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Roses
by Leila Meacham
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Spanning the 20th century, the story of Roses takes place in a small East Texas town against the backdrop of the powerful timber and cotton industries, industries controlled by the scions of the town's founding families. Cotton t More
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Secret Daughter
by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
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On the eve of the monsoons, in a remote Indian village, Kavita gives birth to a baby girl. But in a culture that favors sons, the only way for Kavita to save her newborn daughter's life is to give her away. It is a decision that More
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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
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Fly Away Home
by Jennifer Weiner
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Sometimes all you can do is fly away home . . .When Sylvie Serfer met Richard Woodruff in law school, she had wild curls, wide hips, and lots of opinions. Decades later, Sylvie has remade herself as the ideal politician's wifeher 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
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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
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The Nanny Diaries
by Emma McLaughlin Nicola Kraus
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WANTED:One young woman to take care of four-year-old boy. Must be cheerful, enthusiastic, and selfless--bordering on masochistic. Must relish sixteen-hour shifts with a deliberately nap-deprived preschooler. Must love geting t More
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Summer Island
by Kristen Hannah
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The author of the cherished bestseller On Mystic Lake returns with a poignant, funny, luminous novel about a mother and daughter--the complex ties that bind them, the past that separates them, and the healing that comes with forg More
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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The Help
by Katheryn Stockett
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The book everyone is falling in love with In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. Black maids raise the white children, but no one trusts them not to steal the silver. Black maids clean the toilets More
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Family History
by Dani Shapiro
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Enjoying her loving family and her work as an art restorer, Rachel Jensen finds her world unraveling after a terrible accident that leads to Rachel's discovery that her teenage daughter is threatening to destroy them all. More
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House Rules
by Jodi Picoult
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Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with Asperger's syndrome. He's hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, and like many kids with AS, Jacob has a special focus on one subject in his case, forensic analysis. More
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Sarahs Key
by Tatiana de Rosnay
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Paris July 1942 Sarah a ten year old girl,is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel dHiv roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the familys apartment Paris, May 2002 On V More
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My Enemys Cradle
by Sara Young
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Cyrla's neighbors have begun to whisper. Her cousin, Anneke, is pregnant and has passed the rigorous exams for admission to the Lebensborn, a maternity home for girls carrying German babies. But Anneke's soldier has disappeared, More
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First Rule
by Robert Crais
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The Watchman put Joe Pike, Elvis Cole's strong, taciturn partner, front and center, and not only won Robert Crais new audiences but remarkable reviews. The South Florida Sun Sentinel said "Robert Crais elevates crime fiction" and More
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Benny and Shrimp
by Katarina Mazetti
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Why is it so impossible to get a relationship to work between two mature single people, driven by an enormous longing and loudly ticking biological clocks? Especially when they are struck by a totally unexpected passion when they More
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
by Garth Stein
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A heart warming and inspirational tale in which Enzo, a loyal family dog, tells the story of his human family, how they nearly fell apart, and what he did to bring them back together. More
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Look Again
by Lisa Scottoline
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When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a “Have You Seen This Child?” flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away. But something about it makes her look again, and her heart stops, the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son More
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Firefly lane
by Kristen Hannah
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From the New York Times bestselling author of On Mystic Lake comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship .In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth gra More
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The Forgotten Garden
by Kate Morton
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A lost child. On the eve of the first world war, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her but the Authoress has disappeared without a trace. More
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White Oleander
by Janet Fitch
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Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and myst More
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Picture Perfect
by Jodi Picoult
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To the outside world, they seem to have it all. Cassie Barrett, a renowned anthropologist, and Alex Rivers, one of Hollywood's hottest actors, met on the set of a motion picture in Africa. They shared childhood tales, toasted the More
