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The Swans of Fifth Avenue : a novel
by Melanie Benjamin
A triumphant new novel about New York’s “Swans” of the 1950s and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley. Generously donated by Babes with Big Books.
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Beartown
by Fredrik Backman
In the tiny forest community of Beartown, the possibility that the amateur hockey team might win a junior championship, bringing the hope of revitalization to the fading town, is shattered by the aftermath of a violent act that leaves a young girl traumatized.
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Moloka'i
by Alan Brennert
Dreaming of far-off lands away from her loving 1890s Honolulu home, seven-year-old Rachel is forcibly removed from her family when she contracts leprosy and is placed in a settlement, where she loses a series of new friends before new medical discoveries enable her reentry into the world.
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Honolulu
by Alan Brennert
Jin, a young “picture bride” leaves her native Korea, where girls are so little valued that she is known as Regret, and journeys to Hawaii in 1914 in search of a better life. Jin is quickly married off to a poor, embittered laborer who takes his disappointments out on his new wife, forcing her to make her own way in a strange land.
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