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Honeyman, Gail, author.

"Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness an...

Noah, Trevor, 1984- author.

Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act...

Shaffer, Mary Ann.

As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subje...

Grann, David, author.

Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-en...

Egan, Jennifer, author.

Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man ...

Backman, Fredrik, 1981- author.

"A grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young ...

Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

This look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, onc...

Chamberlain, Diane, 1950- author.

In 1960 North Carolina, Ivy Hart is a fifteen-year-old girl whose family are tenants on a small toba...

Picoult, Jodi, 1966-

Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to qu...

Kline, Christina Baker, 1964-

Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to th...

Larson, Erik.

The story of two men's obsessions with the Chicago World's Fair, one its architect, the ot...

Stedman, M. L.

"A novel set on a remote Australian island, where a childless couple live quietly running a lig...

Fergus, Jim.

An Indian request in 1854 for 1,000 white brides to ensure peace is secretly approved by the U.S. go...

Moriarty, Liane.

Alice Love is twenty-nine years old, madly in love with her husband, and pregnant with their first c...

Waldman, Amy, 1969-

"When a Muslim architect wins a blind contest to design a Ground Zero Memorial, a city of eleve...

Erdrich, Louise.

"One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked....

Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-

Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its stu...

Dedman, Bill, author.

When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed a property listing for a grand estate tha...

Dallas, Sandra.

A ladies' quilting club in Kansas is invaded by a new member with ambitions. She is Rita, a big...

Zusak, Markus.

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

Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farme...

Lahiri, Jhumpa.

Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as t...

See, Lisa.

In nineteenth century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven...

Horan, Nancy.

"I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I...

Stockett, Kathryn.

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