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• The Last Runaway

  Chevalier, Tracy,

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  Running from personal disappointment, English Quaker Honor Bright finds herself relying on strangers in the alien, untamed landscape of 1850's Ohio. Drawn into the clandestine activities of the Underground Railroad, Honor befriends two exceptional…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Red Tent

  Diamant, Anita,

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  Based on the Book of Genesis, Dinah, Jacob's only daughter, shares her perspectives on the origins of many of our modern religious practices and sexual politics, imparting the lessons she has learned from her father's wives

• Winter Garden

  Hannah, Kristin

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  Sisters Meredith and Nina, having been estranged from one another and their parents by the actions of their disapproving mother, reunite after their father falls ill. By carrying out their dad's dying wish of hearing the true story of their mother's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Flight Behavior

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  Kingsolver, Barbara

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  Tired of living on a failing farm and suffering oppressive poverty, bored housewife Dellarobia Turnbow, on the way to meet a potential lover, is detoured by a miraculous event on the Appalachian mountainside that ignites a media and religious…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book of Lost Names

  Harmel, Kristin,

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  Librarian Eva Abrams is shelving books when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it's something she hasn't seen in sixty-five years - a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. It appears to contain some…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

  Rooney, Kathleen, 1980-

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  It's the last night of 1984 and Lillian, 85 years old but just as sharp and savvy as ever, is on her way to a party. Manhattan is grittier than ever but the quick-tongued poetess has never been one to scare easily. On a walk that takes her over 10…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Confessions of Frannie Langton

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  Collins, Sara,

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  Frannie Langton’s personal history as a slave in Jamaica and her subsequent London life as a servant and confidante in the Burnham household prior to their brutal murder reveals the toll that the inhumanity of her treatment take in this absorbing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Miss Sloane

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  In the world of political power brokers, Sloane takes on the most powerful opponent of her career and will do whatever is required to win.

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