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Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
"Kirsten Miller has that rare ability to take a serious subject and make it very, very funny. I enjoyed this novel and you will too."--James Patterson
The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking! Kirsten Miller, author of The Change, brings us a bracing, wildly entertaining satire about a small Southern town, a pitched battle over banned books, and a little lending library that changes everything.
Beverly Underwood and her arch enemy, Lula Dean, live in the tiny town of Troy, Georgia, where they were born and raised. Now Beverly is on the school board, and Lula has become a local celebrity by embarking on mission to rid the public libraries of all inappropriate books--none of which she's actually read. To replace the "pornographic" books she's challenged at the local public library, Lula starts her own lending library in front of her home: a cute wooden hutch with glass doors and neat rows of the worthy literature that she's sure the town's readers need.
What Lula doesn't know is that a local troublemaker has stolen her wholesome books, removed their dust jackets, and restocked Lula's library with banned books: literary classics, gay romances, Black history, witchy spell books, Judy Blume novels, and more. One by one, neighbors who borrow books from Lula Dean's library find their lives changed in unexpected ways. Finally, one of Lula Dean's enemies discovers the library and decides to turn the tables on her, just as Lula and Beverly are running against each other to replace the town's disgraced mayor.
That's when all the townspeople who've been borrowing from Lula's library begin to reveal themselves. That's when the showdown that's been brewing between Beverly and Lula will roil the whole town...and change it forever.
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Love & Saffron
The Instant National Bestseller and #1 Indie Next Pick
In the vein of the classic 84, Charing Cross Road, this witty and tender novel follows two women in 1960s America as they discover that food really does connect us all, and that friendship and laughter are the best medicine.
When twenty-seven-year-old Joan Bergstrom sends a fan letter--as well as a gift of saffron--to fifty-nine-year-old Imogen Fortier, a life-changing friendship begins. Joan lives in Los Angeles and is just starting out as a writer for the newspaper food pages. Imogen lives on Camano Island outside Seattle, writing a monthly column for a Pacific Northwest magazine, and while she can hunt elk and dig for clams, she’s never tasted fresh garlic--exotic fare in the Northwest of the sixties. As the two women commune through their letters, they build a closeness that sustains them through the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassination of President Kennedy, and the unexpected in their own lives.
Food and a good life—they can’t be separated. It is a discovery the women share, not only with each other, but with the men in their lives. Because of her correspondence with Joan, Imogen’s decades-long marriage blossoms into something new and exciting, and in turn, Joan learns that true love does not always come in the form we expect it to. Into this beautiful, intimate world comes the ultimate test of Joan and Imogen’s friendship—a test that summons their unconditional trust in each other.
A brief respite from our chaotic world, Love & Saffron is a gem of a novel, a reminder that food and friendship are the antidote to most any heartache, and that human connection will always be worth creating. -
Simon Sort of Says
NEWBERY HONOR AWARD - LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - SCHNEIDER FAMILY BOOK AWARD HONOR - FINALIST FOR THE AUDIE AWARD FOR BEST MIDDLE GRADE AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR
"Funny, poignant and--most important--hopeful." --New York Times
Simon O'Keeffe's biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a holy sacrament. Or maybe the alpaca disaster that went viral on YouTube. But the story the whole world wants to tell about Simon is the one he'd do anything to forget: the one starring Simon as a famous survivor of gun violence at school.
Two years after the infamous event, twelve-year-old Simon and his family move to the National Quiet Zone--the only place in America where the internet is banned. Instead of talking about Simon, the astronomers who flock to the area are busy listening for signs of life in space. And when Simon makes a friend who's determined to give the scientists what they're looking for, he'll finally have the chance to spin a new story for the world to tell.
Simon Sort of Says, the Newbery Honor-winning novel by Erin Bow, is a breathtaking testament to the lasting echoes of trauma, the redemptive power of humor, and the courage it takes to move forward without forgetting the past.
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My Daughter's Keeper
Would you entrust the most important thing in your life to a person ordered to hate you?
