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The Lies We Told
by Diane Chamberlain
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Maya and Rebecca Ward are both accomplished physicians, but that's where the sisters' similarities end. As teenagers, they witnessed their parents' murder, but it was Rebecca who saved Maya from becoming another of the gunman's v More Read PBR Review
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Pray For Silence
by Linda Castillo
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New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo delivers an electrifying thriller in which Chief of Police Kate Burkholder must confront a dark evil to solve the mysterious murders of an entire Amish family. The Plank family mov More Read PBR Review
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Broken
by Karen Slaughter
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Karin Slaughter’s internationally bestselling novels are as notable for their vivid portraits of lives shadowed by loss and heartbreak as they are for their dramatic criminal investigations. Her latest offering features the retur More Read PBR Review
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Girl In Translation
by Jean Kwok
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A fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice makes an inspiring debut with this novel about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two cultures. [R]eminiscent of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn."--Min Jin Lee ( More Read PBR Review
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The Wives of Henry Oades
by Johanna Moran
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When Henry Oades accepts an accountancy post in New Zealand, his wife, Margaret, and their children follow him to exotic Wellington. But while Henry is an adventurer, Margaret is not. Their new home is rougher and more rustic tha More Read PBR Review
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The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
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An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship be More Read PBR Review
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The Time Travelers Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
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The Time Traveler's Wife is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty six, and were married when Clare was twenty three More Read PBR Review
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On Mystic Lake
by Kristen Hannah
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Annie Colwater’s husband has just confessed that he’s in love with a younger woman. Devastated, Annie retreats to the small town where she grew up. There, she is reunited with her first love, Nick Delacroix, a recent widower who More Read PBR Review
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The Castaways
by Elin Hilderbrand
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Greg and Tess MacAvoy are one of four prominent Nantucket couples who count each other as best friends. As pillars of their close knit community, the MacAvoys, Kapenashes, Drakes, and Wheelers are important to their friends and n More Read PBR Review
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The Rebellion of Jane Clarke
by Sally Gunning
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On the eve of the Revolutionary War, a young woman is caught between tradition and independence, family and conscience, loyalty and love, in this spellbinding novel from the author of The Widow's War and Bound
Jane Clarke lead More Read PBR Review
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The Surgeon
by Tess Gerritsen
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In her most masterful novel of medical suspense, New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen creates a villain of unforgettable evil--and the one woman who can catch him before he kills again.
He slips into their homes at More Read PBR Review
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The Unit
by Ninni Holmqvist
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When Dorrit Wegner turned fifty, the government transferred her to a state-of-the-art facility where she can live out her days in comfort. Her apartment is furnished to her tastes, her meals expertly served, and all at the very r More Read PBR Review
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True Colors
by Kristen Hannah
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“True Colors” is New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah's most provocative, compelling, and heart wrenching story yet. With the luminous writing and unforgettable characters that are her trademarks, she tells the story More Read PBR Review
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This is Where I Leave You
by Jonathan Tropper
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Poor Judd Foxman returns home early to find his wife in bed with his boss in the act. He now faces the twin threats of both divorce and unemployment. His misery is compounded further with the sudden death of his father.He is then More
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The Kitchen House
by Kathleen Grissom
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When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family.Orphaned while onboard ship from Ireland, seven year old La More Read PBR Review
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Big City, Bad Blood
by Sean Chercover
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A disillusioned newspaper reporter turned private detective, Ray Dudgeon isn't trying to save the world. He just wants to do an honest job, and do it well. But when doing an honest job threatens society's most powerful and corrup More
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The Irresistible Henry House
by Lisa Grunwald
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It is the middle of the twentieth century, and in a home economics program at a prominent university, real babies are being used to teach mothering skills to young women. For a young man raised in these unlikely circumstances, fi More Read PBR Review
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Winter Garden
by Kristen Hannah
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Meredith and Nina are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard, the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But when th More Read PBR Review
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Mercy
by Jodi Picoult
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Police chief of a small Massachusetts town, Cameron McDonald makes the toughest arrest of his life when his own cousin Jamie comes to him and confesses outright that he has killed his terminally ill wife out of mercy. Now, a heat More Read PBR Review
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Shanghai Girls
by Lisa See
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May and Pearl, two sisters living in Shanghai in the mid nineteen thirties are beautiful, sophisticated, and well educated, but their family is on the verge of bankruptcy. Hoping to improve their social standing, May and Pearl’s More
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The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest
by Stieg Larsson
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Lisbeth Salander, the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels, is under close supervision in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: when she’s well enough, she’ll sta More Read PBR Review
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The Calligraphers Daughter
by Eugenia Kim
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In early twentieth century Korea, Najin Han, the privileged daughter of a calligrapher, longs to choose her own destiny. Smart and headstrong, she is encouraged by her mother,but her stern father is determined to maintain traditi More Read PBR Review
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The Crossing Places
by Elly Griffiths
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When a child's bones are found near an ancient henge in the wild saltmarshes of Norfolk's north coast, Ruth Galloway, a university lecturer in forensic archaeology, is asked to date them by DCI Harry Nelson. He thinks they may be More Read PBR Review
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Heart of the Matter
by Emily Giffin
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"Giffin excels at creating complex characters and stories that ask us to explore what we really want from our lives."Atlanta Journal Constitution" Tessa Russo is the mother of two young children and the wife of a renowned pediatr More Read PBR Review
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Gone Tomorrow
by Lee Child
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Susan Mark, the fifth passenger, had a big secret, and her plain little life was being watched in Washington, and California, and Afghanistan by dozens of people with one thing in common: They’re all lying to Reacher. A little. A More Read PBR Review
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