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    Fiction Sets<\/h1>\n

    All That Makes Life Bright
    \nBy: Josi S. Kilpack
    \nGenre: Fiction – Historical Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    When Harriet Beecher marries Calvin Stowe on January 6, 1836, she is sure her future will be filled romance, eventually a family, and continued opportunities to develop as a writer. Her husband Calvin is completely supportive and said she\u00a0must<\/i>\u00a0be a literary woman. Harriet’s sister, Catharine, worries she will lose her identity in marriage, but she is determined to preserve her independent spirit. Deeply religious, she strongly believes God has called her to fulfill the roles of wife and writer and will help her accomplish everything she was born to do.<\/p>\n

    Two months after her wedding Harriet discovers she is pregnant just as Calvin prepares to leave for a European business trip. Alone, Harriet is overwhelmed-being a wife has been harder than she thought and being an expectant mother feels like living another woman’s life. Knowing that part of Calvin still cherishes the memory of his first wife, Harriet begins to question her place in her husband’s heart and yearns for his return; his letters are no substitute for having him home. When Calvin returns, however, nothing seems to have turned out as planned.<\/p>\n

    Struggling to balance the demands of motherhood with her passion for writing and her desire to be a part of the social change in Ohio, Harriet works to build a life with her beloved Calvin despite differing temperaments and expectations.<\/p>\n

    Can their love endure, especially after “I do”? Can she recapture the first blush of new love and find the true beauty in her marriage?<\/p>\n

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    Anxious People
    \nBy: Fredrik Backman
    \nGenre: Fiction – Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can’t fix their own marriage. There’s a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about to have their first child but can’t seem to agree on anything. Add to the mix an eighty-seven-year-old woman who has lived long enough not to be afraid of someone waving a gun in her face, a flustered but still-ready-to-make-a-deal real estate agent, and a mystery man who has locked himself in the apartment’s only bathroom, and you’ve got the worst group of hostages in the world.<\/p>\n

    Each of them carries a lifetime of grievances, hurts, secrets, and passions that are ready to boil over. None of them is entirely who they appear to be. And all of them–the bank robber included–desperately crave some sort of rescue. As the authorities and the media surround the premises, these reluctant allies will reveal surprising truths about themselves and set in motion a chain of events so unexpected that even they can hardly explain what happens next.<\/p>\n

    Proving once again that Backman is “a master of writing delightful, insightful, soulful, character-driven narratives” (USA TODAY), Anxious People “captures the messy essence of being human….It’s clever and affecting, as likely to make you laugh out loud as it is to make you cry” (The Washington Post). This “endlessly entertaining mood-booster” (Real Simple) is proof that the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness, and hope can save us–even in the most anxious of times.<\/p>\n

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    Austenland: a novel
    \nBy: Shannon Hale
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:9<\/h3>\n

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    Because her obsession with Jane Austen\u2019s Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of \u201cPride and Prejudice,\u201d is ruining her love life, Jane Hayes is delighted when she gets the chance to take a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-crazed women.<\/p>\n

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    The Baker’s Secret
    \nBy: Stephen P. Kiernan
    \nGenre: Historical Fiction – Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    From the multiple-award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Hummingbird and The Curiosity comes a dazzling novel of World War II\u2014a shimmering tale of courage, determination, optimism, and the resilience of the human spirit, set in a small Normandy village on the eve of D-Day.<\/p>\n

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    Beneath the Wide Silk Sky
    \nBy: Emily Inouye Huey
    \nGenre: Fiction \u2013 Historical Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    Sam Sakamoto doesn\u2019t have space in her life for dreams. With the recent death of her mother, Sam\u2019s focus is the farm, which her family will lose if they can\u2019t make one last payment. There\u2019s no time for her secret and unrealistic hope of becoming a photographer, no matter how skilled she\u2019s become. But Sam doesn\u2019t know that an even bigger threat looms on the horizon.<\/p>\n

    On December 7, 1941, Japanese airplanes attack the US naval base at Pearl Harbor. Fury towards Japanese Americans ignites across the country. In Sam\u2019s community in Washington State, the attack gives those who already harbor prejudice an excuse to hate.<\/p>\n

    As Sam\u2019s family wrestles with intensifying discrimination and even violence, Sam forges a new and unexpected friendship with her neighbor Hiro Tanaka. When he offers Sam a way to resume her photography, she realizes she can document the bigotry around her \u2014 if she\u2019s willing to take the risk. When the United States announces that those of Japanese descent will be forced into \u201crelocation camps,\u201d Sam knows she must act or lose her voice forever. She engages in one last battle to leave with her identity \u2014 and her family \u2014 intact.<\/p>\n

    Emily Inouye Huey movingly draws inspiration from her own family history to paint an intimate portrait of the lead-up to Japanese incarceration, racism on the World War II homefront, and the relationship between patriotism and protest in this stunningly lyrical debut.<\/p>\n

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    The Big Finish
    \nBy: Brooke Fossey
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    For Duffy Sinclair, life boils down to one simple thing: maintaining his residence at the idyllic Centennial Assisted Living. Without it, he\u2019s destined for the roach-infested nursing home down the road\u2013and after wasting the first eighty-eight years of his life, he refuses to waste away for the rest. So, he keeps his shenanigans to the bare minimum with the help of his straight-laced best friend and roommate, Carl Upton.<\/p>\n

    But when Carl\u2019s granddaughter Josie climbs through their bedroom window with booze on her breath and a black eye, Duffy\u2019s faced with trouble that\u2019s sticking around and hard to hide\u2013from Centennial\u2019s management and Josie\u2019s toxic boyfriend. Before he knows it, he\u2019s running a covert operation that includes hitchhiking and barhopping.<\/p>\n

    He might as well write himself a one-way ticket to the nursing home\u2026or the morgue. Yet Duffy\u2019s all in. Because thanks to an unlikely friendship that becomes fast family\u2013his life doesn\u2019t boil down the same anymore. Not when he finally has a chance to leave a legacy.<\/p>\n

    In a funny, insightful, and life-affirming debut, Brooke Fossey delivers an unflinching look at growing old, living large, and loving big, as told by a wise-cracking man who didn\u2019t see any of it coming.<\/p>\n

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    Bloomsbury Girls
    \nBy: Natalie Jenner
    \nGenre: Fiction \u2013 Historical Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    Bloomsbury Books is an old-fashioned new and rare book store that has persisted and resisted change for a hundred years, run by men and guided by the general manager\u2019s unbreakable fifty-one rules. But in 1950, the world is changing, especially the world of books and publishing, and at Bloomsbury Books, the girls in the shop have plans:<\/p>\n

    Vivien Lowry: Single since her aristocratic fiance was killed in action during World War II, the brilliant and stylish Vivien has a long list of grievances\u2013most of them well justified and the biggest of which is Alec McDonough, the Head of Fiction.<\/p>\n

    Grace Perkins: Married with two sons, she\u2019s been working to support the family following her husband\u2019s breakdown in the aftermath of the war. Torn between duty to her family and dreams of her own.<\/p>\n

    Evie Stone: In the first class of female students from Cambridge permitted to earn a degree, Evie was denied an academic position in favor of her less accomplished male rival. Now she\u2019s working at Bloomsbury Books while she plans to remake her own future.<\/p>\n

    As they interact with various literary figures of the time\u2013Daphne Du Maurier, Ellen Doubleday, Sonia Blair (widow of George Orwell), Samuel Beckett, Peggy Guggenheim, and others\u2013these three women with their complex web of relationships, goals and dreams are all working to plot out a future that is richer and more rewarding than anything society will allow.<\/p>\n

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    The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
    \nBy: Abbi Waxman
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just shrugs and picks up a new book.<\/p>\n

    When the father Nina never knew existed suddenly dies, leaving behind innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, and nephews, Nina is horrified. They all live close by! They\u2019re all\u2013or mostly all\u2013excited to meet her! She\u2019ll have to Speak. To. Strangers. It\u2019s a disaster! And as if that wasn\u2019t enough, Tom, her trivia nemesis, has turned out to be cute, funny, and deeply interested in getting to know her. Doesn\u2019t he realize what a terrible idea that is?<\/p>\n

