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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman & Henning Koch (Translator)
A grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door... Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon, the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles,... more
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The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street: A Novel by Susan Jane Gilman
In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. Bedazzled by tales of gold and movie stardom, she tricks them into buying tickets for America. Yet no sooner do they land on the squalid Lower East Side of Manhattan, than Malka is crippled and abandoned in the street.
Taken in by a... more
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A Star for Mrs. Blake by April Smith
The United States Congress in 1929 passed legislation to fund travel for mothers of the fallen soldiers of World War I to visit their sons’ graves in France. Over the next three years, 6,693 Gold Star Mothers made the trip. In this emotionally charged, brilliantly realized novel, April... more
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first... more
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Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Seth and his little brother Henry haven't had the most stable of upbringings. Their father has been in and out of jail; their mother took off years ago and hasn't been seen since. Life is constantly uncertain, but a twist of fate could be just what they need. August stopped drinking the... more
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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II b...
THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC CITY- AT THE HEIGHT OF WORLD WAR II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, consuming more electricity than New York City. But to most of the world, the town did not exist. Thousands of civilians -many of them young women from small towns across the South-... more
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity.
When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a... more
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Clean It! Fix It! Eat It!: Easy Ways to Solve Everyday Problems with Brand-Name Produ...
100's of wacky and amazingly helpful uses for ordinary brand-name products! Every day millions of Americans move about their homes using countless, ordinary, household products. They spread mayo on sandwiches, add flour to pancake batter, or scrub sinks with cleanser. Many, however, have... more
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Joey Green's Incredible Country Store : Potions, Notions and Elixirs of the Past--and...
To wander through the pages of Joey Green's Incredible Country Store is to experience the innocence and warmth of a bygone era. In this treasury of tips, recipes, and make-it-yourself concoctions, you will discover which country-store gadgets and gizmos have stood the test of time-and which are... more
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Footsteps in the Snow by Charles Lachman
NOW A LIFETIME MOVIE CHANNEL DOCUMENTARY
It was a shocking true crime that left two families shattered, and became the coldest case in U.S. history.
Who really killed little Maria? The question fueled a real-life nightmare in Sycamore, Illinois...
1957. Sycamore, Illinois.... more
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The Birthday Party: A Memoir of Survival by Stanley N. Alpert
On January 21, 1998, the night before his thirty-eighth birthday, federal prosecutor Stanley Alpert was kidnapped off the streets of Manhattan. This is the story of what happened next. . . . Alpert was taken by a carful of gun-toting thugs looking to use his ATM card, but when they learned his... more
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Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls's memoir The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly). Now, in Half Broke Horses, she brings us the story of her grandmother, told in a first-person voice that is authentic, irresistible, and triumphant.
"Those old cows knew... more
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck-impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers with the... more
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The Bookman's Tale by Charlie Lovett
A mysterious portrait ignites an antiquarian bookseller's search through time and the works of Shakespeare for his lost love
1995. Peter Byerly isn't sure what drew him into this particular bookshop. Nine months earlier, the death of his beloved wife, Amanda, had left him... more
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Henry's Sisters by Cathy Lamb
Ever since the Bommarito sisters were little girls, their mother, River, has written them a letter on pink paper when she has something especially important to impart. And this time, the message is urgent and impossible to ignore--River requires open-heart surgery, and Isabelle and her sisters... more
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Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future.
