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The Year the Music Changed

by Diane Coulter Thomas

A lonely 14-year-old fires off a fan letter to an unknown 20-year-old country singer named Elvis Presley, launching an intimate, touching correspondence that chronicles Achsa and Elvis' coming of age …
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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, …
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In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

by Alexander McCall Smith

Precious Ramotswe finds herself overburdened at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and faces more complications when she finds a strange intruder in her house and a mysterious pumpkin in …
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Shalimar the Clown

by Salman Rushdie

In this gripping international tale of love and revenge, and the ancient and modern conflicts from which they spring, a murder looks at first like a political assassination, but turns …
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The Interruption of Everything

by Terry McMillan

An African-American woman in her forties discovers that the unplanned life may be the best.
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The Painted Drum

by Louise Erdrich

When a woman named Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New Hampshire town, she isn't surprised to discover a forgotten cache …
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Adored

by Tilly Bagshawe

To the outside world, Siena McMahon has a fairy-tale life. Born into a great Hollywood dynasty-granddaughter of movie legend Duke McMahon, daughter of billionaire producer Pete McMahon-she is blessed with …
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72 Hour Hold

by Bebe Moore Campbell

Fed up with the mental health community and desperate to save her daughter, who is suffering from bipolar disorder, Keri enlists the assistance of the Program, an illegal group of …
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The Loss of Leon Meed

by Josh Emmons

Emmons pens a highly imaginative debut novel about a town full of varied characters whose lives converage and change when they encounter a mysterious, disappearing man.
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Kingston by Starlight

by Christopher John Farley

Anne Bonny travels to the West Indies following the death of her mother, masquerading as a man to become a sailor under the command of Calico Jack Rackam, in a …
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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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Freddy and Fredericka

by Mark Helprin

Ridiculed by the British press, Prince of Wales Freddy and his wife, the frivolous Fredericka, are sent to colonize the barbaric land of America, during which they engage in a …
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No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy

When he stumbles upon a bloody massacre, a cache of heroin, and more than two million in cash during a hunting trip, Llewelyn Moss removes the money, a decision that …
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Why Are You Doing This?

by Jason

In this deadpan, Hitchcock-meets-Jarmusch thriller, a moody twenty-something wallowing in post-breakup depression finds himself drawn into a paranoid's worst nightmare after his best friend is murdered and the blame is …
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Nadia's Song

by Soheir Khashoggi

After a romance with her wealthy employer's son renders her a heartbroken single mother, servant girl Karima Ismail eventually achieves stardom as one of Egypt's most famous singers, but her …
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Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

by Lydia Millet

Oh Pure and Radiant Heart plucks the three scientists who were key to the invention of the atom bomb—Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard and Enrico Fermi—as they watch history's first mushroom cloud …
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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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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

by Lisa See

A language kept a secret for a thousand years forms the backdrop for an unforgettable novel of two Chinese women whose friendship and love sustains them through their lives.
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Ya-Yas in Bloom

by Rebecca Wells

Follows the childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood of Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie from the time they first meet in the 1930s through their many experiences and years of friendship.
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The History of Love

by Nicole Krauss

Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But it wasn't always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he …
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Everything Is Illuminated

by Jonathan Safran Foer

With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved …
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Hissy Fit

by Mary Kay Andrews

Keeley Murdock's wedding to A.J. Jernigan should have been the social event of the season. But all bets are off when she catches her fiancÉ doing the deed with her …
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