    Nina considers her options.
    \n1. Completely change her name and appearance. (Too drastic, plus she likes her hair.)
    \n2. Flee to a deserted island. (Hard pass, see: coffee).
    \n3. Hide in a corner of her apartment and rock back and forth. (Already doing it.)<\/p>\n

    It\u2019s time for Nina to come out of her comfortable shell, but she isn\u2019t convinced real life could ever live up to fiction. It\u2019s going to take a brand-new family, a persistent suitor, and the combined effects of ice cream and trivia to make her turn her own fresh page.<\/p>\n

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    The Chicken Sisters
    \nBy: KJ Dell\u2019Antonia
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    For a century two rival chicken shacks in Merinac, Kansas, have been vying to serve the best fried chicken in the state, and a feud between the two families has lasted as long. When Amanda falls in love with a man from the rival chicken shack, she scandalously changes sides and starts working for her family\u2019s nemesis. Tired of being stuck in the middle, she recruits her Brooklyn-based sister to move back to Kansas and join her on reality TV show Food Wars to settle the feud. Yet when family secrets become public, the sisters must choose: will they fight with each other, or for their heritage?<\/p>\n

    Christmas by the Book
    \nBy: Anne Marie Ryan
    \nGenre: Classic – Holiday – Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    In small-town England, two booksellers facing tough times decide to spread some Christmas cheer through the magic of anonymous book deliveries in this uplifting holiday tale for book lovers everywhere.<\/p>\n

    Nora and her husband, Simon, have run the beautiful oak-beamed book shop in their small British village for thirty years. But times are tough and the shop is under threat of closure–this Christmas season will really decide their fate. When an elderly man visits the store and buys the one book they’ve never been able to sell, saying it’s the perfect gift for his sick grandson, it gives Nora an idea. She and Simon will send out books to those feeling down this Christmas. Maybe they can’t save their bookstore, but at least they’ll have one final chance to lift people’s spirits through the power of reading.<\/p>\n

    After gathering nominations online, Nora and Simon quietly deliver books to six residents of the village in need of some festive cheer, including a single dad of twins who is working hard to make ends meet, a teenage boy grieving for his big sister, a local Member of Parliament who is battling depression, and a teacher who’s newly retired and living on her own. As the town prepares for a white Christmas, the books begin to give the recipients hope, one by one. But with the future of the bookshop still up in the air, Nora and Simon will need a Christmas miracle–or perhaps a little help from the people whose lives they’ve touched–to find a happy ending of their own….<\/p>\n

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    A Christmas Carol
    \nBy: Charles Dickens
    \nGenre: Fiction – Holiday
    \nBooks in Set:7<\/h3>\n

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    Cruel miser Ebeneezer Scrooge has never met a shilling he doesn\u2019t like. . .and hardly a man he does. And he hates Christmas most of all. When Scrooge is visited by his old partner, Jacob Marley, and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come, he learns eternal lessons of charity, kindness, and goodwill.<\/p>\n

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    The Correspondent
    \nBy: Virginia Evans
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    “Imagine, the letters one has sent out into the world, the letters received back in turn, are like the pieces of a magnificent puzzle. . . . Isn’t there something wonderful in that, to think that a story of one’s life is preserved in some way, that this very letter may one day mean something, even if it is a very small thing, to someone?”<\/i><\/p>\n

    Filled with knowledge that only comes from a life fully lived,\u00a0The Correspondent<\/i>\u00a0is a gem of a novel about the power of finding solace in literature and connection with people we might never meet in person. It is about the hubris of youth and the wisdom of old age, and the mistakes and acts of kindness that occur during a lifetime.<\/p>\n

    Sybil Van Antwerp has throughout her life used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings, around half past ten, Sybil sits down to write letters–to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class she desperately wants to take, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter.<\/p>\n

    Sybil expects her world to go on as it always has–a mother, grandmother, wife, divorcee, distinguished lawyer, she has lived a very full life. But when letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life, she realizes that the letter she has been writing over the years needs to be read and that she cannot move forward until she finds it in her heart to offer forgiveness.<\/p>\n

    Sybil Van Antwerp’s life of letters might be “a very small thing,” but she also might be one of the most memorable characters you will ever read.<\/p>\n

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    Cinder
    \nBy: Marissa Meyer
    \nGenre: Fiction\/Teen
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth\u2019s fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She\u2019s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past and reviled by her stepmother. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai\u2019s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world\u2019s future. Book one of the Lunar Chronicles introduces readers to an unforgettable heroine and a masterfully crafted, enthralling new world.<\/p>\n

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    The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
    \nBy: Phaedra Patrick
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    Finding a mysterious charm bracelet among his late wife\u2019s possessions, sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper breaks from his routine life for the first time since her death and embarks on a quest to learn about his wife\u2019s life before their marriage, a journey that leads to unexpected self-discoveries.<\/p>\n

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    The Echo of Old Books
    \nBy: Barbara Davis
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    Rare-book dealer Ashlyn Greer’s affinity for books extends beyond the intoxicating scent of old paper, ink, and leather. She can feel the echoes of the books’ previous owners–an emotional fingerprint only she can read. When Ashlyn discovers a pair of beautifully bound volumes that appear to have never been published, her gift quickly becomes an obsession. Not only is each inscribed with a startling incrimination, but the authors, Hemi and Belle, tell conflicting sides of a tragic romance.<\/p>\n

    With no trace of how these mysterious books came into the world, Ashlyn is caught up in a decades-old literary mystery, beckoned by two hearts in ruins, whoever they were, wherever they are. Determined to learn the truth behind the doomed lovers’ tale, she reads on, following a trail of broken promises and seemingly unforgivable betrayals. The more Ashlyn learns about Hemi and Belle, the nearer she comes to bringing closure to their love story–and to the unfinished chapters of her own life.<\/p>\n

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    Edenbrooke
    \nBy: Julianne Donaldson
    \nGenre: Historical Fiction – Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:7<\/h3>\n

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    Marianne Daventry will do anything to escape the boredom of Bath and the amorous attentions of an unwanted suitor. So when an invitation arrives from her twin sister, Cecily, to join her at a sprawling country estate, she jumps at the chance. Thinking she\u2019ll be able to relax and enjoy her beloved English countryside while her sister snags the handsome heir of Edenbrooke, Marianne finds that even the best laid plans can go awry.<\/p>\n

    From a terrifying run-in with a highwayman to a seemingly harmless flirtation, Marianne finds herself embroiled in an unexpected adventure filled with enough romance and intrigue to keep her mind racing. Will Marianne be able to rein in her traitorous heart, or will a mysterious stranger sweep her off her feet? Fate had something other than a relaxing summer in mind when it sent Marianne to Edenbrooke.<\/p>\n

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    Ella Enchanted
    \nBy: Gail Carson Levine
    \nGenre: Fiction\/Teen Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:9<\/h3>\n

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    How can a fairy\u2019s blessing be such a curse?<\/p>\n

    At her birth, Ella of Frell was given a foolish fairy\u2019s gift\u2014the \u201cgift\u201d of obedience. Ella must obey any order given to her, whether it\u2019s hopping on one foot for a day or chopping off her own head!<\/p>\n

    But strong-willed Ella does not tamely accept her fate. She goes on a quest, encountering ogres, giants, wicked stepsisters, fairy godmothers, and handsome princes, determined to break the curse\u2014and live happily ever after.<\/p>\n

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    Everyone Brave is Forgiven
    \nBy: Chris Cleave
    \nGenre: Historical Fiction – Fiction
    \nBooks in Set: 9<\/h3>\n

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    London, 1939. The day war is declared, Mary North leaves finishing school unfinished, goes straight to the War Office, and signs up. Tom Shaw decides to ignore the war\u2014until he learns his roommate Alistair Heath has unexpectedly enlisted. Then the conflict can no longer be avoided. Young, bright, and brave, Mary is certain she\u2019d be a marvelous spy. When she is\u2014bewilderingly\u2014made a teacher, she finds herself defying prejudice to protect the children her country would rather forget. Tom, meanwhile, finds that he will do anything for Mary.<\/p>\n

