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Amity & Sorrow
by Peggy Riley
Hardcover: Apr 2013
Paperback: 11 Feb 2014
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Amity & Sorrow is a story about God, sex, and farming. It's an unforgettable journey into the horrors a true believer can inflict upon his family, and what it is like to live when the end of the world doesn't come.

The Sandcastle Girls : A Novel
by Chris Bohjalian
Hardcover: Jul 2012
Paperback: 16 Apr 2013
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The Sandcastle Girls is a sweeping historical love story steeped in Chris Bohjalian's Armenian heritage.

The World Without You : A Novel
by Joshua Henkin
Hardcover: Jun 2012
Paperback: 9 Apr 2013
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From the author of the New York Times Notable Book Matrimony, a moving new novel about love, loss, and the aftermath of a family tragedy.

The House at the End of Hope Street
by Menna van Praag
Hardcover: 4 Apr 2013
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Filled with a colorful and unforgettable cast of literary figures, The House at the End of Hope Street is a charming, whimsical novel of hope and feminine wisdom.

The End of the Point
by Elizabeth Graver
Hardcover: 5 Mar 2013
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A precisely observed, superbly crafted novel, The End of the Point by Elizabeth Graver charts the dramatic changes in the lives of three generations of one remarkable family, and the summer place that both shelters and isolates them.

Forgotten Country
by Catherine Chung
Hardcover: Mar 2012
Paperback: 5 Mar 2013
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Weaving Korean folklore within a modern narrative of immigration and identity, Forgotten Country is a fierce exploration of the inevitability of loss, the conflict between obligation and freedom, and a family struggling to find its way out of silence and back to one another.

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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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