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A Long Way Home (NF)
by Saroo Brierley
A full-length account of the author's inspirational effort to find his India birthplace describes how he was accidentally separated from his family in the mid-1980s, his survival on the streets of Calcutta, his adoption by an Australian family and his headline-making Google Earth search. (Nonfiction). Generously donated by Book Babes Book Club.
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
by Gail Honeyman
Office worker Eleanor adheres to a strict routine that has insulated her from the memories of her traumatic childhood but has not shielded her from loneliness. But after she meets Raymond, she attempts to rediscover her memories and in the process learns how relationships operate and that other people can be a source of joy rather than destruction.
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When We Were Orphans
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early-20th-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when both his mother and father disappear under suspicious circumstances. He grows up to become a renowned detective, and more than 20 years later, returns to Shanghai to solve the mystery of their disappearances. Generously donated by the Literary Luminaries Book Club.
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As Good as Gone
by Larry Watson
One of the last cowboys, Calvin Sidey, a steely, hardened man with his own personal code who lives off the grid in a trailer on the prairie, agrees to help his adult son out and stay with his grandchildren for a week during which he solves problems the Old West way, which has a powerful effect on those around him.
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We are Water
by Wally Lamb
Told in alternating voices, follows Anna Oh, a middle-aged wife, mother, and artist, as she, after twenty-seven years of marriage, divorces her husband to marry Vivica, the Manhattan art dealer who orchestrated her professional success.
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San Miguel
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
The lives of three women on turn-of-the-20th-century San Miguel are shaped by ambition and circumstance, including the wife of a Civil War veteran who hopes to recover her health, her rebellious aspiring actress daughter and a librarian who wonders if the island's peace will endure in the face of looming war.
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