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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

• Meet Me at the Museum

  Youngson, Anne,

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  In Denmark, Professor Kristian Larsen, an urbane man of facts, has lost his wife and his hopes for the future. On an isolated English farm, Tina Hopgood is trapped in a life she doesn’t remember choosing. Both believe their love stories are over.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Animal Dreams

  a Novel

  Kingsolver, Barbara,

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  Hallie Nodine fights for justice in Nicaragua. Her sister, Codi, returns to Arizona to confront her dying father. Myths, dreams and flashbacks blend to examine life's commitments.

• The Sandcastle Girls

  a Novel

  Bohjalian, Chris, 1962-

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  This tale travels between Aleppo, Syria, in 1915 and Bronxville, New York, in 2012. It is sweeping historical love story steeped in the author's Armenian heritage. When Elizabeth Endicott arrives in Syria, she has a diploma from Mount Holyoke…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Night Watchman

  a Novel

  Erdrich, Louise,

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  Louise Erdrich’s new novel is based on events in her grandfather's life. The story follows the journey of Thomas Wazhushk, factory night watchman and tribal councilman whose political activism against the Termination Act of 1953 takes him to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Indian Horse

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  Saul Indian Horse, an Ojibway boy, is torn from his family and committed to a residential school. At the school, Saul is denied the freedom to speak his language or embrace his heritage and is a witness to abuse by the people sworn to protect him.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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