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Other Typist
by Suzanne Rindell
Working as a typist for the NYC Police Department in 1923, Rose Baker documents confessions of harrowing crimes and struggles with changing gender roles while clinging to her Victorian ideals and searching for nurturing companionship before becoming obsessed with a glamorous newcomer and her world of bobbed hair, smoking and speakeasies.
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Sandcastle Girls
by Chris Bohjalian
A historical love story inspired by the author's Armenian heritage finds early 20th-century nurse Elizabeth Endicott arriving in Syria to help deliver food and medical aid to genocide refugees, a volunteer service during which she exchanges letters with an Armenian engineer and widower. By the best-selling author of The Light in the Ruins.
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Mr. Churchill's Secretary
by Susan Elia MacNeal
After German Luftwaffe bomb London, Maggie Hope--trained in math and code breaking, but only able to find a job as Winston Churchill's secretary--uses the access her position demands to try to unravel an assassination plot
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Wild : From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by Cheryl Strayed
A personal account traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous 1,100-mile solo hike, in a best-selling book that inspired the forthcoming film.
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Z : A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
by Therese Fowler
A t ale inspired by the marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald follows their union in defiance of her father's opposition and her abandonment of the provincial finery of her upbringing in favor of a scandalous flapper identity that gains her entry into the literary party scenes of New York, Paris and the French Riviera.
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Dad Is Fat
by Jim Gaffigan
The popular comedian and actor shares his misadventures as an unlikely father of five, presenting full-length accounts of the experiences referenced in his popular tweets, from his formative years in a large Irish-Catholic family, to his middle-of-the-night diaper-changing foibles, to his struggles to lull tyrannical tots to sleep.
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Ocean at the End of the Lane
by Neil Gaiman
Storytelling genius Neil Gaiman delivers a whimsical, imaginative, bittersweet and at times deeply scary modern fantasy about fear, love, magic and sacrifice to reveal and to protect us from the darkness insideāa moving, terrifying and elegiac fable.
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
The novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive an, therefore, consistently useful to the ruling class.
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Dandelion Wine
by Ray Bradbury
In the unusual world of Green Town, Illinois, twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding discovers the wonders of reality and the power of imagination during the summer of 1928.
In Farewell Summer , the sequel to this work, while celebrating the final days of summer, thirteen-year-old Douglas and his friends declare war on the stuffy older set of their community who would put an end to their wild ways with a plot to stop the courthouse building clock as a means of staying young forever.
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Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
by Deborah Moggach
When Dr. Ravi Kapoor's entrepreneurial cousin sets up a retirement home in India, Ravi's father-in-law is one of its first guests, but what the renovation-in-progress lacks in promised amenities and luxury, it makes up for in adventure, stunning beauty and unexpected love. By the best-selling author of Tulip Fever.
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Holidays on Ice : With Six New Stories
by David Sedaris
Amusing essays on the joys and embarrassments of favorite holidays, in a volume that includes tales of tardy trick-or-treaters, the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to another culture and a barnyard Secret Santa scheme gone awry.
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