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The Book of Negroes
by Lawrence Hill
A gripping tale of resilience and courage, tracing the life of a woman kidnapped in Africa and sold into slavery in North America.
The Book of Negroes (based on the novel Someone Knows My Name) will be BET's first miniseries. The star-studded production includes lead actress Aunjanue Ellis (Ray, The Help), Oscar winner Cuba ... (Goodreads)
Unless
by Carol Shields
A writer's life is upended when her daughter drops out of college and becomes a panhandler. A story of love, loss, and self-discovery.
Reta Winters, 44-year-old successful author of light summertime fiction, has always considered herself happy, even blessed. That is, until her oldest daughter Norah mysteriously drops out of college ... (Goodreads)
The Cellist of Sarajevo
by Steven Galloway
A story of resilience and courage in the midst of a war-torn city.
This brilliant novel with universal resonance, set during the 1990s Siege of Sarajevo, tells the story of three people trying to survive in a city rife with the extreme fear of desperate times, and ... (Goodreads)
The Mammoth Hunters
by Jean M. Auel
A young woman's adventure, struggling to survive and forge her path in a prehistoric world.
This book picks up where, The Valley of Horses, ends; Ayla and Jondalar meet a group known as the Mamutoi, or Mammoth Hunters, with whom they live for a period of time. As the group's name suggests, ... (Wikipedia)
Dawn of the Dreadfuls
by Steve Hockensmith
A prequel to "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," featuring the Bennet sisters fighting off a zombie invasion in Regency England.
Journey Back to Regency England - Land of the Undead!Readers will witness the birth of a heroine in Dawn of the Dreadfuls - a thrilling prequel set four years before the horrific events of Pride and ... (Goodreads)
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
by Kim Michele Richardson
A young woman, Cussy, delivers books to the rural people of Kentucky during the Great Depression, facing discrimination and finding solace in her blue skin.
In 1936 eastern Kentucky, 19-year-old Cussy Mary Carter works for the New Deal–funded Pack Horse Library Project , delivering reading material to the remote hill people of the Appalachian Mountains . ... (Wikipedia)
The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
A man's attempt to rebuild his life in a small Newfoundland town, discovering compassion and joy.
The story centers around Quoyle, a newspaper reporter from upstate New York , whose father had emigrated from Newfoundland . Shortly after his parents' joint suicide, Quoyle's unfaithful and abusive ... (Wikipedia)
The Whiskey Sea
by Ann Howard Creel
A young woman in the 1920s navigates the dangerous world of rum-running and smuggling on the East Coast.
Running rum during Prohibition, she’ll risk her life—and her heart., Motherless and destitute, Frieda Hope is determined to make a better life for herself and her sister, Bea. The girls are taken in ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Gift
by Louise Jensen
Jenna receives a heart transplant and begins to experience strange visions. She uncovers the truth about her donor and her own past.
The perfect daughter is dead. And a secret is eating her family alive...,Jenna, is given another shot at life when she receives a donor heart from a girl called, Callie.,Eternally grateful to Callie ... (Barnes & Noble)
Things in Jars
by Jess Kidd
Bridie Devine, a female detective in Victorian London, investigates the kidnapping of a mysterious child with supernatural abilities.
Bridie Devine, female detective extraordinaire, is confronted with the most baffling puzzle yet: the kidnapping of Christabel Berwick, secret daughter of Sir Edmund Athelstan Berwick, and a peculiar ... (Goodreads)
We Are All Made of Molecules
by Susin Nielsen
Two very different middle schoolers become step-siblings and must navigate their new family dynamic.
Thirteen-year-old Stewart is academically brilliant but socially clueless. Fourteen-year-old Ashley is the undisputed “It” girl in her class, but her grades stink. Their worlds are about to collide ... (Goodreads)
She's Come Undone
by Wally Lamb
A young woman's trial-filled journey to self-acceptance and self-preservation.
Dolores Price is heartbroken when her handsome, but irresponsible father, Tony, leaves their suburban home for another woman. She and her mother, Bernice, move into her uptight Catholic grandmother's ... (Wikipedia)
The Borgia Bride
by Jeanne Kalogridis
Historical fiction about Sancha of Aragon, who becomes the bride of the notorious Cesare Borgia. A tale of love, betrayal, and political intrigue.
Vivacious Sancha of Aragon arrives in Rome newly wed to a member of the notorious Borgia dynasty. Surrounded by the city's opulence and political corruption, she befriends her glamorous and deceitful ... (Goodreads)
Grave Goods
by Ariana Franklin
A medieval mystery novel following Adelia Aguilar, a female doctor, as she investigates a series of murders in a small English village.
Combining the best of modern forensic thrillers with the drama of medieval fiction,, New York Times,' bestselling author Ariana Franklin returns with the third title in the Mistress of the Art of ... (Goodreads)
Holding
by Graham Norton
A small Irish town is rocked by a shocking crime, and the lives of its inhabitants are forever changed.
