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Atonement
by Ian McEwan
A tale of the consequences of a child's mistake, and how its effects ripple through generations.
Briony Tallis, a 13-year-old English girl with a talent for writing, lives at her family's country estate with her parents Jack and Emily Tallis. Her older sister Cecilia has recently graduated from ... (Wikipedia)
Cloudstreet
by Tim Winton
Two families share a house in Perth, Australia, and navigate their lives over two decades. A story of love, loss, and redemption.
In 1943, precipitated by separate personal tragedies, two poor families, the Lambs and the Pickles, flee their rural homes to share a large house called Cloudstreet in Perth, Western Australia. , The ... (Wikipedia)
The Wife
by Meg Wolitzer
A wife's exploration of her marriage and identity, as she discovers her own power and independence.
"The moment I decided to leave him, the moment I thought, enough, we were thirty-five thousand feet above the ocean, hurtling forward but giving the illusion of stillness and tranquility. Just like ... (Goodreads)
The Tortilla Curtain
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
A story of two families, one affluent and one struggling, and their intersecting paths.
Cándido Rincón (33) and América (his pregnant common law wife , 17) are two Mexicans who enter the United States illegally, dreaming of a good life in their own little house somewhere in California. ... (Wikipedia)
The Interestings
by Meg Wolitzer
A group of friends meet at a summer camp and navigate their way through life's ups and downs, successes and failures.
The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and ... (Goodreads)
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
by David Wroblewski
An epic tale of family and loyalty set in a rural Wisconsin landscape.
Forte's Children Edgar comes from a line of dog breeders. After buying a farm, his grandfather, John Sawtelle, rents out the farmland and starts dog breeding . He and his wife have two sons, Edgar's ... (Wikipedia)
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
An ambitious Wall Street banker's moral downfall in New York City.
The story centers on Sherman McCoy, a successful New York City bond trader . His $3 million Park Avenue co-op , combined with his aristocratic wife's extravagances and other expenses required to keep ... (Wikipedia)
Sugar and Spice
by Lauren Conrad
A young girl navigates the ups and downs of high school, friendships, and romance while pursuing her dreams of becoming a fashion designer.
Sugar and Spice...not everyone's nice. In the deliciously entertaining conclusion to the L.A. Candy series,, New York Times, bestselling author and star of the hit TV show, The Hills, Lauren Conrad ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Hours
by Michael Cunningham
Interwoven stories of three women and the impact of Virginia Woolf's novel, Mrs. Dalloway.
Note: This Summary does not contain the whole book, nor end at the ending. The stream-of-consciousness style being so prominent in this work, a summary of the plot based on physical action does not ... (Wikipedia)
The Supreme Macaroni Company
by Adriana Trigiani
A young woman navigates the challenges of balancing her Italian-American heritage and modern life while running a family business.
New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani takes us from the cobblestone streets of Greenwich Village to lush New Orleans to Italy and back again, from the tricky dynamics between Old World ... (Barnes & Noble)
Little Bee
by Chris Cleave
A Nigerian refugee's quest for survival and a British woman's search for redemption.
Using alternating first-person perspectives , the novel tells the stories of Little Bee, a Nigerian refugee, and Sarah O'Rourke (née Summers), a magazine editor from Surrey . After spending two years ... (Wikipedia)
Bright Young Things
by Anna Godbersen
In the roaring twenties, three young socialites navigate love, scandal, and betrayal in the glittering world of Manhattan's elite.
The year is 1929. New York is ruled by the Bright Young Things: flappers and socialites seeking thrills and chasing dreams in the anything-goes era of the Roaring Twenties., Letty Larkspur and ... (Barnes & Noble)
Beartown
by Fredrik Backman
A small-town hockey team and its community grapple with the consequences of a traumatic event.
Peter Andersson, in his forties, is the general manager of the ice hockey club in Beartown, a small town located somewhere in Sweden. Peter grew up in Beartown and was a junior hockey star. He went ... (Wikipedia)
The Cookbook Collector
by Allegra Goodman
Two sisters navigate love, work, and life in the early days of the dot-com boom, one running a bookstore and the other a startup.
Heralded as “a modern day Jane Austen” by USA Today , National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman has compelled and delighted hundreds of thousands of readers. ... (Goodreads)
Tigers in Red Weather
by Liza Klaussmann
A family saga set in post-WWII America, exploring the dark secrets and desires of two cousins and their families.
Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In ... (Goodreads)
Gone Missing
by Linda Castillo
Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates the disappearance of an Amish teenager. As she delves deeper, she uncovers dark secrets and a web of lies.