    And when Mary and Alistair meet, it is love, as well as war, that will test them in ways they could not have imagined, entangling three lives in violence and passion, friendship and deception, inexorably shaping their hopes and dreams.<\/p>\n

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    Finding Christmas
    \nBy: Karen Schaler
    \nGenre: Holiday – Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    With all the glittering decorations, twinkling lights, snow angels, gingerbread men and mistletoe, Christmas is Emmie\u2019s first love.<\/p>\n

    This year, she can\u2019t wait to share her favorite Christmas traditions with her boyfriend, Grant. She thinks he\u2019s \u201cthe one.\u201d So when Grant\u2019s hectic work schedule has him more \u201cBah Humbug\u201d than \u201cHo, Ho, Ho,\u201d Emmie creates a holiday-themed scavenger hunt to help him find his Christmas spirit. At the end of the journey, Grant will arrive at the charming town of Christmas Point where she\u2019s planned a romantic weekend filled with holiday activities.<\/p>\n

    But Emmie\u2019s plan backfires when a mix-up has the wrong guy following her clues! Sam, a best-selling mystery writer, thinks Emmie\u2019s clever Christmas riddles are from his agent, who is trying to help him get over his epic writer\u2019s block.<\/p>\n

    When he arrives at Christmas Point and finds the stunned Emmie, he immediately feels she\u2019s someone special, but she can\u2019t see beyond the fact that the wrong guy has shown up. Inspired by the small, charming town, Sam decides to stay and convinces Emmie to join him in a little holiday fun while she waits for Grant.<\/p>\n

    When Grant finally shows up, Emmie is disappointed to discover he\u2019s not enjoying the activities she planned and can\u2019t help wonder if he\u2019s really the one for her. She also can\u2019t get Sam out of her mind and all the great times they had together. With Christmas coming fast, Emmie will need the magic of the season to help steer her in the direction of true love\u2026<\/p>\n

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    Finding Dorothy
    \nBy: Elizabeth Letts
    \nGenre: Historical Fiction – Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband\u2019s masterpiece for the screen, seventy-seven-year-old Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set. Nineteen years after Frank\u2019s passing, Maud is the only person who can help the producers stay true to the spirit of the book\u2013because she\u2019s the only one left who knows its secrets.<\/p>\n

    But the moment she hears Judy Garland rehearsing the first notes of \u201cOver the Rainbow,\u201d Maud recognizes the yearning that defined her own life story, from her youth as a suffragette\u2019s daughter to her coming of age as one of the first women in the Ivy League, from her blossoming romance with Frank to the hardscrabble prairie years that inspired The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Judy reminds Maud of a young girl she cared for and tried to help in South Dakota, a dreamer who never got her happy ending. Now, with the young actress under pressure from the studio as well as her ambitious stage mother, Maud resolves to protect her\u2013the way she tried so hard to protect the real Dorothy.<\/p>\n

    The author of two New York Times bestselling nonfiction books , The Eighty-Dollar Champion and The Perfect Horse, Elizabeth Letts is a master at discovering and researching a rich historical story and transforming it into a page-turner. Finding Dorothy is the result of Letts\u2019s journey into the amazing lives of Frank and Maud Baum. Written as fiction but based closely on the truth, Elizabeth Letts\u2019s new book tells a story of love, loss, inspiration, and perseverance, set in America\u2019s heartland.<\/p>\n

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    Fleur-de-lis
    \nBy: Sarah M. Eden
    \nGenre: Historical Fiction – Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    Thirteen years ago, Henri Fortier left a tumultuous life in France to begin anew in England. His adopted country has become home, and his dearest friends, the Gents, are family. Unfortunately, ties to the past still plague him, and he’s forced to live in near destitution. Henri secretly publishes his poetry to supplement his meager income, but it is both insufficient and risky. A house party with the Gents promises a welcome distraction until he realizes that one of the guests is none other than Nicolette Beaulieu, the woman who stole\u2015and broke\u2015his heart years ago.<\/p>\n

    Nicolette has traveled to England for reasons far more pressing than a house party. As part of the Marquis de Lafayette’s secret network, she has been tasked with preparing for revolution. Though she has a pristine track record with the organization, her romantic history is far from perfect. This is particularly evident when she is reunited with Henri, the man who once declared his love for her. Drawn together through adventures the Gents have devised, the couple begins to tiptoe toward more tender feelings. But as sinister threats loom from all quarters, it may be too late for Henri and Nicolette’s second chance at love.<\/p>\n

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    The Forest of Vanishing Stars
    \nBy: Kristin Harmel
    \nGenre: Historical Fiction – Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is interrupted, however, when she happens upon a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror. Stunned to learn what’s happening in the outside world, she vows to teach the group all she can about surviving in the forest–and in turn, they teach her some surprising lessons about opening her heart after years of isolation. But when she is betrayed and escapes into a German-occupied village, her past and present come together in a shocking collision that could change everything.<\/p>\n

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    The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant
    \nBy: Kayte Nunn
    \nGenre: Historical Fiction – Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    A cache of unsent love letters from the 1950s is found in a suitcase on a remote island in this mysterious love story in the tradition of the novels by Kate Morton and Elizabeth Gilbert.<\/p>\n

    1951. Esther Durrant, a young mother, is committed to an isolated mental asylum by her husband. Run by a pioneering psychiatrist, the hospital is at first Esther\u2019s prison but soon surprisingly becomes her refuge.<\/p>\n

    2018. Free-spirited marine scientist Rachel Parker embarks on a research posting in the Isles of Scilly, off the Cornish coast. When a violent storm forces her to take shelter on a far-flung island, she discovers a collection of hidden love letters. Captivated by their passion and tenderness, Rachel determines to track down the intended recipient. But she has no idea of the far-reaching consequences her decision will bring.<\/p>\n

    Meanwhile, in London, Eve is helping her grandmother, a renowned mountaineer, write her memoirs. When she is contacted by Rachel, it sets in motion a chain of events that threatens to reveal secrets kept buried for more than sixty years.<\/p>\n

    With an arresting dual narrative that immediately captivates the reader, The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant is an inspirational story of the sacrifices made for love.<\/p>\n

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    Frankenstein
    \nBy: Mary Shelley
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

    \"Frankenstein<\/p>\n

    Few creatures of horror have seized readers\u2019 imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley\u2019s Frankenstein. The story of Victor Frankenstein\u2019s terrible creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. Considering the novel\u2019s enduring success, it is remarkable that it began merely as a whim of Lord Byron\u2019s.
    \n\u201cWe will each write a story,\u201d Byron announced to his next-door neighbors, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley. The friends were summering on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1816, Shelley still unknown as a poet and Byron writing the third canto of Childe Harold. When continued rains kept them confined indoors, all agreed to Byron\u2019s proposal.
    \nThe illustrious poets failed to complete their ghost stories, but Mary Shelley rose supremely to the challenge. With Frankenstein, she succeeded admirably in the task she set for herself: to create a story that, in her own words, \u201cwould speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror \u2014 one to make the reader dread to look round, to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    The Frozen River
    \nBy: Ariel Lawhon
    \nGenre: Fiction – Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community. Months earlier, Martha documented the details of an alleged rape committed by two of the town’s most respected gentlemen–one of whom has now been found dead in the ice. But when a local physician undermines her conclusion, declaring the death to be an accident, Martha is forced to investigate the shocking murder on her own.<\/p>\n

    Over the course of one winter, as the trial nears, and whispers and prejudices mount, Martha doggedly pursues the truth. Her diary soon lands at the center of the scandal, implicating those she loves, and compelling Martha to decide where her own loyalties lie.<\/p>\n

    Clever, layered, and subversive, Ariel Lawhon’s newest offering introduces an unsung heroine who refused to accept anything less than justice at a time when women were considered best seen and not heard. The Frozen River is a thrilling, tense, and tender story about a remarkable woman who left an unparalleled legacy yet remains nearly forgotten to this day.<\/p>\n

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    Funny Story
    \nBy: Emily Henry
    \nGenre: Fiction – Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    Daphne always loved the way her fianc\u00e9 Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.<\/p>\n

    Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.<\/p>\n

    Scruffy and chaotic–with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads–Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?<\/p>\n

    But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fianc\u00e9’s new fianc\u00e9e’s ex . . . right?<\/p>\n

