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• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

  McBride, James, 1957-

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  When a skeleton is found at the bottom of a well, it unearths long-held secrets of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows.

• Hester

  a Novel

  Lico Albanese, Laurie, 1959-

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  Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress left penniless and alone in a strange country and forced to make her way by any means possible. When she meets a young Nathaniel Hawthorne, the two are instantly drawn to each other.

• Chorus

  a Novel

  Kauffman, Rebecca,

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  The seven Shaw siblings have long been haunted by their mother's mysterious death. As they grow to adulthood, each must struggle with their own memories of the event and how it has shaped them.

• Let Us Descend

  a Novel

  Ward, Jesmyn,

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  In the pre-Civil War South, Annis is sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her and learns to take comfort from memories of her mother and grandmother and the invisible world beyond her own.

• What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

  Jimenez, Claire,

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  The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around the absence of middle child Ruthy, who disappeared without a trace. Years later, they spot a Ruthy look-alike on a realty show--and hatch a plan to find the long-lost sister

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