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The Peach Keeper: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle)

by Sarah Addison Allen

Published: 2012-01-10

Paperback: 304 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt’s the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madam—built by Willa’s great-great-grandfather and once the finest home in Walls of Wat...

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Marrow: A Love Story

by Elizabeth Lesser

Published: 2016-09-20

Hardcover: 320 pages

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2017 Books for a Better Life Award Winner: Inspirational MemoirThe author of the New York Times bestseller Broken Open returns with a visceral and profound memoir of two sisters who, in the face of a bone marrow transplant—one the donor and one the recipient—begin a quest for acceptanc...

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The Baron In The Trees

by Italo Calvino

Published: 1977-03-28

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Cosimo, a young eighteenth-century Italian nobleman, rebels by climbing into the trees to remain there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an arboreal existence and even has love affairs. Translated by Archibald Colquhoun.

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No Knives in the Kitchens of This City: A Novel (Hoopoe Fiction)

by Khaled Khalifa

Published: 2016-10-15

Paperback: 240 pages

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In the once beautiful city of Aleppo, one Syrian family descends into tragedy and ruin. Irrepressible Sawsan flirts with militias, the ruling party, and finally religion, seeking but never finding salvation. She and her siblings and mother are slowly choked in violence and decay, as their ...

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* * * * Insightful,
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The Promise Girls

by Marie Bostwick

Published: 2017

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The Wedding Girl: A Novel

by Madeleine Wickham

Published: 2010-06-22

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At the age of eighteen, in that first golden Oxford summer, Milly was up for anything. Rupert and his American lover, Allan, were an important part of her new, exciting life, so when Rupert suggested to her that she and Allan should get married to keep Allan in the country, Milly didn't he...

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The Secret of Santa Vittoria

by Robert Crichton

Published: 1966-07-15

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Remote from the rest of war-torn Italy, the little town of Santa Vittoria has but one thing to boast of: its fabulous wine cellars. For this cause, the citizens, led by their wine-loving mayor Bombolini, scheme and plot to prevent the Germans from locating and looting the town's only treas...

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The Cake House

by Latifah Salom

Published: 2015-03-03

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Rosaura Douglas's father shot himself after her mother left him . . . or at least that's the story everyone is telling. Now her mother has remarried and Rosie is trapped in "The Cake House," a garish pink edifice in the hills of Los Angeles that's a far cry from the cramped apartment where...

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Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America

by Brian McGinty

Published: 2015-02-09

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The untold story of how one sensational trial propelled a self-taught lawyer and a future president into the national spotlight.In the early hours of May 6, 1856, the steamboat Effie Afton barreled into a pillar of the Rock Island Bridge?the first railroad bridge ever to span the Mississip...

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Grand Hotel (New York Review Books Classics)

by Vicki Baum

Published: 2016-06-07

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A grand hotel in the center of 1920s Berlin serves as a microcosm of the modern world in Vicki Baum’s celebrated novel, a Weimar-era best seller that retains all its verve and luster today. Among the guests of the hotel is Doctor Otternschlag, a World War I veteran whose face has been sliced in half...