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Book Club Collection
Multiple copies of these titles are located
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All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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American Dirt
by Jeanine Cummins
Selling two favorite books to an unexpectedly erudite drug-cartel boss, a bookstore manager is forced to flee Mexico in the wake of her journalist husband’s tell-all profile and finds her family among thousands of migrants seeking hope in America.
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American Hippo : River of Teeth, Taste of Marrow, and New Stories
by Sarah Gailey
In the early 20th Century, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This is true. Other true things about hippos: they are savage, they are fast, and their jaws can snap a man in two. This was a terrible plan. Contained within this volume is an 1890s America that might have been: a bayou overrun by feral hippos and mercenary hippowranglers from around the globe.
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Anxious People
by Fredrik Backman
Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
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The best part of us : a novel
by Sally Cole-Misch
"Beth thought she'd never go back. She buried her memories of summers on her family's island in Canada deep inside, and created a new life in urban Chicago--far from the natural world. When her grandfather asks Beth to return to the island, will she preserve who she's become or risk everything to discover if what was lost, still remains?"
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The Book Woman's Daughter
by Kim Michele Richardson
When her parents are imprisoned, Honey, picking up her mother's old packhorse library route, brings books to those in need, but certain folks aren't keen to let a woman pave the way until she meets a group of extraordinary women who help her fight for her place.
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The Briar Club : a novel
by Kate Quinn
In 1950 Washington, DC, at an all-female boardinghouse called Briarwood, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, drawing her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship, but when a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the women must expose the true enemy in their midst.
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A Burning
by Megha Majumdar
A Muslim girl accused of being a terrorist, a gym teacher who becomes a fanatic of a right-wing political party and an outcast with aspirations of Bollywood glory find their lives entangled after a catastrophe in contemporary India.
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The celebrants : a novel
by Steven Rowley
Reuniting in Big Sur to honor a decades-old pact to throw each other living "funerals," celebrations to remind themselves life is worth living--and living well--five friends find their pact upended when one of them reveals a shocking secret
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The curse of Pietro Houdini : a novel
by Derek B. Miller
In 1943, 14-year-old Massimo, rescued by a mysterious man called Pietro Houdini who preserves the treasures within the Benedictine abbey's wall, accompanies him on a World War II art-heist adventure where they lie, cheat, steal, fight, kill and sin to survive, while smuggling Renaissance masterpieces they've rescued from the“safe keeping” of the Germans.
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Darling Rose Gold
by Stephanie Wrobel
Enduring decades of serious illness as a victim of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy before exposing her mother’s behavior, Rose Gold invites her unrepentant mother back into her life to secretly settle the score.
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The Dearly Beloved
by Cara Wall
In a novel that spans decades, the lives of two young couples become intertwined when the husbands are appointed co-ministers of a venerable New York City church in the 1960s.
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The Dictionary of Lost Words
by Pip Williams
Deciding to create her own dictionary — the Dictionary of Lost Words — Esme, who has collected “objectionable” words a team of male scholars omit from the first Oxford English Dictionary, leaves her sheltered world behind to meet the people whose words will fill those pages.
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Disappearing Earth
by Julia Phillips
The shattering disappearance of two young girls from Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula compounds the isolation and fears of a tight-woven community, connecting the lives of neighbors, witnesses, family members, and a detective throughout an ensuing year of tension.
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The Dutch House
by Ann Patchett
A tale set over the course of five decades traces the consequences of Cyril Conroy's purchase of a lavish Philadelphia estate for him, his wife, and his children, Danny and Maeve, who struggle to escape from poverty following his death.
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Educated : a memoir
by Tara Westover
Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn an acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.
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Every Note Played
by Lisa Genova
A once-celebrated concert pianist who is gradually succumbing to ALS is forced to accept help from the estranged wife he pushed away, a situation that forces the couple to reconcile their past before time runs out.
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The Exiles
by Christina Baker Kline
Sent to a Tasmanian penal colony on trumped up charges, a young governess befriends a talented midwife and an orphaned Aboriginal chief's daughter while confronting the harsh realities of British colonialism and oppression in 19th-century Australia.