Linda Castillo’s bestselling series continues with GONE MISSING—a deeply chilling novel about a rite of passage gone horribly wrong. Rumspringa is the time when Amish teens are allowed to experience ... (Goodreads)
Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Collection of stories exploring the struggles of Indian-American immigrants in the US.
A married couple, Shukumar and Shoba, live as strangers in their house until an electrical outage brings them together when all of sudden "they [are] able to talk to each other again" in the four ... (Wikipedia)
Envy
by Anna Godbersen
In the luxurious world of Manhattan's elite in the 1920s, two best friends become rivals for love and social status.
Henry Schoonmaker, the handsome son of a wealthy tycoon, is now married to Penelope Hayes, due to her scheming. Henry refuses to even sleep in the same room as his new wife, as he remains infatuated ... (Wikipedia)
The Water Cure
by Sophie Mackintosh
Three sisters are raised on an isolated island by their parents, who teach them to fear men. When men arrive, their world is turned upside down.
The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Virgin Suicides in this dystopic feminist revenge fantasy about three sisters on an isolated island, raised to fear men. King has tenderly staked out a territory for his ... (Goodreads)
Splendor
by Anna Godbersen
In the luxurious world of Manhattan's elite in 1929, two sisters navigate love, betrayal, and scandal.
New Beginnings.,Shocking Revelations.,Unexpected Endings. As spring turns into summer, Elizabeth relishes her new roles as a young wife, while her sister, Diana, searches for adventure abroad. But ... (Goodreads)
Killer
by Sara Shepard
A small town is rocked by a series of murders, and everyone is a suspect. Secrets and lies are exposed as the killer is revealed.
#1 New York Times bestselling series The sixth book in the #1, New York Times, bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show, Pretty Little Liars., Hanna, Aria, Spencer, and Emily have ... (Barnes & Noble)
Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall
by Bill Willingham
Collection of tales that explore themes of heroism, courage, and morality.
This tale is set in the 19th century, in the early days of Fabletown , when Snow White was sent as an envoy to the lands of the Arabian Fables. But the Arabian Fables are actually offended that a ... (Wikipedia)
Fables, Vol. 7: Arabian Nights
by Bill Willingham
A collection of tales set in the Middle East, featuring magical creatures, kings and mythical creatures.
Winner of Fourteen, Eisner, Awards Culture Clash With the identity of the Adversary finally revealed to the citizens of Fabletown, it's time to begin making preparations in earnest for the defense of ... (Goodreads)
Away
by Amy Bloom
A young Jewish girl in the early 20th century travels from New York to Siberia in search of her father. Along the way, she discovers love and loss.
Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America ... (Goodreads)
White Bird
by R.J. Palacio
A graphic novel companion to "Wonder" that tells the story of a young Jewish girl hidden during the Nazi occupation of France.
In R. J. Palacio's collection of stories Auggie & Me , which expands on characters in Wonder , readers were introduced to Julian's grandmother, Grandmère. Told in graphic-novel form, White Bird is ... (Goodreads)
Fables, Vol. 11: War and Pieces
by Bill Willingham
A collection of fairy tales set in modern times, as animals join forces to battle a powerful tyrant.
The final battle between the free Fables of the mundane world and the Empire occupying their former Homelands is about to begin, and the scrappy storybook heroes have already managed to even the odds ... (Goodreads)
One Last Thing Before I Go
by Jonathan Tropper
A washed-up musician faces his mortality and tries to make amends with his estranged family.
“Mistakes have been made.” Drew Silver has begun to accept that life isn’t going to turn out as he expected. His fleeting fame as the drummer for a one-hit wonder rock band is nearly a decade behind ... (Goodreads)
The King's Curse
by Philippa Gregory
The story of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, and her struggle to protect her family from the malicious schemes of King Henry VIII.
Since Henry Tudor's accession to the English throne as Henry VII , Margaret Plantagenet has had to distance herself from her connection to the former royal family to survive. Married to a minor Tudor ... (Wikipedia)
The Natural
by Bernard Malamud
A talented baseball player struggles with his own demons and the pressures of fame.
Nineteen-year-old Roy Hobbs is traveling by train to Chicago with his manager Sam to try out for the Chicago Cubs . Other passengers include sportswriter Max Mercy, Walter "The Whammer" Whambold, the ... (Wikipedia)
The Feast of All Saints
by Anne Rice
Follows a Creole family's struggle with racism and oppression in 19th century Louisiana.
This novel is about the gens de couleur libres , or free people of color , who lived in New Orleans before the Civil War . The gens de couleur libres were the descendants of European settlers of ... (Wikipedia)
