Just For You! -- Fiction Women's LivesLike this list

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• Americanah

  Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-

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  A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home to start a new life in America, She finds her dreams are not all that she expected.

• Passing

  Larsen, Nella

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  Passing is an electrifying story of two women who cross the color line in 1920s New York. Irene Redfield, the novel's protagonist, is a woman with an enviable life. She and her husband, Brian, a prominent physician, share a comfortable Harlem town…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tell the Wolves I'm Home

  a Novel

  Brunt, Carol Rifka,

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  1987. The only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus is her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company - he is her godfather,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Little Fires Everywhere

  Ng, Celeste,

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  In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dreamers of the Day

  [a Novel]

  Russell, Mary Doria, 1950-

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  Agnes Shanklin is a forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio who is still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic. She comes into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 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

• Still Alice

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  Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease, Alice and her family find their bonds thoroughly tested. Her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crash

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  Issues of race and gender cause a group of strangers in Los Angeles to physically and emotionally collide in this drama.

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