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The Sicilian Inheritance : a novel
by Jo Piazza
Inheriting a plot of land in Sicily, along with a bombshell family secret—her great-grandmother Serafina didn't die of illness but was murdered—Sara Marsala races all over the picturesque Italian countryside to solve a mystery and learn the real story of Serafina, putting her in the crosshairs of a killer.
Generously donated by the Babes with Big Books book club.
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Pineapple Street
by Jenny Jackson
A novel of family, love and class follows three women in one wealthy Brooklyn clan. A first novel.
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
Embarking on a legendary collaboration launching them to stardom, two friends have the world at their feet until they discover that their success, brilliance and money won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of the heart.
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Happiness Falls
by Angie Kim
When her father goes missing and the only witness is her younger brother Eugene who has Angelman syndrome and cannot speak, Mia finds their desperate search calling everything they know about him and themselves into question—and that the most personal secrets may be at the heart of his disappearance.
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Manhattan Beach
by Jennifer Egan
Years after she is placed in the hands of a stranger vital to her family's survival, Anna takes a job at the Brooklyn Naval Yard during the war while meeting with the man who helped them and learning important truths about her father's disappearance. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad.
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When We Were Orphans
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Sent to live in England after the mysterious disappearance of his parents, Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early twentieth-century Shanghai, returns more than twenty years later to a Shanghai torn apart by the Sino-Japanese war to uncover the truth about the tragedy that transformed his childhood. By the author of The Remains of the Day.
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The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
by Marie Benedict
Claiming amnesia after going missing for more than a week in late 1926, up-and-coming mystery author Agatha Christie pens a chilling story that brashly implicates her war-hero husband.
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
by Shelby Van Pelt
After her husband dies, widow Tova Sullivan starts working at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, where she forms a special bond with a giant Pacific octopus who holds the key solving the mysterious disappearance of her 18-year-old son, Erik, over thirty years ago on the Puget Sound.
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Our Missing Hearts
by Celeste Ng
In a society consumed by fear, twelve-year-old Bird Gardner receives a mysterious letter and sets out on a quest to find his mother, a Chinese-American poet who left when he was nine years old. This leads him to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change.
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Apples Never Fall
by Liane Moriarty
The four Delaney children start to reexamine their shared family history in a new light when their mother disappears along with a stranger named Savannah who needed their help, and their father, who claims to be innocent, has a lot to hide.
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