In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf's fiction, Addie Moore... more
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Angel in Aisle 3 by Kevin West & Frederick Edwards
The True Story of a Mysterious Vagrant, a Convicted Bank Executive, and the Unlikely Friendship That Saved Both Their Lives
Angel in Aisle 3 is the heartwarming true story of an unlikely friendship that began with a chance meeting in a grocery store between a bank executive bound for prison... more
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Christmas Chocolat by Kate Defrise
In this warm, engaging debut novel, four siblings make their way home, where their father, the memory of their mother, and long-held family secrets all collide just in time for ChristmasFor Maggie Arnaud and her siblings, childhood Christmases meant lavish feasts and beloved rituals. The day... more
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A Free State: A Novel by Tom Piazza
The author of City of Refuge returns with a startling and powerful novel of race, violence, and identity set on the eve of the Civil War.The year is 1855. Blackface minstrelsy is the most popular form of entertainment in a nation about to be torn apart by the battle over slavery. Henry Sims, a... more
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The Girl With Nine Wigs: A Memoir by Sophie van der Stap
'It's Saturday and everything is different. No, I didn't go to the market this morning and I didn't have my usual coffee on Westerstraat. And no, I wasn't getting ready for a new semester at college. Next Monday, January 31st, I have to admit myself at the hospital for my first chemotherapy... more
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The Pawnbroker: A Novel by Edward Lewis Wallant
For most of us, remembering the Holocaust requires effort; we listen to stories, watch films, read histories. But the people who came to be called “survivors? could not avoid their memories. Sol Nazerman, protagonist of Edward Lewis Wallant?s The Pawnbroker, is one such sufferer.
At 45,... more
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Since You've Been Gone by Anouska Knight
How do you learn to love again?
In one tragic moment, Holly Jefferson's life as she knew it changed forever. Now -- to the external world, at least -- she's finally getting back on her feet, running her bakery, Cake. But inside, she's still going through the motions befitting a... more
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The Autobiography of Mark Twain by Mark Twain & Charles Neider (Editor)
"Mark Twain's autobiography is a classic of American letters, to be ranked with the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin and Henry Adams.... It has the marks of greatness in it -- style, scope, imagination, laughter, tragedy." -- From the Introduction by Charles Neider
Mark... more
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Sweetheart Deal by Claire Matturro
Sarasota lawyer Lilly Cleary has had her share of odd cases. She's defended everyone from a pet psychic to an orange libeler, and she's done so with finesse. But it's another situation entirely when she finds out that her phobic and dysfunctional mother has been accused of murder. Although she's... more
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Cocodrie by C.J. Morace
In 1917 a young soldier flees the consequences of his brutality, throwing himself from his troop train into the horrors of the swamp called Cocodrie. His tale joins the stories of a small community which, through the ages, has survived in this dark, forgotten place. Cocodrie is the colorful... more
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Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
An ambitious and startling debut novel that follows the lives of four women at a resort popular among slaveholders who bring their enslaved mistresses
wench \'wench\ n. from Middle English "wenchel," 1 a: a girl, maid, young woman; a female child.
Tawawa House in many... more
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania
On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool,... more
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Me and My Baby View the Eclipse by Lee Smith
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
“Extremely powerful…Me and My Baby View the Eclipse is about striving and the secret nobility of people who live in a small-town American South. In these stories—thank heaven—not everything fits: they are loose, they are sometimes awkward, but just about... more
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak & Trudy White (Illustrator)
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.
Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist... more
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The Final Note by Kevin Alan Milne
On their wedding day, Ethan promised to love, honor, and cherish his wife...and to write a song for her. Fast forward to the present day. Despite his grand promises, reality has proven to be much harder than he anticipated. Instead of composing hit songs, he's working long hours to provide... more
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The Orchard: A Memoir by Theresa Weir
THE ORCHARD is the story of a street-smart city girl who must adapt to a new life on an apple farm after she falls in love with Adrian Curtis, the golden boy of a prominent local family whose lives and orchards seem to be cursed. Married after only three months, young Theresa finds life with... more
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Five Days Left by Julie Lawson Timmer
Mara Nichols, a successful lawyer, and devoted wife and adoptive mother, has recently been diagnosed with a terminal disease. Scott Coffman, a middle school teacher, has been fostering an eight-year-old boy while the boy’s mother serves a jail sentence.
Scott and Mara both have five... more
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A Few of the Girls by Maeve Binchy
A new collection of stories previously unpublished in the United States by beloved and best-selling author Maeve Binchy Maeve Binchy's best-selling novels not only tell wonderful stories, they also show that while times change, people often remain the same: they fall in love, sometimes... more
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The Third Hill North of Town by Noah Bly
Set against the turbulent backdrop of the 1960s, Noah Bly’s evocative debut explores prejudice, loss, and redeeming courage through the prism of an unlikely friendship.