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The ferryman : a novel
by Justin Cronin
A ferryman, gently shepherding people through the retirement process—and, when necessary, enforcing it—Proctor Bennet, of the Department of Social Contracts, receives a disturbing and cryptic message from his father, while The Support Staff, who keep Prospera running, organize a revolution that causes Proctor to question everything he once believed.
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Finding Dorothy
by Elizabeth Letts
Reimagines the story behind the creation of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" from the perspective of L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud, whose hardscrabble life on the Dakota prairie inspires her husband's masterpiece and her advocacy of an exploited Judy Garland.
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A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he endures life in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history unfold. By the best-selling author of Rules of Civility.
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The Girl from Berlin
by Ronald H Balson
Lockhart and Taggart investigate a German violin prodigy's handwritten records from Berlin's interwar period to resolve a land dispute between a powerful corporation and a woman facing the loss of her Tuscan hills home.
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The glass chãteau
by Stephen P. Kiernan
One month after the end of WWII, Asher, a former assassin in the Resistance burdened by grief and guilt, arrives at le Château Guerin, where he discovers the redemptive power of art as he helps create glass windows for the bombed cathedrals of France.
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The Gown : a novel of the royal wedding
by Jennifer Robson
"London, 1947: The people of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation in spite of their nation's recent victory. Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers in the famed Mayfair fashion house of Norman Hartnell, forge an unlikely friendship, but their bond, along with their hopes for a brighter future, are tested when they are chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime honor: taking part in the creation of Princess Elizabeth's wedding gown. Toronto, 2011: Heather Mackenzie seeks to unravel the mystery of a set of embroidered flowers, a legacy from her late grandmother, so similar to the exquisite motifs that embellished the stunning gown worn by Queen Elizabeth II at her wedding. The Gown takes us inside the workrooms where one of the most famous wedding gowns in history was created.
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The Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah
When her volatile, former POW father impulsively moves the family to mid-1970s Alaska to live off the land, young Leni and her mother are forced to confront the dangers of their lack of preparedness in the wake of a dangerous winter season.
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The Guest Book
by Sarah Blake
A novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout generations, examining not just a privileged American family, but a privileged America. The bereaved matriarch of a powerful early-20th-century American family makes a fateful decision that reverberates throughout two subsequent generations further impacted by racism, reversed circumstances and disturbing revelations.
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Hairpin Bridge
by Taylor Adams
Not accepting that her estranged twin sister committed suicide, Lena Nguyen interviews the highway patrolman who allegedly discovered her body, and is also mentioned by name in the last text her sister ever sent.
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Happiness falls : a novel
by Angie Kim
Mia isn't initially concerned when her family fails to return from a walk, until her mute brother Eugene, who suffers from a rare genetic condition, returns bloody and alone and is unable to describe what happened to their father.
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride
When a skeleton is unearthed in the small, close-knit community of Chicken Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1972, an unforgettable cast of characters—living on the margins of white, Christian America—closely guard a secret, especially when the truth is revealed about what happened and the part the town's white establishment played in it.
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The House is on Fire
by Rachel Beanland
Told from the perspectives of four people whose actions changed the course of history, this masterful work of historical fiction takes readers back to 1811 Richmond, Virginia, where, on the night after Christmas, the city's only theater burned to the ground, tearing apart a community.
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The Island of Sea Women
by Lisa See
The ostracized daughter of a Japanese collaborator and the daughter of their Korean village's head female diver share nearly a century of friendship that is tested by their island's torn position between two warring empires.
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James : a novel
by Percival Everett
Describes the events of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of the enslaved Jim, who decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island after learning he is to be sold to a man in New Orleans.