From Graham Norton—the BAFTA-award-winning and hugely popular BBC America television host—comes a charming debut novel set in an idyllic Irish village where a bumbling investigator has to sort ... (Goodreads)
I Know This Much Is True
by Wally Lamb
A man's journey of self-discovery, coming to terms with family trauma and understanding his identity.
The novel takes place in Three Rivers, Connecticut in the early 1990s. Dominick Birdsey's identical twin , Thomas Birdsey, suffers from paranoid schizophrenia . With medication, Thomas is able to ... (Wikipedia)
Play Dead
by Anne Frasier
A detective and a serial killer's daughter team up to catch a murderer. But the past haunts them both.
No one is more familiar with Savannah's dark side than homicide detective and native resident Elise Sandburg. She's been haunted for years by her own mysterious past: she was abandoned as a baby in ... (Goodreads)
Trust Exercise
by Susan Choi
A story of high school students in a competitive performing arts school, exploring the complexities of trust and manipulation.
Sarah and David come from different socio-economic backgrounds: Sarah lives with her mother in poverty; while David's family is financially comfortable. The two fall in love despite their contrasting ... (Wikipedia)
The Atlantis World
by A.G. Riddle
The final book in the Atlantis trilogy, where the fate of humanity hangs in the balance as the battle between the Atlantean and human factions reaches its climax.
Mrs. Poe
by Lynn Cullen
A fictionalized account of the tumultuous relationship between Edgar Allan Poe and poet Frances Osgood, told from Osgood's perspective.
A vivid and compelling novel about a woman who becomes entangled in an affair with Edgar Allan Poe—at the same time she becomes the unwilling confidante of his much-younger wife. It is 1845, and ... (Goodreads)
Say You're One of Them
by Uwem Akpan
Collection of stories depicting the lives of children in Africa, facing war, poverty, and adversity.
Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An ... (Goodreads)
Red Clocks
by Leni Zumas
In a dystopian future, women's reproductive rights are abolished. Four women navigate the consequences of this law.
In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every ... (Barnes & Noble)
Wishin' and Hopin'
by Wally Lamb
A coming-of-age story set in the 1960s, following a young boy's journey through Catholic school and his first crush.
Fifth-grader Felix Funicello (Ralff), the cousin of famous Mickey Mouse Club Mousekteer and teen idol / movie actress Annette Funicello , lives in the fictional small town of Three Rivers, ... (Wikipedia)
P is for Peril
by Sue Grafton
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone is hired to find a missing doctor, but the case takes a dangerous turn.
It is now nine weeks since Dr Dowan Purcell vanished without trace. The sixty-nine-year-old doctor had said goodnight to his colleagues at the Pacific Meadows nursing home, had climbed into his car ... (Goodreads)
Say Goodbye for Now
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
A story of two boys, a dog, and a woman who will change their lives forever. A tale of love, friendship, and overcoming prejudice.
“Catherine Ryan Hyde delivers once again with this feel-good story guaranteed to be a hit…” —,Redbook, On an isolated Texas ranch, Dr. Lucy cares for abandoned animals. The solitude allows her to ... (Barnes & Noble)
A Noise Downstairs
by Linwood Barclay
After a college professor hears a strange noise in his garage, he discovers a connection to a murder case from years ago.
Duration: 9 hours, 9 minutes The New York Times bestselling author of No Time for Goodbye returns with a haunting psychological thriller that blends the twists and turns of Gillian Flynn with the ... (Goodreads)
Alice I Have Been
by Melanie Benjamin
A fictionalized account of the life of Alice Liddell, the inspiration for Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."
Few works of literature are as universally beloved as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland . Now, in this spellbinding historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an ... (Goodreads)
The Virgin Cure
by Ami McKay
A young girl in 19th century New York City is sold into prostitution and must navigate the dangerous world of sex work to survive.
From #1 international bestselling author Ami McKay comes The Virgin Cure, the story of a young girl abandoned and forced to fend for herself in the poverty and treachery of post-Civil War New York ... (Barnes & Noble)
Virgins
by Diana Gabaldon
Set in 1740s France, this novella follows the story of Jamie Fraser's first wife, Annalise de Marillac.
A young Jamie Fraser learns what it really means to become a man in this Outlander prequel novella. Featuring all the trademark suspense, adventure, and history of Diana Gabaldon’s #1 bestselling ... (Goodreads)
The Abstinence Teacher
by Tom Perrotta
A health teacher's abstinence-only curriculum clashes with her own desires and a liberal soccer coach. A story of moral conflict and self-discovery.
Stonewood Heights is the perfect place to raise kids. It's got the proverbial good schools, solid values and a healthy real estate market. It's the kind of place where parents are involved in their ... (Goodreads)