When fifty-four-year-old Julianna Dapper slips out of a mental hospital in Bangor, Maine, on a June day in 1962,... more
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The Liar by Nora Roberts
Shelby Foxworth lost her husband. Then she lost her illusions …
The man who took her from Tennessee to an exclusive Philadelphia suburb left her in crippling debt. He was an adulterer and a liar, and when Shelby tracks down his safe-deposit box, she finds multiple IDs. The man... more
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The Good Goodbye by Carla Buckley
The first thing you should know is that everyone lies. The second thing is that it matters.
How well do we know our children? Natalie Falcone would say she knows her daughter, Arden, very well. Despite the challenges of running a restaurant and raising six-year-old twin boys, she’s not... more
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Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life by Nick Vujicic
What Would Your Life be Like if Anything Were Possible?
Born without arms or legs, Nick Vujicic overcame his disabilities to live an independent, rich, fulfilling, and ?ridiculously good? life while serving as a role model for anyone seeking true happiness. Now an internationally successful... more
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Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures by Louise Rafkin
"Alone in a house, I piece together strands of life stories as if I were an archaeologist, the home a midden... I don't read diaries, I read clues." After earning an M.A. in Comparative Literature, Louise Rafkin, facing a career choice, took the road less traveled. She became a housecleaner. ... more
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Midnight Crossroad (Midnight, Texas, Bk 1) by Charlaine Harris
First in a new Trilogy from Charlaine Harris, the bestselling author who created Sookie Stackhouse and her world of Bon Temps, Louisiana, comes a darker locale -- populated by more strangers than friends. But then, that's how the locals prefer it...
Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with... more
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Day Shift (Midnight, Texas, Bk 2) by Charlaine Harris
There is no such thing as bad publicity, except in Midnight, Texas, where the residents like to keep to themselves. Even in a town full of secretive people, Olivia Charity is an enigma. She lives with the vampire Lemuel, but no one knows what she does; they only know that she’s beautiful... more
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The Murder House by James Patterson & David Ellis
No. 7 Ocean Drive is a gorgeous, multi-million-dollar beachfront estate in the Hamptons, where money and privilege know no bounds. But its beautiful gothic exterior hides a horrific past: it was the scene of a series of depraved killings that have never been solved. Neglected, empty, and rumored... more
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Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
New York City is subsumed in arctic winds, dark nights, and white lights, its life unfolds, for it is an extraordinary hive of the imagination, the greatest house ever built, and nothing exists that can check its vitality. One night in winter, Peter Lake--orphan and master-mechanic, attempts to... more
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Twisted : The Collected Stories of Jeffery Deaver by Jeffery Deaver
New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver delivers an electrifying collection of sixteen award-winning stories that will widen your eyes and stretch your imagination. Diverse and provocative, Twisted showcases Deaver's amazing range and signature plot twists: a beautiful woman goes to... more
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Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild (Vintage) by Lee Sandlin
From award-winning journalist Lee Sandlin comes a riveting look at one of the most colorful, dangerous, and peculiar places in America?s historical landscape: the strange, wonderful, and mysterious Mississippi River of the nineteenth century.
Beginning in the early 1800s and climaxing with the... more
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Neverhome: A Novel by Laird Hunt
She calls herself Ash, but that's not her real name. She is a farmer's faithful wife, but she has left her husband to don the uniform of a Union soldier in the Civil War. NEVERHOME tells the harrowing story of Ash Thompson during the battle for the South. Through bloodshed and hysteria and... more
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All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou
The author describes her odyssey to Ghana in the 1960s, meant as a return to her African roots. Over a few years she transformed herself by learning to speak Fanti, dressing in Ghanian style and delving in politics. But after encountering racial prejudice and losing her son in a car crash, she... more
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Outdoor Life: If Nature Calls...Hang Up! (Outdoor Life) by Unknown Author
Original and classic humor stories from the past 50 years of Outdoor Life magazine, featuring the works of Pat McManus and others. This colorful collection contains feature stories, cartoons, short yarns and quips that can be read only in short intervals between sessions of wiping away tears of... more
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Cancer on $5 a Day* *(chemo not included): How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Jour...
