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Fiction
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Gabriel’s Moon / William Boyd
Gabriel Dax is a young man haunted by the memories of a fire that took his mother’s life. Every night, when sleep finally comes, he dreams about his childhood home in flames. His days are spent on the move as an acclaimed travel writer, capturing the changing landscapes of Europe in the grip of the Cold War. When he is offered the chance to interview Patrice Lumumba, newly elected president of the People’s Republic of the Congo, he finds himself drawn into a web of duplicities and betrayals.
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The Midnight Feast / Lucy Foley
Welcome to the opening weekend of The Manor, a luxury resort built on top of old secrets in an ancient wood. You’ll meet the founder, the lover, the mystery guest, the kitchen help, and the detective. All have an agenda. All have a past. But not everyone will survive….
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The Great Alone / Kristin Hannah
Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier. Thirteen-year-old Leni, caught in the riptide of her parents’ passionate but stormy relationship, dares to hope that a new land will lead to a better future for her family. Her mother, Cora, will do anything and go anywhere for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown.
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The Nightingale / Kristin Hannah
France, 1939. In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France…but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. As danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive.
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The Women / Kristin Hannah
When 20-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath’s brother ships off to serve in the Vietnam War, she impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing.
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Last Twilight in Paris / Pam Jenoff
A Parisian department store, a mysterious necklace, and a woman’s quest to unlock a decade-old mystery are at the center of this riveting novel of love and survival, from a New York Times bestselling author.
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Sandwich / Catherine Newman
For the past two decades, Rocky has looked forward to her family’s yearly escape to Cape Cod. Their humble beach-town rental has been the site of sweet memories, sunny days, great meals, and messes of all kinds. This year’s vacation, she’s sandwiched between her half-grown kids and fully aging parents. Then a chain of events sends Rocky into the past, reliving both the tenderness and sorrow of a handful of long-ago summers. As she comes face to face with her family’s history and future, she is forced to accept that she can no longer hide her secrets from the people she loves.
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The Berry Pickers / Amanda Peters
July 1962. Following in the tradition of Indigenous workers from Nova Scotia, a Mi’kmaq family arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, their youngest child vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge
of a berry field. The tragic mystery haunts the survivors, unravels a family, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years.
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The Briar Club / Kate Quinn
Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship.
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Inheritance / Nora Roberts
Graphic designer Sonya MacTavish is stunned to learn that her late father had a twin he never knew about—and that her newly discovered uncle, has left her almost everything he owned, including a Victorian house on the Maine coast. She sets off to find out why her father and uncle were separated at birth and why it was kept secret. Arriving at the house, she soon finds objects moved and music playing out of nowhere. A painting by her father is inexplicably hanging in her deceased uncle’s office. Then there’s the portrait of a woman named Astrid, whom her uncle’s local lawyer calls “the first lost bride.” Sonya realizes she has inherited not only a house, but a centuries-old curse.
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Fourth Wing / Rebecca Yarros
Part 1 of the Empyrean series: Violet Sorrengail is urged by the commanding general, who is also her mother, to become a candidate for the elite dragon riders.
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Iron Flame / Rebecca Yarros
Part 2 of the Empyrean series: The explosive sequel to Fourth Wing. Violet Sorrengail’s next round of training might require her to betray the man she loves.
Audiobook
Nonfiction
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The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness / Morgan Housel
Money—investing, personal finance, and business decisions—is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world, we don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. We make them at the dinner table or in a meeting room, where personal history, our own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. Housel shares 19 stories about the ways people think about money and teaches the reader how to make better sense of one of life’s most important topics.
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Woman, Watching / Merilyn Simonds
A compelling biography of internationally renowned naturalist Louise de Kiriline Lawrence. After her husband was murdered by Bolsheviks, she refused her Swedish privilege and joined the Canadian Red Cross, visiting her northern Ontario patients by dogsled. When Elzire Dionne gave birth to five babies, Louise became nurse to the Dionne quintuplets. Repulsed by the media circus, she retreated to her wilderness cabin on the North Bay, where she devoted herself to studying birds that nested in the forest. A hero to ornithologists, she wrote six books and scores of articles.
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