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The Secret Keeper
by Kate Morton

Atria Books
Publishes: 07/16/2013
Genre: Novels
496 pages

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About this Book
The Secret Keeper explores longings and dreams, the lengths people go to fulfill them, and the consequences they can have. It is a story of lovers, friends, dreamers, and schemers told - in Morton's signature style - against a backdrop of events that changed the world.

Discussion will open July 15

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During a party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is...

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The Lovebird
by Natalie Brown

Doubleday
Publishes: 06/18/2013
Genre: Novels
336 pages

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About this Book
A spectacularly vibrant, original debut, The Lovebird takes us from the orange-scented streets of Southern California to the vast prairie landscape of Montana, and introduces us to Margie Fitzgerald, a spirited and unforgettable heroine for our times.

Discussion will open June 24

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Margie has always had a soft spot for helpless creatures. Her warm heart breaks, her left ovary twinges, and she is smitten with sympathy. This is...

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The Mouse-Proof Kitchen:
A Novel
by Saira Shah

Atria Books
Publishes: 07/02/2013
Genre: Novels
352 pages

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About this Book
Told with humor and warmth, The Mouse-Proof Kitchen is the moving and thought-provoking story of how the best parts of life are often the most complicated, and how love can be found in the least likely of places.

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Life is messy ... but it's the messy bits that give it meaning.

Anna has a clear plan for her new life. When she discovers she's...

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Amy Falls Down:
A Novel
by Jincy Willett

Thomas Nelson
Publishes: 07/09/2013
Genre: Novels
336 pages

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About this Book
A scathingly funny and wickedly humorous roman-a-clef by one of our most acclaimed literary humorists—about a bitterly uninspired writer who decides to change her life after a freak accident.

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The endearingly bitter writer, Amy Gallup has happily isolated herself from the world spending the last two decades teaching...

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Letters from Skye:
A Novel
by Jessica Brockmole

Ballantine Books
Publishes: 07/09/2013
Genre: Novels
304 pages

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About this Book
Sparkling with charm and full of captivating period detail, Letters from Skye is a testament to the power of love to overcome great adversity, and marks Jessica Brockmole as a stunning new literary voice.

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A sweeping story told in letters, spanning two continents and two world wars, Jessica Brockmole's atmospheric debut novel captures the indelible...

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To the Moon and Timbuktu:
A Trek through the Heart of Africa
by Nina Sovich

New Harvest
Publishes: 07/09/2013
Genre: Travel & Adventure
320 pages

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About this Book
This lyrical memoir will transport you to the breathtaking landscapes of West Africa, whose stark beauties will instill wonder in even the most experienced traveler. Sovich's journey reveals that sometimes we must pursue that distant glimmer on the horizon in order to find the things we value most.

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Nina Sovich had always yearned for adventures in faraway places; she imagined herself leading the life of a solitary traveler. Yet at the age of...

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Lookaway, Lookaway:
A Novel
by Wilton Barnhardt

St. Martin's Press
Publishes: 08/20/2013
Genre: Novels
352 pages

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"Move over, Tom Wolfe! Writing with brilliance and brio, Barnhardt has penned a hilarious satire which often has surprising depth and hits way too close to the truth." - Lee Smith

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Jerene Jarvis Johnston and her husband Duke are exemplars of Charlotte, North Carolina's high society, a world where old Southern money and the...

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The First Affair:
A Novel
by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus

Atria Books
Publishes: 08/27/2013
Genre: Novels
256 pages

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About this Book
In the latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling authors Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, a woman looks back at her summer internship at the White House when she was seduced by the President of the United States and drawn into a complex affair destined to destroy both her and the presidency.

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Following college, Jamie McAllister wins a prestigious internship at the White House that she has no idea will irrevocably alter her life. An...

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Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets:
A Memoir
by Jessica A. Fox

Atria Books
Publishes: 07/09/2013
Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
384 pages

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The memoir of a 26-year-old film maker who, on a whim, decides to pack in her life in Hollywood and move to a used bookstore in Scotland. She finds herself on a rollercoaster journey beyond anything she had imagined - a journey that would both break and mend her heart, and teach her that sometimes we have to have the courage to travel the path less taken.

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Jessica Fox was living in Hollywood, an ambitious 26-year-old film-maker with a high-stress job at NASA. Working late one night, craving another...

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