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Our Missing Hearts
by Celeste Ng
In a society consumed by fear, twelve-year-old Bird Gardner receives a mysterious letter and sets out on a quest to find his mother, a Chinese-American poet who left when he was nine years old. This leads him to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change.
Generously donated by Second Park Ridge Review Club.
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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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Bleeding Heart Yard
by Elly Griffiths
Twenty years after she and her friends killed a fellow student, Cassie Fitzgerald is working as a police officer and must investigate her former classmates for what seems to be another very recent murder.
Generously donated by Second Park Ridge Review Club.
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The Paris Library
by Janet Skeslien Charles
Based on a true story. A lonely, 1980s teenager befriends an elderly neighbor and uncovers her past as a librarian at the American Library in Paris who joined the Resistance when the Nazis arrived.
Generously donated by The Other Book Club in loving memory of Sue Beaumont.
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Honor
by Thrity N. Umrigar
An Indian American journalist returns home to cover the story of a Hindi woman attacked by her own family for marrying a Muslim and deals with a society that places more weight on tradition than one's heart.
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The Measure
by Nikki Erlick
A spirit-lifting, high-concept blockbuster debut set in a world where people can find out how much time they have left to live.
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Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
Follows the experiences of a woman, who, after being born on a snowy night in 1910, repeatedly dies and reincarnates into the same life to correct missteps and ultimately save the world
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The Boys in the Boat
by Daniel Brown
Describes the American rowing team's triumphant and unlikely win during the 1936 Olympics.
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Sunflower Sisters
by Martha Hall Kelly
Union nurse Georgeanna Woolsey, an ancestor of Caroline Ferriday, travels with her sister to Gettysburg, where they cross paths with a slave-turned-army conscript and her cruel plantation mistress. By the best-selling author of Lilac Girls.
Generously Donated by the Century Readers book club.
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Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
In early 1900s Korea, prized daughter Sunja finds herself pregnant and alone, bringing shame on her family until a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and bring her to Japan, in the saga of one family bound together as their faith and identity are called into question.
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The Most Fun We Ever Had
by Claire Lombardo
The four adult daughters of two Chicago parents who have been madly in love for decades recklessly ignite old rivalries, until a long-buried secret threatens to shatter the lives they built.
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The Great Believers
by Rebecca Makkai
A dazzling novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris.
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