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Girl in Hyacinth Blue

by Susan Vreeland

Published: 2000-10-01

Paperback: 242 pages

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This luminous story begins in the present day, when a professor invites a colleague to his home to see a painting that he has kept secret for decades. The professor swears it is a Vermeer—but why has he hidden this important work for so long? The reasons unfold in a series of events that trace the...

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Girl in Shades: A Novel

by Allison Baggio

Published: 2011-10-01

Paperback: 379 pages

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Sweetly funny and deeply perceptive, this novel follows eleven-year-old Maya Devine's search for her mother, her father, and above all, herself, offering a fresh take on what it means to grow up and discover who you really are. Maya has always seen color around people's bodies, and can som...

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The Girl in the Blue Beret

by Bobbie Ann Mason

Published: 2011-07

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Inspired by a true story, the bestselling author of In Country offers a gorgeous, haunting novel about an airline pilot coming to terms with his past, and searching for the people who saved him during World War II. After Marshall Stone's B-17 bomber was shot down in occupied Europe in 1944...

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The Girl in the Blue Beret: A Novel

by Bobbie Ann Mason

Published: 2012-07-10

Paperback: 384 pages

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Inspired by the wartime experiences of her father-in-law, Bobbie Ann Mason has crafted the haunting and profoundly moving story of an American World War II pilot shot down in Occupied Europe, and his wrenching odyssey of discovery, decades later, as he uncovers the truth about those who he...

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The Girl in the Garden

by Kamala Nair

Published: 2011-06-15

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The redemptive journey of a young woman unsure of her engagement, who revisits in memory the events of one scorching childhood summer when her beautiful yet troubled mother spirits her away from her home to an Indian village untouched by time, where she discovers in the jungle behind her ancestral house...

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The Girl in the Gatehouse

by Julie Klassen

Published: 2011-01-01

Paperback: 400 pages

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Miss Mariah Aubrey, banished after a scandal, hides herself away in a long-abandoned gatehouse on the far edge of a distant relative's estate. There, she supports herself and her loyal servant the only way she knows how--by writing novels in secret.Captain Matthew Bryant, returning to Engl...

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The Girl in the Green Glass Mirror

by Elizabeth Mcgregor

Published: 2006-05-30

Paperback: 310 pages

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Hailed for her “remarkably accomplished and poignant work” (Washington Post), acclaimed author Elizabeth McGregor returns with a haunting love story about two lost souls brought together by chance—and bonded forever by a mystery that transcends madness, tragedy, and time ...

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The Girl in the Green Raincoat: A Tess Monaghan Novel

by Laura Lippman

Published: 2011-01-18

Paperback: 158 pages

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“Lippman is a writing powerhouse. ” < ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />—USA Today “I love her books.” —Harlan Coben New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman—winner of the Edgar® Award and every other major literary prize given for mystery and crime fiction—embroils Baltimore p.i. Tess Monaghan in t...

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The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

by Krystyna Chiger, Daniel Paisner

Published: 2009-09-29

Paperback: 304 pages

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In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing extermination, a group of Polish Jews daringly sought refuge in the city's sewer system. The last surviving member this group, Krystyna Chiger, shares one of the most intimate, harrowing and ult...

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* * * * Optimistic,
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The Girl in the Italian Bakery

by Kenneth Tingle

Published: 2008-07-15

Paperback: 248 pages

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Life didnt do Kenny Tingle any favors. In The Girl in the Italian Bakery, follow his journey from childhood in a tough housing project north of Boston, the abduction and disappearance of a childhood friend, to the complete destruction of a family. His introduction to crime and the years he spent in foster...