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  • California
    California
    by Edan Lepucki
    Hardcover: Jul 2014
    Paperback: Jul 2015
     
    A gripping and provocative debut novel by a stunning new talent, California imagines a frighteningly realistic near future, in which clashes between mankind's dark nature and deep-seated resilience force us to question how far we will go to protect ...
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  • Calling Me Home
    Calling Me Home
    by Julie Kibler
    Hardcover: Feb 2013
    Paperback: Jan 2014
     
    Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler is a soaring debut interweaving the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s Kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship.
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  • The Camel Bookmobile
    The Camel Bookmobile
    by Masha Hamilton
    Hardcover: Apr 2007
    Paperback: Apr 2008
     
    The Camel Bookmobile follows an American librarian who travels to the arid bush of northeastern Kenya to give meaning to her life, but ultimately loses a piece of her heart. A compelling novel that shows how one life can change many, in spite of ...
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  • The Candy House
    The Candy House : A Visit from the Goon Squad #2
    by Jennifer Egan
    Hardcover: Apr 2022
    Paperback: Mar 2023
     
    From one of the most celebrated writers of our time, a literary figure with cult status, a "sibling novel" to her Pulitzer Prize- and ​NBCC Award-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad - an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for ...
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  • Cane River
    Cane River
    by Lalita Tademy
    Hardcover: Apr 2001
    Paperback: Apr 2002
     
    An epic novel of four generations of African-American women based on one family's meticulously researched past.
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  • Cantoras
    Cantoras
    by Carolina De Robertis
    Hardcover: Sep 2019
    Paperback: Jun 2020
     
    From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango, a revolutionary new novel about five wildly different women who, in the midst of the Uruguayan dictatorship, find one another as lovers, friends, and ultimately, family.
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  • The Carnivorous Carnival
    The Carnivorous Carnival : Book the Ninth (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
    by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist
    Hardcover: Oct 2002
    Paperback: Jan 2003
     
    In the continuing, appalling tales of the Baudelaire siblings, the children are on the run having been falsely accused of murder, so they hide in the carnival, as part of Madame Lulu's House of Freaks. Ages 9+
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  • Carolina Moonset
    Carolina Moonset
    by Matt Goldman
    Hardcover: May 2022
    Paperback: May 2022
     
    Both suspenseful and deeply moving, Carolina Moonset is an engrossing novel about family, memories both golden and terrible, and secrets too dangerous to stay hidden forever, from New York Times bestselling and Emmy Award–winning author, Matt ...
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