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• There Are Rivers in the Sky

  a Novel

  Shafak, Elif, 1971-

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  Sweeping across centuries, and stretching from Mesopotamia to London, this stunning novel follows a trio of characters living in the shadows of one of the greatest epic poems of all time - Nineveh and its Remains, as they become entwined…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Stolen Queen

  a Novel

  Davis, Fiona, 1966-

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  In 1978, as a valuable Egyptian artifact disappears during the Met Gala, Met curator Charlotte Cross and young assistant Annie Jenkins embark on a high-stakes search that leads them to Egypt, where Charlotte must confront an ancient curse…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• North Woods

  a Novel

  Mason, Daniel (Daniel Philippe),

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  Exploring the many ways we're connected to our environment and to one another across time, language and space, this sweeping collection of stories about a single house in the woods of New England is told through the lives of an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sirens

  a Novel

  Hart, Emilia,

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  2019: Lucy awakens from a dream to find her hands around her ex-lover's throat. Horrified, she flees to her older sister's house on the Australian coast, hoping she can help explain the strangely vivid nightmare that preceded the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Council of Dolls

  a Novel

  Power, Mona Susan, 1961-

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  Details the story of three women from different generations, told through the stories of the dolls they carried in 1888, 1925 and 1961 bringing to light the damage done to indigenous people through history.

• By Any Other Name

  a Novel

  Picoult, Jodi, 1966-

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  Across centuries two women, Melina Green and Emilia Bassano, one a modern playwright and the other her Elizabethan ancestor, each fight societal expectations to have their voices heard on the stage in a world that silences female…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Last House, or The Age of Oil

  Shattuck, Jessica,

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  Spanning multiple generations and nearly 80 years, this emotional tour de force follows one American family, during the radical movement of the 1968 against Big Oil, as they are forced to reckon with the consequences of resource that built…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Night Ship

  a Novel

  Kidd, Jess,

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  This epic historical novel, based on a real-life event, follows the lives of two characters -- a newly orphaned girl in 1629 who was shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia, and a lonely boy in 1989 who, 300 years later, arrives on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Homegoing

  Gyasi, Yaa,

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  Two half-sisters, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in 18th-century Ghana and experience profoundly different lives and legacies throughout subsequent generations marked by wealth, slavery, war, coal mining, the Great…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Husbands & Lovers

  a Novel

  Williams, Beatriz,

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  Two women, separated by decades and continents, but sharing an exotic family heirloom, search for their lost loves and reclaim secrets. (1940s-50s, 2019)

• The Glassmaker

  Chevalier, Tracy,

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  From the height of Renaissance-era Italy to the present day, this spellbinding novel follows Orsola Rosso and her family of glassblowers as they live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, and how through every era, the Rosso…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Island of Sea Women

  a Novel

  See, Lisa,

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  While working as divers with the all-female diving collective on a small Korean island, Mi-ja and Young-sook find their friendship challenged by their differences and forces outside their control. (1930s-40s, 2008)

• The Attic Child

  a Novel

  Jaye, Lola,

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  Two children locked away in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a shared secret, discover beneath its floorboards clues that provide comfort, when all hope is lost, to break free from their confinement and leave the darkness…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The God of the Woods

  Moore, Liz, 1983-

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  Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Paris

  the Novel

  Rutherfurd, Edward

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  Taking readers on a journey through Parisian history, this sweeping multigenerational saga, filled with romance, danger and rich detail, beautifully illuminates the City of Lights, from its founding under the Romans to the hotbed of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Covenant of Water

  a Novel

  Verghese, Abraham, 1955-

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  Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dust Child

  a Novel

  Nguyễn, Phan Quế Mai, 1973-

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  From the internationally best-selling author of The Mountains Sing comes a suspenseful saga about family secrets, hidden trauma and the overriding power of forgiveness, set during the war and in present-day Vietnam. (1960s-70s, 2016)

• One Hundred Years of Solitude

  García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014

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  The evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town is mirrored in the family history of the Buendias. (1820s -1920s)

• The Book of Lost Friends

  a Novel

  Wingate, Lisa,

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  A modern-day teacher discovers the story of three Reconstruction-era women and how it connects to her own students’ lives. (1875, 1987)

• Held

  Michaels, Anne, 1958-

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  A novel of love and loyalty across four generations, at once sweeping and intimate, of connections and consequences that ignite and reignite as the century unfolds. In radiant moments of desire, comprehension, longing, and transcendence,…Read moreRead more of this annotation