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Literary Fiction
| New Boy |
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Tracy Chevalier |
NEW BOY is Tracy Chevalier's retelling of Shakespeare's Othello on an elementary school playground of the 1970s. The Hogarth series and the world class authors chosen for the task, translate the Bard's work into stories all readers will appreciate.
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| The Last Runaway |
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Tracy Chevalier |
THE LAST RUNAWAY tells of a young Quaker woman who arrives in the American Midwest in the 1850s to find life very different from her home across the Atlantic. She is drawn into helping slaves escape on the Underground Railway and discovers principles count for little, even within a religious community famed for... |
| A Single Thread |
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Tracy Chevalier |
A SINGLE THREAD takes place in 1932, where Violet has become a "surplus woman" after the deaths of both her brother and her fiance in World War I. She saves up enough money to move away from her cold mother, and finds a community in a group of women who sew the kneelers for the grand cathedral in town. However, she... |
| At the Edge of the Orchard |
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Tracy Chevalier |
AT THE EDGE OF THE ORCHARD is a riveting family drama with settings ranging from Connecticut through Ohio to California, in the middle of the nineteenth century. A harsh theme is discovered understanding different types of apple trees and the fruit they produce. This title has been selected as a Booksmith... |
| Switchboard Soldiers |
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Jennifer Chiaverini |
SWITCHBOARD SOLDIERS is the untold story of America's young women who went to the battlefields of Europe in World War One to set up communication lines between General Pershing, his officers and the men in the trenches. Considering the restrictions on the lives of these gals at this time, their essential role in the... |
| The Postmistress of Paris |
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Meg Waite Clayton |
THE POSTMISTRESS OF PARIS is the haunting book that has captivated the nation. Based of the true life story of an American heiress who risked her life to smuggle artists and intellectuals out of occupied France, this page-turner follows the dangerous adventures that take place under the Nazi's noses. It is one of the... |
| Everyone Brave is Forgiven |
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Chris Cleave |
EVERYONE BRAVE IS FORGIVEN is set in London at the beginning of World War II, and tells the little known story of teachers sending their pupils to rural areas to protect them from Nazi air raids in London - the light skin children, that is. There is also a wartime story of romance and loss. The book is inspired by the... |
| The Guest |
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Emma Cline |
THE GUEST is a powerful novel about a young woman discarded at a train station by the older man with whom she had been living. She then drifts through the rarefied world of Long Island attempting to land on solid ground. This is a spellbinding literary achievement.
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| Daddy |
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Emma Cline |
DADDY is a brilliant collection of dark stories praised by critics around the country. These literary treasures run the gamit from an absentee father collecting his son from boarding school to a young woman selling her underwear to a stranger to a notorious guest arriving in the Southwest for rehab. Fans of The... |
| Prince of Tides |
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Pat Conroy |
THE PRINCE OF TIDES is Pat Conroy's brilliant and powerful drama set in the South Carolina low country and New York City that was translated into the movie classic starring Barbra Streisand. Many critics proclaim this as the author's zenith.
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