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If you Liked... Me Before You
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We are all made of stars : a novel
by Rowan Coleman
Working as a hospice nurse while navigating the challenges of her Afghanistan veteran husband's PTSD, Stella writes final letters from her patients to loved ones and is torn between respecting a dying woman's wishes and reuniting her with the son she abandoned.
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You're not you : a novel
by Michelle Wildgen
Hoping to revitalize her lackluster existence by taking a job as a caregiver for a married woman with ALS, college student Bec finds herself profoundly moved by her relationship with her employer, with whom she experiences unanticipated life changes.
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The revised fundamentals of caregiving : a novel
by Jonathan Evison
After losing virtually everything meaningful in his life, Benjamin trains to be a caregiver, but his first client, a fiercely independent teen with muscular dystrophy, gives him more than he bargained for and soon the two embark on a road trip to visit the boy's ailing father.
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Moving and Thought Provoking
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A tale for the time being
by Ruth L. Ozeki
A novelist on a remote island in the Pacific is linked to a bullied and depressed Tokyo teenager after discovering a Hello Kitty lunchbox that washed ashore in this new novel from the award-wining, best-selling author of My Year of Meats.
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We are all completely beside ourselves
by Karen Joy Fowler
Coming of age in middle America, 18-year-old Rosemary evaluates how her entire youth was defined by the presence and forced removal of an endearing chimpanzee who was secretly regarded as a family member and who Rosemary loved as a sister. By the best-selling author of The Jane Austen Book Club.
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The husband's secret
by Liane Moriarty
Discovering a tattered letter that says she is to open it only in the event of her husband's death, Cecelia, a successful family woman, is unable to resist reading the letter and discovers a secret that shatters her life and the lives of two other women. By the author of What Alice Forgot
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Lost in the forest
by Sue Miller
For Eva, the divorced and happily remarried mother of three children, and her adolescent middle child, Daisy, the death of Eva's second husband John in a car accident turns their lives upside down, a tragedy that draws Daisy into a confusing, chaotic, and unstable world as she embarks on a harrowing sexual odyssey with a much older man.
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La's orchestra saves the world
by Alexander McCall Smith
A stand-alone work by the author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series finds divorcee Lavender fleeing World War II London and organizing an amateur orchestra that includes a talented Polish refugee who rekindles long-buried feelings.
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The girl you left behind
by Jojo Moyes
Unwillingly rendered an object of obsession by the Kommandant occupying her small French town in World War I, Sophie risks everything to reunite with her husband a century before a widowed Liv tests her resolve to claim ownership of Sophie's portrait. By the best-selling author of Me Before You.
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The lemon orchard
by Luanne Rice
House-sitting a family home in Malibu where she hopes for peace and healing in the aftermath of her daughter's death, Julia is unexpectedly drawn to a handsome man who oversees a lemon orchard, sends his earnings to an extended family in Mexico and hides the pain of his own daughter's loss.
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I capture the castle
by Dodie Smith
A classic, romantic novel from earlier this century is now available in paperback and tells the enduring story of Cassandra, a young woman who lives in poverty with her family in England and who strives to become loved as a writer and a woman.
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