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Just a regular boy : a novel
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Out there is chaos, the collapse of society, and so much to be afraid of. All that matters is freedom. That's what Remy Blake has been taught by his survivalist father. Raised off the grid in the middle of nowhere, his own survival skills not yet honed, Remy is days shy of his eighth birthday when his father unexpectedly dies...He is found--near feral, silent, and terrified--in the small rural town of Blaire. To Anne, a nurturing mother of two adopted teenagers who's still dealing with her own childhood rejections, Remy is not a lost cause. Just a challenging one. As Remy cautiously adapts to his new foster home, his family wants nothing more than to reassure him that he can trust the world.
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The Kitchen Front
by Jennifer Ryan
A World War II-set story of four women on the home front competing for a spot hosting a BBC wartime cookery program and a chance to better their lives. Two years into World War II, Britain is feeling her losses; the Nazis have won battles, the Blitz has destroyed cities, and U-boats have cut off the supply of food. In an effort to help housewives with food rationing, a BBC radio program called The Kitchen Front is putting on a cooking contest--and the grand prize is a job as the program's first-ever female co-host. For four very different women, winning the contest presents a crucial chance to change their lives. These four women are giving the competition their all--even if that sometimes means bending the rules.
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The Last House on the Street
by Diane Chamberlain
Two women. Two stories. Both on a collision course with the truth--no matter what that truth may bring to light-- riveting, powerful novel about the search for justice.
1965 Growing up in the well-to-do town of Round Hill, North Carolina, Ellie Hockley was raised to be a certain type of proper Southern lady. Enrolled in college and all but engaged to a bank manager, Ellie isn't as committed to her expected future as her family believes. She's chosen to spend her summer break as a volunteer helping to register black voters. But as Ellie follows her ideals fighting for the civil rights of the marginalized, her scandalized parents scorn her efforts, and her neighbors reveal their prejudices.
2010 Recently widowed, architect Kayla Carter moves into her new home in Round Hill where she is faced with threatening notes and a neighbor who is harboring long-buried secrets about the dark history of the land on which her house was built.
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The last twelve miles : a novel
by Erika Robuck
"1926, Washington, D. C. In the Prohibition Rum Wars, the Coast Guard is losing. Eleven million gallons of illegal liquor a year have created a booming smuggling economy, with criminals wreaking havoc on American cities, and everyday citizens thumbing their noses at Uncle Sam. But the Coast Guard has a new, secret weapon-one of the husband-and-wife pair who invented cryptanalysis and trained Great War soldiers-to crack smuggler codes, intercept traffic, and destroy the trade, one skiff at a time. That secret weapon is a 5'2 mastermind in heels, who also happens to be a wife and mother: Mrs. Elizebeth Smith Friedman. Marie Waite-wife of a rumrunner and mother of two little ones, is determined to become Queen of the rumrunners and outsmart the code breakers. From the glamorous world of D. C. Intelligence to the sultry shores of the Straits of Florida, The Last Twelve Miles--a tale of ambition and envy--is based on the true story of two women masterminds trying to outwit each other in a dangerous and fascinating game of high stakes"
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Leaving Coy's Hill
by Katherine A. Sherbrooke
Born on a farm in 1818, Lucy Stone dreamt of extraordinary things for a girl of her time, like continuing her education beyond the eighth grade and working for the abolitionist cause, and of ordinary things, such as raising a family of her own. But when she learns that the Constitution affords no rights to married women, she declares that she will never marry and dedicates her life to fighting for change. At a time when it is considered promiscuous for women to speak in public, Lucy risks everything for the anti-slavery movement, her powerful oratory mesmerizing even her most ardent detractors as she rapidly becomes a household name. And when she begins to lecture on the 'woman question,' she inspires a young Susan B. Anthony to join the movement. But life as a crusader is a lonely one.
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The life impossible
by Matt Haig
When Grace Winters is left a house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, she arrives in Ibiza with no guidebook and no plan.
Grace searches for answers and discovers an impossible truth.
A story of hope and the life changing power of a new beginning.
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The Light Through the Leaves
by Glendy Vanderah
After leaving her young daughter unattended for a few minutes only to discover her gone, Ellis Abbey leaves her husband and sons, convinced that she can only do more harm to her family and treks alone into the mountain wilderness.
