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• The Invention of Wings

  a Novel

  Kidd, Sue Monk

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  Follows the story of Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her maid. "The invention of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unsheltered

  a Novel

  Kingsolver, Barbara,

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  As the middle-aged Willa tries to keep family, finances and home together, she discovers a kindred soul in Thatcher Greenwood, a Victorian scientist who finds himself against the establishment for his support of Darwin's theories.

• The Lost Man

  Harper, Jane (Jane Elizabeth),

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  Two brothers meet at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. In an isolated belt of Western Australia, they are each other's nearest neighbor, their homes four hours' drive apart. The third brother lies dead at…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lady in the Lake

  a Novel

  Lippman, Laura, 1959-

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  A divorced reporter in racially torn 1966 Baltimore triggers unanticipated consequences for vulnerable community members while investigating the murder of an African-American party girl.

• A Spool of Blue Thread

  Tyler, Anne

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  The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate togetherness: an indefinable, enviable kind of special-ness. But they're also like all families, in that the stories they tell themselves reveal only part of the picture. Here are four…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Goldfinch

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  Theodore 'Theo' Decker was thirteen years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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