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    The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley
    \nBy: Courtney Walsh
    \nGenre: Fiction – Romance
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    She’s out to prove that there’s no such thing as choosing happiness. Full of heart, humor, and tenderness, The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley is a story of found family with a slow-burn, kisses-only romance. Perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and The Rosie Project.<\/p>\n

    Isadora Bentley follows the rules. Isadora Bentley likes things just so. Isadora Bentley believes that happiness is something that flat-out doesn’t exist in her life–and never will.<\/p>\n

    As a university researcher, Isadora keeps to herself as much as possible. She avoids the students she’s supposed to befriend and mentor. She stays away from her neighbors and lives her own quiet, organized life in her own quiet, organized apartment. And she will never get involved in a romantic relationship again–especially with another academic. It will be just Isadora and her research. Forever.<\/p>\n

    But on her thirtieth birthday, Isadora does something completely out of character. The young woman who never does anything “on a whim” makes an impulse purchase of a magazine featuring a silly article detailing “Thirty-One Ways to Be Happy”–which includes everything from smiling at strangers to exercising for endorphins to giving in to your chocolate cravings. Isadora decides to create her own secret research project–proving the writer of the ridiculous piece wrong.<\/p>\n

    As Isadora gets deeper into her research–and meets a handsome professor along the way–she’s stunned to discover that maybe, just maybe, she’s proving herself wrong. Perhaps there’s actually something to this happiness concept, and possibly there’s something to be said for loosening up and letting life take you somewhere . . . happy.<\/p>\n

    With humor, heart, and irresistible warmth, The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley reminds us that true happiness often arrives when we least expect it. As Isadora’s carefully ordered world turns delightfully upside down, she discovers that life–and love–can’t be measured, only lived. If you crave stories that make you laugh, tear up, and believe in second chances at joy, this one’s for you.<\/p>\n

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    Hello Stranger
    \nBy: Katherine Stranger
    \nGenre: Fiction – Romance
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    Love may be blind. But what if . . . what you see isn’t what you get?<\/p>\n

    It’s all starting to come together for struggling artist Sadie Montgomery. She was just named a finalist in the national portrait competition of her dreams. But when she winds up with a rare, but real, condition where human faces look like jumbled puzzle pieces . . . it is, to say the least, not good.<\/p>\n

    With only a few weeks to paint the best portrait of her entire life, Sadie will do anything to reverse her condition and get back to work, but it’s anyone’s guess when (or even if) that’ll happen.<\/p>\n

    Enter her dog’s charming veterinarian (who may or may not be Sadie’s daydream fianc\u00e9), and her bowling-jacket-wearing, Vespa-riding neighbor (who she can’t seem to stay away from)–both vying for her attention and adding to the chaos.<\/p>\n

    It’s a lot, but that doesn’t mean it’s bad. Because the truth is, seeing the world differently has its upsides. And love has an undeniable way of giving us courage. And the best way of looking is always, always with the heart.<\/p>\n

    “With its emphasis on its central character, combined with its “swoony” romance, “Hello Stranger” is a hit. Sadie is everything you could want in a protagonist — the right amount of quirky, sunshiney and stubborn, and the men she’s in love with are equally fascinating. All the side characters provide humor and comfort, and even those characters who you aren’t really supposed to like are annoyingly intriguing and captivating. Center created a brilliant cast of characters, set to a plot that’s sure to keep you reading.”<\/p>\n

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    The Hobbit
    \nBy: J.R.R. Tolkien
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    \u201cIn a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.\u201d<\/p>\n

    The hobbit-hole in question belongs to one Bilbo Baggins, an upstanding member of a \u201clittle people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves.\u201d He is, like most of his kind, well off, well fed, and best pleased when sitting by his own fire with a pipe, a glass of good beer, and a meal to look forward to. Certainly this particular hobbit is the last person one would expect to see set off on a hazardous journey; indeed, when Gandalf the Grey stops by one morning, \u201clooking for someone to share in an adventure,\u201d Baggins fervently wishes the wizard elsewhere. No such luck, however; soon 13 fortune-seeking dwarves have arrived on the hobbit\u2019s doorstep in search of a burglar, and before he can even grab his hat or an umbrella, Bilbo Baggins is swept out his door and into a dangerous adventure. (Amazon.com review)<\/p>\n

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    The Horse Dancer
    \nBy: Jojo Moyes
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    In a hidden corner of London, Henri Lachapelle is teaching his granddaughter and her horse to defy gravity, just as he had done in France, fifty years previously. But when disaster strikes, fourteen-year-old Sarah is left to fend for herself. Forced to share a house with her charismatic ex-husband, her professional judgement called into question, lawyer Natasha Macauley\u2019s life seems to have gone awry. When her path crosses that of Sarah, she sees a chance to put things right.<\/p>\n

    But she doesn\u2019t know that Sarah is keeping a secret\u2026 one that will chance all of their lives.<\/p>\n

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    How to Stop Time
    \nBy: Matt Haig
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    How to Stop Time tells a love story across the ages\u2013and for the ages\u2013about a man lost in time, the woman who could save him, and the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live. It is a bighearted, wildly original novel about losing and finding yourself, the inevitability of change, and how with enough time to learn, we just might find happiness.<\/p>\n

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    The The Hundred Foot Journey
    \nBy: Richard C. Morais
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    Born above his grandfather\u2019s modest restaurant in Mumbai, Hassan Haji first experienced life through intoxicating whiffs of spicy fish curry, trips to the local markets, and gourmet outings with his mother. But when tragedy pushes the family out of India, they console themselves by eating their way around the world, eventually settling in Lumi\u00e8re, a small village in the French Alps.<\/p>\n

    The boisterous Haji family takes Lumi\u00e8re by storm. They open an inexpensive Indian restaurant opposite an esteemed French relais\u2013that of the famous chef Madame Mallory\u2013and infuse the sleepy town with the spices of India, transforming the lives of its eccentric villagers and infuriating their celebrated neighbor. Only after Madame Mallory wages culinary war with the immigrant family, does she finally agree to mentor young Hassan, leading him to Paris, the launch of his own restaurant, and a slew of new adventures.<\/p>\n

    The Hundred-Foot Journey is about how the hundred-foot distance between a new Indian kitchen and a traditional French one can represent the gulf between different cultures and desires. A testament to the inevitability of destiny, this is a fable for the ages\u2013charming, endearing, and compulsively readable.<\/p>\n

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    In Times of Rain and War
    \nBy: Camron Wright
    \nGenre: Fiction – Historical Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    During World War II, an American soldier encounters a German woman living a secret life in bomb-blighted London.<\/b><\/p>\n

    In September of 1940, during the Blitz in London, Audrey Stocking is blending in with other civilians who are trying to survive the nightly bombings, but she has a secret. She is German, and she is Jewish. Her fake passport and nearly perfect English allow her to blend in as she works hard to help evacuate British children into the countryside. Audrey longs to reunite with her family in Germany, but her double life, the bombings, and the watchful British Military Intelligence have forced her to stay put. And then there are the paralyzing nightmares . . .<\/p>\n

    Lieutenant Wesley Bowers, an American soldier training with London’s Bomb Disposal Company 5, meets Audrey when an air raid leaves an unexploded bomb on the floor of her flat. She is attractive, intelligent, and compassion-ate, and there’s an immediate connection between them. As they get to know each other, Wesley realizes Audrey is the one bright spot amid the war’s unending bleakness and constant threat of death. But will he still feel the same if he discovers the secrets she is hiding? Secrets even Audrey is unaware of?<\/p>\n

    In Times of Rain and War<\/i>\u00a0is a gripping and heartbreakingly beautiful story about the strength and resilience of the human heart and spirit, reminding us there is always hope in hard times.<\/p>\n

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    The Invention of Wings
    \nBy: Sue Monk Kidd
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

    \"Invention<\/p>\n

    The story follows Hetty \u201cHandful\u201d Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah\u2019s eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. \u201cThe Invention of Wings\u201d follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go beyond the record to flesh out the inner lives of all the characters, both real and imagined.<\/p>\n