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The Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles
In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction-to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view.
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Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
Traces a night of solitary mourning and reflection as experienced by the sixteenth president, after the death of his eleven-year-old son.
The timeframe is the dawn of the Civil War and the viewpoint is that
of the deceased.
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The Lions of Fifth Avenue
by Fiona Davis
A New York Public Library superintendent’s wife reevaluates her priorities upon joining a woman’s suffrage group in 1913, decades before her granddaughter’s efforts to save an exhibit expose tragic family secrets.
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The Lobotomist's Wife
by Samantha Greene Woodruff
When her husband, a brilliant doctor championing the lobotomy, spirals into deluded megalomania, mental illness advocate Ruth Emeraldine races to save a vulnerable young mother who is poised to be the next victim of his ambitions.
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Long Bright River
by Liz Moore
A young policewoman races to find her missing sister, a homeless addict, amid a vicious killing spree in a Philadelphia neighborhood,
in a story that alternates between the investigation and memories
of their shared childhood.
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The Lost Apothecary
by Sarah Penner
Secretly dispensing poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them, a London apothecary triggers unintended consequences that shape three lives across multiple centuries.
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The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
by Allison Pataki
The epic reimagining of the extraordinary life of Marjorie Merriweather Post, the American heiress who lived and loved on a grand scale, reveals the heartbreak she endured as a wife four times over in vastly different, dramatic marriages.
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The Measure
by Nikki Erlick
When every person, all over the globe, receives a small wooden box bearing the same inscription and a single piece of string inside, the world is thrown into a collective frenzy, in this novel told through multiple perspectives that introduces an unforgettable cast of characters.
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Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
by Matthew Sullivan
A first novel by an award-winning short story writer follows the efforts of a bookstore clerk to unravel a puzzle left behind by a patron who has committed suicide, an effort that is complicated by memories of the clerk's violent childhood.
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The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig
Nora Seed finds herself faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, or realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist, she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
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Miracle Creek
by Angie Kim
A dramatic murder trial in the aftermath of an experimental medical treatment and a fatal explosion upends a rural Virginia community where personal secrets and private ambitions complicate efforts to uncover what happened.
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The Next Ship Home : a novel of Ellis Island
by Heather Webb
On Ellis Island in 1902, linguist Alma, who works at the immigration processing center, meets Francesca, an immigrant from Italy, and together, after discovering that corruption runs rampant in this refuge, they fight to claim the American dreams they were promised.
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The Next Thing You Know
by Jessica Strawser
Taking a younger man's case, which is unique and tragic, Nova Husson, an end-of-life doula, is determined to show singer-songwriter Mayson Shaykor that there is life, even as death approaches, even while dealing with her own inner turmoil.
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The Night Watchman
by Louise Erdrich
A historical novel, based on the life of the National Book Award-winning author’s grandfather, traces the experiences of a Chippewa Council night watchman in mid-19th-century rural North Dakota who fights Congress to enforce Native American treaty rights.
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No Exit
by Taylor Adams
On her way to Utah to see her dying mother, college student Darby gets caught in a fierce blizzard in the Colorado Rockies. With the roads impassable, she's forced to wait out the storm at a remote rest stop with no cell phone reception and four complete strangers.........
A thriller dripping with an adrenaline rush.
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No two persons
by Erica Bauermeister
One book. Nine readers. Ten changed lives. That was the beauty of books, wasn't it? They took you places you didn't know you needed to go... Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached, until a devastating event breaks her heart open, and she creates a stunning debut novel. Her words, in turn, find their way to readers, from a teenager hiding her homelessness, to a free diver pushing himself beyond endurance, an artist furious at the world around her, a bookseller in search of love, a widower rent by grief. Each one is drawn into Alice's novel; each one discovers something different that alters their perspective, and presents new pathways forward for their lives.