Poland, 1938. Despite threats of alienation from his Christian family, Johann, a decorated army officer, falls deeply in love with Rachel, a Jewish medical student. When they settle into their new countryside home, their marriage is happy and blissful... and short-lived.
After the Nazi invasion of Poland, Johann goes missing. Without a family to rely on and antisemitic sentiments growing all over the country, Rachel and her newborn daughter Ilona are thrown into the Warsaw ghetto.
Faced with their new reality, Rachel knows the only way to save her daughter is to smuggle her to her Christian sister-in-law, Irena, outside the ghetto. Irena is willing to risk her life just to save a single Jewish baby - but will her courage be enough?
My Daughter's Keeper is the extraordinary tale based on the true story of two incredible women, brought together by love and faith in the face of war, persecution, and hatred.
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Northwoods
In this “compelling and heartbreaking debut that marks a new and important voice in the mystery genre” (William Kent Krueger), a murder with ties to America’s opioid epidemic reveals the dark underbelly of an idyllic Midwestern resort town.
Eli North is not okay.
His drinking is getting worse by the day, his emotional wounds after a deployment to Afghanistan are as raw as ever, his marriage and career are over, and the only job he can hold down is with the local sheriff’s department. And that’s only because the sheriff is his mother—and she’s overwhelmed with small town Shaky Lake’s dwindling budget and the fallout from the opioid epidemic.
The Northwoods of Wisconsin may be a vacationer’s paradise, but amidst the fishing trips, campfires, and Paul Bunyan festivals, something sinister is taking shape. When the body of a teenage boy is found in the lake, it sets in motion an investigation that leads Eli to a wealthy enclave with a violent past, a pharmaceutical salesman, and a missing teenage girl. Soon, Eli and his mother, along with a young FBI agent, are on the hunt for more than just a killer in this thriller that is “not to be missed” (Mindy Mejia, USA TODAY bestselling author). -
How to Read a Book
"The perfect pick to really light a fire under my book club, and yours....A reminder that goodness, and books, can still win in this world." --New York Times Book Review
"A beautiful, big-hearted treasure of a novel." --Lily King
National Bestseller * From the award-winning author of The One-in-a-Million Boy comes a heartfelt, uplifting novel about a chance encounter at a bookstore, exploring redemption, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing power of sharing stories.
Our Reasons meet us in the morning and whisper to us at night. Mine is an innocent, unsuspecting, eternally sixty-one-year-old woman named Lorraine Daigle...
Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from rural Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher.
Harriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs the prison book club, is facing the unsettling prospect of an empty nest.
Frank Daigle, a retired machinist, hasn't yet come to grips with the complications of his marriage to the woman Violet killed.
When the three encounter each other one morning in a bookstore in Portland--Violet to buy the novel she was reading in the prison book club before her release, Harriet to choose the next title for the women who remain, and Frank to dispatch his duties as the store handyman--their lives begin to intersect in transformative ways.
How to Read a Book is an 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.
"A deeply humane and touching novel; highly recommended for book clubs and fans of Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures." -- Booklist
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Kill for Me, Kill for You
Two ordinary women make a deadly pact to take revenge for each other after being pushed to the brink in this “unguessable and unputdownable” (Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author) psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn and Alfred Hitchcock.
One dark evening on New York City’s Upper West Side, two strangers meet by chance. Over drinks, Amanda and Wendy realize they have much in common, including an intense desire for revenge against the men who destroyed their families. As they talk into the night, they come up with the perfect plan: if you kill for me, I’ll kill for you.
In another part of the city, Ruth is home alone when the beautiful brownstone she shares with her husband, Scott, is invaded. She’s attacked by a man with piercing blue eyes, who disappears into the night. Will she ever be able to feel safe again while the blue-eyed stranger is out there?
“Explosive, game-changing” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), and unpredictable, Kill for Me, Kill for You will keep you guessing until the final page. -
The Lion Women of Tehran
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
An “evocative read and a powerful portrait of friendship, feminism, and political activism” (People) set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran—from nationally bestselling author Marjan Kamali.
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 for a friend to alleviate her isolation.
Luckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook in the stone kitchen of Homa’s warm home, wander through the colorful stalls of the Grand Bazaar, and share their ambitions of becoming “lion women.”
But their happiness is disrupted when Ellie and her mother are afforded the opportunity to return to their previous bourgeois life. Now a popular student at the best girls’ high school in Iran, Ellie’s memories of Homa begin to fade. Years later, however, her sudden reappearance in Ellie’s privileged world alters the course of both of their lives.
Together, the two young women come of age and pursue their own goals for meaningful futures. But as the political turmoil in Iran builds to a breaking point, one earth-shattering betrayal will have enormous consequences.
“Reminiscent of The Kite Runner and My Brilliant Friend, The Lion Women of Tehran is a mesmerizing tale” (BookPage) of love and courage, and a sweeping exploration of how profoundly we are shaped by those we meet when we are young. -
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
WINNER OF THE AGATHA • ARTHUR ELLIS • DILYS • DEBUT DAGGER AWARDS
“Wonderfully entertaining . . . sure to be one of the most loved mysteries of the year . . . [Flavia is] a delightful, intrepid, acid-tongued new heroine.”—Chicago Sun-Times
It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Then, hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath.
For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. “I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.”
BONUS: This edition contains a The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie discussion guide and an excerpt from Alan Bradley's The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag. -
The Berlin Letters
"Fans of codebreakers, spies, and Cold War dramas will be entrapped by Reay's tale of courage, love, and honor set against the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall." - Booklist Starred Review
Bestselling author Katherine Reay returns with an unforgettable tale of the Cold War and a CIA code breaker who risks everything to free her father from an East German prison.
From the time she was a young girl, Luisa Voekler has loved solving puzzles and cracking codes. Brilliant and logical, she's expected to quickly climb the career ladder at the CIA. But while her coworkers have moved on to thrilling Cold War assignments--especially in the exhilarating era of the late 1980s--Luisa's work remains stuck in the past decoding messages from World War II.
Journalist Haris Voekler grew up a proud East Berliner. But as his eyes open to the realities of postwar East Germany, he realizes that the Soviet promises of a better future are not coming to fruition. After the Berlin Wall goes up, Haris finds himself separated from his young daughter and all alone after his wife dies. There's only one way to reach his family--by sending coded letters to his father-in-law who lives on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
When Luisa Voekler discovers a secret cache of letters written by the father she has long presumed dead, she learns the truth about her grandfather's work, her father's identity, and why she has never progressed in her career. With little more than a rudimentary plan and hope, she journeys to Berlin and risks everything to free her father and get him out of East Berlin alive.
As Luisa and Haris take turns telling their stories, events speed toward one of the twentieth century's most dramatic moments--the fall of the Berlin Wall and that night's promise of freedom, truth, and reconciliation for those who lived, for twenty-eight years, behind the bleak shadow of the Iron Curtain's most iconic symbol.
- A Cold War novel that takes readers to the heart of Berlin to witness both the early and final days of the Berlin Wall
- Stand-alone novel
- Book length: approximately 107,000 words
- Includes discussion questions for book clubs
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The magnificent lives of Marjorie Post
"An epic reimagining of the remarkable life of Marjorie Merriweather Post, the American heiress and trailblazing leader of the twentieth century, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sisi. Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you. Such is Marjorie Merriweather Post's average evening. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all. Covered in diamonds and deemed American royalty, Marjorie nevertheless remains the product of her hardscrabble Midwestern roots and an insatiable drive to live, love, and give. A woman who has crawled through Moscow warehouses to rescue the Tsar's treasures, who has outrun the Nazis in London, and who has sat down to dinner with everyone from the homeless during the Great Depression to Kremlin leaders, from European royalty to Hollywood stars, Marjorie lived a grand life that defies imagination. Marjorie's was a journey that began on the Great Plains, where she glued cereal boxes in her father's barn as a young girl. None could have predicted that C. W. Post's homegrown Postum Cereal Company would fundamentally reshape the American way of life and grow into the vast General Foods empire, with Marjorie as its glittering heiress and leading lady. Not content to stay in her prescribed roles of coddled wife, mother, and hostess, Marjorie dared to demand more, making history as a leader in her family's business and a trailblazer in philanthropy and high society. Marjorie lived like an empress, worked like a titan of industry, and shaped a century. And yet Marjorie's story, though full of beauty and lived in her palatial homes like Mar-a-Lago, was equally marked by heartbreak. A wife four times over in vastly different, dramatic marriages, Marjorie sought her happily-ever-after with the blue-blooded playboy who could not outrun his demons, the charismatic financier whose charm could not conceal his betrayal, the diplomat with a dark side, and the bon vivant whose shocking secrets would shake their circles. Marjorie did everything on a grand scale, especially when it came to love"-- Provided by publisher.