Stand-up comedian Robert Schimmel's edgy, hilarious, and poignant musings on his battle with cancer. In the spring of 2000, Robert Schimmel was riding high. He'd won the Stand-Up of the Year Award, his HBO special was a huge hit, and his sitcom had been picked up. And then it all came crashing... more
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The Trials of Carrie Buck by David C. Long
?The Trials of Carrie Buck? is based upon the true story of a naïve, 16-year-old girl who is branded as ?feebleminded? and put into an institution, where her captors petition for her medical sterilization, against the protests of an outraged nurse. Carrie ultimately becomes the subject of a... more
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The Best American Mystery Stories: 2009 by Jeffery Deaver (Editor) & Otto Penzler...
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so... more
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We Have Your Husband: One Woman's Terrifying Story of a Kidnapping in Mexico by Jayne...
In the mountains of Guanajuato, Mexico sits a picturesque community favored by artists and tourists. But for American-born Jayne Valseca and her husband Eduardo, son of a legendary Mexican newspaper publisher, it became a hell on earth when Eduardo was ambushed by strangers and kidnapped in the... more
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The Butterfly Cabinet by Bernie McGill
Vivid, mysterious and unforgettable, The Butterfly Cabinet is Bernie McGill’s engrossing portrayal of the dark history that intertwines two lives. Inspired by a true story of the death of the daughter of an aristocratic Irish family at the end of the nineteenth century, McGill powerfully... more
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Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder.
In the course of the ensuing trial, it... more
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Home by Marilynne Robinson
Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Home is an entirely independent, deeply affecting novel that transpires concurrently in the same locale, this time in the household of Reverend Robert... more
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What Difference Do It Make?: Stories of Hope and Healing by Ron Hall & Denver Moo...
New thoughts and reflections from the authors of the inspirational New York Times bestseller Same Kind of Different as Me. The more than four hundred thousand readers stirred by the story of Ron Hall and Denver Moore will resonate with the all new, stand-alone true stories of hope and healing... more
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The Last Letter from Your Lover by Jojo Moyes
When journalist Ellie looks through her newspaper's archives for a story, she doesn't think she'll find anything of interest. Instead she discovers a letter from 1960, written by a man asking his lover to leave her husband -- and Ellie is caught up in the intrigue of a past love... more
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The Heavenly Italian Ice Cream Shop (Vivien's Heavenly Ice Cream Shop, Bk 2) by Abby ...
Anna and her husband Matteo are ready to embark a delicious Italian adventure. After a year and a half running their ice cream shop on Brighton beach and raising their baby Isabella, Matteo is starting to miss Italy. A shared passion for ices means it’s easy to settle on a new business... more
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This Dark Road to Mercy: A Novel by Wiley Cash
The critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home?hailed as "a powerfully moving debut that reads as if Cormac McCarthy decided to rewrite Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird" (Richmond Times Dispatch)?returns with a resonant novel of love and atonement,... more
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Little Beach Street Bakery (Little Beach Street Bakery, Bk 1) by Jenny Colgan
In the bestselling tradition of Jojo Moyes and Jennifer Weiner, Jenny Colgan's moving, funny, and unforgettable novel tells the story of a heartbroken young woman who turns a new page in her life... by becoming a baker in the town of Cornwall.
A quiet seaside resort. An abandoned shop. A... more
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Summer at Little Beach Street Bakery (Little Beach Street Bakery, Bk 2) by Jenny Colg...
Summer has arrived in the Cornish town of Mount Polbearne and Polly Waterford couldn't be happier. Because Polly is in love: she's in love with the beautiful seaside town she calls home, she's in love with running the bakery on Beach Street, and she's in love with her boyfriend,... more
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Christmas at Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop (Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop, Bk 2) by Jenny Colg...
Includes mouth-watering recipes!
