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Isabel Allende Author Read Alikes September 2022 |
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Lucy by the Sea
by Elizabeth Strout
Former married couple now lifelong friends, New Yorkers Lucy Barton and William, as a panicked world goes into lockdown, hunker down in a little house in Maine on the edge of the sea where they are faced with fear, struggles and isolation as well as hope, peace and possibilities.
Scheduled release date: September 20, 2022 - place holds on physical copy or Libby now.
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Other Names for Love
by Taymour Soomro
Sent to the family's rural estate in upcountry Pakistan, where his father hopes to make him a man, 16-year-old Fahad finds himself seduced by the wildness of the land and its inhabitants, especially a local boy with whom he falls in love, learning the consequences of desire.
Physical copy available only.
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The Good Left Undone
by Adriana Trigiani
This richly woven tapestry of three generations of women faced with impossible choices follows Matelda, the family's matriarch, as she, facing the end of her life, must decide what is worth fighting for and when to let go.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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Peaces
by Helen Oyeyemi
Honeymooning aboard a historic former tea-smuggling train, newlyweds Otto and Xavier enjoy the locomotive’s fantastical accommodations before encountering a secretive fellow passenger, who imparts a surprising message. By the award-winning author of Gingerbread.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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Life Sentences
by Billy O'Callaghan
This moving portrait of life in Ireland follows 16-year-old Nancy Martin, the only member of her family to survive the Great Famine as she embarks on an affair with a handsome gardener, setting off a devastating chain of events that continues to unfold over three generations.
Physical copy available. Also available on Hoopla.
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The Immortals of Tehran
by Ali Araghi
Learning the story of a centuries-old family curse upon his father’s death, young Ahmad struggles to protect his loved ones through decades of famine, loss and political turmoil before unexpected life changes converge at the height of the Iranian Revolution.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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A Dream Called Home : A Memoir
by Reyna Grande
The nationally best-selling author of The Distance Between Us describes her harrowing early experiences as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer who navigated racism and poverty to build a life for her family.
Physical copy available only.
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The Island of Sea Women
by Lisa See
The ostracized daughter of a Japanese collaborator and the daughter of their Korean village's head female diver share nearly a century of friendship that is tested by their island's torn position between two warring empires.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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Black Sugar
by Miguel Bonnefoy
Life in a remote Venezuelan village is transformed by successive travelers seeking Henry Morgan’s legendary buried treasure.
Available on Hoopla.
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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.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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All the Lives We Never Lived
by Anuradha Roy
The Man Booker-longlisted author of author of Sleeping on Jupiter delivers a novel set from World War II India through the present day and follows a son's quest to uncover the story of his freedom-craving, rebellious artist mother.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby and Hoopla.
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Manhattan Beach
by Jennifer Egan
Years after she is placed in the hands of a stranger vital to her family's survival, Anna takes a job at the Brooklyn Naval Yard during the war while meeting with the man who helped them and learning important truths about her father's disappearance.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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The Shadow King
by Maaza Mengiste
Tending the wounded when her nation is invaded by Mussolini, an orphaned servant in 1935 Ethiopia helps disguise a gentle peasant as their exiled emperor to rally her fellow women in the fight against fascism.
Available on Libby and Hoopla.
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The House at the Edge of Night
by Catherine Banner
Four generations of women on a Mediterranean island fight to safeguard their family against the forces of history and bitterness that divide them from World War I through the 2008 recession.
Available on Libby.
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The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai
In a crumbling house in the remote northeastern Himalayas, an embittered, elderly judge finds his peaceful retirement turned upside down by the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, but their world--and Sai's romance with her handsome Nepali tutor--is threatened by a Nepalese insurgency. By the author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby and Hoopla.
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So Much Life Left Over
by Louis De Bernières
A closely knit group of British men and women struggle to cope with the world, and their own traumas, in the aftermath of World War I. By the author of Corelli's Mandolin.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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The House on the Lagoon
by Rosario Ferré
Caught up in his wife's efforts to write a novel about the history of their families, Quintin Mendizabal sparks a heated rivalry between Isabel and himself when they have different perspectives on the same story.
Available on Hoopla.
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Adultery
by Paulo Coelho
A novel by the best-selling Brazilian author of The Alchemist follows a family woman's efforts to work through midlife apathy by engaging in a passionate affair with a successful politician who was once her high-school sweetheart.
Physical copy available only.
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After This
by Alice McDermott
A vivid portrait of an American family during the middle decades of the twentieth century evokes the social, spiritual, and political turmoil of the era as seen through the experiences of a middle-class couple and their children, as they cope with the changing world around them.
Available on Libby and Hoopla.
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Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel García Márquez
Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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Prospect Heights, Illinois 60070
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www.phpl.info
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