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    Just for the Summer
    \nBy: Abby Jimenez
    \nGenre: Fiction – Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it’s now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They’ll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each other’s out, and they’ll both go on to find the love of their lives. It’s a bonkers idea… and it just might work.<\/p>\n

    Emma hadn’t planned that her next assignment as a traveling nurse would be in Minnesota, but she and her best friend agree that dating Justin is too good of an opportunity to pass up, especially when they get to rent an adorable cottage on a private island on Lake Minnetonka.<\/p>\n

    It’s supposed to be a quick fling, just for the summer. But when Emma’s toxic mother shows up and Justin has to assume guardianship of his three siblings, they’re suddenly navigating a lot more than they expected–including catching real feelings for each other. What if this time Fate has actually brought the perfect pair together?<\/p>\n

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    The Kitchen Front
    \nBy: Jennifer Ryan
    \nGenre: Historical Fiction – Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    Two years into World War II, Britain is feeling her losses: The Nazis have won battles, the Blitz has destroyed cities, and U-boats have cut off the supply of food. In an effort to help housewives with food rationing, a BBC radio program called The Kitchen Front is holding a cooking contest–and the grand prize is a job as the program’s first-ever female co-host. For four very different women, winning the competition would present a crucial chance to change their lives.<\/p>\n

    For a young widow, it’s a chance to pay off her husband’s debts and keep a roof over her children’s heads. For a kitchen maid, it’s a chance to leave servitude and find freedom. For a lady of the manor, it’s a chance to escape her wealthy husband’s increasingly hostile behavior. And for a trained chef, it’s a chance to challenge the men at the top of her profession.<\/p>\n

    These four women are giving the competition their all–even if that sometimes means bending the rules. But with so much at stake, will the contest that aims to bring the community together only serve to break it apart?<\/p>\n

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    Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
    \nBy: Lisa See
    \nGenre: Fiction – Historical Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    According to Confucius, “an educated woman is a worthless woman,” but Tan Yunxian–born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness–is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations–looking, listening, touching, and asking–something a man can never do with a female patient.<\/p>\n

    From a young age, Yunxian learns about women’s illnesses, many of which relate to childbearing, alongside a young midwife-in-training, Meiling. The two girls find fast friendship and a mutual purpose–despite the prohibition that a doctor should never touch blood while a midwife comes in frequent contact with it–and they vow to be forever friends, sharing in each other’s joys and struggles. No mud, no lotus, they tell themselves: from adversity beauty can bloom.<\/p>\n

    But when Yunxian is sent into an arranged marriage, her mother-in-law forbids her from seeing Meiling and from helping the women and girls in the household. Yunxian is to act like a proper wife–embroider bound-foot slippers, recite poetry, give birth to sons, and stay forever within the walls of the family compound, the Garden of Fragrant Delights.<\/p>\n

    How might a woman like Yunxian break free of these traditions and lead a life of such importance that many of her remedies are still used five centuries later? How might the power of friendship support or complicate these efforts? A captivating story of women helping each other, Lady Tan’s Circle of Women is a triumphant reimagining of the life of one person who was remarkable in the Ming dynasty and would be considered remarkable today.<\/p>\n

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    The Last Garden\u00a0 in England
    \nBy: Julia Kelly
    \nGenre: Historical Fiction – Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    From the author of the international bestseller The Light Over London and The Whispers of War comes a poignant and unforgettable tale of five women living across three different times whose lives are all connected by one very special place.<\/p>\n

    Present day: Emma Lovett, who has dedicated her career to breathing new life into long-neglected gardens, has just been given the opportunity of a lifetime: to restore the gardens of the famed Highbury House estate, designed in 1907 by her hero Venetia Smith. But as Emma dives deeper into the gardens’ past, she begins to uncover secrets that have long lain hidden.<\/p>\n

    1907: A talented artist with a growing reputation for her ambitious work, Venetia Smith has carved out a niche for herself as a garden designer to industrialists, solicitors, and bankers looking to show off their wealth with sumptuous country houses. When she is hired to design the gardens of Highbury House, she is determined to make them a triumph, but the gardens–and the people she meets–promise to change her life forever.<\/p>\n

    1944: When land girl Beth Pedley arrives at a farm on the outskirts of the village of Highbury, all she wants is to find a place she can call home. Cook Stella Adderton, on the other hand, is desperate to leave Highbury House to pursue her own dreams. And widow Diana Symonds, the mistress of the grand house, is anxiously trying to cling to her pre-war life now that her home has been requisitioned and transformed into a convalescent hospital for wounded soldiers. But when war threatens Highbury House’s treasured gardens, these three very different women are drawn together by a secret that will last for decades.<\/p>\n

    In this sweeping novel reminiscent of Kate Morton’s The Lake House and Kristin Harmel’s The Room on Rue Am\u00e9lie, Julia Kelly explores the unexpected connections that cross time and the special places that bring people together forever.<\/p>\n

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    The Late Bloomers’ Club
    \nBy: Louise Miller
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    Nora, the owner of the Miss Guthrie Diner, is perfectly happy serving up apple cider donuts, coffee, and eggs-any-way-you-like-em to her regulars, and she takes great pleasure in knowing exactly what’s “the usual.” But her life is soon shaken when she discovers she and her free-spirited, younger sister Kit stand to inherit the home and land of the town’s beloved cake lady, Peggy Johnson.<\/p>\n

    Kit, an aspiring-and broke-filmmaker thinks her problems are solved when she and Nora find out Peggy was in the process of selling the land to a big-box developer before her death. The people of Guthrie are divided-some want the opportunities the development will bring, while others are staunchly against any change-and they aren’t afraid to leave their opinions with their tips.<\/p>\n

    Time is running out, and the sisters need to make a decision soon. But Nora isn’t quite ready to let go of the land, complete with a charming farmhouse, an ancient apple orchard and the clues to a secret life that no one knew Peggy had. Troubled by the conflicting needs of the town, and confused by her growing feelings towards Elliot, the big-box developer’s rep, Nora throws herself into solving the one problem that everyone in town can agree on-finding Peggy’s missing dog, Freckles.<\/p>\n

    When a disaster strikes the diner, the community of Guthrie bands together to help her, and Nora discovers that doing the right thing doesn’t always mean giving up your dreams.<\/p>\n

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    The Little Wartime Library
    \nBy: Kate Thompson
    \nGenre: Historical Fiction – Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    London, 1944: Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While war ravages the city above her, Clara has risked everything she holds dear to turn the Bethnal Green tube station into the country’s only underground library. Down here, a secret community thrives with thousands of bunk beds, a nursery, a caf\u00e9, and a theater–offering shelter, solace, and escape from the bombs that fall upon their city.<\/p>\n

    Along with her glamorous best friend and assistant Ruby Munroe, Clara ensures the library is the beating heart of life underground. But as the war drags on, the women’s determination to remain strong in the face of adversity is tested to the limits when it may come at the price of keeping those closest to them alive.<\/p>\n

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    The Love Story of Missy Carmichael
    \nBy: Beth Morrey
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    The world has changed around seventy-nine-year-old librarian Millicent Carmichael, aka Missy. Though quick to admit that she often found her roles as a housewife and mother less than satisfying, Missy once led a bustling life driven by two children, an accomplished and celebrated husband, and a Classics degree from Cambridge. Now her husband is gone, her daughter is estranged after a shattering argument, and her son has moved to his wife’s native Australia, taking Missy’s beloved only grandchild half-a-world away. She spends her days sipping sherry, avoiding people, and rattling around in her oversized, under-decorated house waiting for…what exactly?<\/p>\n

    The last thing Missy expects is for two perfect strangers and one spirited dog named Bob to break through her prickly exterior and show Missy just how much love she still has to give. In short order, Missy finds herself in the jarring embrace of an eclectic community that simply won’t take no for an answer–including a rambunctious mutt-on-loan whose unconditional love gives Missy a reason to re-enter the world one muddy paw print at a time.<\/p>\n

    Filled with wry laughter and deep insights, The Love Story of Missy Carmichael is a coming-of-old story that shows us it’s never too late to forgive yourself and, just as important, it’s never too late to love.<\/p>\n

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    The Maid
    \nBy: Kelli Stuart
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by.<\/p>\n

    Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life’s complexities all by herself. No matter–she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid. Her unique character, along with her obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette, make her an ideal fit for the job. She delights in donning her crisp uniform each morning, stocking her cart with miniature soaps and bottles, and returning guest rooms at the Regency Grand Hotel to a state of perfection.<\/p>\n

    But Molly’s orderly life is upended the day she enters the suite of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black, only to find it in a state of disarray and Mr. Black himself dead in his bed. Before she knows what’s happening, Molly’s unusual demeanor has the police targeting her as their lead suspect. She quickly finds herself caught in a web of deception, one she has no idea how to untangle. Fortunately for Molly, friends she never knew she had unite with her in a search for clues to what really happened to Mr. Black–but will they be able to find the real killer before it’s too late?<\/p>\n

    A Clue-like, locked-room mystery and a heartwarming journey of the spirit, The Maid explores what it means to be the same as everyone else and yet entirely different–and reveals that all mysteries can be solved through connection to the human heart.<\/p>\n

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    The Master Craftsman
    \nBy: Kelli Stuart
    \nGenre: Fiction – Historical Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    In 1917, Alma Pihl, a master craftsman in the House of Faberg\u00e9, was charged to protect one of the greatest secrets in Russian history–an unknown Faberg\u00e9 Egg that Peter Karl Faberg\u00e9 secretly created to honor his divided allegiance to both the people of Russia and the Imperial tsar’s family. When Alma and her husband escaped Russia for their native Finland in 1921, she took the secret with her, guarding her past connection to the Romanov family.<\/p>\n

    Three generations later, world-renowned treasure hunter Nick Laine is sick and fears the secret of the missing egg will die with him. With time running out, he entrusts the mission of retrieving the egg to his estranged daughter, Ava, who has little idea of the dangers she is about to face. As the stakes are raised, Ava is forced to declare her own allegiance–and the consequences are greater than she could have imagined.<\/p>\n

    This modern-day treasure hunt from award-winning author Kelli Stuart transports you into the opulent and treacherous world of the Russian Revolution to unearth mysteries long buried.<\/p>\n

    The Midnight Library<\/h3>\n

    By: Mat Haigg
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?<\/p>\n

    In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig\u2019s enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.<\/p>\n

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    The Moonlight School
    \nBy: Suzanne Woods Fisher
    \nGenre: Fiction – Historical Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    Haunted by her sister’s mysterious disappearance, Lucy Wilson arrives in Rowan County, Kentucky, in the spring of 1911 to work for Cora Wilson Stewart, superintendent of education. When Cora sends Lucy into the hills to act as scribe for the mountain people, she is repelled by the primitive conditions and intellectual poverty she encounters. Few adults can read and write.<\/p>\n

    Born in those hills, Cora knows the plague of illiteracy. So does Brother Wyatt, a singing schoolmaster who travels through the hills. Involving Lucy and Wyatt, Cora hatches a plan to open the schoolhouses to adults on moonlit nights. The best way to combat poverty, she believes, is to eliminate illiteracy. But will the people come?<\/p>\n

    As Lucy emerges from a life in the shadows, she finds purpose; or maybe purpose finds her. With purpose comes answers to her questions, and something else she hadn’t expected: love.<\/p>\n

    Inspired by the true events of the Moonlight Schools, this standalone novel from bestselling author Suzanne Woods Fisher brings to life the story that shocked the nation into taking adult literacy seriously. You’ll finish the last page of this enthralling story with deep gratitude for the gift of reading.<\/p>\n

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    A Murder at Rosamund\u2019s Gate
    \nBy: Susana Calkins
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    For Lucy Campion, a seventeenth-century English chambermaid serving in the household of the local magistrate, life is an endless repetition of polishing pewter, emptying chamber pots, and dealing with other household chores until a fellow servant is ruthlessly killed, and someone she loves is wrongly arrested for the crime. In a time where the accused are presumed guilty until proven innocent, lawyers aren\u2019t permitted to defend their clients, and\u2014if the plague doesn\u2019t kill them first\u2013public executions draw a large crowd of spectators, Lucy knows she may never see this person alive again. Unless, that is, she can identify the true murderer.<\/p>\n

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    Of Manners and Murder
    \nBy: Anastasia Hastings
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    1885: London, England. When Violet’s Aunt Adelia decides to abscond with her newest paramour, she leaves behind her role as the most popular Agony Aunt in London, “Miss Hermione,” in Violet’s hands.<\/p>\n

    And of course, the first letter Violet receives is full, not of prissy pondering, but of portent. Ivy Armstrong is in need of help and fears for her life. But when Violet visits the village where the letters were posted, she finds that Ivy is already dead.<\/p>\n

    She’ll quickly discover that when you represent the best-loved Agony Aunt in Britain, both marauding husbands and murder are par for the course.<\/p>\n

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    One Two Three
    \nBy: Laurie Frankel
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    From the New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It Always Is, a Reese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Pick, comes a timely, topical novel about love and family that will make you laugh and cry…and laugh again. How do you let go of the past when the past won’t let go of you? Everyone knows everyone in the tiny town of Bourne. But the Mitchell sisters are especially beloved, and not just because they’re teenage triplets. Mirabel is the smartest person anyone has ever met, and no one is fooled by her wheelchair or her Voice app into thinking otherwise. Monday is the town’s purveyor of books now that the library’s closed–tell her the book you think you want, and she’ll pull the one you actually do from the microwave or her underwear drawer. Mab’s job is hardest of all: get good grades, get into college, get out of Bourne. For a few weeks seventeen years ago, Bourne was national news when its water turned green and was declared unfit for use, but it was too late for its residents. And just when it seems life might go on the same forever, the first moving truck anyone’s seen in years pulls up. Then a new student enrolls at Bourne Memorial High. He’s smart and handsome and exciting–and the Mitchell family’s sworn enemy. And soon, in a town where nothing ever changes, suddenly everything does.<\/p>\n

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    The Operator
    \nBy: Gretchen Berg
    \nGenre: Historical Fiction -Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    \u201cWhat if you could listen in on any phone conversation in town? With great humor and insight, The Operator by Gretchen Berg delivers a vivid look inside the heads and hearts of a group of housewives and pokes at the absurdities of 1950s America, a simpler time that was far from simple. Think The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in the suburbs with delicious turns of jealousy, infidelity, bigotry, and embezzlement thrown in for good measure. The Operator is irresistible!\u201d \u2013Kathryn Stockett, author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Help<\/p>\n

    A clever, surprising, and ultimately moving debut novel, set in a small Midwestern town in the early 1950s, about a nosy switchboard operator who overhears gossip involving her own family, and the unraveling that discovery sets into motion.<\/p>\n

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    The Paris Daughter
    \nBy: Kristin Harmel
    \nGenre: Historical Fiction – Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a shadow of war creeping across Europe, neither woman suspects that their lives are about to irrevocably change.<\/p>\n

    When Elise becomes a target of the German occupation, she entrusts Juliette with the most precious thing in her life–her young daughter, playmate to Juliette’s own little girl. But nowhere is safe in war, not even a quiet little bookshop like Juliette’s Librairie des R\u00eaves, and, when a bomb falls on their neighborhood, Juliette’s world is destroyed along with it.<\/p>\n

    More than a year later, with the war finally ending, Elise returns to reunite with her daughter, only to find her friend’s bookstore reduced to rubble–and Juliette nowhere to be found. What happened to her daughter in those last, terrible moments? Juliette has seemingly vanished without a trace, taking all the answers with her. Elise’s desperate search leads her to New York–and to Juliette–one final, fateful time.<\/p>\n

    An “exquisite and gut-wrenching novel” (Lisa Barr,\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\u00a0bestselling author) you won’t soon forget,\u00a0The Paris Daughter<\/i>\u00a0is also a sweeping celebration of resilience, motherhood, and love.<\/p>\n

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    A Paris Library
    \nBy: Janet Skeslien Charles
    \nGenre: Fiction \u2013 Historical Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    Paris, 1939: Young and ambitious Odile Souchet seems to have the perfect life with her handsome police officer beau and a dream job at the American Library in Paris. When the Nazis march into the city, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear, including her beloved library. Together with her fellow librarians, Odile joins the Resistance with the best weapons she has: books. But when the war finally ends, instead of freedom, Odile tastes the bitter sting of unspeakable betrayal.<\/p>\n

