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   This Week's Featured Reading Guides
Book Jacket Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
by Jeanette Winterson

Paperback (March 2013)
Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love,...
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Book Jacket Eleanor & Park
by Rainbow Rowell

Hardback (February 2013)
Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits - smart enough to know that first love...
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Book Jacket The House Girl
by Tara Conklin

Paperback (October 2013)
A stunning debut novel of love, family, and justice that intertwines the stories of an escaped house slave in 1852 Virginia and ambitious...
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Book Jacket The Painted Girls
by Cathy Marie Buchanan

Hardback (January 2013)
Set at a moment of profound artistic, cultural, and societal change, The Painted Girls is a tale of two remarkable sisters rendered...
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The Shelter Cycle
Peter Rock

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An American original, Peter Rock brings our strangest beliefs to vivid and sympathetic life in this haunting novel inspired by true events.
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Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations
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The remarkable diary of a young girl who survived the Holocaust—appearing in English for the first time.
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