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  • Perish
    Perish : A Novel
    by LaToya Watkins
    Hardcover: Aug 2022
    Paperback: Aug 2023
     
    From a stunning new voice, comes a powerful debut novel, Perish, about a Black Texan family, exploring the effects of inherited trauma and intergenerational violence as the family comes together to say goodbye to their matriarch on her deathbed.
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  • The Personal Librarian
    The Personal Librarian
    by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
    Hardcover: Jun 2021
    Paperback: Jun 2022
     
    The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian--who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times ...
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  • Philida
    Philida
    by André Brink
    Paperback: Feb 2013
     
    In Philida, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, André Brink—"one of South Africa's greatest novelists" (The Telegraph)—gives us his most powerful novel yet; the truly unforgettable story of a female slave, and her fierce determination...
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  • Philosophy Made Simple
    Philosophy Made Simple
    by Robert Hellenga
    Hardcover: Mar 2006
    Paperback: Mar 2007
     
    A novel about a man's search for meaning that illuminates our deepest concerns: love and death, marriage and family, and the mysterious tug of beauty on the human heart.
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  • The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World
    The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World : A Novel
    by Laura Imai Messina
    Hardcover: Mar 2021
    Paperback: Oct 2022
     
    The international bestselling novel sold in 21 countries, about grief, mourning, and the joy of survival, inspired by a real phone booth in Japan with its disconnected "wind" phone, a place of pilgrimage and solace since the 2011 tsunami.
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  • The Photographer's Wife
    The Photographer's Wife
    by Suzanne Joinson
    Hardcover: Feb 2016
    Paperback: Feb 2017
     
    A powerful story of betrayal: between father and daughter, between husband and wife, and between nations and people, set in the complex period between the two world wars.
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  • Picture Us In The Light
    Picture Us In The Light
    by Kelly Loy Gilbert
    Hardcover: Apr 2018
    Paperback: Aug 2019
     
    Danny Cheng has always known his parents have secrets. But when he discovers a taped-up box in his father's closet filled with old letters and a file on a powerful Silicon Valley family, he realizes there's much more to his family's past than he ever...
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  • A Piece of the World
    A Piece of the World : A Novel
    by Christina Baker Kline
    Hardcover: Feb 2017
    Paperback: Jan 2018
     
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash hit Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth's mysterious and iconic painting Christina's World.
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