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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
by Kim Michele Richardson
A last-of-her-kind outcast and member of the Pack Horse Library Project braves the hardships of Kentucky's Great Depression and hostile community discrimination to bring the near-magical perspectives of books to her neighbors.
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City of Girls
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Set in the theatre world of 1940s New York, a young woman discovers that she does not have to be a "good girl" in order to be a good person.
Generously donated by Pagewiners book club.
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When Life Gives You Pears
by Jeannie Gaffigan
The wife of acclaimed comic Jim Gaffigan shares an uplifting account of her fight to survive a brain tumor, the toll its treatment took on her family and the lessons she learned along the way.
Generously donated by MBC book club.
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The Chaperone
by Laura Moriarty
A novel about the friendship between an adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks and the 36-year-old woman who chaperones her to New York City for a summer in 1922 and how it changes both their lives.
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The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
Taken in by a wealthy family friend after surviving an accident that killed his mother, thirteen-year-old Theo Decker tries to adjust to life on Park Avenue.
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Rules of Civility
by Amor Towles
A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a Greenwich Village jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults witty Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well and a single-minded widow.
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The Swans of Fifth Avenue : a novel
by Melanie Benjamin
A novel steeped in the glamour and smoky atmosphere of New York's high society follows Babe Paley, known for her high-profile marriage to CBS founder William Paley, her ranking in the International Best-Dressed Hall of Fame and her scandalous, headline-making friendship with Truman Capote.
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