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• The Victory Garden

  Bowen, Rhys,

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  Engaged to an Australian pilot during World War I, Emily volunteers to tend the neglected grounds of a Devonshire estate where she finds inspiration and support in an herbalist's long-forgotten journals.

• March

  a Novel

  Brooks, Geraldine

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  Set during the American Civil War, March tells the story of John March, known to us as the father away from his family of girls in Little Women, Louisa May Alcott's classic American novel.

• In the Full Light of the Sun

  Clark, Clare,

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  Traces the fortunes of three disparate Berliners who against a backdrop of rising Nazi power are caught up in an art scandal involving newly discovered van Goghs.

• The Chelsea Girls

  a Novel

  Davis, Fiona, 1966-

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  A 20-year friendship between a playwright and an actress with Broadway ambitions is tested by the impact of McCarthy-era witch hunts among the creative residents of New York City's Chelsea Hotel.

• Out of Darkness, Shining Light

  a Novel

  Gappah, Petina, 1971-

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  A sharp-tongued cook and a rigidly pious freed slave confront complicated race dynamics to join the followers of the late Dr. Livingstone on a 19th century voyage from Africa to the doctor's home in England.

• Twain & Stanley Enter Paradise

  Hijuelos, Oscar,

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  Chronicles the sojourn of journalist-explorer Henry Stanley; his wife, the painter Dorothy Tennant; and Mark Twain, Stanley's longtime friend, as they head for Cuba in search of Stanley's father.

• Sea Prayer

  Hosseini, Khaled,

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  Presents an evocatively illustrated tribute to the tragic human realities of today's refugee crisis in the form of a father's letter to his young son on the eve of a dangerous journey.

• To the Bright Edge of the World

  a Novel

  Ivey, Eowyn,

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  Leaving his wife, Sophie, behind in the Vancouver barracks, U.S. Army Colonel Allen Forrester embarks on an expedition to map the interior of the newly acquired Alaska Territory. As Forrester and his crew venture into the wilderness, encountering…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All the Flowers in Paris

  a Novel

  Jio, Sarah,

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  A tale told from alternating viewpoints follows the experiences of a Parisian woman who awakens with no memory of her past before discovering a mysterious cache of letters by a young woman of Jewish ancestry during the Nazi occupation.

• The Stationery Shop

  Kamali, Marjan,

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  A young couple who meet and fall in love at a neighborhood stationery shop in 1953 Tehran are separated by a violent coup d'etat on the eve of their marriage and reunite by chance after more than half a century.

• The Light Over London

  Kelly, Julia, 1986-

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  Unable to confront the challenges in her own life, Cara Hargraves immerses herself in work for her antiques-dealer boss, uncovering relics from the life of World War II British "Gunner Girl" Louise Keene and her complicated relationship with a man…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lacuna

  a Novel

  Kingsolver, Barbara

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  Harrison William Shepherd, a highly observant writer, is caught between two worlds--in Mexico, working for communists Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky, and later in America, where he is caught up in the patriotism of World War II.

• The Translation of Love

  a Novel

  Kutsukake, Lynne,

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  Deported back to post-war Japan with her father after their release from a Canadian internment camp, thirteen-year-old Aya Shimamura struggles at school, where she is bullied for being foreign, before one of her tormentors asks for Aya's help in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lost Vintage

  a Novel

  Mah, Ann,

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  Returning to her ancestral vineyard in Burgundy, an aspiring master wine expert unexpectedly uncovers a lost diary, an unknown relative and a family secret from World War II.

• Gilead

  a Novel

  Robinson, Marilynne,

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  As the Reverend John Ames approaches the hour of his own death, he writes a letter to his son chronicling three previous generations of his family, a story that stretches back to the Civil War and reveals uncomfortable family secrets.

• The House I Loved

  Rosnay, Tatiana de, 1961-

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  Paris, 1869. Houses are being razed, whole neighborhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann has set into motion a series of large-scale renovations that will permanently transform Paris into a modern city. In the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

  a Novel

  Ryan, Jennifer (Jennifer L.),

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  Letters and journals reveal the struggles, affairs, deceptions and triumphs of five members of a village choir during World War II as they band together to survive the upheavals of war and village intrigue on the English home front.

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

  Shaffer, Mary Ann

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  In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey, who tells her about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during German occupation.

• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

  a Novel

  Vuong, Ocean, 1988-

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  A letter from a son to a mother who cannot read reveals the impact of the Vietnam War on their family history and provides a view into parts of the son's life that his mother has never known.

• The Lost Diary of M

  a Novel

  Wolfe, Paul, 1947-

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  Navigating her attraction to a married customer who has brought her a 16th-century treatise, a book restorer uncovers the story of a forbidden romance between a courtesan and a Renaissance artist who is losing his sight.