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Queen Bee by Dorothea Benton FrankA Sullivan's Island beekeeper navigates her demanding hypochondriac mother and flamboyant rival sister while immersing herself in the lives of two young neighbor boys and their widowed father. By the best-selling author of By Invitation Only.
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Resistance Women by Jennifer ChiaveriniResisting the power grabs of an increasingly formidable Nazi Party in 1930s Berlin, the courageous American wife of a German intellectual and her circle of women friends engage in a clandestine battle to sabotage Hitler's regime.
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The Friends We Keep by Jane GreenReconnecting 13 years after college, a supermodel whose career was derailed by an affair, the heartbroken wife of an alcoholic and an actor hiding a painful past find their bond tested by a dark secret.
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Mistress of the Ritzby Melanie BenjaminThe director of the luxurious Hotel Ritz in occupied Paris and his courageous American wife, Blanche Auzello, risk their marriage and lives to support the French Resistance during World War II. By the best-selling author of The Aviator's Wife.
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The Rosie Result by Graeme SimsionDon and Rosie help their 11-year-old son who is struggling at school and having trouble fitting in while trying to open a cocktail bar in the third and final installment of the series, following The Rosie Effect
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Waistedby Randy Susan MeyersAgreeing to become documentary subjects in their desperation to lose weight, two successful working moms, each struggling with family discrimination, discover self-love and sisterhood while plotting against the exploitative creators of their show.
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Outside Looking Inby T. Coraghessan BoyleA novel inspired by the controversial psychedelic drug experiments of Timothy Leary traces the impact of LSD and communal living on a 1960s Harvard grad student and his wife. By the award-winning author of The Terranauts.
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My Life As a Rat by Joyce Carol OatesExiled from her family and church since the age of 12 for testifying honestly about a racist murder, a young woman reflects on the wrenching choice she was forced to make between her family and the truth.
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The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara CollinsA servant and former slave enduring a sensational trial for her employers' murders reflects on her Jamaican childhood and her apprenticeship under a debauched scientist whose questionable ethics set the stage for a forbidden affair.
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeousby Ocean VuongA first novel by the award-winning author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds is written in the form of a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read about the impact of the Vietnam War on their family.
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Disappearing Earthby Julia PhillipsThe shattering disappearance of two young girls from Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula compounds the isolation and fears of a tight-woven community, connecting the lives of neighbors, witnesses, family members and a detective throughout an ensuing year of tension.
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A Bend in the Starsby Rachel BarenbaumIn World War II-era Russia, an ambitious young doctor and her scientist brother race against Einstein to solve one of the greatest mysteries of the universe.
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The Tubman Command by Elizabeth Cobbs HoffmanTells the story of Harriet Tubman at the height of her powers, when she devises the largest plantation raid of the Civil War after General David Hunter places her in charge of a team of black scouts even though skeptical of what one woman can accomplish.
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How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing LeeSix decades after a Japanese woman is forced into sexual slavery during World War II, a 12-year-old boy's effort to investigate his ailing grandmother's mumbled confession triggers a fateful chain of events.
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The Little Teashop on Main by Jodi ThomasA rainy-day ritual—a tea party between three little girls—becomes the framework of not only their friendship, but their lives.
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The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur JaswalMaking an obligatory pilgrimage to the Golden Temple in Amritsar to carry out their mother's final rites, three estranged British-Punjabi sisters make unexpected discoveries about why their mother was forced to leave India.
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The Electric Hotel by Dominic SmithA French pioneer of silent films who has lived for half a century in a Hollywood hotel is forced to reckon with the reappearance of the lost movie masterpiece that left him bankrupt. By the author of The Beautiful Miscellaneous. Illustrations
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Biloxi by Mary MillerA collection building on the critically acclaimed The Last Days of California and Always Happy Hour takes readers into the Biloxi home of an aimless, newly single 63-year-old retiree who makes the impulsive, life-changing decision to adopt a dog
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