Curl up with Rosie, her friends and her family as they prepare for a very special Christmas...
Rosie Hopkins is looking forward to Christmas in the little Derbyshire village of Lipton, buried under a thick blanket of snow. Her sweetshop is festooned with... more
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The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes
France, 1916: Artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his young wife, Sophie, to fight at the front. When their small town falls to the Germans in the midst of World War I, Edouard’s portrait of Sophie draws the eye of the new Kommandant. As the officer’s dangerous obsession deepens, Sophie... more
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Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith
Ivy Rowe, Virginia mountain girl, then wife, mother, and finally "Mawmaw," never strays far from her home-but the letters she writes take her across the country and over the ocean. Writing "to hold onto what's passing," she tells stories that are rich with the life of Appalachia in words that... more
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The Titanic: End of a Dream by Wyn Craig Wade
A history of the ill-fated ocean liner, whose shipwreck during her maiden voyage in 1912 remains one of the greatest sea disasters of all time. A psychologist and historian, Wade tells the story of the Titanic from a variety of perspectives--from her construction to her sinking to the effect of... more
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A Tidewater Morning (Vintage International) by William Styron
In this brilliant collection of "long short stories, " the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie's Choice returns to the coastal Virginia setting of his first novels. Through the eyes of a man recollecting three episodes from his youth, William Styron explores with new eloquence death, loss,... more
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Voodoo: Strange and Fascinating Tales and Lore by John Richard Stephens & John Ri...
Zombies. Possession. Shapeshifting.
Featuring stories by H. G. Wells, H. Rider Haggard, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles W. Chesnutt, and Eden Phillphotts.
Voodoo.... The very word conjures shadowy and sinister images of black magic and primitive rites and rituals: crudely fashioned dolls... more
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Return to Thunder Road: The Story Behind the Legend by Alex Gabbard
The real-life story of moonshining as a way of life in the southern Appalachians. This is the story of back woods survival the way it had been taught for generations, handed down from father to son. Ride with the moonshiners as they tell their stories from corn mash to car loads of... more
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The Old Man and the Boy by Robert Ruark
This classic captures the endearing relationship between a man and his grandson as they fish and hunt the lakes and woods of North Carolina. All the while the Old Man acts as teacher and guide, passing on his wisdom and life experiences to the boy, who listens in rapt fascination.
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Goodnight June by Sarah Jio
"Goodnight Moon" is an adored childhood classic, but its real origins are lost to history. In "Goodnight June, " Sarah Jio offers a suspenseful and heartfelt take on how the "great green room" might have come to be.
June Andersen is professionally successful, but... more
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Rock Bottom by Erin Brockovich
From New York Times bestselling author and internationally renowned environmental and consumer advocate Erin Brockovich comes Rock Bottom, a debut thriller and first in a series of novels that introduces one of the most fascinating and memorable characters in suspense fiction. Ten years ago, a... more
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Lydia's Party: A Novel by Margaret Hawkins
For fans of Anne Tyler and Anna Quindlen, a mesmerizing portrait of friendship that explores seven women?s lives with a generous embrace and wondrous wisdom
Lydia is having a party—it?s a party she hosts every year for six women friends who treasure the midwinter bash. Over a table laden with... more
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The Thousand Dollar Tan Line (Veronica Mars, Bk 1) by Rob Thomas & Jennifer Graha...
From Rob Thomas, the creator of the groundbreaking television series and movie Veronica Mars, comes the first book in a thrilling new mystery series.
Ten years after graduating from high school in Neptune, California, Veronica Mars is back in the land of sun, sand, crime, and... more
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Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so compelling, and with an emotional charge so perfectly controlled, that you sense at once that his is the real thing - a literary experience to relish, a book to lose yourself in, and a name to watch. Here is a gorgeous,... more
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Sahara : The Extraordinary History of the World's Largest Desert by Marq De Villiers ...
