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The Red Tent by Anita Diamant From The Jacket: Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this More

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The Homecoming of Samuel Lake: A Novel by Jenny Wingfield From The Jacket: Every first Sunday in June, members of the Moses clan gather for an annual reunion at a sprawling hundred-acre farm in Arkansas. And every year, Samuel Lake, a vibrant and committed young preacher, brings his beloved wife, Willad More Read PBR Review

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Love Anthony by Lisa Genova From The Jacket: I’m always hearing about how my brain doesn’t work right. . . . But it doesn’t feel broken to me. Olivia Donatelli’s dream of a “normal” life shattered when her son, Anthony, was diagnosed with autism at age three. Understand More Read PBR Review

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Where'd You Go Bernadette: A Novel by Maria Semple From The Jacket: Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she’s a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she’s a disgrace; to design mavens, she’s a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year- More Read PBR Review

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot From The Jacket: Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio More Read PBR Review

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The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling From The Jacket: A big novel about a small town...When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock.Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies beh More Read PBR Review

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In The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson From The Jacket: “Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.”—New York Times Book Review. Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling More Read PBR Review

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One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper From The Jacket: The bestselling author of This Is Where I Leave You returns with a hilarious and heart-rending tale about one family's struggle to reconnect.You don’t have to look very hard at Drew Silver to see that mistakes have been made. His More Read PBR Review

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The Dark Monk by Oliver Potzsch From The Jacket: THE ANTICIPATED FOLLOWUP TO THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, THE HANGMAN’S DAUGHTER: Winter has settled thick over a sleepy village in the Bavarian Alps, ensuring every farmer and servant is indoors the night a parish priest discove More Read PBR Review

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Mornings In Jenin by Susan Abulhawa From The Jacket: A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel that could do for Palestine what The Kite Runner did for Afghanistan. Mornings in Jenin is a multi-generational story about a Palestinian family. Forcibly removed from the olive-farmin More Read PBR Review

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In The Shadow Of The Banyan Tree by Vaddey Ratner From The Jacket: You are about to read an extraordinary story. It will take you to the very depths of despair and show you unspeakable horrors. It will reveal a gorgeously rich culture struggling to survive through a furtive bow, a hidden ankle b More Read PBR Review

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3 Seconds by Roslund and Hellstrom From The Jacket: Dark, suspenseful, and more riveting than any thriller at the local cineplex, Three Seconds is the latest novel from bestselling Swedish duo Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström--the new masters of Scandinavian crime. Piet Hoffma More Read PBR Review

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The Dog Stars by Peter Heller From The Jacket: A riveting, powerful novel about a pilot living in a world filled with loss—and what he is willing to risk to rediscover, against all odds, connection, love, and grace. Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His w More Read PBR Review

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The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty From The Jacket: The New York Times bestseller and the USA Today #1 Hot Fiction Pick for the summer, The Chaperone is a captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922 and the summer that woul More Read PBR Review

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The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt From The Jacket: Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for More Read PBR Review

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Wingshooters by Nina Revoyr From The Jacket: MICHELLE LEBEAU, THE CHILD OF A WHITE AMERICAN FATHER, and a Japanese mother, lives with her grandparents in Deerhorn, Wisconsin--a small town that had been entirely white before her arrival. Rejected and bullied, Michelle spends More Read PBR Review

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Learning to Swim by Sara J Henry From The Jacket: “If I’d blinked, I would have missed it. But I didn’t, and I saw something fall from the rear deck of the opposite ferry: a small, wide-eyed human face, in one tiny frozen moment, as it plummeted toward the water.”
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True Sisters by Sandra Dallas From The Jacket: In a novel based on true events, New York Times bestselling author Sandra Dallas delivers the story of four women---seeking the promise of salvation and prosperity in a new land---who come together on a harrowing journey. In 185 More Read PBR Review

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To Heaven and Back by Mary C. Neal, M.D. From The Jacket: A kayak accident during a South American adventure takes one woman to heaven — where she experienced God’s peace, joy, and angels — and back to life again. In 1999 in the Los Rios region of southern Chile, orthopedic surgeon, More Read PBR Review

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The Sandcastle Girls: A Novel by Chris Bohjalian From The Jacket: Over the course of his career, New York Times bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian has taken readers on a spectacular array of journeys. Midwives brought us to an isolated Vermont farmhouse on an icy winter’s night and a home bir More Read PBR Review

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Beautiful Ruins: A Novel by Jess Walter From The Jacket: The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, More Read PBR Review

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The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards From The Jacket: The highly anticipated new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter. With revelations that prove as captivating as the deceptions at the heart of her bestselling phenomenon The Memory Ke More Read PBR Review

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The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman From The Jacket: The debut of a stunning new voice in fiction— a novel both heartbreaking and transcendent After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus More Read PBR Review

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Heading Out To Wonderful by Robert Goolrick From The Jacket: "Let me tell you something, son. 
When you’re young, and you head out to wonderful, everything is fresh and bright as a brand-new penny, 
but before you get to wonderful you’re going to have to pass throu More Read PBR Review

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Where We Belong by Emily Giffin From The Jacket: The author of five blockbuster novels, Emily Giffin, delivers an unforgettable story of two women, the families that make them who they are, and the longing, loyalty and love that binds them together Marian Caldwell is a t More Read PBR Review

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