    Montana, 1983: Lily is a lonely teenager looking for adventure in small-town Montana. Her interest is piqued by her solitary, elderly neighbor. As Lily uncovers more about her neighbor\u2019s mysterious past, she finds that they share a love of language, the same longings, and the same intense jealousy, never suspecting that a dark secret from the past connects them.<\/p>\n

    \u201cA love letter to Paris, the power of books, and the beauty of intergenerational friendship\u201d (Booklist), The Paris Library shows that extraordinary heroism can sometimes be found in the quietest places.<\/p>\n

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    Peace Like a River
    \nBy: Leif Enger
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:6<\/h3>\n

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    Eleven-year-old Reuben shares the story of how his father, trying to raise his sons alone in 1960s Minnesota, takes their family on a quest to find Reuben\u2019s older brother, who has been charged with murder.<\/p>\n

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    The Porcelain Maker
    \nBy: Sarah Freethy
    \nGenre: Fiction – Historical Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    An epic story of love, betrayal, and art that spans decades, through the horrors of World War II to 21st century America, inspired by an actual porcelain factory in Dachau.<\/p>\n

    Two lovers caught at the crossroads of history.
    \nA daughter’s search for the truth.<\/p>\n

    Germany, 1929. At a festive gathering of young bohemians in Weimar, two young artists, Max, a skilled Jewish architect, and Bettina, a celebrated avant-garde painter, are drawn to each other and begin a whirlwind romance. Their respective talents transport them to the dazzling lights of Berlin, but this bright beginning is quickly dimmed by the rising threat of Nazism. Max is arrested and sent to the concentration camp at Dachau where only his talent at making exquisite porcelain figures stands between him and seemingly certain death. Desperate to save her lover, Bettina risks everything to rescue him and escape Germany.<\/p>\n

    America, 1993. Clara, Bettina’s daughter, embarks on a journey to trace her roots and determine the identity of her father, a secret her mother has kept from her for reasons she’s never understood. Clara’s quest to piece together the puzzle of her origins transports us back in time to the darkness of Nazi Germany, where life is lived on a razor’s edge and deception and death lurk around every corner. Survival depends on strength, loyalty, and knowing true friend from hidden foe. And as Clara digs further, she begins to question why her mother was so determined to leave the truth of her harrowing past behind…<\/p>\n

    The Porcelain Maker is a powerful novel of enduring love and courage in the face of appalling brutality as a daughter seeks to unlock the mystery of her past.<\/p>\n

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    Pride and Prejudice
    \nBy: Jane Austen
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    In early nineteenth century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.<\/p>\n

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    A Redbird Christmas
    \nBy: Fannie Flagg
    \nGenre: Holiday – Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:9<\/h3>\n

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    With the same incomparable style and warm, inviting voice that have made her beloved by millions of readers far and wide, New York Times bestselling author Fannie Flagg has written an enchanting Christmas story of faith and hope for all ages that is sure to become a classic. Deep in the southernmost part of Alabama, along the banks of a lazy winding river, lies the sleepy little community known as Lost River, a place that time itself seems to have forgotten. After a startling diagnosis from his doctor, Oswald T. Campbell leaves behind the cold and damp of the oncoming Chicago winter to spend what he believes will be his last Christmas in the warm and welcoming town of Lost River. There he meets the postman who delivers mail by boat, the store owner who nurses a broken heart, the ladies of the Mystic Order of the Royal Polka Dots Secret Society, who do clandestine good works. And he meets a little redbird named Jack, who is at the center of this tale of a magical Christmas when something so amazing happened that those who witnessed it have never forgotten it. Once you experience the wonder, you too will never forget A Redbird Christmas.<\/p>\n

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    Remarkably Bright Creatures
    \nBy: Shelby Van Pelt
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago.<\/p>\n

    Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors–until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.<\/p>\n

    Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova’s son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it’s too late.<\/p>\n

    Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.<\/p>\n

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    A Rip Through Time
    \nBy: Kelley Armstrong
    \nGenre: Fiction – Historical Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    MAY 20, 2019: Homicide detective Mallory Atkinson is in Edinburgh to be with her dying grandmother. While out on a jog one evening, Mallory hears a woman in distress. She’s drawn to an alley, where she is attacked and loses consciousness.<\/p>\n

    MAY 20, 1869: Housemaid Catriona Mitchell had been enjoying a half day off, only to be discovered that night strangled and left for dead . . . exactly one hundred and fifty years before Mallory is strangled in the same spot.<\/p>\n

    When Mallory wakes up in Catriona’s body in 1869, she must put aside her shock and adjust quickly to her new reality: life as a housemaid to an undertaker in Victorian Scotland. She soon discovers that her boss, Dr. Gray, also moonlights as a medical examiner and has just taken on an intriguing case, the strangulation of a young man, similar to the attack on herself. Her only hope is that catching the murderer can lead her back to her modern life . . . before it’s too late.<\/p>\n

    In A Rip Through Time, New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong introduces a brand-new series mixing mystery, romance, and fantasy with thrilling results.<\/p>\n

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    A River Runs Through It
    \nBy: Norman Maclean
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:7<\/h3>\n

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    Maclean writes \u201cin my family, there is no clear line between religion and fly-fishing.\u201d Nor is there a clear line between family and fly-fishing. It is the one activity where brother can connect with brother and father with son. In Maclean\u2019s autobiographical novella, it is the river that makes them realize that life continues and all things are related.<\/p>\n

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    Salt to the Sea
    \nBy: Ruta Sepetys
    \nGenre: Historical Fiction \u2013 Fiction\/Teen
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    In 1945, World War II is drawing to a close in East Prussia and thousands of refugees are on a desperate trek toward freedom, almost all of them with something to hide. Among them are Joana, Emilia, and Florian, whose paths converge en route to the ship that promises salvation, the Wilhelm Gustloff. Forced by circumstance to unite, the three find their strength, courage, and trust in each other tested with each step closer toward safety. Just when it seems freedom is within their grasp, tragedy strikes. Not country, nor culture, nor status matter as all ten thousand people aboard must fight for the same thing: survival.<\/p>\n

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    Things You Save in a Fire
    \nBy: Katherine Center
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    Cassie Hanwell was born for emergencies. As one of the only female firefighters in her Texas firehouse, she\u2019s seen her fair share of them, and she\u2019s a total pro at other people\u2019s tragedies. But when her estranged and ailing mother asks her to give up her whole life and move to Boston, Cassie suddenly has an emergency of her own.<\/p>\n

    The tough, old-school Boston firehouse is as different from Cassie\u2019s old job as it could possibly be. Hazing, a lack of funding, and poor facilities mean that the firemen aren\u2019t exactly thrilled to have a \u201clady\u201d on the crew\u2013even one as competent and smart as Cassie. Except for the infatuation-inspiring rookie, who doesn\u2019t seem to mind having Cassie around. But she can\u2019t think about that. Because love is girly, and it\u2019s not her thing. And don\u2019t forget the advice her old captain gave her: Never date firefighters. Cassie can feel her resolve slipping\u2026and it means risking it all\u2013the only job she\u2019s ever loved, and the hero she\u2019s worked like hell to become.<\/p>\n

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    The Thursday Murder Club
    \nBy: Richard Osman
    \nGenre: Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club.<\/p>\n

    When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case.<\/p>\n

    As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it’s too late?<\/p>\n

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    To Kill a Mockingbird
    \nBy: Harper Lee
    \nGenre: Fiction\/Teen
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    Classic Pulitzer prize winner where eight-year-old \u201cScout\u201d Finch tells of life in a small Alabama town where her father is a lawyer.<\/p>\n

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    Tokyo Ever After
    \nBy: Emiko Jean
    \nGenre: Fiction \u2013 Teen
    \nBooks in Set:9<\/h3>\n

