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The Frozen River
by Ariel Lawhon
In 1789 Maine, midwife and healer Martha Ballard investigates a shocking murder linked to an alleged rape that has shaken her small town, especially when her diary lands at the center of the scandal and threatens to tear both her family and her community apart.
Generously donated by the Uptown Girls book club.
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride
When a skeleton is unearthed in the small, close-knit community of Chicken Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1972, an unforgettable cast of characters—living on the margins of white, Christian America—closely guard a secret, especially when the truth is revealed about what happened and the part the town's white establishment played in it.
Generously donated by the Uptown Girls book club.
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Small World
by Laura Zigman
Inviting her older sister Lydia to live with her until she finds a place of her own, Joyce finds their relationship fraying as new revelations from their family's history come to light and force them to finally reckon with their childhood.
Generously donated by the Uptown Girls book club.
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The Wren, the Wren
by Anne Enright
Centering around celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh, who was lauded in public but was carelessly selfish at home, three generations of McDaragh women must contend with inheritances—poetic wonder, abandonment and a sustaining love—in this intricately woven tapestry of longing, betrayal and hope.
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Cassandra in Reverse
by Holly Smale
After an extraordinarily bad day during which Cassandra Dankworth's boyfriend breaks up with her and she is fired from her job, she wakes up the next day and has the chance to do it all again, differently.
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise."
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The Book of Lost Names
by Kristin Harmel
The best-selling author of The Winemaker's Wife draws on true events in the story of a Polish graduate student in World War II who uses her forgery talents to help hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis.
Generously donated by the Washington School book club.
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City of Girls
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Set in the theatre world of 1940s New York, a young woman discovers that she does not have to be a "good girl" in order to be a good person.
Generously donated by Pagewiners book club.
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Clark and Division
by Naomi Hirahara
Released from a Japanese internment camp in 1944, Aki Ito moves to Chicago to be with her sister, Rose, only to lose her in subway train accident on the event of their reunion and vows to learn what really happened.
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The Exiles
by Christina Baker Kline
Sent to a Tasmanian penal colony after conceiving her employer's grandchild, a young governess befriends a talented midwife and an orphaned Aboriginal chief's daughter while confronting the harsh realities of British colonialism and oppression in 19th-century Australia.
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The Whalebone Theatre
by Joanna Quinn
In 1928, 12-year-old orphan Cristabel Seagrave and the rest of the household build a theatre from a whale's skeletal rib cage, where imagination comes to life. Her acting comes into play years later as she becomes a British secret agent on a dangerous mission in Nazi-occupied France.
Generously donated by Second Park Ridge Review Club.
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