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• The Dutch House

  a Novel

  Patchett, Ann,

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  At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an immense real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Euphoria

  a Novel

  King, Lily

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  Euphoria is Lily King's nationally bestselling breakout novel of three young, gifted anthropologists of the 30's caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives. Inspired by events in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Night Watchman

  a Novel

  Erdrich, Louise,

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  It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Prodigal Summer

  a Novel

  Kingsolver, Barbara

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  Wildlife biologist Deanna is caught off guard by an intrusive young hunter, while bookish city wife Lusa finds herself facing a difficult identity choice, and elderly neighbors find attraction at the height of a long-standing feud.

• The Signature of All Things

  Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969-

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  Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this sweeping novel follows the fortunes of the Whittakers -- a family of botanical explorers, led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker, a poor-born Englishman who makes his fortune in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• State of Wonder

  Patchett, Ann,

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  A researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh journeys into the heart of the Amazonian delta to check on a field team that has been silent for two years--a dangerous assignment that forces Marina to confront the ghosts of her past.

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

  Shaffer, Mary Ann

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  London, January 1946, emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. She finds it in a letter from a man she's never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hours

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  In 1929, Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway', under the care of doctors and family. In 1951, Laura Brown is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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