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Waltraud
A true story of heroism, heartache, and hope told through the eyes of a German girl turned courageous young woman named Waltraud.
The Nazis tried to break her, but her very name means strength.
Waltraud isn't like the other German girls in her village. She not only stands out with her fiery red hair but for the independent spirit she got from her father. When he's forced to fight in Hitler's army, Waltraud is set on a dangerous path toward her own survival and that of her family. Her true calling unfolds when she becomes entangled in a daring plot to subvert the SS, one where the lives of those she loves depend on keeping a treasonous secret.
But like the cities around her, Waltraud's hopes are reduced to ruins. Determined to rebuild her life, she falls in love with a young man scarred by his own past. To secure their future, she must cross forbidden borders where she comes face to face with an enemy even more terrifying than the Nazis. Can Waltraud leave her haunting past behind and take hold of the life she's dreamed of, or will she lose everything trying?
Waltraud: A True Story of Growing Up in Nazi Germany is a sweeping family saga that pulls back the curtain on what life was like before, during, and after World War II from a German citizen's perspective. Capture a rare glimpse into the rise and fall of the Third Reich and one young woman's courageous journey to follow her heart no matter the cost. If you love inspiring true stories of love, loss, strength, and the resilience of the human spirit, don't miss this unforgettable read.
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AUTHOR'S NOTE
Author, Tammy Borden, grew up hearing her mother's first-hand accounts of coming of age under Hitler's regime, even joining her on several trips to Germany to stroll the cobblestone streets where recollections were shared in their actual settings. Through the years, she recorded those stories, fully intent on writing a WW2 historical fiction novel based on a true story. She's now woven her mother's real-life stories into an eye-opening and deeply moving narrative. -
Merci Suárez Changes Gears
Winner of the Newbery Medal
A New York Times Bestseller
Thoughtful, strong-willed sixth-grader Merci Suarez navigates difficult changes with friends, family, and everyone in between in a resonant new novel from Meg Medina.
Merci Suarez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older brother, Roli, are scholarship students. They don’t have a big house or a fancy boat, and they have to do extra community service to make up for their free tuition. So when bossy Edna Santos sets her sights on the new boy who happens to be Merci’s school-assigned Sunshine Buddy, Merci becomes the target of Edna’s jealousy. Things aren't going well at home, either: Merci’s grandfather and most trusted ally, Lolo, has been acting strangely lately — forgetting important things, falling from his bike, and getting angry over nothing. No one in her family will tell Merci what's going on, so she’s left to her own worries, while also feeling all on her own at school. In a coming-of-age tale full of humor and wisdom, award-winning author Meg Medina gets to the heart of the confusion and constant change that defines middle school — and the steadfast connection that defines family. -
The Color of Water
Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve children. James McBride, journalist, musician and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful memoir.
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Braiding Sweetgrass
A New York Times Bestseller
A Washington Post Bestseller
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller
Named a Best Essay Collection of the Decade by Literary Hub
A Book Riot Favorite Summer Read of 2020
A Food Tank Fall 2020 Reading RecommendationUpdated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass, reissued in honor of the fortieth anniversary of Milkweed Editions, celebrates the book as an object of meaning that will last the ages. Beautifully bound with a new cover featuring an engraving by Tony Drehfal, this edition includes a bookmark ribbon, a deckled edge, and five brilliantly colored illustrations by artist Nate Christopherson. In increasingly dark times, we honor the experience that more than 350,000 readers in North America have cherished about the book--gentle, simple, tactile, beautiful, even sacred--and offer an edition that will inspire readers to gift it again and again, spreading the word about scientific knowledge, indigenous wisdom, and the teachings of plants.
