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The Briar Clubby Kate QuinnIn 1950 Washington, D.C. at an all-female boardinghouse called Briarwood, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, drawing her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship, but when a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the women must expose the true enemy in their midst.
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The Glassmaker by Tracy ChevalierFrom the height of Renaissance-era Italy to the present day, this spellbinding novel follows Orsola Rosso and her family of glassblowers as they live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, and how through every era, the Rosso women ensure their work, and their bonds, endure.
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Husbands & Loversby Beatriz WilliamsTwo women, separated by decades and continents, but sharing an exotic family heirloom, search for their lost loves and reclaim secrets.
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How to Read a Bookby Monica WoodAn unsparingly honest and profoundly hopeful story about letting go of guilt, seizing second chances, and the power of books to change our lives. With the heart, wit, grace, and depth of understanding that has characterized her work, Monica Wood illuminates the decisions that define a life and the kindnesses that make life worth living.
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Real Americansby Rachel KhongIn this intricately woven tapestry of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance, 15-year-old Nick Chen, who can't shake the feeling his mother is hiding something, sets out to find his biological father—a journey that raises more questions than provides answers.
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After Annieby Anna QuindlenAfter Annie Brown dies suddenly, her family and her best friend struggle to maintain their lives and eventually discover that they are able to grow, change, and become stronger due to their memories and the lasting power of love.
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Jamesby Percival EverettDescribes the events of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of the enslaved Jim, who decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island after learning he is to be sold to a man in New Orleans.
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The Frozen River by Ariel LawhonIn 1789 Maine, midwife and healer Martha Ballard, who is good at keeping secrets, 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, threatening to tear both her family and her community apart.
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Table for Two by Amor TowlesThe New York Times best-selling author shares six stories based in New York City, which consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters, and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood, told from seven different viewpoints, which stars the indomitable Evelyn Ross.
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBrideWhen 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.
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North Woodsby Daniel MasonExploring the many ways we're connected to our environment and to one another across time, language, and space, this sweeping collection of stories about a single house in the woods of New England is told through the lives of an extraordinary succession of inhabitants.
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The Berry Pickersby Amanda PetersGrowing up as the only child of affluent and overprotective parents and troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination, Norma searches for the truth, leading her to the blueberry fields of Maine, where a family secret is finally revealed.
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Tom Lakeby Ann PatchettRecalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
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The Unmaking of June Farrowby Adrienne YoungDetermined to end the curse that has plagued their family line, June Farrow—after her grandmother's death reveals clues to her mother's decades-old disappearance—embarks on a journey that will not only change both the past and the future, but also entangle her heart in an epic star-crossed love.
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The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise by Colleen OakleyThe (mostly) true story of a not-to-be-underestimated elderly woman who may have perpetrated one of the biggest jewelry heists in American history and an aimless young woman who—if they can outrun the mistakes of their past—might just have the greatest adventure of their lives.
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The Bandit Queensby Parini ShroffConsidered a “self-made” widow after the disappearance of her husband, Geeta—when other women in the village ask her for help in getting rid of their own no-good husbands—must decide how far she is willing to go to protect her fearsome reputation and the life she's built.
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Homecomingby Kate MortonA laid-off London journalist returns home to Sydney where she discovers a link between her family and an infamous 1959 crime.
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Lady Tan's Circle of Womenby Lisa SeeSent into an arranged marriage, Tan Yunxian, forbidden to continue her work as a midwife-in-training as well as see her forever friend Meiling, is ordered to act like proper wife and seeks a way to continue treating women and girls from every level of society in 15th-century China.
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The Rachel Incidentby Caroline O'DonoghueRoommates and best friends Rachel and James, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while Ireland is in chaos, find their fates intertwined with a married professor, with whom Rachel falls in love, and his glamorous, well-connected bourgeois wife through a series of secrets and compromises.
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Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. SutantoWhen she discovers a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, Vera Wong, a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands, calls the police—but not before swiping a flash drive from the body, setting a trap for the killer that becomes complicated by unexpected friendships with her customers.
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle ZevinEmbarking on a legendary collaboration launching them to stardom, two friends, intimates since childhood, have the world at their feet until they discover that their success, brilliance, and money won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of the heart.
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The Couple at Number 9by Claire DouglasWhen, while renovating her grandmother Rose's cottage, she uncovers the remains of two bodies, pregnant Saffron Cutler must protect Rose who suffers from Alzheimer's from a murder inquiry, plunging her life in danger as she tries to piece together what Rose knows.
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Hesterby Laurie Lico AlbaneseArriving in Salem from Scotland in the early 1800s, Isobel, left penniless and alone by her husband in a strange country, is instantly drawn to Nathaniel Hawthorne, and as they grow closer and closer, they are a muse and a dark storyteller, the enchanter and the enchanted.
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The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banksby Shauna RobinsonBanned from selling anything written this century, bookstore manager Maggie Banks, to keep the business afloat, starts an underground book club that unexpectedly unearths a town secret that could upend everything, forcing her to choose between the books that formed a small town's history or the stories poised to change it all.
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The It Girl by Ruth WareAfter John Neville, the man convicted of killing her best friend April 10 years earlier, dies in prison, expectant mother Hannah Jones, after new evidence surfaces proving his innocence, reconnects with old friends to solve the mystery of April's death and realizes they all have something to hide—including a murder.
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The Sunshine Girlsby Molly FaderForging an unlikely bond when they first meet in nursing school in 1967 Iowa, roommates BettyKay and Kitty are forced apart when tragedy strikes, sending them down separate paths, but against all odds, their decades-long friendship sees them through life's trials and tribulations until one snowy night leads their relationship to the ultimate crossroads.
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Remarkably Bright Creaturesby Shelby Van PeltAfter her husband dies, widow Tova Sullivan starts working at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, where she forms a special bond with a giant Pacific octopus who holds the key to solving the mysterious disappearance of her 18-year-old son, Erik, over thirty years ago on Puget Sound.
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The Measureby Nikki ErlickWhen every person, all over the globe, receives a small wooden box bearing the same inscription and a single piece of string inside, the world is thrown into a collective frenzy, in this novel told through multiple perspectives that introduces an unforgettable cast of characters.
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The Woman in the Libraryby Sulari GentillIn the Boston Public Library, on lockdown after a threat is identified, four strangers sitting at the same table pass the time in conversation--and it just so happens that one of them is a murderer, but which one?
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The Diamond Eyeby Kate QuinnKnown as Lady Death--a lethal hunter of Nazis--Mila Pavlichenko, sent to America on a goodwill tour, forms an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and a connection with a silent fellow sniper, offering her a chance at happiness until her past returns with a vengeance.
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