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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
by Lisa See
Explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter, who has been adopted by an American couple, tracing the very different cultural factors that compel them to consume a rare native tea that has shaped their family's destiny for generations.
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All by Myself, Alone
by Mary Higgins Clark
Taking a cruise to escape the humiliation of her fiancé's arrest, gems expert Celia Kilbride befriends octogenarian passenger Emily Haywood, who is found dead three days out to sea at the hands of someone who has stolen the victim's priceless emerald necklace. By the best-selling author of As Time Goes By.
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Lillian Boxfish takes a walk : a novel
by Kathleen Rooney
Embarking on a walk across Manhattan on New Year's Eve in 1984, eighty-five-year-old Lillian Boxfish recalls her long and eventful life, which included a brief reign as the highest-paid advertising woman in America, until her career was cut short by marriage and loss.
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| The Whole Town's Talking: A Novel by Fannie Flagg; narrated by Kimberly FarrAuthor Fannie Flagg traces the saga of Elmwood Springs, Missouri from its founding in 1889 by Swedish immigrant Lordor Nordstrom to its end in 2022. Filled with generations of interesting characters, the novel seems to portray ordinary doings in a farming community -- until it's revealed that the residents buried in the town's cemetery wake up and resume their interactions with each other, making death a continuation of life. In addition to cameo appearances by Bonnie and Clyde and by Harry Truman, the plot includes a murder mystery. Kimberly Farr narrates the story with distinct character voicing while highlighting Flagg's humor and sympathetically relating sad events. |
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The Hollywood Daughter
by Kate Alcott
A coming-of-age novel inspired by Hollywood icon Ingrid Bergman describes how the daughter of a PR executive helps make Berman a star in the face of the illegitimate child the actress has with Robert Rossellini, the heated era of McCarthyism and family secrets that challenge her father's health.
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The Cutthroat
by Clive Cussler
Hired to find a young woman who ran away from home to become an actress in 1911, Chief Investigator Isaac Bell begins a manhunt that is complicated by the acts of a serial killer whose victims resemble the missing girl. By the authors of Gangster.
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The Chilbury Ladies' Choir : a novel
by Jennifer Ryan
Letters and journals reveal the struggles, affairs, deceptions and triumphs of five members of a village choir during World War II as they band together to survive the upheavals of war and village intrigue on the English home front.
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The Lonely Hearts Hotel : a novel
by Heather O'Neill
Two orphaned soul mates--one a piano prodigy, the other a dancing savant--dream up a plan for the most extraordinary circus show the world has ever seen against a backdrop of the Great Depression
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| The Secret Keepers by Trenton Lee Stewart; narrated by Cameron BowenJuvenile Fiction. During his exploration of the walls, rooftops, and out-of-the-way spots in his hometown of New Umbra, Reuben Pedley finds a hidden pocket watch that gives him the power to turn invisible...but also makes him a target. Chased by agents of The Smoke (the mysterious figure that controls New Umbra) Reuben has to outwit and outrun his enemies as he tries to uncover the secrets of the watch's origins and the reach of its incredible powers. If you like author Trenton Lee Stewart's brain-twisting Mysterious Benedict Society series, be sure to check out The Secret Keepers, whose quirky characters are distinctly voiced by Cameron Bowen. |
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Bone box : a Decker/Lazarus novel
by Faye Kellerman
When Rina Lazarus makes a shocking discovery in the woods near her upstate New York community, her husband, police detective Peter Decker, becomes embroiled in a series of gruesome, decades-old unsolved murders. Read by Richard Ferrone.
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