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• Resistance Women

  a Novel

  Chiaverini, Jennifer,

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  Best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini, brings to life Nazi Germany beginning in the pre-war years and the complexity of resistance efforts. The novel focuses on the American wife of a German intellectual and her circle of women friends who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Week at the Shore

  Delinsky, Barbara,

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  Mallory Aldiss returns with her teenage daughter to the small town in Rhode Island where she grew up with her two sisters. All is not well with the family and the troubles from twenty years ago are many: a disappearance that was never resolved,…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.

• The Girl You Left Behind

  Moyes, Jojo, 1969-

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  France, 1916: Artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his young wife, Sophie, to fight at the front. When their small town falls to the Germans in the midst of World War II, Edouard's portrait of Sophie draws the eye of the new Kommandant. As the officer's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dutch House

  a Novel

  Patchett, Ann,

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  An elaborate house is the backdrop to this story about survival, loyalty, betrayal, and belonging. Told through the perspective of Danny, readers are entranced by his thoughtful and reflective stories about how he and his sister, Maeve, survived the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Help

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  Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dressmaker

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  A quirky movie, reminiscent of films by the Coen brothers. A young woman returns to her hometown in the Australian outback after years of working as a dressmaker in exclusive Paris fashion houses. She returns to reunite with her eccentric, outcast…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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