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In the bestselling tradition of The Friday Night Knitting Club and The Jane Austen Book Club, three women find unexpected answers, happiness, and one another, using Meryl Streep's movies as their inspiration.
Two sisters and the cousin they grew up with after a tragedy are summoned home to their family matriarch's inn on the coast of Maine for a shocking announcement. Suddenly, Isabel, June, and Kat are sharing the attic bedroom-and barely speaking....
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A volunteer service dog trainer discusses her relationships with an endearing yellow Labrador puppy and its felon partner in the Prison PUP program, describing coming to terms with the inmate's past and the program's requirement to release the dog after training.
4) What if: a lifetime of questions, speculations, reasonable guesses, and a few things I know for sure
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The actress presents an esoteric collection of musings that range from what if a frog had wings to what if "Downton Abbey" had more American characters.
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Ryan Kelly spends plenty of time at The Bridge--the oldest bookstore in historic downtown Franklin, Tennessee--remembering the times he and Molly Allen--who moved to Portland--once spent there, and now, with the bookstore in deep financial trouble, it will take a miracle to keep tragedy from unfolding.
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Regan Reilly mysteries volume 19
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Vacationing in California while her new husband, Jack, attends a business conference, private investigator Regan Reilly checks out a vegan family friend's concerns about an unscrupulous investment manager and uncovers a vast scam extending throughout the California coast.
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On August 23, 2008, whilst working as a freelance reporter in Somalia, Amanda Lindhout was kidnapped along with Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan and their Somali translator and driver. Following her release in 2009, she went public about being shackled and locked in a shed, tortured and beaten by her captors for 15 months but she never talked about the alleged sexual abuse - until now. Amanda Lindhout has reported from war zones in Africa,...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
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"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
10) A winter dream
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Follows the story of Joe, who after being forced out of the family business by jealous siblings, becomes the chief advisor to the CEO of another company and his own family's savior in the face of a troubled economy.
11) Revival
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
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"In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt in front of his house when a shadow falls over him. He looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later, who with his beautiful wife, will transform the church and the town. The men and boys are a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls, with the Reverend Jacobs--including Jamie's sisters and mother. Then tragedy...
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