Treeborne
by Caleb Johnson
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The Treeborne family has lived on The Seven – the local sobriquet for a seven-acre stretch of forested Elberta, Alabama land - for nigh on eighty years. However, with the...
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Dean Muscat
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Beyond the Book: Drive-In Theaters
Realizing her dreams of becoming a Hollywood actress are dwindling, Tammy Treeborne - a central protagonist in Treeborne - decides to indulge her passion for the movies in another way, by opening her very own drive-in theater in Elberta, Alabama. ... Beyond the Book
Grace
by Paul Lynch
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Harrowing. Gorgeous. Epic. Grace, Paul Lynch's coming of age novel about a young woman, is set during the catastrophic Irish potato famine.
Fourteen-year old Grace is ...
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Zoë Fairtlough
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Beyond the Book: The Great Hunger
Grace is set in an Ireland devastated by The Great Hunger—the potato famine of 1845-1852, which occurred when three successive harvests failed due to blight, causing a million people to starve to death and at least as many to emigrate for a... Beyond the Book
The Perfectionists
by Simon Winchester
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We seek precision in our lives every day. We want to drive from home to work and work to home safely in a reliable car. During a brief stop at the grocery store, we want to ...
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Rory L. Aronsky
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Beyond the Book: U.S. Naval Observatory Master Clock
You have a job interview at 9:30. You plan to leave at 8:50. It's really only a 10-minute walk, but the path cuts through pleasant tree-lined neighborhoods and you know you'll take extra time meandering. Right now, it is 8:45 – or around 8:... Beyond the Book
Beauty in the Broken Places
by Allison Pataki
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Ernest Hemingway wrote that we are "strong at the broken places," and Allison Pataki found that to be true when her husband, David Levy, a third-year orthopedic surgery ...
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Rebecca Foster
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Beyond the Book: Types of Stroke
Most strokes are caused by blockages in blood vessels, either directly in the brain or traveling from elsewhere in the body to the brain; these are referred to as ischemic strokes. A minority are caused by ruptured blood vessels (hemorrhagic strokes)... Beyond the Book
The Family Tabor
by Cherise Wolas
Wolas's gorgeously rendered sophomore novel reckons with the nature of the stories we tell ourselves.
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Clock Dance
by Anne Tyler
A delightful novel of one woman's transformative journey, from the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer.
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The Twelve-Mile Straight
An audacious American epic set in rural Georgia during the years of the Depression and Prohibition.
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A Place For Us
A deeply moving story of love, identity and belonging--the first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker's new imprint.
Epic, propulsive, incredibly ambitious, and dazzlingly written, The Resurrection of Joan ...
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A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of...
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Sometimes I Lie
by Alice Feeney
Awesome, captivating book - don't pass it by !! I don't know where to start or what to say except maybe.... it is mind blowing! compelling and exciting! It keeps you ...
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The Radium Girls
by Kate Moore
I knew I wanted to read this book because I was curious about a part of history which I had not heard about previously, but what I did not expect was to find the book so ...
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America for Beginners
by Leah Franqui
If you enjoyed Fatima Farheen Mirza’s A PLACE FOR US, I highly recommend AMERICA FOR BEGINNERS.
Three misfits set out on a journey across America, a journey of ...
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A Place for Us
by Fatima Farheen Mirza
If you, your parents, your grandparents or people you know are immigrants to this country, this book will touch you on so many levels. The first generation to the ...
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
by Gail Honeyman
While I have to Admit I chose this book out of sheer luck, I am so glad that I did, i can honestly say that it was humorous, desperately sad at times and wonderfully ...
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Salt Houses
by Hala Alyan
This was a meaningful and well written book. My heart went out to this family and I was moved by the women who took their food and customs with them wherever they went to...
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