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Circle of Quilters: An Elm Creek Quil...

Jennifer Chiaverini

When Elm Creek Quilts announces openings for two new teachers, quilters everywhere are vying to land the prestigious post. The impending departure of two founding members means untold changes for the Elm Creek Quilters. As they begin ...

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Published: Jan 2007

The Master Butchers Singing Club

Louise Erdrich

Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set, Fideli...

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Published: Jul 2005

The Newlyweds (Vintage Contemporaries...

Nell Freudenberger

Amina Mazid is twenty-four when she moves from Bangladesh to Rochester, New York, for love. A hundred years ago, Amina would have been called a mail-order bride. But this is the twenty-first century: she is wooed by—and woos—Georg...

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Published: Feb 2013

The Love Wife

Gish Jen

From the highly praised author of Mona in the Promised Land and Who’s Irish?–a generous, funny, explosive novel about the new “half-half” American family.Here is Carnegie Wong, second-generation Chinese America...

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Published: Jan 2004

The Woman Upstairs (Vintage Contempor...

Claire Messud

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor's Children, a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own. Nora Eldridge, an elementary sc...

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Published: Feb 2014

The Housekeeper and the Professor

Yoko Ogawa

He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.  She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to c...

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Published: Feb 2009

Gardenias

Faith Sullivan

A month after the United States enters World War II, the country is in upheaval — and so is the Erhardt family. Nine-year-old Lark, her mother Arlene, and Aunt Betty are heading for San Diego, far away from Harvester, Minnesota ...

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Published: Aug 2006

The Language of Threads

Gail Tsukiyama

Pei, the unforgettable heroine of the best-selling Women of the Silk returns, trying to create a home with the young orphan Ji Shen in 1930s Hong Kong, an ambition thwarted by the Japanese invasion of the city. Reprint. 50,000 first p...

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Published: Jul 2008

The Distant Land of My Father

Bo Caldwell

Experiencing a seemingly idyllic childhood in pre-World War II Shanghai, Anna flees to California with her mother when the Japanese occupation begins, believing her charismatic millionaire father's connections will keep him safe. A fi...

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Published: Sep 2002

The Bane Chronicles

Cassandra Clare

Fans of The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices can get to know warlock Magnus Bane like never before in this paperback collection of New York Times bestselling tales, each with comic-style art.This collection of eleven short ...

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Published: Nov 2015

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselve...

Karen Joy Fowler

Included on The Christian Science Monitor's list of 2013's top 15 works of fiction The New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club introduces a middle-class American family, ordinary in every way but one  Meet...

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Published: Mar 2014

Morning Glory

Sarah Jio

New York Times bestselling author Sarah Jio imagines life on Boat Street, a floating community on Seattle's Lake Union-home to people of artistic spirit who for decades protect the dark secret of one startling night in 1959  Fleeing ...

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Published: Nov 2013

Circling the Sun: A Novel

Paula McLain

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, BOOKPAGE, AND SHELF AWARENESS • "Paula McLain is considered the new star of historical fiction, and for good reason. Fans of The Paris Wife will b...

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Published: May 2016

The Returned

Jason Mott

Harold and Lucille Hargrave's lives have been both joyful and sorrowful in the decades since their eight-year-old son, Jacob, died tragically in 1966. In their old age they've settled comfortably into life without him…. Until one da...

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Published: May 2014

Songs for the Missing

Stewart O'Nan

Returning again to the theme of working-class people and their wrenching concerns, Songs for the Missing begins with the suspenseful pace of a thriller, following an Ohio community's efforts to locate a young woman who has gone missin...

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Published: Aug 2009

The Well and the Mine

Gin Phillips

With an introduction by Fannie Flagg Author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe A novel of warmth and true feeling, The Well and the Mine explores the value of community, charity, family, and hope that we can give ea...

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Published: Apr 2009

Garden of Stones

Sophie Littlefield

In the dark days of war, a mother makes the ultimate sacrificeLucy Takeda is just fourteen years old, living in Los Angeles, when the bombs rain down on Pearl Harbor. Within weeks, she and her mother, Miyako, are ripped from their hom...

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Published: Dec 2012

No River Too Wide

Emilie Richards

Some betrayals are like rivers, so deep, so wide, they can't be crossed. But—for those with enough courage—forgiveness, redemption and love may be found on the other side. On the night her home is consumed by fire, Janine Stoddar...

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Published: Jun 2014

When the Killing's Done

T. Coraghessan Boyle

T.C. Boyle's most powerful and fully realized work yet-"terrifically exciting and unapologetically relevant" (The Washington Post). Principally set on the wild Channel Islands off the coast of California, T.C. Boyle's new ...

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Published: Feb 2012

The Starboard Sea: A Novel

Amber Dermont

"A rich, quietly artful novel that is bound for deep water, with questions of beauty, power and spiritual navigation as its main concerns. The title refers not to the right side of a boat but to the right course through life, and...

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Published: Feb 2013

The Garden of Evening Mists

Tan Twan Eng

Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and ...

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Published: Aug 2012

Virgil Wander

Leif Enger

The first novel in ten years from award-winning, bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander is a sweeping story of new beginnings that follows the inhabitants of a Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart.Small to...

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Published: Jun 2019

The Cellist of Sarajevo

Steven Galloway

The acclaimed and inspiring international bestseller that is a tribute to the human spirit. In a city ravaged by war, a musician plays his cello for twenty-two days at the site of a mortar attack, in memory of the fallen. Among the st...

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Published: Mar 2009

Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of W...

Hazel Gaynor

New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgettably romantic novel of the Great War.August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, T...

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Published: Oct 2017

The End of the Point: A Novel (P.S.)

Elizabeth Graver

A precisely observed, superbly crafted novel, The End of the Point by Elizabeth Graver charts the dramatic changes in the lives of three generations of one remarkable family, and the summer place that both shelters and isolates them.A...

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Published: Feb 2014

The Captain and the Enemy

Graham Greene

Victor Baxter is a young boy when a secretive stranger known simply as “the Captain” brings him from his boarding school to London. Victor becomes the surrogate son and companion of a woman named Liza, who renames him “...

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Published: Sep 2005

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: A ...

Bryn Greenwood

- A New York Times and USA Today bestseller - Book of the Month Club 2016 Book of the Year - Second Place Goodreads Best Fiction of 2016A beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship ...

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Published: Oct 2017

P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boy...

Jenny Han

Given the way love turned her heart in the New York Times bestselling To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, which School Library Journal called a “lovely, lighthearted romance,” it’s no surprise that Laura Jean still has letters ...

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Published: Jan 2017

The Sisters

Nancy Jensen

Family secrets reverberate for generations in one of the "Best Novels of 2011" (IKirkus Reviews)DIV PGrowing up without a mother in hardscrabble Kentucky in the 1920s, Bertie Fischer and her older sister, Mabel, have only ...

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Published: Oct 2012

The Music Shop

Rachel Joyce

"An unforgettable story of music, loss and hope. Fans of High Fidelity, meet your next quirky love story."—PeopleNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES (UK) It is 1988. On a dead-end street in a run-down ...

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Published: Nov 2018
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