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Freshwater Road

by Denise Nicholas

Celeste Tyree, a young black collegian, leaves Michigan for Mississippi in the summer of 1964 to help found a Freedom School and a voter registration project. As Freedom Summer unfolds, …
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Tooth and Claw

by T. Coraghessan Boyle

Since Descent of Manappeared in 1979, T. C. Boyle has transformed the nature of short fiction in our time; in a review of his most recent collection, After the Plague, …
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Heir to the Glimmering World

by Cynthia Ozick

Set in the New York of the 1930s, this entrancing, richly plotted novel brims with intriguing characters. Orphaned at 18, with few possessions, Rose Meadows finds steady employment with the …
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Tangerine Dream

by Ken Douglas

Best friends Haley and Taylor must deal with a terrible loss when Taylor's twin sister, Dylan, is killed in a car crash. Meanwhile, Taylor and Dylan's father, a senator running …
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Beyond Black

by Hilary Mantel

Trouble spirals out of control for a psychic and her personal assistant when they take up with a spirit guide and his drowned therapist after moving to a suburban wasteland.
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My Sister's Keeper

by Jodi Picoult

Written with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity, this novel is about a teen who was conceived as a bone marrow match for her sister Kate, and what happens when she begins …
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Vanishing Acts

by Jodi Picoult

From the bestselling author of "My Sister's Keeper" and "Second Glance" comesthe shocking story of a woman caught between a past she cannot recall and thelife she cannot lead without …
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A Sudden Country

by Karen Fisher

A vivid and revelatory novel based on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration, A Sudden Country follows two characters of remarkable complexity and strength in a journey of survival …
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Zorro

by Isabel Allende

A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well Born in southern California late in …
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The People's Act of Love

by James Meek

Historical fable.
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The Accidental

by Ali Smith

Talking her way into the Norfolk cottage that the Smart family is renting for the summer, Amber, an enigmatic con artist, insinuates herself into the lives of Eve, her husband …
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Last Night

by James Salter

A superbly accomplished new collection explores the acclaimed author's signature themes: love, honor, sacrifice, friendship, and abandon. In these taut, powerful stories, Salter portrays men and women in their most …
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Envy

by Kathryn Harrison

A New York psychoanalyst in the midst of a midlife crisis, William Moreland comes face to face with a woman he had loved twenty-five years earlier during a college reunion, …
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Wolf Point

by Edward Falco

Tom “T” Walker, a 57-year-old businessman, knows better than to pick up a beautiful young woman hitchhiking with her dangerous-looking boyfriend, but he stops for them anyway. He’s been living …
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The Penelopiad

by Margaret Atwood

A look at the Odyssey from Penelope's point of view.
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Match Me If You Can

by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Annabelle Granger takes over her late grandmother's matchmaking business, and in order to become the most sought after matchmaker in Chicago, she tries to land Heath Campion, the city's hottest …
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Everyone Worth Knowing

by Lauren Weisberger

What happens when a girl on the fringe enters the realm of New York's chic, party-hopping elite?
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Blue Smoke

by Nora Roberts

Pursuing a career as an arson unit investigator after a fire destroys her family's pizzeria, Reena Hale embarks on a relationship with Bo Goodnight and finds herself targeted by a …
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Lipstick Jungle TV Tie-In

by Candace Bushnell

"Line up the watermelon cosmos and get ready to be consumed by the swank, successful, and super-spunky 40-something protagonists of Candace Bushnell's lip-smacking new novel." --New York Post "Bushnell proves …
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The Undomestic Goddess

by Sophie Kinsella

Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting goes into utter meltdown and walks out of her London office, gets on a train, and ends up in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions …
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The Saint of Lost Things

by Christopher Castellani

In a 1953 Italian neighborhood in Delaware, Maddalena Grasso, her husband Antonio, and Guilio Fabbri live in the shadows of St. Anthony's Church, where their prayers are heard and fate …
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A Man Without a Country

by Kurt Vonnegut

Gleaned from short essays and speeches composed over the last five years and plentifully illustrated with artwork by the author throughout, "Only Kidding" delivers Vonnegut both speaking out with indignation …
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The Widow of the South

by Robert Hicks

A story based on the true experiences of a Civil War heroine finds Carrie McGavock witnessing the bloodshed of the Battle of Franklin, falling in love with a wounded man, …