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The Windfall
by Diksha Basu
Women's Fiction. Moving to a wealthy community after the lucrative sale of their website, Mr. and Mrs. Jha, formerly of East Delhi, struggle with cultural changes while their son, studying in America, pursues romance and wonders how his parents' new status will affect his life choices. Read by Soneela Nankani.
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Behold the Dreamers
by Imbolo Mbue
Historical Fiction. An immigrant working-class couple from Cameroon and the upper-class American family for whom they work find their lives and marriages shaped by financial circumstances, infidelities, secrets, and the 2008 recession. Read by Prentice Onayemi.
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Of Mess and Moxie : Wrangling Delight out of this Wild and Glorious Life
by Jen Hatmaker
Religion & Spirituality. A guide to self-esteem and resiliency in accordance with Christian principles counsels women of faith to reevaluate their perspectives about the role of pain and failure in life, sharing frank and often riotous stories from the author's own experiences with missteps and setbacks. Read by Jen Hatmaker.
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| Fierce Kingdom by Gin PhillipsFiction. After a pleasant afternoon at the zoo, Joan realizes that the loud noises she'd heard earlier were actually gunshots -- human bodies litter the park's entrance, and at least one armed man stands between her and freedom. She grabs her four-year-old and finds cover, but with an antsy, hungry preschooler, even the best hiding place won't last forever, and Joan must soon make a move. Their harrowing ordeal moves lightning-fast as author Gin Phillips movingly portrays what a mother will do to protect her child. Cassandra Campbell's vivid narration may be emotionally intense but will stick with you long after it's over. Read by Cassandra Campbell. |
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The Saboteur : a Novel
by Andrew Gross
Suspense. Putting aside his personal needs to join the Norwegian resistance during World War II, engineer Kurt Nordstrum makes a daring escape to England to transmit secret evidence of the Nazis' progress towards building an atomic bomb, in a thriller inspired by a true story. By the best-selling author of No Way Back. Read by Edoardo Ballerini..
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The Leavers : a Novel
by Lisa Ko
Fiction. An award-winning debut novel follows the experiences of a Chinese youth who when his undocumented worker mother fails to return home is adopted by a family that attempts to make him over as an American teen while he struggles to reconcile his new life with memories of the family he left behind. Read by Emily Woo Zeller.
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The Good Daughter : a Novel
by Karin Slaughter
Suspense. Decades after a shattering confrontation that left her mother dead and her sister traumatized, a New York-based lawyer returns to her Atlanta hometown to help her father save the life of a young woman accused of a school shooting. By the best-selling author of the Grant County series. Read by Kathleen Early.
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Map of the Heart
by Susan Wiggs
Women's Fiction. Accompanying her aging father on a trip to his native France, a widowed photographer is led by his memories of World War II to unexpected revelations about their family's history at the same time she bonds with a handsome American historian. By the best-selling author of the Lakeshore Chronicles series. Read by Christina Traister.
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What Happened
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Politics. A new book of essays by the former secretary of state includes entries describing her experiences in the 2016 presidential campaign and incorporates hundreds of inspirational quotes that have shaped her life and work. Read by Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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The Last Tudor
by Philippa Gregory
Historical Fiction. A latest historical novel by the best-selling author of The Other Boleyn Girl reimagines the lives of Lady Jane Grey and her two sisters, who respectively endure imprisonment, a secret marriage and marginalization under the suspicious eyes of Tudor queens Mary and Elizabeth. Read by Bianca Amato.
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The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye : a Lisbeth Salander Novel
by David Lagercrantz
Suspense. Accepting help from investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist to uncover the truth about her traumatic childhood, Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo, navigates dangerous obstacles in the form of an anti-Muslim gang, her mafia-connected twin and the conductors of a sinister pseudoscientific experiment. Read by Simon Vance.
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Axel
by Grace Burrowes
Romance. Axel Belmont, though a wealthy and much-respected botanist, occasionally takes a turn serving as magistrate in his rural corner of Oxfordshire. When the owner of a neighboring estate is the victim of a homicide, Axel initially suspects the man's much younger wife, Abigail Stoneleigh, of committing the crime. But then Abby appears to be in harm's way, and Axel's investigation uncovers longstanding deceptions aimed at cheating her out of wealth and happiness. Read by James Langton.
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The It girls : a Novel
by Karen Harper
Fiction. Promoting themselves from genteel poverty to fame, two beautiful sisters, one a daring fashion designer and the other a writer of scandalous novels, become each other's most staunch supporter and harshest critic in the face of misunderstandings and confidences. By the award-winning author of Dark Angel. Read by Saskia Maarleveld.
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