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The Strangeness of Beauty: A Novel

by Lydia Y Minatoya

Published: 1999-06-11

Hardcover: 384 pages

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When Etsuko Sone's sister dies in childbirth in Seattle's shabby Japantown, love for the precocious child catapults Etsuko back across the Pacific and into the austere samurai household of her mysterious mother, Chie, a woman who rejected her at birth. The dubious reconciliation is for the sake of the...

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Egg and Spoon

by Gregory Maguire

Published: 2015-08-04

Paperback: 496 pages

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"A beautiful reminder that fairy tales are at their best when they illuminate the precarious balance between lighthearted childhood and the darkness and danger of adulthood." — School Library Journal(starred review)Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside, and there is ...

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Not by Sight

by Kate Breslin

Published: 2015-08-04

Paperback: 384 pages

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Gripping Sophomore Novel from a Rising Historical Romance TalentIn the spring of 1917, all of Britain is caught up in WWI. Wealthy young suffragette Grace Mabry will do anything to assist her country’s cause. Now that her brother is fighting in the trenches, she holds every able-bodied m...

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The Book of Lost and Found: A Novel

by Lucy Foley

Published: 2015-08-25

Paperback: 432 pages

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From London to Corsica to Paris--as a young woman pursues the truth about her late mother, two captivating love stories unfurl.Kate Darling's enigmatic mother--a once-famous ballerina--has passed away, leaving Kate bereft. When her grandmother falls ill and bequeaths to Kate a small portra...

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Autumn Brides: A Year of Weddings Novella Collection

by Kathryn Springer, Katie Ganshert, Beth K. Vogt

Published: 2015-08-11

Paperback: 352 pages

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Happily ever after begins today. The honor of your presence is requested at three autumn weddings . . . A September Bride by Kathryn Springer When Annie moves to Red Leaf, she’s ready to call the little town home, but Deputy Jesse Kent can’t believe his mother has handed the keys to he...

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Devil's Bridge

by Linda Fairstein

Published: 2015-08-11

Hardcover: 384 pages

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In her seventeenth Alexandra Cooper thriller, New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein takes readers where they have never been before: Inside the mind of NYPD Detective Mike Chapman.The Manhattan waterfront is one of New York City’s most magnificent vistas, boasting both the m...

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When Smiles Fade

by Paige Dearth

Published: 2013-01-23

Paperback: 464 pages

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Emma was unloved from the moment she was born. Her earliest memory is being severely beaten by her father, Pepper Murphy, when she was just eight-yearsold. Seething with resentment over the sacrifice of his dreams for a woman he cares little about and children he never wanted, Pepper chooses to blame...

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The Secret Sister

by Brenda Novak

Published: 2015-07-28

Paperback: 400 pages

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Did she once have a sister? Has her mother lied all these years? Why? After a painful divorce, Maisey Lazarow returns to Fairham, the small island off the South Carolina coast where she grew up. She goes there to heal—and to help her brother, Keith, a deeply troubled man who's asked her...

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Some Luck

by Jane Smiley

Published: 2015-07-07

Paperback: 416 pages

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National Book Award Nominee A Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times, The Seattle Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, BookPage 1920, Denby, Iowa: Rosanna and Walter Langdon have just welcomed their firstborn son, Frank, into their ...

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Murder on the Isle of Capri, Italy (Ryan-Hunter Series Book 4)

by Thomas Donahue, Karen Donahue

Published: 2013-12-18

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American criminology professor Marin Ryan and billionaire computer genius John Hunter are drawn into a homicide investigation when one of Marin's colleagues is murdered in Italy. Her friend's historical research uncovered a connection between sixteenth century pirates and three present-da...