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  • Once Upon a River
    Once Upon a River
    by Diane Setterfield
    Hardcover: Dec 2018
    Paperback: Jul 2019
     
    A richly imagined, powerful new novel about how we explain the world to ourselves, ourselves to others, and the meaning of our lives in a universe that remains impenetrably mysterious.
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  • Once Was Lost
    Once Was Lost
    by Sara Zarr
    Hardcover: Oct 2009
    Paperback: Jan 2011
     
    Samara Taylor used to believe in miracles. But her mother is in rehab, and her father seems more interested in his congregation than his family. And when a young girl in her small town is kidnapped, her already-worn thread of faith begins to unravel...
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  • Once We Were Home
    Once We Were Home
    by Jennifer Rosner
    Hardcover: Mar 2023
    Paperback: Mar 2024
     
    From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings, comes a novel based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II.
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  • One Child
    One Child : The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
    by Mei Fong
    Hardcover: Jan 2016
    Paperback: Jan 2018
     
    An intimate investigation of the world's largest experiment in social engineering, revealing how its effects will shape China for decades to come and what that means for the rest of the world
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  • One Night Two Souls Went Walking
    One Night Two Souls Went Walking
    by Ellen Cooney
    Paperback: Nov 2020
     
    A young interfaith chaplain is joined on her hospital rounds one night by an unusual companion: a rough-and-tumble dog who may or may not be a ghost.
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  • One of Our Kind
    One of Our Kind : A Novel
    by Nicola Yoon
    Hardcover: Jun 2024
    Paperback: Jul 2025
     
    Thrilling with insightful social commentary, One of Our Kind explores the ways in which freedom is complicated by the presumptions we make about ourselves and each other.
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  • One of Us
    One of Us : A Novel
    by Dan Chaon
    Hardcover: Sep 2025
    Paperback: Sep 2026
     
    A playfully macabre and utterly thrilling tale about orphaned twins on the run from their murderous uncle who find refuge in a bizarre traveling carnival, from a master of literary horror.
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  • The One-in-a-Million Boy
    The One-in-a-Million Boy
    by Monica Wood
    Hardcover: Apr 2016
    Paperback: Apr 2017
     
    The incandescent story of a 104-year-old woman and the sweet, strange young boy assigned to help her around the house — a friendship that touches each member of the boy's unmoored family.
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