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Popular FictionMay - July 2018
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The Room on Rue Amelie by Kristin HarmelAn American newlywed whose romantic dreams are shattered by the realities of war, an 11-year-old Jewish girl witnessing the horrors of mass deportations and a British Royal Air Force soldier who wonders if he is making a difference are brought together by fate and loss in Nazi-occupied Paris.
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The Lost Family by Jenna BlumResigning himself to solitude, chef and Auschwitz survivor, Peter Rashkin, in 1965 Manhattan, devotes himself to running Masha’s restaurant, until he meets and marries June, but the horrors of his past soon overshadow him, June and their daughter
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Bearskin by James A. McLaughlinHiding out from the Mexican drug cartels he betrayed in Arizona, Rice More, while protecting a remote forest preserve in Virginian Appalachia, exposes a bear-poaching scheme that revelas his location to the criminals he was running from in the first place
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The Lost Vintage by Ann Mah"Sweetbitter meets The Nightingale in this page-turner about a woman who returns to her family's ancestral vineyard in Burgundy to study for her Master of Wine test, and uncovers a lost diary, a forgotten relative, and a secret her family has been keeping since WWII"
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The Captives by Debra Jo ImmergutThe riveting story of a woman convicted of a brutal crime, and the charged reunion that sets off an astonishing chain of events with dangerous consequences for both. The Captives is an intimate and gripping meditation on freedom and risk, male and female power.
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Dear Mrs. Bird by A. J. PearceAn adventurous young woman takes a typist job to assist the war effort and lands in the employ of a renowned advice columnist before she begins secretly replying to heart-wrenching letters rejected as unsuitable.
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Clock Dance by Anne TylerA lifetime of painful milestones and fading grandchild prospects compel a woman to help her son's ex, whose 9-year-old daughter needs protection from violent local dynamics. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread. Also Available in Large Print - LP / Audio - CDB
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Us Against You by Fredrik BackmanThe community of Beartown is divided by an effort to save the local hockey team that involves a challenging new hockey coach, three promising players and a dangerously escalating rival competition. By the best-selling author of A Man Called Ove. Also Available in Large Print - LP / Audio - CDB
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When Life Gives You Lululemons by Lauren WeisbergerEmily Charlton, the beleaguered assistant-turned-successful Hollywood image consultant, teams up with a former ace lawyer-turned-Greenwich stay-at-home mom to retain the services of an A-list model and politician's wife. By the best-selling author of The Devil Wears Prada.
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Florida by Lauren GroffStorms, snakes, sinkholes, and secrets: In Lauren Groff’s Florida, the hot sun shines, but a wild darkness lurks.
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The Ensemble by Aja Gabel Forging a familial bond over their shared artistic talents and secrets, four young people navigate a cutthroat world and their complex relationships with each other, as ambition, passion, and love reinforce and divide them throughout the course of their lives.
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Jane Seymour, the Haunted Queen by Alison WeirLiving at court as lady-in-waiting to Katherine of Aragon, Jane Seymour is horrified when Henry VIII shunts the queen aside to pursue Anne Boleyn, whose failure to produce a male heir causes Jane herself to be targeted by the king.
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How to Walk Away by Katherine CenterWhen an accident on what was supposed to be the happiest day of her life lands her in the hospital with a very uncertain future, Margaret struggles to come to terms with family secrets, heartbreak, and starting over before discovering love in an unexpected place.
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Tin Man by Sarah WinmanA heartbreaking celebration of love in all its forms gradually reveals a fallout between two longtime friends and Oxford students over the course of a decade marked by the marriage of one and the disappearance of the other.
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The Dying of the Light by Robert GoolrickForced into a marriage of convenience to save her family’s estate, Diana Cooke, coming of age just after World War I, sacrifices everything, including love, to become the wife of a man she cannot abide until fate intervenes.
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There There by Tommy OrangeHere is a voice we have never heard—a voice full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with stunning urgency and force. Tommy Orange writes of the plight of the urban Native American, the Native American in the city, in a stunning novel that grapples with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and profound spirituality, and with a plague of addiction, abuse, and suicide. An unforgettable debut, destined to become required reading in schools and universities across the country.
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The Book of M by Peng ShepherdSet in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love. It is a sweeping debut that illuminates the power that memories have not only on the heart, but on the world itself.
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