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The sunshine sisters
by Jane Green
Receiving a sobering health diagnosis, a once-uninvolved mother-turned-Hollywood star calls her estranged adult daughters home in the hopes of ending her life, triggering old rivalries and secret fears that challenge family bonds.
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Camino Island
by John Grisham
A young woman is recruited to recover priceless F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts that were stolen during a daring heist.
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| Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanEleanor Oliphant -- despite her social isolation and the rules she sets to survive weekends insists that she is just fine. But is she really? The gentle overtures of a coworker who accepts her as she is gets things rolling and gives her the emotional support she needs when a horrific event forces her to reevaluate her life. As it turns out, Eleanor Oliphant is absolutely not completely fine... |
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Defectors : a novel
by Joseph Kanon
Writing his memoirs 12 years after fleeing to the relative safety of life in a Moscow prison after being exposed as a Communist spy, former CIA insider Frank Weeks asks his reluctant brother to edit his manuscript as part of a cat-and-mouse scheme that places both of their lives in danger.
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| The Leavers: A Novel by Lisa KoDeming Guo is a fifth grader in the Bronx when his mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, disappears. Adopted by two white academics and renamed Daniel, he appears to be well-armed for success, but ten years later Daniel has failed out of college. Then he learns that his mother, who he has never stopped wondering about, is still alive. |
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Ginny Moon
by Benjamin Ludwig
Desperately wishing to be reunited with her abusive, drug-addicted birth mother at any cost in spite of finding herself in a wonderful foster home, an autistic 14-year-old struggles to make sense of her world by engaging in strict routines and avoiding the people who would love her.
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Do not become alarmed : a novel
by Maile Meloy
A tropical vacation cruise turns nightmarish for two families whose children go missing during a stop in Central America, a crisis that triggers blame, animosity and new priorities as the once-happy parents scramble to recover their children and their lives.
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The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo : a novel
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
When an aging and reclusive Hollywood icon selects an unknown magazine reporter to write her life story, the baffled journalist forges deep ties with the actress during a complicated interview process that exposes their tragic common history.
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The ministry of utmost happiness : a novel
by Arundhati Roy
A provocative love story by the award-winning author of The God of Small Things takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war.
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The shark club
by Ann Kidd Taylor
Nearly two decades after surviving a shark attack in the Gulf of Mexico, a world-traveling marine biologist and respected "shark whisperer" harbors private insecurities that compel her to return to her Florida coast home to explore old and new relationships.
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Everybody's son : a novel
by Thrity N Umrigar
A lawman struggles to come to terms with the moral fallout of crimes committed by his loved ones when he learns that he was wrongly taken from his biological mother and that his grieving foster father exploited their family's influence to retain custody.
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Complicated Family Dynamics
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| Silver Sparrow: A Novel by Tayari JonesSet in Atlanta's middle-class African-American community in the 1980s, Dana Yarboro's father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist. Though both Dana and her mother have always known this, James goes to great lengths to protect his first family from the truth. After the two half-sisters meet accidentally and Dana pursues a friendship with her unsuspecting half-sister, James' secrets inevitably unravel. |
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| Calling Me Home by Julie KiblerIsabelle and Dorrie are friends, but the two are very different: Isabelle is a privileged, elderly white woman, while Dorrie, a single mom, has struggled to open her shop. When Isabelle asks Dorrie to drive her from their East Texas town to Cincinnati, Dorrie agrees and that's when Isabelle's story of her forbidden, doomed romance with a black man in 1930s Kentucky comes out. |
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| We Are Water: A Novel by Wally LambFramed by an intriguing story of a black artist, this complex novel revolves around Anna Oh, a middle-aged artist and mother who's left her Chinese-Italian husband for her art dealer, a Greek woman. Told in alternating perspectives and evoking Greek mythology, the story tangles the past and the present together. |
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| They May Not Mean to, But They Do by Cathleen SchineThis darkly comic novel is full of sharp commentary and awash in guilt, all focused around family relationships. Joy Bergman is 86, recently widowed, and about to be forcibly retired. She doesn't want to be a burden, and isn't ready for a nursing home, but shouldn't really live alone in her Manhattan apartment. Her kids do the best they can for her, but they are busy with families and complications of their own. |
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| Modern Lovers by Emma StraubIn college, Elizabeth, Andrew, Zoe, and Lydia were friends and bandmates; after a brush with fame, Lydia OD'd at 27. The rest are middle-aged, still close but distracted by common mid-life problems. Career woes, lack of fulfillment, an awareness that youth is fleeting, these are just a few of the issues that keep them up at night. |
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