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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine : a novel
Honeyman, Gail, author.
"Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness an...

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Noah, Trevor, 1984- author.
Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act...

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Shaffer, Mary Ann.
As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subje...
Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI
Grann, David, author.
Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-en...
Manhattan Beach
Egan, Jennifer, author.
Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man ...
A Man Called Ove: a novel
Backman, Fredrik, 1981- author.
"A grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young ...

The Handmaid's Tale
Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
This look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, onc...
Necessary Lies
Chamberlain, Diane, 1950- author.
In 1960 North Carolina, Ivy Hart is a fifteen-year-old girl whose family are tenants on a small toba...
My Sister's Keeper
Picoult, Jodi, 1966-
Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to qu...

Orphan Train
Kline, Christina Baker, 1964-
Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to th...

The Devil in the White City
Larson, Erik.
The story of two men's obsessions with the Chicago World's Fair, one its architect, the ot...
The Light Between Oceans
Stedman, M. L.
"A novel set on a remote Australian island, where a childless couple live quietly running a lig...
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
Fergus, Jim.
An Indian request in 1854 for 1,000 white brides to ensure peace is secretly approved by the U.S. go...
What Alice Forgot
Moriarty, Liane.
Alice Love is twenty-nine years old, madly in love with her husband, and pregnant with their first c...
The Submission
Waldman, Amy, 1969-
"When a Muslim architect wins a blind contest to design a Ground Zero Memorial, a city of eleve...

The Round House
Erdrich, Louise.
"One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked....
Never Let Me Go
Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-
Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its stu...

Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
Dedman, Bill, author.
When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed a property listing for a grand estate tha...

The Persian Pickle Club
Dallas, Sandra.
A ladies' quilting club in Kansas is invaded by a new member with ambitions. She is Rita, a big...

The Book Thief
Zusak, Markus.
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young Germ...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farme...
The Namesake
Lahiri, Jhumpa.
Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as t...
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
See, Lisa.
In nineteenth century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven...
Loving Frank
Horan, Nancy.
"I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I...

The Help
Stockett, Kathryn.
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights moveme...