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Life : An Exploded Diagram
by Mal Peet
Hardcover: Oct 2011
Paperback: 26 Feb 2013
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Can love survive a lifetime? With its urgent sense of history, sweeping emotion, and winning young narrator, Mal Peet's latest is an unforgettable, timely exploration of life during wartime.
The House Girl
by Tara Conklin
Hardcover: Feb 2013
Paperback: 1 Oct 2013
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A stunning debut novel of love, family, and justice that intertwines the stories of an escaped house slave in 1852 Virginia and ambitious young lawyer in contemporary New York
The Newlyweds : A Novel
by Nell Freudenberger
Hardcover: May 2012
Paperback: 12 Feb 2013
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A powerful, funny, richly observed tour de force by one of America's most acclaimed young writers: a story of love and marriage, secrets and betrayals.
A Good American : A Novel
by Alex George
Hardcover: Feb 2012
Paperback: 5 Feb 2013
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An uplifting novel about the families we create and the places we call home.
The Aviator's Wife
by Melanie Benjamin
Hardcover: 15 Jan 2013
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In the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America's most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
by Ayana Mathis
Hardcover: Jan 2013
Paperback: 8 Oct 2013
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A debut of extraordinary distinction: through the trials of one unforgettable family, Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Migration, a story of love and bitterness and the promise of a new America.
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Helga's Diary
Helga Weiss

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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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Mary Beth Keane

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A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as "Typhoid Mary," the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the burgeoning metropolis of early twentieth century New York.
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The riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed, and betrayed by passion and desire for a world beyond her own.
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