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The Girls
by Emma Cline
Mesmerized by a band of girls in the park she perceives as enjoying a life of free and careless abandon, 1960s teen Evie Boyd becomes obsessed with gaining acceptance into their circle, only to find herself drawn into a cult and seduced by its charismatic leader.
Book Discussion Questions Readlikes: How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran and White Oleander by Janet Fitch.
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Before the fall
by Noah Hawley
On a foggy summer night eleven people depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. As the mystery surrounding the tragedy heightens, odd coincidences point to a conspiracy.
Book Discussion Questions Readalikes: What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman and The Whites by Harry Brandt
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In the Shadow of the Banyan
by Vaddey Ratner
Her life of royal privilege in Cambodia shattered by the outbreak of civil war on the streets of capital city Phnom Penh, young Raami endures four nightmarish years of loss, starvation and brutal forced labor while clinging to memories of the mythical legends and poems told to her by her father.
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The Zookeeper's Wife
by Diane Ackerman
The true story of Warsaw Zoo keepers and resistance activists Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who in the aftermath of Germany's invasion of Poland, saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish citizens by smuggling them into empty cages and their home villa. Nonfiction.
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