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At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril's son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly...
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"Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents' lives -- or so he was told. In Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Fitzgerald, with warmth and humor, recounts his ongoing search for forgiveness, a more far-reaching vision of masculinity, and a more expansive definition of family and self. Fitzgerald's memoir-in-essays...
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The Olanders are a modern family in a globalized world. Jaya, the daughter of an Indian diplomat and Keith, an ambitious banker from middle-class Philadelphia, meet in a London pub in 1988 and build a life together in suburban California. Their strong marriage is built on shared beliefs and love for their two children. But love and prosperity cannot protect them from sudden, unspeakable tragedy, and the family's foundation begins to crack as each...
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Queen of the Tearling volume 1
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Coming out of exile to ascend her rightful throne, Princess Kelsea Raleigh Glynn, with a cadre of soldiers and the magical Tear sapphire to protect her, makes a daring decision that evokes the wrath of the evil Red Queen.
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Hanna lives in an isolated religious community with her father, his four wives and fourteen brothers and sisters, and in only one week, on her eighteenth birthday, will follow tradition and become the fifth wife of a man more than twice her age. But just days before the wedding, Hanna meets a stranger who challenges her to question her fate and to follow her own will.
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Wildstone series volume 6
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When Maze returns to Wildstone for the wedding of her estranged bff and the sister of her heart, it's also a reunion of a once ragtag team of teenagers who had only each other - until a tragedy tore them apart. Now reunited as adults, secrets and resentments are intertwined with incredible childhood memories. Unexpectedly, the group instantly fall back into their roles: Maze their reckless leader, Cat the den mother, Heather the beloved baby sister,...
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Recipient of the 2019 Alex Award
"Mike Muñoz Is a Holden Caulfield for a New Millennium--a '10th-generation peasant with a Mexican last name, raised by a single mom on an Indian reservation' . . . Evison, as in his previous four novels, has a light touch and humorously guides the reader, this time through the minefield that is working-class America." --The New York Times Book ReviewFor Mike Muñoz, life has been a whole lot of waiting...
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The story of two black boys sentenced to the Nickel Academy, a hellish reformatory in Jim Crow-era Tallahassee, Florida and the atrocious conditions they are forced to endure. Based on a real reform school in Florida that operated for 111 years, scarring and damaging the lives of thousands of children.
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"In her most ambitious novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard takes on the topography of the heart - a landscape of grief, reconciliation, forgiveness, and the way the mistakes of parents are passed down through generations, to fester, or to be healed"--Provided by publisher.
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"A hilarious and heartfelt coming-of-age and modern family drama, set in the queer underground of late 90s Portland, that explores the complications of belonging--to a city, a culture, and a family--and what happens when those forms can't quite contain who you really are"--Provided by publisher.
13) Meant to be
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"An entertaining page-turner." —Kirkus Reviews on Met Her Match
An inspiring family saga about two headstrong sisters who long to forge their own paths.
It's 1972 and times are changing. In the small farming community of Mason, Kansas, Vera and Kelly Exton are known for their ambitions. Vera is an activist who wants to join her boyfriend in the Peace Corps. But she is doing her duty caring for her widowed mother and younger sister...
An inspiring family saga about two headstrong sisters who long to forge their own paths.
It's 1972 and times are changing. In the small farming community of Mason, Kansas, Vera and Kelly Exton are known for their ambitions. Vera is an activist who wants to join her boyfriend in the Peace Corps. But she is doing her duty caring for her widowed mother and younger sister...
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From the USA Today bestselling author of All the Summer Girls and Dog Crazy comes a spellbinding and suspenseful tale inspired by Wuthering Heights that illuminates the ways in which hope-and even magic-can blossom in the darkest of places.
To find her way, she must abandon everything she loves...
As a child, Merrow Shawe believes she is born of the sea: strong, joyous, and wild. Her beloved home is Horseshoe Cliff, a small farm on the coast of Northern...
15) Never never
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"Charlie Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk. They've been in love since the age of fourteen. But as of this morning ... they are complete strangers. Their first kiss, their first fight, the moment they fell in love ... every memory has vanished. Now Charlie and Silas must work together to uncover the truth about what happened to them and why"--
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Redheaded, curly-haired Zoe is openhearted, kind and free-spirited, and dreams of becoming a famous actor in New York City. Shy Emily struggles with mental health but has the heart and soul of a writer. And Shannontall, athletic, stronghas a deep sense of loyalty that will serve her well when she heads off to military college. As Zoe, Emily and Shannon grow into womenforging careers, following dreams and finding lovetheyll...
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A marvelously entertaining and moving historical novel, set in rural Prince Edward Island in the nineteenth century, that imagines the young life of spinster Marilla Cuthbert, and the choices that will open her life to the possibility of heartbreak, and unimaginable greatness.
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"Ginny Splinter, acclaimed radio host and advice expert, prides herself on knowing what's best for others. So she's sure her husband, Adrian, will love the special trip to Italy she's planned for their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. But when Ginny presents the gift to Adrian, he surprises her with his own very different plan, a divorce. Beside herself with heartache, Ginny impulsively invites four heartbroken listeners to join her in Italy instead...
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