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• News of the World

  a Novel

  Jiles, Paulette, 1943-

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  In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• City of Thieves

  a Novel

  Benioff, David

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  Documenting his grandparents' experiences during the siege of Leningrad, a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military deserter and he tried to secure pardons by gathering hard-to-find ingredients for a powerful colonel's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lost Girls of Paris

  Jenoff, Pam,

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  1946, Manhattan. Grace Healey is rebuilding her life after losing her husband during the war. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, she finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Half Broke Horses

  a True-life Novel

  Walls, Jeannette

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  A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town. Later as a wife and mother she ran a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Postmistress

  Blake, Sarah, 1960-

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  In 1940, Iris James is the postmistress in coastal Franklin, Massachusetts. Iris knows more about the townspeople than she will ever say, and believes her job is to deliver secrets. Yet one day she does the unthinkable: slips a letter into her…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. She 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

• A French village

  Un village français

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  The blockbuster French drama, chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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