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  • Prima Facie
    Prima Facie : A Novel
    by Suzie Miller
    Hardcover: Jan 2024
    Paperback: Jan 2025
     
    Based on the Olivier and Tony Award-winning play, Suzie Miller's Prima Facie is an unforgettable story of what happens when a victim is asked to navigate a system that is not set up to accommodate the lived experience of sexual assault survivors.
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  • Private Life
    Private Life
    by Jane Smiley
    Hardcover: May 2010
    Paperback: Jun 2011
     
    A riveting new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winner that traverses the intimate landscape of one woman’s life, from the 1880s to World War II.
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  • Probably Ruby
    Probably Ruby : A Novel
    by Lisa Bird-Wilson
    Hardcover: Apr 2022
    Paperback: Jan 2023
     
    An Indigenous woman adopted by white parents goes in search of her identity in this unforgettable debut novel about family, race, and history.
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  • Prodigal Summer
    Prodigal Summer
    by Barbara Kingsolver
    Hardcover: Oct 2000
    Paperback: Oct 2001
     
    Weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.
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  • The Professor and the Madman
    The Professor and the Madman : A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
    by Simon Winchester
    Hardcover: Jan 1998
    Paperback: Jul 2005
     
    With riveting insight and detail, Simon Winchester crafts a fascinating glimpse into one man's tortured mind and his contribution to another man's magnificent dictionary.
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  • The Promise
    The Promise
    by Ann Weisgarber
    Hardcover: Apr 2014
    Paperback: May 2015
     
    From the author of The Personal History of Rachel Dupree, shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers and longlisted for the Orange Prize.
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  • The Prophet
    The Prophet
    by Michael Koryta
    Hardcover: Aug 2012
    Paperback: Aug 2013
     
    Michael Koryta, long hailed as one of the best young thriller writers at work today, has written his greatest novel ever - an emotionally harrowing, unstoppably suspenseful novel that proves why Michael Connelly has named him "one of the best of the ...
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  • Prophet Song
    Prophet Song
    by Paul Lynch
    Hardcover: Dec 2023
    Paperback: Nov 2024
     
    Exhilarating, terrifying and surprisingly intimate, Prophet Song offers a shocking vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother's fight to hold her family together.
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