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The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
by Marianne Cronin
Determined to leave a mark on the world even though they are in the hospital and their days are dwindling, unlikely friends, 17-year-old Lenni and 83-year-old Margot, devise a plan to create 100 paintings showcasing the stories of the century they have lived.
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Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
In early 1900s Korea, prized daughter Sunja finds herself pregnant and alone, bringing shame on her family until a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and bring her to Japan, in the saga of one family bound together as their faith and identity are called into question.
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The Paris Library
by Janet Skeslien Charles
Based on a true story, describes how a lonely, 1980s teenager befriends an elderly neighbor and uncovers her past as a librarian at the American Library in Paris who joined the Resistance when the Nazis arrived.
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The Perfect Mother
by Aimee Molloy
A group of new moms go to increasingly risky lengths to help one of their own when her six-week old baby is kidnapped and the traumatized mother is subjected to invasive questions.
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Picture in the sand
by Peter Blauner
A sweeping intergenerational saga told through a grandfather's passionate letters to his grandson, passing on the story of his political rebellion in 1950s Egypt in order to save his grandson's life in a post-9/11 world. It's the tale of his romantic and heartbreaking past rooted in Hollywood and the post-revolutionary Egypt of the 1950s, when young Ali was a movie fanatic who attained a dream job working for the legendary director Cecil B. DeMille on the set of his epic film, The Ten Commandments. It's a narrative he's told no one for more than a half-century. But now he's forced to unearth the past to save a young man who's about to make the same tragic mistakes he made so long ago.
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Project Hail Mary
by Andy Weir
The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space where he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
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The Radium Girls : the dark story of America's shining women
by Kate Moore
A full-length account of the struggles of hundreds of women who were exposed to dangerous levels of radium while working factory jobs during World War I describes how they were mislead by their employers and became embroiled in a groundbreaking battle for workers' rights.
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Rednecks
by Taylor Brown
Dramatizing the 1920 to 1921 events of the West Virginia Mine Wars, this powerful story of rebellion against oppression follows a Black WWI veteran and coal miner as he leads a miners' revolt and a Lebanese American doctor who risks his life and career to treat the sick and wounded miners.
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The return of Ellie Black : a novel
by Emiko Jean
When Ellie Black, who disappeared two years earlier, is found alive in the woods of Washington State, Detective Chelsey Calhoun, whose own sister went missing when they were teenagers, realizes something is not right with Ellie and it's up to her to find the answers before another girl is taken.
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The Rose Code
by Kate Quinn
Joining the elite Bletchley Park codebreaking team during World War II, three women from very different walks of life uncover a spy's dangerous agenda against a backdrop of the royal wedding of Elizabeth and Philip.
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The shadow of the wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafâon
In 1945 Barcelona, Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written. An epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.
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Sleeping giants : a novel
by Rene Denfeld
A novel by the author of The Child Finder explores sibling bonds, foster children, monsters masquerading as caretakers, terrifying secrets and the power of love to right even the most egregious wrongs.
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Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
The sudden death of a Hollywood actor during a production of "King Lear" marks the beginning of the world's dissolution in a story told at various past and future times from the perspectives of the actor and four of his associates.
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Stolen : a novel
by Ann-Helâen Laestadius
On a winter day north of the Arctic Circle, nine-year-old Elsa-daughter of Sâami reindeer herders-sees a man brutally kill her beloved reindeer calf and threaten her into silence. When her father takes her to report the crime, local police tell them that there is nothing they can do about these "stolen" animals. Killings like these are classified as theft in the reports that continue to pile up, uninvestigated. But reindeer are not just the Sâami's livelihood, they also hold spiritual significance; attacking a reindeer is an attack on the culture itself. Ten years later, hatred and threats against the Sâami keep escalating, and more reindeer are tortured and killed in Elsa's community. Finally, she's had enough and decides to push back on the apathetic police force. The hunter comes after her this time, leading to a catastrophic final confrontation. Based on real events, Stolen is part coming-of-age story, part love song to a disappearing natural world, and part electrifying countdown to a dramatic resolution--a searing depiction of a forgotten part of Sweden.