In the parched and seemingly lifeless heart of the Sahara desert, earthworms find enough moisture to survive. Four major mountain ranges interrupt the flow of dunes and gravel plains, and at certain times waterfalls cascade from their peaks. Even the sand amazes: massive dunes can appear almost... more
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The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson
From the author of the beloved #1 national bestseller Crow Lake comes an exceptional new novel of jealously, rivalry and the dangerous power of obsession.Two brothers, Arthur and Jake Dunn, are the sons of a farmer in the mid-1930s, when life is tough and another world war is looming. Arthur is... more
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The Hypnotist's Love Story by Liane Moriarty
Ellen O’Farrell is a professional hypnotherapist who works out of the eccentric beachfront home she inherited from her grandparents. It’s a nice life, except for her tumultuous relationship history. She’s stoic about it, but at this point, Ellen wouldn’t mind a lasting... more
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Roar of the Heavens: Surviving Hurricane Camille by Stefan Bechtel
"Rain is likely tonight, ending tomorrow. Thursday will be fair and cooler." So began the final and most destructive act of Hurricane Camille, a storm so ferocious that scientists calculated the odds as once in a thousand years. In 1969, meteorologists were yet to have satellite and computer... more
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20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . .
Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . .
John is locked in a basement stained with... more
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The Christmas Wedding by James Patterson & Richard DiLallo
The tree is decorated, the cookies are baked, and the packages are wrapped, but the biggest celebration this Christmas is Gaby Summerhill's wedding. Since her husband died three years ago, Gaby's four children have drifted apart, each consumed by the turbulence of their own lives. They haven't... more
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The History of Us: A Novel by Leah Stewart
In The History of Us, the newest novel by the celebrated author of The Myth of You and Me, three grown siblings return to their childhood home and face a family secret that forces them to reexamine their relationships to each other?and to the aunt who took them in as children. Eloise Hempel is... more
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Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy
Maeve Binchy is back with a tale of joy, heartbreak and hope, about a motherless girl collectively raised by a close-knit Dublin community.
When Noel learns that his terminally ill former flame is pregnant with his child, he agrees to take guardianship of the baby girl once she?s born. But as a... more
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This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
The death of Judd Foxman's father marks the first time that the entire Foxman clan has congregated in years. There is, however, one conspicuous absence: Judd's wife, Jen, whose affair with his radio- shock-jock boss has recently become painfully public. Simultaneously mourning the demise... more
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In the Presence of My Enemies by Gracia Burnham & Dean Merrill
Soon after September 11, the news media stepped up its coverage of the plight of Martin and Gracia Burnham, the missionary couple captured and held hostage in the Philippine jungle by terrorists with ties to Osama Bin Laden. After a year of captivity, and a violent rescue that resulted in... more
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The Team by Pat Cunningham Devoto
Ah yes, it?s time for another season of tennis? They have been together for years, the girls, on the same team, lolling through the seasons?such a pleasant way to socialize and at the same time get some exercise. The perfect excuse for lunch and a glass of wine afterward. But this season, there... more
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My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan, Bk 1) by Elena Ferrante & Ann Goldstein (Transla...
A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante’s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also... more
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The Barn Dance: Somewhere between Heaven and Earth, there is a place where the magic ...
