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  • Jack
    Jack
    by Marilynne Robinson
    Hardcover: Sep 2020
    Paperback: Apr 2021
     
    Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the latest novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction.
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  • Jackie & Me
    Jackie & Me
    by Louis Bayard
    Hardcover: Jun 2022
    Paperback: Jun 2023
     
    Master storyteller Louis Bayard delivers a surprising portrait of a young Jackie Kennedy as we've never seen her before.
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  • Jade Dragon Mountain
    Jade Dragon Mountain
    by Elsa Hart
    Hardcover: Sep 2015
    Paperback: Jul 2016
     
    On the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already knows: that empires rise and fall on the strength of the stories they tell.
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  • James
    James : A Novel
    by Percival Everett
    Hardcover: Mar 2024
     
    A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. From the "literary icon" (Oprah Daily) and Pulitzer Prize Finalist whose novel Erasure is the ...
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  • The Jane Austen Book Club
    The Jane Austen Book Club
    by Karen Joy Fowler
    Hardcover: Apr 2004
    Paperback: May 2005
     
    Dedicated Austenites will delight in unearthing the echoes of Austen that run through the novel, but most readers will simply enjoy the vision and voice that, despite two centuries of separation, unite two great writers of brilliant social comedy.
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  • The Jane Austen Society
    The Jane Austen Society : A Novel
    by Natalie Jenner
    Hardcover: May 2020
    Paperback: Jul 2021
     
    Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people band together to attempt something remarkable.
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  • The Jesus Thief
    The Jesus Thief
    by J.R. Lankford
    Hardcover: Mar 2003
     
    The story of a momentous undertaking -- an attempt to clone Christ. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully written, this soaring novel is a triumph, and a touching and unexpected love story, born amid swirling events.
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  • Jewel
    Jewel
    by Bret Lott
    Hardcover: Jan 1999
    Paperback: Jan 1999
     
    In this story of a woman's devotion to the child who is both her burden and God's singular way of smiling on her, Bret Lott has created a mother-daughter relationship of matchless intensity and beauty.
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