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Breaking The Silence
by Diane Chamberlain
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Laura Brandon's promise to her dying father was simple: to visit an elderly woman she'd never heard of before. A woman who remembers nothing, except the distant past. Visiting Sarah Tolley seemed a small enough sacrifice to make. More
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Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
by Beth Hoffman
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Twelve year old CeeCee Honeycutt is in trouble. For years, she has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille the tiara toting, lipstick smeared laughingstock of an entire town, a woman trapped in her long ago moment of More
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Cutting For Stone
by Abraham Verghese
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A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel, an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun a More
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Alex Cross s Trial
by James Patterson and Richard Dilallo
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In a new book by the best selling author, Detective Alex Cross tells the story of an ancestor, Abraham Cross, and his experiences with lawyer Ben Corbett, in an astonishing account of a man's bold pursuit of justice in the face o More
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Little Bee
by Chris Cleave
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Sarah Summers is enjoying a holiday on a Nigerian beach when a young girl named Little Bee crashes irrevocably into her life. All it takes is a brief and horrifying moment of crisis — a terrifying scene that no reader will forget More
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The Nanny Returns
by Emma McLaughlin Nicola Kraus
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Now she's back. After living abroad for twelve years, she and her husband, Ryan, have returned to New York to make a life for themselves. In the midst of getting her new business off the ground and fixing up their fixer upper, Ry More
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
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Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made "The Kite Runner" a classic, Hosseinis latest novel is at once an incredible chronicle of 30 years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship More
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Love The One You're With
by Emily Giffin
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How do you know if you’ve found the one? Can you really love the one you’re with when you can’t forget the one who got away? Emily Giffin, author of the New York Times bestselling novels Something Borrowed, Something Blue, and Ba More
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Not My Daughter
by Barbara Delinsky
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A pregnancy pact between three teenaged girls puts their mothers' love to the ultimate test in this explosive new novel from Barbara Delinsky, “a first rate storyteller who creates characters as familiar as your neighbors.” (Bos More
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Hot House Orchid
by Stuart Woods
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A brand new page turning Holly Barker novel from the perennially entertaining New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods. After Special Agent Holly Barker lets international terrorist Teddy Fay slip through her fingers for a More
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The Septembers Of Shiraz
by Dalia Sofer
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In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by his disappearance, his family must reconcile a new world of cruelty and chaos with the collapse of e More
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The Hundred Secret Senses
by Amy Tan
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The first person narrator is Olivia Laguni, and her unrelenting nemesis from childhood on is her half sister, Kwan Li, It is Kwan's haunting predictions, her implementation of the secret senses, and her linking of the present wit More
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A Friend of the Family
by Lauren Grodstein
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Pete Dizinoff has spent years working toward a life that would be, by all measures, deemed successful. A skilled internist, he has built a thriving practice in suburban New Jersey. He has a devoted wife, a network of close friend More
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Sister of My Heart
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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From the award winning author of Mistress of Spices, the bestselling novel about the extraordinary bond between two women, and the family secrets and romantic jealousies that threaten to tear them apart. Anju is the daughter of a More
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Still Alice
by Lisa Genova
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Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50 year old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University. Alice H More
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Best Friends Forever
by Jennifer Weiner
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Addie Downs and Valerie Adler will be best friends forever. That's what Addie believes after Valerie moves across the street when they're both nine years old. But in the wake of betrayal during their teenage years, Val is swept i More
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Why are more people not reading this book? It’s fantastic and perfect for beach, travel or lazy Sunday afternoon. This author’s talent for developing characters and moving the plot along are amazing. It’s a big book but I hardly noticed because I was too busy turning the pages. Read this one. by-Nana 2010/09/05, 04:03 PM
A family saga that has lots of emotion and Southern charm. If you like a nice easy read with a great story and larger than life characters, try this one. by-Lyn 2010/02/10, 05:26 PM
There are some really great descriptions of Korea in the 19th century and wonderful characters that I enjoyed reading about. It’s also a touching story but too slow for my taste, I became frustrated and skimmed a lot by-Amy 2010/09/03, 01:00 PM
