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Popular FictionJanuary 2021
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The Four Winds by Kristin HannahA Depression-era woman confronts a wrenching choice between fighting for the Dust Bowl-ravaged land she loves in Texas or pursuing an uncertain future in California. By the best-selling author of The Nightingale.
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Pianos and Flowers : brief encounters of the romantic kind by Alexander McCall SmithAn anthology of 14 stories by the best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series imagines the rich lives and loves behind everyday people featured in pictures from the London Sunday Times photograph archives.
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The Children's Blizzard by Melanie BenjaminThe best-selling author of The Aviator’s Wife draws on oral histories of the Great Plains blizzard of 1888 to depict the experiences of two teachers, a servant and a reporter who risk everything to protect the children of immigrant homesteaders.
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Yellow Wife by Sadeqa JohnsonBorn on a plantation, but set apart from the others by her mother’s position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at 18 and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail.
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My Year Abroad by Chang-Rae LeeAn everyday American college student finds his life transformed by a Chinese-American businessman who unexpectedly takes him under his wing on a series of whimsical, heartbreaking and darkly shocking adventures throughout Asia.
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The Umbrella Lady by V. C. AndrewsLeft on a train platform in an unfamiliar village, a girl who has lost her father finds herself at the mercy of a woman who is not quite what she seems. By the creators of Christopher's Diary.
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The Last Garden in England by Julia KellyFrom the author of the international best-seller The Light Over London and The Whispers of War comes a poignant and unforgettable tale of five women living across three different times whose lives are all connected by one very special garden.
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The Charmed Wife by Olga GrushinThirteen years after marrying Prince Charming and having two children, a dissatisfied Cinderella sneaks out to obtain the services of a witch known to provide love potions to disgruntled housewives, but instead of rekindled romance, she wants her husband dead.
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The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan MeissnerMoving to early 20th-century San Francisco to escape New York tenement life, an Irish mail-order bride uncovers transformative secrets involving a silent child and two other women before her precarious existence is upended by the great earthquake of 1906.
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The City of Tearsby Kate MosseA continuation of the story that began with The Burning Chambers is set in Paris, London and Amsterdam and follows the failed efforts of a royal marriage to end a decade-long religious conflict. By the best-selling author of Labyrinth
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A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan HawkeThe first novel in nearly twenty years from the acclaimed actor/writer/director is a book about art and love, fame and heartbreak—a story of a young man making his Broadway debut in Henry IV just as his marriage implodes.
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Waiting for the Night Song by Julie Carrick DaltonCadie returns to her childhood home to confront her estranged best friend and the dark secret they both share and must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to protect the people and the land she loves.
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The Removed : a novel by Brandon HobsonA Cherokee family takes in a remarkable foster child on the eve of the Cherokee National Holiday and anniversary of a loved one's death. By the National Book Award-winning author of Where the Dead Sit Talking.
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Truly Like Lightning by David DuchovnyThe X-Files star and best-selling author of Miss Subways follows the experiences of a former Hollywood stuntman-turned-Mormon polygamist who is blackmailed by an ambitious developer to enroll his children in public school.
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City of a Thousand Gates by Rebecca SacksA college student in illegal territory, a journalist covering regional violence, a new father and a teen soldier struggle to survive in the contemporary West Bank against a backdrop of ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflicts.
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How the One-armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie JonesLala must deal with a chain of events that have terrible consequences when her petty criminal husband is interrupted in his attempt to rob one of the mansions in their "paradise" home of Baxter Beach, Barbados.
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Faye, Faraway by Helen FisherA debut novel examines loss, faith, and love as it follows a grown woman who travels back in time to be reunited with the mother she lost when she was a child.
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The Bridgetower Sonata : Sonata Mulattica by Emmanuel DongalaIn this vividly imagined historical novel, acclaimed Congolese author Emmanuel Dongala has focused his laser-sharp wit on the life and times of George Bridgetower, a young violin prodigy, who, at the age of nine, took the courtly world of 18th century Europe by storm.
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