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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Author: Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tob...
The Namesake
Author: Lahiri, Jhumpa.
Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even...
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Author: See, Lisa.
In nineteenth century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age...
Loving Frank
Author: 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
Author: Stockett, Kathryn.
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights m...