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The prize-winning author of Versailles tells the story of a small New England village unsettled by a young girl's unearthly gift. In Varennes, a town near the Canadian border, three girls come across the body of a dead man on the local lake's beach. Two of them run to get help, but twelve-year-old Mees Kipp stays with the body and somehow, inexplicably, brings it back to life. Her mysterious gift is at the center of this haunting and transcendent...
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Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Alice and Mattia thought they were kindred spirits, soul mates meant only for each other, but when Mattia is offered an opportunity that takes him far away, Alice is left bereft and alone, until a chance encounter years later reunites them and Alice must decide if she is willing to trust Mattia with her heart once more.
85) On Canaan's side
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Viking
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Lilly Bere reflects on her life as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill, recounting her forced emigration from Ireland at the end of World War I, her life in America, her first taste of love and betrayal, and her capacity for forgiveness.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Dexter Morgan returns from his honeymoon in Paris and gets to work perfecting his disguise as the perfect husband, father, and investigator, and wondering if he will be able to put his homicidal tendencies to rest, but when a new serial killer is identified, Dexter is once again drawn into the battle for fitting justice.
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English
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Songwriter Dahlia Green has lost her midas touch-not that she ever really had it to begin with. Okay, so a few of the songs she wrote were recorded, but business has disastrously dried up and she's convinced no lucky break is lurking around the corner. Unless, that is, Dahlia can convince her estranged cousin, Sunny, to forgo the rights to a song they cowrote years before. But there's a problem: it's been twenty-five years since Dahlia last saw her...
92) Chesapeake blue
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English
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Seth Quinn returns from Europe a successful painter to settle down once again in the seaside town of St. Christopher, Maryland, and becomes interested in local florist Dru Whitcomb, but the course of true love does not run true when their pasts conspire to tear them apart.
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Library of America
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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Presents James T. Farrell's trilogy of Studs Lonigan novels, written in the 1930s, which follows the life and experiences of a young Irish-American man from Chicago through World War I, the Roaring Twenties, and the Great Depression.
94) Losing Julia
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2000
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English
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Patrick Delaney looks back from the perspective of old age and considers how things might have been if he and Julia, his one great love, had been able to share their lives.
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English
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A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky.
For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined. Unfolding over the next twenty-four hours,...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Twenty-year-old twins Valentina and Julia Poole inherit their aunt Elspeth Noblin's London apartment and travel from Chicago to England where they become caught up in the lives of their neighbors, including Martin, a crossword-puzzle setter with obsessive compulsive disorder, his devoted wife Marijke, and Elspeth's lover Robert, as well as the ghosts of the vast Highgate Cemetery next to the building.
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Viking
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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After Bill Warrington learns he has Alzheimer's disease he takes his fifteen-year-old granddaughter on a road trip out to California to help her pursue her dreams of stardom, unbeknownst to her mother, and leaves clues along the way with the hope that his estranged adult children will follow the trail.
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