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Nine Women, One Dress
by Jane L. Rosen
Nine unrelated women whose circumstances are shaped by unrequited love, infidelity and fame find their lives touched by the same little black dress and its seemingly magical properties.
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The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
by Kelli Estes
A college student investigates the sad story of a displaced Chinese American in 1886 before making a discovery in a scrap of silk that forces her to choose between her family's honor and the truth.
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Girl Underwater
by Claire Kells
After her plane crashes into a mountain lake, 19-year-old competitive college swimmer Avery Delacorte, one of only five survivors, must rely on her teammate Colin Shea in ways she never thought possible to survive sub-zero temperatures, minimal supplies and the dangerous wilderness.
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A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman
A curmudgeon hides beneath a cranky and short-tempered exterior a terrible personal loss while clashing with new neighbors, a boisterous family whose chattiness and habits lead to unexpected friendship.
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Delicious!
by Ruth Reichl
Working as a public relations hotline consultant for a once-prestigious culinary magazine, Billie Breslin unexpectedly enters a world of New York restaurateurs and artisanal purveyors while reading World War II letters exchanged between a plucky 12-year-old and James Beard.
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The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs
by Nick Trout
Reluctantly returning home to Eden Falls, Vermont, to revive his late father's failing veterinary practice and then sell it as quickly as possible, Dr. Cyrus Mills finds his plans changing when he gets more and more entrenched in the community and in his relationships with a cast of colorful characters.
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Blackberry Winter
by Sarah Jio
On a cold spring night in 1933, Vera Ray tucks her young son into his bed and hurries away to her job at a local hotel. When she returns the next morning her son as vanished, leaving only a lost teddy bear behind in the May first snow. On a snowy May first seventy-seven years later, reporter Claire Aldridge learns of the sad tale of the lost child and resolves to discover what really happened that night so long ago.
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The Story of Beautiful Girl
by Rachel Simon
Describes the love story between a developmentally disabled young white woman and an deaf African American after being institutionalized in 1968, in this new novel from the author of Riding the Bus With My Sister.
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Angelina's Bachelors
by Brian O'Reilly
Managing sudden widowhood and joblessness by cooking bounteous and sumptuous feasts that she shares with her neighbors, Angelina D'Angelo is offered a job as cook for a retiree and his elderly sister and finds her culinary talents winning her a circle of friends and protectors.
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The Language of Flowers
by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Discovering the symbolic meanings of flowers while languishing in the foster-care system, 18-year-old Victoria is hired by a florist when her talent for helping others is discovered, a situation that leads to a romantic prospect and the confrontation of a painful secret from her past.
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The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels--A Love Story by Ree DrummondThe popular blogger and best-selling author of The Pioneer Woman Cooks traces the story of her marriage to a quintessential Marlboro Man while sharing additional moments about her transition from a giddy 20-something to a ranch wife and mother.
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Girl in Translation
by Jean Kwok
Emigrating with her mother from Hong Kong to Brooklyn, Kimberly Chang begins a secret double life as an exceptional schoolgirl during the day and sweatshop worker at night, an existence also marked by a first crush and the pressure to save her family from poverty.
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Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
by Beth Hoffman
Relegated to the care of an eccentric great-aunt after her mentally unbalanced mother's accidental death, 12-year-old CeeCee is quickly surrounded by the strong women and cultural elements of her new Savannah community.
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The Bricklayer
by Noah Boyd
The FBI recruits Steve Vail, an agent it has just fired, to solve a brilliant and deadly extortion plot where a group called Rubaco Pentad is killing human targets one by one unless the bureau gives them cash, with the dollar amount and body count escalating each time the agency doesn't pay up.
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Dog on It: A Chet and Bernie Mystery
by Spencer Quinn
Canine detective Chet accompanies his human police officer partner, Bernie, on a first assignment involving the disappearance of a teenage girl who ran with a bad crowd, a case complicated by Bernie's dysfunctional personal life.
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The Shape of Mercy
by Susan Meissner
Lauren breaks from family tradition and accepts a job from Abigail Boyles to transcribe a diary written by Marcy Boyles, allegedly killed during the Salem witch trials, but finds herself affected by the diary more than she expected.
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State of the Onion
by Julie A. Hyzy
While going up against her nemesis for the executive chef position, White House Assistant Chef Olivia Paras finds her goose cooked when she becomes the target of a world-class assassin, after witnessing a murder.
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Austenland
by Shannon Hale
Because her obsession with Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, is ruining her love life, Jane Hayes is delighted when she gets the chance to take a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-crazed women, where she hopes to meet a perfect Regency-era gentleman of her own.
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Garden Spells
by Sarah Addison Allen
A successful caterer in Bascomb, North Carolina, Claire has always remained tied to the long and magical legacy of the Waverly family, until her peaceful life is transformed by Tyler Hughes, an art teacher and new next-door neighbor, and by the return of her prodigal sister, Sydney, who has arrived with her five-year-old daughter, Bay.
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The Saddlemaker's Wife
by Earlene Fowler
Inheriting shares in a cattle ranch in Tokopah County from her late husband, Ruby McGavin discovers that her late husband's family is very much alive and heads for California to find out the truth, encountering a host of secrets along the way.
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His Majesty's Dragon
by Naomi Novik
When the HMS Reliant captures a French ship and its priceless cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, Captain Will Laurence is swept into an unexpected kinship with an extraordinary creature and joins the elite Aerial Corps as a master of the dragon Temaraire, in which role he must match wits with the powerful dragon-borne forces of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Poison Study
by Maria V. Snyder
After she is given a reprieve from her death sentence, Yelena faces mounting disasters as rebels plot to seize Ixia, her life is once again threatened, and the chief of security is attempting to poison her.
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The Dead Don't Dance: A Novel of Awakening
by Charles Martin
Dylan, a South Carolina farmer, struggles to cope with his wife's lapse into a coma following a stillbirth until his friend Amos convinces him to accept a teaching job at a community college.
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Three Wishes
by Liane Moriarty
Approaching their thirty-third birthdays, triplets Lyn, Cat, and Gemma Kettle remember their tumultuous prior year, which has been marked by pregnancy, a devastating love affair, a mid-life crisis, and the possible reconciliation of their divorced parents.
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Run No More
by Catherine Mulvany
Fleeing a nightmare marriage, Tasya Flynn is desperate enough for food to break into the mansion of Ian MacPherson, a legendary millionaire and reclusive cat burglar, who offers to transform her into a world-class jewel thief in exchange for helping him retrieve a priceless gem stolen by his former partner.
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All That Matters
by Jan Goldstein
Jennifer Stempler thinks she has nothing left to lose--her boyfriend dumped her, her mother is dead, her father has a new family that does not include her--but when she tries to end it all with a lethal combination of tequila and Xanax, she realizes there is a force out there not yet willing to let Jennifer self destruct--her Nana, Gabby Zuckerman.
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