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise" (Elizabeth Gilbert).
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings--asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass--offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.
84, Charing Cross Road
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
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All the Beauty in the World
All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
American Dirt
And Then There Were None
Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral
Any Other Family
Apples Never Fall: A Novel
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Beach Glass & Other Broken Things
Because of Winn-Dixie
Before I Let Go
Before You Know Kindness: A Novel
Bel Canto
The Berlin Letters
The Berry Pickers
Beyond That, the Sea
The Bone House
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel
The Book Woman's Daughter: A Novel
The Bookshop
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Brave New World
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Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
Christmas Cake Murder
Christmas Presents
The Christmas Town
The Coincidence of Coconut Cake
The Color of Water: a Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
Crow Lake
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
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Daisy Jones & the Six
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
A Death in Door County
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love
The Disappearance of Sloane Sullivan
Ditch Flowers
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Educated: A Memoir
The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners
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The Falls: A Novel
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Fever 1793
Firekeeper's Daughter
Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir
Foster
The Frozen River
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
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Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
A Gentleman in Moscow
A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
Girl with a Pearl Earring
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
The Greatest Generation
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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The Hating Game
Haunted Wisconsin
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
The Hindi-Bindi Club
The Hobbit
Home for Christmas
The Honey Bus
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel
House Broken
The House in the Cerulean Sea
How to Read a Book
The Hunger Games
The Husband's Secret
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
In a Dark, Dark Wood
Inn at Lake Devine
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
The Invisible Husband of Frick Island
The Irish Cowboy
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Kill for Me, Kill For You
The Kind Worth Killing
The Kitchen Front
The Kitchen House
The Kite Runner
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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
The Last Chance Library
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
Lessons in Chemistry
Lies
Lies of Omission
The Light Between Oceans: A Novel
Lights Out in Lincolnwood: A Novel
Lilac Girls: A Novel
The Lion Women of Tehran
A Long Petal of the Sea
A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories
Looking for Me
Love & Saffron
Loving Frank: A Novel
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
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The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
A Man Called Ove: A Novel
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
Maybe Next Time
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Memoir of the Sunday Brunch
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
Merci Suarez Changes Gears
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The Midnight Library
The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise
The Mourning Hours
The Music of Bees
My Daughter's Keeper
My Name Is Mary Sutter
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News of the World: A Novel
Northwoods: A Novel
Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
Nothing to See Here
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Once Upon a Wardrobe
The One and Only Ivan
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
Other People's Houses
Our Missing Hearts
Our Souls at Night
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The Patron Saint of Liars
Patty Jane's House of Curl: A Novel
Plainsong
Pride and Prejudice
The Princess Bride
The Promise: How One Woman Made Good on Her Extraordinary Pact to Send a Classroom of 1st Graders to College
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Refugee
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Return to Wake Robin: One Cabin in the Heyday of Northwoods Resorts
The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
Room: A Novel
The Rosie Project
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The Santa Suit
Sarah's Key
The Second Sister
The Seed Keeper
The Seventeen Second Miracle
The Sign for Home
Simon Sort of Says
Skipping Christmas: A Novel
Small Things Like These
So Long Chester Wheeler
Sold on a Monday: A Novel
Someone Knows
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Still Alice: A Novel
Still True
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat: A Novel
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
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A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel
There There
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Tortilla Curtain
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Two Rivers: A Novel
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Under the Tuscan Sun
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: A Novel
Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
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Walking Across Egypt
Walking with Sam
Waltraud: A True Story of Growing Up in Nazi Germany
Water for Elephants
We Begin at the End
The Wedding Dress
The Wedding People
West with Giraffes
Where the Crawdads Sing
Where the Forest Meets the Stars
Whistling in the Dark
Wingshooters: A Novel
Winter Garden
The Women
Wonder

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