumatic head injury, John Chenneville discovers his beloved sister and her family were murdered during the end of the Civil War and embarks on an odyssey across the Reconstruction-era South seeking revenge.
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Let Us Descend: A Novel
by Jesmyn Ward
In the years before the Civil War, Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, struggles through the miles-long march, seeks comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother, opening herself to a world beyond this world.
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The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts
by Loren Grush
Tells the extraordinary true story of America's first women astronauts who made history in 1978 when they were selected to go into orbit aboard NASA's Space Shuttle, each of them making their mark as they helped build the tools that made the space program run.
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Those Pink Mountain Nights
by Jenny Ferguson
While working at Pink Mountain Pizza, three teens - overachiever Berlin, high school dropout Cameron and rich girl Jessie - find their weekend taking unexpected turns, forcing them all to acknowledge the various ways they've been hurt - and how much they need each other to hold it all together.
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Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom In Slavery's Borderland
by Scott Shane
This riveting account of the little-known abolitionist, liberator and writer recounts how he organized mass escapes from Washington, Baltimore and surrounding counties to freedom in the north, risking his own freedom to battle what he called “the most inhuman system that ever blackened the pages of history.”
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The Wren, the Wren: A Novel
by Anne Enright
Centering around celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh, who was lauded in public but was carelessly selfish at home, three generations of McDaragh women must contend with inheritances—poetic wonder, abandonment and a sustaining love—in this intricately woven tapestry of longing, betrayal and hope.
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The Golden Gate
by Amy Chua
While investigating the murder of a presidential candidate in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan discovers a link to the death of a 7-year-old girl 10 years earlier and is led to one of the wealthiest families in all of San Francisco whose powerful influence hinder his quest for the truth.
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Starter Villain
by John Scalzi
When his long-lost uncle dies, leaving him his supervillain business, Charlie, as rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital come after him, finds going bad looking pretty good with unionized dolphins, hyperintelligent talking spy cats and a terrifying henchperson at his side.
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One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World
by Michael Frank
The story of 99-year-old Stella Levi whose conversations with the writer Michael Frank over the course of six years bring to life the vibrant world of Jewish Rhodes, the deportation to Auschwitz that extinguished 90 percent of her community and the resilience and wisdom of the woman who lived to tell the tale.
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Mad Honey: A Novel
by Jodi Picoult
Her life upended when her husband revealed a darker side, Olivia MacAfee and her teenage son Asher move back to her New Hampshire hometown for a new beginning until Asher is implicated in the death of his girlfriend and she realizes he's hidden more than he's shared with her.
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The Singularities
by John Banville
Released from prison, a man with a borrowed name arrives at the estate of his youth where he must vie with the idiosyncratic Godley family—descendants of a world-famous scientist—while dealing with a wealthy and beautiful woman from his past who comes bearing an unusual request.
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