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ChickLit Newsletter August, 2019
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Check out this last minute summer finds:
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Things You Save in a Fire
by Katherine Center
When a family emergency compels her move from Texas to Boston, a skilled firefighter becomes the only woman in her new firehouse and navigates discrimination, low funding and her private edicts about falling in love with another firefighter.
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Summer of '69
by Elin Hilderbrand
A pregnant eldest sibling, a middle-sister civil rights activist, an infantry soldier brother deployed to Vietnam and a lonely 13-year-old youngest child find their lives upended by troubling family secrets.
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How to Walk Away
by Katherine Center
Margaret Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she's worked for so hard and so long: a new dream job, afiancé she adores, and the promise of a picture perfect life just around the corner. Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, everything she worked for is taken away in a brief, tumultuous moment.
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Ask Again, Yes
by Mary Beth Keane
When a violent event forcibly ends their romance, the son and daughter of two NYPD rookies reconnect years later and struggle to prevent the past from triggering another separation.
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City of Girls
by Elizabeth Gilbert
The best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love traces the experiences of a theater insider in 1940s New York who discovers that she does not have to be a "good girl" in order to be a good person.
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Time After Time
by Lisa Grunwald
Trapped in 1937 Grand Central Terminal by magical rules she cannot understand, an aspiring artist forges a romantic relationship with a hardworking railroad man before a landmark construction threatens their future together.
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Mrs. Everything
by Jennifer Weiner
A smart, thoughtful, and timely exploration of two sisters' lives from the 1950s to the present as they struggle to find their places--and be true to themselves--in a rapidly evolving world. Mrs. Everything is an ambitious, richly textured journey through history--and herstory--as these two sisters navigate a changing America over the course of their lives.
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Evvie Drake Starts Over
by Linda Holmes
The host of NPR's "Pop Culture Happy Hour" podcast presents a heartfelt debut about the unlikely relationship between a young widow and a major league pitcher who has lost his game.
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The Most Fun We Ever Had
by Claire Lombardo
The four adult daughters of two Chicago parents who have been madly in love for decades recklessly ignite old rivalries, until a long-buried secret threatens to shatter the lives they built.
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Night of Miracles
by Elizabeth Berg
A baking class instructor, her haunted assistant and a youth reeling from a family tragedy discover the power of community while navigating complicated choices and uncertain futures.
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