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• Junie

  a Novel

  Eckstine, Erin Crosby,

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  A strong-willed enslaved girl is haunted by her sister's ghost as she grapples with circumstances beyond her control, risking her life as the Civil War looms in this lush and tenderhearted debut.

• The Listeners

  Stiefvater, Maggie, 1981-

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  January 1942. The Avallon Hotel & Spa is where high society goes to see and be seen. Located deep in the West Virginia mountains, where healing sweetwater flows, the hotel is managed by a local, June Hudson, whose skills were noted by the wealthy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Homeseeking

  Chen, Karissa,

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  An epic and intimate tale of one couple across sixty years as world events pull them together and apart, illuminating the Chinese diaspora and exploring what it means to find home far from your homeland

• Buckeye

  a Novel

  Ryan, Patrick, 1965-

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  In Bonhomie, Ohio, a stolen moment of passion, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe, binds Cal Jenkins, a man wounded not in war but by his inability to serve in it, to Margaret Salt, a woman trying to obscure her past.

• The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

  Harmel, Kristin,

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  Colette Marceau has been stealing jewels for nearly as long as she can remember, following the centuries-old code of honor instilled in her by her mother Annabel: take only from the cruel and unkind, and give to those in need. Never was their family…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lotus Shoes

  a Novel

  Yang, Jane (Writer),

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  1800s China. Tightly bound feet, or "golden lilies," are the mark of an honorable woman, eclipsing beauty, a rich dowry and even bloodline in the marriage stakes. When Little Flower is sold as a maidservant to Linjing, a daughter of the prominent…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Queens of Crime

  a Novel

  Benedict, Marie,

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  London, 1930. The five greatest women crime writers have banded together to form a secret society with a single goal: to show they are no longer willing to be treated as second class citizens by their male counterparts in the legendary Detection…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shadow Ticket

  Pynchon, Thomas,

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  Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Briar Club

  a Novel

  Quinn, Kate,

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  Washington, D.C., 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation's capital, where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Women

  Hannah, Kristin,

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  When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Great Divide

  a Novel

  Henríquez, Cristina, 1977-

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  A novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, following the intersecting lives of the local families fighting to protect their homeland, the West Indian laborers recruited to dig the waterway, and the white Americans who gained profit and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lion Women of Tehran

  Kamali, Marjan,

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  In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother's endless grievances, Ellie dreams of a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hang the Moon

  a Novel

  Walls, Jeannette,

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  Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who'd amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Weyward

  a Novel

  Hart, Emilia,

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  2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Davenports

  Marquis, Krystal,

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  The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in 1910 Chicago, and the two daughters, Olivia and Helen, are finding their way and finding love--even where they are not supposed to.

• The Covenant of Water

  a Novel

  Verghese, Abraham, 1955-

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  Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning-and in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Take My Hand

  Perkins-Valdez, Dolen

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  Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help women make their own choices for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Go as a River

  Read, Shelley,

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  Inspired by true events surrounding the destruction of the town of Iola in the 1960s, Go as a River is a story of deeply held love in the face of hardship and loss, but also of finding courage, resilience, friendship, and, finally, home--where least…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Horse

  Brooks, Geraldine,

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  A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Frozen River

  a Novel

  Lawhon, Ariel,

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  Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell.…Read moreRead more of this annotation