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Girl with a Pearl Earring

by Tracy Chevalier

Holland comes to dazzling life in this richly imagined portrait of Griet, a sixteen year old of the 1660s who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings.
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Inheritance: A Novel

by Lan Samantha Chang

In 1931 China, two young sisters, abandoned after their mother's suicide, promise never to leave each other. Set against the backdrop of political chaos and social upheaval, the story traces …
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All the Stars Came Out that Night

by Kevin King

In the tradition of iconic literary baseball novels such as The Natural, Bang the Drum Slowly, and The Brothers Kcomes a mythic tale about 1930s stars Dizzy Dean, Satchel Paige, …
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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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Brokeback Mountain

by Annie Proulx

The friendship between Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two cowboys, evolves into an intimate relationship while they are working together as a herder and camp tender, sharing a bond …
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The Highest Tide

by Jim Lynch

A mesmerizing, allegorical, and beautifully wrought first novel about one boy’s fascination with the sea during the summer that will change his life. One moonlit night, thirteen-year-old Miles O’Malley slips …
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter

by Kim Edwards

In a tale spanning twenty-five years, a doctor delivers his newborn twin daughter during a snowstorm and, rashly deciding to protect his wife from the baby's affliction with Down Syndrome, …
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The Starter Wife

by Gigi Levangie Grazer

When Gracie's husband unceremoniously dumps her (by cell phone) mere months before their ten-year anniversary and takes up with a famous pop starlet, she finds herself reeling.
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Sky Burial

by Xinran

The bestselling author of "Good Women of China" returns with an epic tale--based on a true story--of love, friendship, courage and sacrifice set in Chinese-occupied Tibet.
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

by Yiyun Li

In this collection of stories, the author illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture intersect with personality to create fate.
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The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives

by Sarah Strohmeyer

A tale of love and betrayal among the gated-in communities of American suburbia finds Ohio socialite Marti Denton realizing her passionate love for John Harding in the wake of his …
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Hot Flash Holidays

by Nancy Thayer

When the Hot Flash friends gather at the spa to trim the Christmas tree, they share steaming mugs of hot chocolate, a few laughs, and a vow to make this …
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The Art of Uncontrolled Flight

by Kim Ponders

A stunning literary debut about a woman – an airforce pilot – torn between duty and desire. The long shadow of a charismatic father leads Annie Shaw to decide, as …
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Veronica

by Mary Gaitskill

The friendship between Alison, a young woman struggling with her ruined career as a fashion model, and Veronica, an older eccentric and proofreader, survives Alison's return to the world of …
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The Bad Behavior of Belle Cantrell

by Loraine Despres

Belle Cantrell goes to jail in 1920s Louisiana after swimming in her bloomers with a group of suffragettes, killing her husband of sixteen years, and engaging in other tumultuous activities …
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The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy

Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, this is the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel who try to craft a childhood for themselves amongst the vats of …
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Eventide

by Kent Haruf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The award-winning, bestselling author of Plainsong returns to the high-plains town of Holt, Colorado, with a novel that unveils the immemorial truths about human beings: their fragility …
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Portrait in Sepia

by Isabel Allende

Lacking all memory of the first five years of her life because of a brutal trauma, Aurora del Valle is raised by her regal grandmother Paulina and eventually seeks to …
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Maybe a Miracle

by Brian Strause

Comic and heartbreaking, intimate and universal, familiar and extraordinary, Strause's captivating debut novel about a family in crisis takes readers on a miraculous emotional journey into America's heartland.
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Dead Ringer

by Ken Douglas

"Maggie Nesbitt is pregnant and depressed, because her husband isn't the father of her unborn child. She's thinking about abortion when she's attacked on the beach. She barely gets away, …
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A Feast for Crows

by George R. R. Martin

THE BOOK BEHIND THE FOURTH SEASON OF THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics …
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The Jungle Law

by Victoria Vinton

Chronicles the 1892 arrival of a nearly penniless Rudyard Kipling and his pregnant young wife in Vermont, and his struggle to bring to life his story of a feral child …
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Isle of Passion

by Laura Restrepo

A tale of survival based on an episode in Mexican history.