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A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman
n this "charming debut" (People) from one of Sweden's most successful authors, a grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door...More
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Whiskey and Charlie
by Annabel Smith
Whiskey and Charlie might have come from the same family, but they'd tell you two completely different stories about growing up. Whiskey is everything Charlie is not - bold, daring, carefree...More
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Orphan Train
by Christina Baker Kline
Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined ...More
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The Rent Collector
by Carron Wright
The Rent Collector is the story of a young mother, Sang Ly, struggling to survive by picking through garbage in Cambodia's largest municipal dump. Under threat of eviction by an embittered old drunk who is...More
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Ordinary Grace
by William Kent Krueger
In 1961 New Bremen, Minnesota, all is quiet and serene. The Minnesota River flows through the countryside, the town barber knows everyone's name, and folks dutifully attend church...More
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All The Ugly and Wonderful Things
by Bryn Greenwood
A New York Times and USA Today bestseller - Book of the Month Club 2016 Book of the Year - Second Place Goodreads Best Fiction of 2016 A beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely...More
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The Stars Are Fire
by Anita Shreve
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife (an Oprah's Book Club selection): an exquisitely suspenseful new novel about an extraordinary young woman tested ...More
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
In this entrancing novel "that speaks to the Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor in us all" (Kirkus Reviews), a legendary film actress reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the risks...More
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Little Fires Everywhere
by Celeste Ng
n Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies ...More
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The Arrangement
by Sarah Dunn
Named one of the 9 Most Addictive Books of 2017 (So Far) by Kirkus, a Happily Ever After read by USA Today, one of Entertainment Weekly's Best New Books, one of Refinery29's Best Books of the year ...More
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The Last Mrs. Parrish
by Liv Constantine
The mesmerizing debut about a coolly manipulative woman and a wealthy "golden couple," from a stunning new voice in psychological suspense. Some women get everything. Some women get ...More
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The Vengeance of Mothers
by Jim Fergus
The stunning sequel to the award-winning novel One Thousand White Women: A Novel. My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing...More
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The Pecan Man
by Cassie Dandridge Selleck
The Pecan Man is a work of Southern fiction whose first chapter was the First Place winner of the 2006 CNW/FFWA Florida State Writing Competition in the Unpublished Novel category. In the summer of 1976, recently widowed...More
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
by Gail Honeyman
Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon. "A charmer...satisfyingly quirky."-Janet Maslin, The New York Times "Books to Breeze Through This Summer" "This wacky, charming novel...draws you...More
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Ginny Moon
by Benjamin Ludwig
To Ginny, a child with autism, the word Forever means until the police come. Five years ago the police forcibly removed her from the home of her abusive birth mother, Gloria. Now fourteen, and in her fourth Forever Home...More
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The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
FRANCE, 1939 In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't believe that the Nazis will invade France...but...More
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A Piece of the World
by Chrstina Baker Kline
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth's mysterious ...More
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The Tea Girl Of Hummingbird Lane
by Lisa See
A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family align their lives around the...More
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The Light We Lost
by Jill Santopolo
He was the first person to inspire her, to move her, to truly understand her. Was he meant to be the last? Lucy is faced with a life-altering choice. But before she can make her decision, she must start her story-their story-at the very beginning....More
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Finding Rebecca
by Eoin Dempsey
Nothing could keep Christopher and Rebecca apart: not her abusive parents, or even the fiance she brought home after running away to England. But when World War II finally strikes the...More
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The Last Midwife
by Sandra Dallas
It is 1880 and Gracy Brookens is the only midwife in a small Colorado mining town, where she has delivered hundreds, maybe thousands, of babies in her lifetime. The women of Swandyke trust and depend on Gracy...More
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News Of The World
by Paulette Jiles
It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them..More
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Lilac Girls
by Martha Hall Kelly
New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline's world is forever changed when Hitler's army invades Poland in September 1939-and then...More
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The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
by Gabrielle Zevin
A. J. Fikry's life is not at all what he expected it to be. He lives alone, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen....More
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The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
by Katarina Bivald
Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her book-loving pen pal, Amy. When she arrives, however, she finds Amy's funeral guests just leaving....More
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