On November 27, 2005, two men broke into Linda Twyman’s apartment in Evanston, Illinois, and brutally ended her young life. Three and a half years later, guided by a series of visions and dreams, James Twyman was mystically drawn to a barn deep in the Nevada wilderness where Heaven and... more
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Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell
Mary Doria Russell, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sparrow, returns with Epitaph. An American Iliad, this richly detailed and meticulously researched historical novel continues the story she began in Doc, following Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday to Tombstone, Arizona, and to the... more
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Elizabeth Street by Laurie Fabiano
In Elizabeth Street, Laurie Fabiano tells a remarkable, and previously unheard, story of the Italian immigrant experience at the start of the twentieth century. Culled from her own family history, Fabiano paints an entrancing portrait of Giovanna Costa, who, reeling from personal tragedies,... more
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Lazaretto: A Novel by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Diane McKinney-Whetstone?s nationally bestselling novel, Tumbling, immersed us into Philadelphia?s black community during the Civil Rights era, and she returns to the city in this new historical novel about a cast of nineteenth-century characters whose colorful lives intersect at the legendary... more
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Strange as This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake
Set in present day West Virginia, Ann Pancake’s debut novel, Strange As This Weather Has Been, tells the story of a coal mining family -- a couple and their four children -- living through the latest mining boom and dealing with the mountaintop removal and strip mining that is ruining what... more
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The Life We Bury (Detective Max Rupert, Bk 1) by Allen Eskens
College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl... more
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Flight Patterns by Karen White
Georgia Chambers has spent her life sifting through other people’s pasts while trying to forget her own. But then her work as an expert on fine china (especially Limoges) requires her to return to the one place she swore she’d never revisit... It has been ten years since Georgia... more
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The Secrets of Midwives by Sally Hepworth
THE SECRETS OF MIDWIVES tells the story of three generations of women devoted to delivering new life into the world?and the secrets they keep that threaten to change their own lives forever. Neva Bradley, a third-generation midwife, is determined to keep the details surrounding her own... more
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The Way the Crow Flies (P.S.) by Ann-Marie MacDonald
The optimism of the early sixties, infused with the excitement of the space race and the menace of the Cold War, is filtered through the rich imagination of high-spirited, eight-year-old Madeleine, who welcomes her family's posting to a quiet Air Force base near the Canadian border. Secure... more
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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
With the publication of this book, Capote permanently ripped through the barrier separating crime reportage from serious literature. As he reconstructs the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, Capote generates... more
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Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields
'A fine, well-rounded portrait of Harper Lee. Mockingbird is good reading.'-Star-Tribune (Minneapolis)To Kill a Mockingbird-the twentieth century's most widely read American novel-has sold thirty million copies and still sells a million yearly. Yet despite her book's perennial popularity, its... more
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The Guest Cottage by Nancy Thayer
Sensible thirty-six-year-old Sophie Anderson has always known what to do. She knows her role in life: the supportive wife of a successful architect and calm, capable mother of two. But on a warm summer night, as the house grows quiet around her and her children fall asleep, she wonders... more
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The Sea Keeper's Daughters by Lisa Wingate
From modern-day Roanoke Island to the sweeping backdrop of North Carolina?s Blue Ridge Mountains and Roosevelt?s WPA folklore writers, past and present intertwine to create an unexpected destiny. . .
Restaurant owner Whitney Monroe is desperate to save her business from a hostile takeover. The... more
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The Memory of Water (Center Point Premier Fiction (Largeprint)) by Karen White
On the night their mother drowns, sisters Marnie and Diana Maitland discover there is more than one kind of death. There is the death of innocence, of love, and of hope. Each sister harbors a secret about that night-secrets that will erode their lives as they grow into adulthood. After ten... more
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Burnt Mountain by Anne Rivers Siddons
Growing up, the only place tomboy Thayer Wentworth felt at home was at her summer camp - Camp Sherwood Forest in the North Carolina Mountains. It was there that she came alive and where she met Nick Abrams, her first love...and first heartbreak.
Years later, Thayer marries Aengus, an Irish... more
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The March by E. L. Doctorow
In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops... more
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The Summer's End (Lowcountry Summer, Bk 3) by Mary Alice Monroe
It is summer’s end and Sea Breeze, the family’s beloved estate on Sullivan’s Island, must be sold. It is an emotional time of transition as Mamaw and the three sisters each must face loss and find a new place in the world.
Harper, the youngest sister, arrived at Sea Breeze... more
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Time and Again by Jack Finney
"Sleep. And when you awake everything you know of the twentieth century will be gone from your mind. Tonight is January 21, 1882. There are no such things as automobiles, no planes, computers, television. 'Nuclear' appears in no dictionary. You have never heard the name Richard... more
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The Mitford Bedside Companion by Jan Karon
A must-have companion to the bestselling series Jan Karon's Mitford Years series is a publishing phenomenon that, since 1996, has sold more than twenty-five million books and attracted millions of devoted readers around the world. With the series now complete, Karon's fans have raced through... more