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• The Women

  a Novel

  Hannah, Kristin,

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  Follow the story of Frankie McGrath, a young woman who serves as a surgical nurse in Vietnam during two tours of duty. The book explores her experiences in the war zone, the challenges she faces upon returning home to a divided America, and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Absolution

  a Novel

  McDermott, Alice,

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  In 1963 Saigon, Tricia, the fresh-faced young wife of an oil engineer working with U.S. Navy Intelligence, is shepherded by commanding corporate spouse Charlene, who relentlessly leads other U.S wives on missions of mercy throughout the city.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Funny Story

  a Novel

  Henry, Emily,

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  After being dumped by her boyfriend, Peter, for his lifelong best friend, Petra, Daphne agrees to room with Petra's freshly heartbroken ex, Miles, until she can figure things out. When Petra and Peter invite them to the wedding, Daphne and Miles…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Georgie, All Along

  Clayborn, Kate,

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  When Georgie suddenly loses her job as a personal assistant, she heads home to her parents to regroup. While there, she comes across a teenage diary, and with the help of Levi, older brother of her high school crush, she works through her high…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Midnight Library

  Haig, Matt, 1975-

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  Nora Seed finds herself faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Begin Again

  a Novel

  Acton, Helly,

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  Frankie McKenzie feels unsettled. She can’t help feeling something’s missing. Before she can work out what, she dies in a freak accident after yet another dud of a first date. But life isn’t over for Frankie. Instead, she is miraculously offered a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lessons in Chemistry

  Garmus, Bonnie,

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  In the early 1960s, chemist and single mother Elizabeth Zott, the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show due to her revolutionary skills in the kitchen, uses this opportunity to dare women to change the status quo.

• The Woman With the Cure

  Cullen, Lynn,

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  In 1940s and 50s America where polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb and some of the world's best minds race against each other to find a vaccine, Dr. Dorothy Horstmann must decide what is forgivable and how much should be sacrificed in pursuit of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Thing He Told Me

  a Novel

  Dave, Laura,

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  After her husband disappears, Hannah Hall quickly realizes he isn't who he said he was and that his 16-year-old daughter, who wants nothing to do with her, may hold the key to figuring out his true identity.

• It's One of Us

  Ellison, J. T.,

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  A successful interior designer who keeps failing in her quest to conceive is shocked when she learns that a suspect in a recent murder investigation is her husband’s son from a long-ago donation to a sperm bank. Like The Last Thing He Told Me, this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fourth Wing

  Yarros, Rebecca,

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  Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Alchemists of Loom

  Kova, Elise,

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  Engineer turned organ thief Arianna fights against her world’s Dragon oppressors with her magical skills and unscrupulous morals. Before she can slaughter a wounded Dragon during a routine heist, he offers her a wish of her greatest desire, if she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fairy Tale

  a Novel

  King, Stephen, 1947-

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  A troubled teenager befriends an elderly recluse, who dies and leaves him a message recorded on cassette tape explaining that his shed is the portal to another world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Every Heart a Doorway

  McGuire, Seanan

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  Sometimes children disappear, and when they come back, their stories of fantastical lands are too much for their families to handle. Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children is a place for such "troubled" youth. One new resident is Nancy, who is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Boys From Biloxi

  a Novel

  Grisham, John,

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  Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco were born a month apart in Biloxi, Mississippi in the 1960s. They were best friends who played baseball together, and they might have remained close were it not for their fathers: Hugh's dad wound up being a big man in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Verdict

  a Novel

  Stone, Nick, 1966-

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  Leaping at a chance to make his career by taking a high-profile murder case, Terry Flynt is forced to make a terrible choice and confront secrets from the past when he discovers that his millionaire client is a former friend who brutally betrayed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tom Lake

  a Novel

  Patchett, Ann,

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  Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Summer Stage

  a Novel

  Moore, Meg Mitchell,

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  On Block Island, the Mayerson family stages a prestigious summer theater production unleashing simmering tensions and ambitions that threaten to derail everything. As rivalries over roles intensify and a shocking secret emerges, the family's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Five-star Weekend

  Hilderbrand, Elin,

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  Inviting her best friend from each phase of her life, widow Hollis Shaw hosts an unforgettable weekend on Nantucket during which things don't go as planned as each woman deals with heartbreak, infidelity, scandal, and secrets, but things turn around…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hello, Sunshine

  a Novel

  Dave, Laura,

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  A social media lifestyle guru with millions of followers is disgraced by revelations about her identity, a downfall that compels brave choices that save her in more ways than she can imagine. Like The Five-Star Weekend, this book features a…Read moreRead more of this annotation