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* * * * Informative,
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Jarrettsville: A Novel

by Cornelia Nixon

Published: 2009-09-29

Paperback: 340 pages

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Based on a true story from the author’s family history, Jarrettsville begins in 1869, just after Martha Jane Cairnes has shot and killed her fiancé, Nicholas McComas, in front of his Union cavalry militia as they were celebrating the anniversary of the Confederate surrender at Appomatto...

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Jasmine

by Bharati Mukherjee

Published: 1999-04-05

Paperback: 256 pages

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When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world. In just a few years, ...

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* * * * Interesting,
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The Jasmine Moon Murder (Tea Shop Mystery)

by Laura Childs

Published: 2005-08-02

Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages

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Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is catering a Charleston benefit, a "Ghost Crawl" through Jasmine Cemetery, when the organizer drops dead—and it looks like foul play. Theodosia stirs things up with her own investigation, and gets into hot water up to her neck.

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* * * Informative,
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Jasmine Nights

by Julia Gregson

Published: 2012-02-01

Paperback: 416 pages

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From the bestselling author of EAST OF THE SUN comes an extraordinary love story. It is 1942 and the war is tearing Europe apart, shattering lives and devastating countries. But for some, it will be the greatest of adventures. Saba, a striking, headstrong singer from Wales defies her family to...

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Jasmine Nights: A Novel

by Julia Gregson

Published: 2012-06-05

Paperback: 432 pages

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From the award-winning author of East of the Sun, a powerful love story set against the unstable and exotic cities of Cairo and Istanbul during the height of World War II.At twenty-three, Saba Tarcan knows her only hope of escaping the clamor of Cardiff Bay, Wales, lies in her voice. While...

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* * * * Graphic,
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Jasper Jones

by Craig Silvey

Published: 2012-03-27

Paperback: 320 pages

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A 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor BookCharlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but despera...

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* * * * Beautiful,
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Jayber Crow

by Wendell Berry

Published: 2001-09

Paperback: 384 pages

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“This is a book about Heaven,” says Jayber Crow, “but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell.” It is 1932 and he has returned to his native Port William to become the town's barber. Orphaned at age ten, Jayber Cr...

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Jayne Eyre (Collins Classics)

by Charlotte Bronte

Published: 2010-04-01

Paperback: 512 pages

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.' Bronte's infamous Gothic novel tells the story of orphan Jane, a child of unfortunate circumstances. Raised and treated badly...

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Jazz

by Toni Morrison

Published: 2004-06-08

Paperback: 256 pages

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In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe’s wife, Violet, attacks the girl’s corpse. This passionate, profound story of love...

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Jealousy

by Marsha Jenkins-Sanders

Published: 2008-04-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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