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Peony in Love
by Lisa See
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Set in 17th-century China, See's fifth novel is a coming-of-age story, a ghost story, a family saga and a work of musical and social history. As Peony, the 15-year-old daughter of the wealthy Chen family, approaches an arranged marriage, she commits an unthinkable breach of etiquette when she accidentally comes upon a man who has entered the family...
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The History of Swimming: A Memoir
by Kim Powers
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The History of Swimming details author Kim Powers' frantic search for his twin brother Tim -- his best friend, his greatest enemy -- who disappears from Manhattan one weekend in his late twenties. Kim -- almost mystically -- imagines that the clues to Tim's whereabouts have been planted in a series of letters written by Tim over the years, part of an...
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The Wednesday Sisters: A Novel
by Meg Waite Clayton
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In the late 1960s, Frankie, Linda, Kath, Brett, and Ally begin meeting every Wednesday at the park in Palo Alto, California. Defined when they first meet mainly by what their husbands do, the young homemakers and mothers are far removed from the Summer of Love. These “Wednesday Sisters” seem to have little in common: Frankie is the timid transplant...
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The Conversion
by Joseph Olshan
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I believe that most memoirs are novels masquerading as memoirs. My novel -- about a young American translator who flirts with the idea of becoming an expatriate in France and italy -- is based on real events. It is based on real people, real places, real stories, but cemented together with a strong layer of invention. So, when I take you to a Tuscan...
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The Angel
by Carla Neggers
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Her passion for myth and magic leads a woman into the heart of a murderous evil.
On a remote stretch of the rugged coast of Ireland, folklorist and illustrator Keira Sullivan pursues the mysterious Irish legend of an ancient Celtic stone angel. As she searches an isolated ruin, she's certain she's discovered the mythic angel, but before she can examine...
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Twenty Wishes (A Blossom Street Book #4)
by Debbie Macomber
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Anne Marie can’t remember when she stopped making wishes, but she suspects that, like so much in her life, it happened unbidden. She certainly doesn’t recall making any of the choices that have left her childless, widowed, and alone at 38.
Anne Marie only knows that she needs to find one good thing about life—or she might...
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Without a Map: A Memoir
by Meredith Hall
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Without a Map is about loss and grief, and it is about forgiveness and recompense. When I was sixteen, in 1965, I became pregnant. My mother kicked me out. I lived with my father until my baby was born, when I was forced to give him up for adoption. Then my father exiled me from his life forever. These losses hollowed out the girl who had always...
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Free Food for Millionaires
by Min Jin Lee
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My first novel was rejected in 1996, and I began two other novel manuscripts but couldn’t complete them. I started to focus on short stories. One day, I told my best friend about a short story idea titled FREE FOOD FOR MILLIONAIRES based on an anecdote I’d heard from a friend who works on Wall Street. Turns out that after a deal closes, this investment...
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A More Obedient Wife: A Novel of the Early Supreme Court
by Natalie Wexler
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Winner of a bronze medal for historical fiction from the Independent Publisher Book Awards, A More Obedient Wife tells the story of two women in the 1790s–each in a troubled marriage to a Supreme Court Justice–who are swept up in the little-known but fascinating early history of our nation’s premier judicial institution. Hannah Iredell, shy and insecure–and...
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Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet
by Joanne Proulx
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When seventeen-year-old Luke Hunter foretells the death of his friend with freakish accuracy, his life gets complicated. Everyone in Stokum, Michigan, his rank little pinprick of a hometown, knows about the premonition and wants to know more. But Luke holds everyone—the local news crew, his parents, his buddy Fang—at arm’s length, telling no one that...
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 | Water for Elephants: A Novel
by Sara Gruen
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An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons.
When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, drifters, and misfits, a second-rate...
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 | Middlesex: A Novel
by Jeffrey Eugenides
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'I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver’s license...records...
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