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The Stranger in the Woods : the extraordinary story of the last true hermit
by Michael Finkel
Documents the true story of a man who endured a hardscrabble, isolated existence in a tent in the Maine woods, never speaking with others and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins, for 27 years, in a portrait that illuminates the survival means he developed and the reasons behind his solitary life.
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Table for two : fictions
by Amor Towles
Six stories, based in New York City, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters, and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood, told from seven different viewpoints, which stars the indomitable Evelyn Ross, who is crafting a new future for herself. Get ready to travel through movie sets, bungalows, and dive bars on an adventure.
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There There
by Tommy Orange
A novel—which grapples with the complex history of Native Americans and a plague of addiction, abuse and suicide—follows 12 characters, each of whom has private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow. A New York Times best-seller.
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Trust
by Hernâan Dâiaz
Told from the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction, this unrivaled novel about money, power, intimacy and perception is centered around the mystery of how the Rask family acquired their immense fortune in 1920s-1930's New York City.
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The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
Separated by their embrace of different racial identities, two mixed-race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a black daughter in their southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.
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The Violin Conspiracy
by Brendan Slocumb
When, right before the cutthroat Tchaikovsky Competition– the Olympics of classical music, his priceless Stradivarius is stolen, with a ransom note for five million dollars in its place, Ray McMillian must piece together the clues to reclaim the violin before it's too late.
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We Begin at the End
by Chris Whitaker
A powerful novel about absolute love and the lengths we will go to keep our family safe. This is a story about good and evil and how life is lived somewhere in between. Thirty years ago, Vincent King became a killer. Now, he's been released from prison and is back in his hometown of Cape Haven, California. Not everyone is pleased to see him. Murder, revenge, retribution. How far can we run from the past when the past seems doomed to repeat itself?
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We solve murders
by Richard Osman
Investigator Steve Wheeler comes out of retirement when his daughter-in-law, Amy, who works in private security, needs help finding out who left a dead body on a remote island with a huge bag of money. A thrilling race around the world begins.
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Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
Viewed with suspicion in the aftermath of a murder, Kya Clark, who has survived alone for years in a marsh near the North Carolina coast, becomes targeted by unthinkable forces.
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While Justice Sleeps
by Stacey Abrams
Plunged into an explosive role she never anticipated, Avery Keene, now the legal guardian of power of attorney for the legendary Justice Howard Wynn, must unravel the clues he left behind in regards to a dangerous conspiracy that has infiltrated the highest power corridors of Washington.
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With Love from London
by Sarah Jio
Inheriting a flat and bookshop in London from the mother who adandoned her, Valentina slowly begins to piece together her mother's life while trying to save the bookshop from going under, with the help of its eccentric staff and some startling revelations.
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Woman 99
by Greer Macallister
Going undercover to rescue her wrongly committed sister from a notorious asylum, Charlotte uncovers a dangerous secret about the institution and why their fellow inmates were put away. A historical thriller rich in detail, deception, and revelation, honoring the fierce women of the past, born into a world that denied them power but underestimated their strength.
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The Woman in the Window
by A. J. Finn
An agoraphobic recluse languishes in her New York City home, drinking wine and spying on her neighbors, before witnessing a terrible crime through her window that exposes her secrets and raises questions about her perceptions of reality.
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Yellowface : a novel
by R. F. Kuang
After the death of her literary rival in a freak accident, author June Hayward steals her just-finished masterpiece, sending it to her agent as her own work, but as emerging evidence threatens her success, she discovers just how far she'll go to keep what she thinks she deserves.
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Gail Borden Public Library District
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Main Library - 270 N. Grove Ave., Elgin, IL 60120 - 847-742-2411
Rakow Branch - 2751 W. Bowes Rd., Elgin, IL 60124 - 847-531-7271
South Elgin Branch - 127 S. Mclean Blvd., South Elgin, IL 60177 - 847-931-2090
http://www.gailborden.info/
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