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The Flight Girls

by Noelle Salazar

Published: 2019-07-02

Hardcover: 384 pages

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A stunning story about the Women Airforce Service Pilots whose courage during World War II turned ordinary women into extraordinary heroes 1941. Audrey Coltrane has always wanted to fly. It’s why she implored her father to teach her at the little airfield back home in Texas. It’s why s...

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Saving Zoe: A Novel

by Alyson Noël

Published: 2007-09-04

Paperback: 240 pages

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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!It's been one year since the brutal murder of her older sister, Zoë, and fifteen-year-old Echo is still reeling from the aftermath. Her parents are numb, her friends are moving on, and the awkward start to her freshman year proves she'll never live up to ...

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Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China

by Xiaolu Guo

Published: 2017-10-03

Hardcover: 366 pages

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyXiaolu Guo is one of the most acclaimed Chinese-born writers of her generation, an iconoclastic and completely contemporary voice. Her vivid, poignant memoir, Nine Continents is the story of a curious mind coming of age in a...

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The Escape Room: A Novel

by Megan Goldin

Published: 2019-07-30

Hardcover: 368 pages

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"One of my favorite books of the year." ?Lee Child“Cancel all your plans and call in sick; once you start reading, you'll be caught in your own escape room?the only key to freedom is turning the last page!” ?Kirkus Reviews (starred)"A sleek, well-crafted ride." ?The New York TimesIn Me...

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The Color of Lightning: A Novel (P.S.)

by Paulette Jiles

Published: 2010-06-15

Paperback: 382 pages

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In 1863, as the War Between the States creeps inevitably toward its bloody conclusion, former Kentucky slave Britt Johnson ventures west into unknown territory with his wife, Mary, and their three children, searching for a life and a future. But their dreams are abruptly shattered by a br...

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The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge

by M.T. Anderson, Eugene Yelchin

Published: 2018-09-25

Hardcover: 544 pages

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Subverting convention, award-winning creators M. T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin pair up for an anarchic, outlandish, and deeply political saga of warring elf and goblin kingdoms.Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into gob...

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The Trial of Bat Shea

by Jack Casey

Published: 2012-03-02

Paperback: 580 pages

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THE TRIAL OF BAT SHEA, a novel by Jack Casey, tells of the struggles of the Irish in gritty, industrial Troy, N.Y. (130,000 words, 55 illustrations). The year is 1894. Boss Edward Murphy, United States Senator and New York State Democratic Chairman, runs this upstate mill city from a brewery. Thugs and...

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The Woman in the White Kimono: A Novel

by Ana Johns

Published: 2019-05-28

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Oceans and decades apart, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them.Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura’s prearranged marriage to the son of her father’s business associate would secure her family’s status in their traditional Japanese community, but Nao...

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The Abolitionist's Daughter

by Diane C. McPhail

Published: 2019-04-30

Hardcover: 336 pages

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In her sweeping debut, Diane C. McPhail offers a powerful, profoundly emotional novel that explores a little-known aspect of Civil War history—Southern Abolitionists—and the timeless struggle to do right even amidst bitter conflict.   On a Mississippi morning in 1859, Emily Matthews b...

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I'll Love Ye Forever: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Long Term Care

by Sally K. Browne

Published: 2018-07-30

Paperback: 448 pages

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Caring for an aging loved one requires navigating a labyrinth of policies, procedures, prejudices, and dangerous assumptions. Every twist and turn of events assaults the mind and heart with confusion, fear, anger, frustration, and a fatigue which threatens to exhaust one's very soul. She t...