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    Izumi Tanaka has never really felt like she fit in\u2013it isn\u2019t easy being Japanese American in her small, mostly white, northern California town. Raised by a single mother, it\u2019s always been Izumi\u2013or Izzy, because \u201cIt\u2019s easier this way\u201d\u2013and her mom against the world. But then Izumi discovers a clue to her previously unknown father\u2019s identity\u2026and he\u2019s none other than the Crown Prince of Japan. Which means outspoken, irreverent Izzy is literally a princess.<\/p>\n

    In a whirlwind, Izumi travels to Japan to meet the father she never knew and discover the country she always dreamed of. But being a princess isn\u2019t all ball gowns and tiaras. There are conniving cousins, a hungry press, a scowling but handsome bodyguard who just might be her soulmate, and thousands of years of tradition and customs to learn practically overnight.<\/p>\n

    Izumi soon finds herself caught between worlds, and between versions of herself\u2013back home, she was never \u201cAmerican\u201d enough, and in Japan, she must prove she\u2019s \u201cJapanese\u201d enough. Will Izumi crumble under the weight of the crown, or will she live out her fairy tale, happily ever after?<\/p>\n

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    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    \nBy: Betty Smith
    \nGenre: Historical Fiction – Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:9<\/h3>\n

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    Named one of the books of the century by the New York Public Library, this is the profoundly moving classic about a young girl coming of age at the turn of the century. Born in 1901 in the slums of Brooklyn, Francie Nolan has grown up under the burden of suffering that is the lot of the great city\u2019s poor. Romantic like her father, an Irish singing waiter, yet pragmatic like her mother, a housecleaner and fierce survivor, Francie uses her imagination and tenacity to thrive in the world in spite of these harsh conditions. First published in 1943, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn created a stir in genteel society with its frank descriptions of poverty\u2019s squalor. But the book\u2019s rich humor and pathos and its wealth of unforgettable characters have ensured its place in American literature.<\/p>\n

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    True Believer
    \nBy: Nicholas Sparks
    \nGenre: Fiction – Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    From New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks, a supernatural love story between a journalist and a librarian who dare to believe in the impossible.<\/p>\n

    Science journalist Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural-until he falls in love with the granddaughter of the town psychic, Lexie Darnell.<\/p>\n

    When Jeremy receives a letter from Boone Creek, North Carolina, about ghostly lights appearing in a cemetery, he can’t resist driving down to investigate. From the moment Jeremy sets eyes on Lexie, the town librarian, he is intrigued. And Lexie finds herself thinking of him more than she cares to admit.<\/p>\n

    Now, if they are to be together, Jeremy must do something he’s never done before-take a giant leap of faith.<\/p>\n

    True Believer will make you believe in the miracle of love.<\/p>\n

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    The Tubman Command
    \nBy: Elizabeth Cobbs
    \nGenre: Historical Fiction – Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    It\u2019s May 1863. Outgeneraled and outgunned, a demoralized Union Army has pulled back with massive losses at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Fort Sumter, hated symbol of the Rebellion, taunts the American navy with its artillery and underwater mines.<\/p>\n

    In Beaufort, South Carolina, one very special woman, code named Moses, is hatching a spectacular plan. Hunted by Confederates, revered by slaves, Harriet Tubman plots an expedition behind enemy lines to liberate hundreds of bondsmen and recruit them as soldiers. A bounty on her head, she has given up husband and home for the noblest cause: a nation of, by, and for the people.<\/p>\n

    The Tubman Command tells the story of Tubman at the height of her powers, when she devises the largest plantation raid of the Civil War. General David Hunter places her in charge of a team of black scouts even though skeptical of what one woman can accomplish. For her gamble to succeed, \u201cMoses\u201d must outwit alligators, overseers, slave catchers, sharpshooters, and even hostile Union soldiers to lead gunships up the Combahee River. Men stand in her way at every turn\u2013though one reminds her that love shouldn\u2019t have to be the price of freedom.<\/p>\n

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    Two Wars and a Wedding
    \nBy: Lauren Willig
    \nGenre: Fiction – Historical Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    “Filled with vivid details, shocking truths, and two sly, strong women who bring panache and humor to every scene. I’m simply in awe of the masterful, magical way Lauren Willig makes history come alive.” — Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Magnolia Place<\/p>\n

    “A winning epic of war and friendship. Readers will devour this riveting tale.”–Publishers Weekly (starred review)<\/p>\n

    From\u00a0New York Times\u00a0bestselling author Lauren Willig: a dramatic coming-of-age story with a dual timeline and a single heroine–a bold and adventuring young woman who finds herself caught up in two very different wars on both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

    September 1896:\u00a0An aspiring archaeologist, Smith College graduate Betsy Hayes travels to Athens, desperate to break into the male-dominated field of excavation. In the midst of the heat and dust of Greece she finds an unlikely ally in Charles, Baron de Robecourt, one of the few men who takes her academic passion seriously. But when a simmering conflict between Greece and Turkey erupts into open warfare, Betsy throws herself into the conflict as a nurse, not knowing that the decision will change her life forever–and cause a deep and painful rift with her oldest friend, Ava.<\/p>\n

    June 1898:\u00a0Betsy has sworn off war nursing–but when she gets the word that her estranged friend Ava is headed to Cuba with Clara Barton and the Red Cross to patch up the wounded in the Spanish-American War, Betsy determines to stop her the only way she knows how: by joining in her place.\u00a0Battling heat, disease, and her own demons, Betsy follows Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders straight to the heart of the fighting, where she is forced to confront her greatest fears to save both old friends and new….<\/p>\n

    Set during an electrifying era of nation-building, idealism, and upheaval, Two Wars and a Wedding is the tale of two remarkable women striving to make their place in a man’s world–an unforgettable saga of friendship, love, and fighting for what is right.<\/p>\n

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    The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1
    \nBy: Beth Brower
    \nGenre: Fiction – Historical Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    “I’ve arrived in London without incident. There are few triumphs in my recent life, but I count this as one. My existence of the last three years has been nothing but incident.”The Year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighbourhood of St. Crispian’s. But Emma’s plans for a charmed and studious life are sabotaged by her eccentric Cousin Archibald, her formidable Aunt Eugenia, and the slightly odd denizens of St. Crispian’s. Emma M. Lion offers up her Unselected Journals, however self-incriminating they may be, which comprise a series of novella-length volumes. Armed with wit and a sideways amusement, Emma documents the curious realities of her life at Lapis Lazuli House.<\/p>\n

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    The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
    \nBy: Sangu Mandanna
    \nGenre: Fiction – Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, and is used to keeping her head down with one exception: an online account, where she posts videos ‘pretending’ to be a witch. She thinks no one will take it seriously. But someone does. An unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic. When a threat comes knocking at their door, Mika will decide whether protecting her found family is worth risking it all.<\/p>\n

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    Victoria
    \nBy: Daisy Goodwin
    \nGenre: Fiction \u2013 Historical Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:10<\/h3>\n

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    Drawing on Queen Victoria\u2019s diaries, which she first started reading when she was a student at Cambridge University, Daisy Goodwin\u2013creator and writer of the new PBS Masterpiece drama Victoria and author of the bestselling novels The American Heiress and The Fortune Hunter\u2013 brings the young nineteenth-century monarch, who would go on to reign for 63 years, richly to life in this magnificent novel.<\/p>\n

    Early one morning, less than a month after her eighteenth birthday, Alexandrina Victoria is roused from bed with the news that her uncle William IV has died and she is now Queen of England. The men who run the country have doubts about whether this sheltered young woman, who stands less than five feet tall, can rule the greatest nation in the world.<\/p>\n

    Despite her age, however, the young queen is no puppet. She has very definite ideas about the kind of queen she wants to be, and the first thing is to choose her name.<\/p>\n

    \u201cI do not like the name Alexandrina,\u201d she proclaims. \u201cFrom now on I wish to be known only by my second name, Victoria.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Next, people say she must choose a husband. Everyone keeps telling her she\u2019s destined to marry her first cousin, Prince Albert, but Victoria found him dull and priggish when they met three years ago. She is quite happy being queen with the help of her prime minister, Lord Melbourne, who may be old enough to be her father but is the first person to take her seriously.<\/p>\n

    On June 19th, 1837, she was a teenager. On June 20th, 1837, she was a queen. Daisy Goodwin\u2019s impeccably researched and vividly imagined new book brings readers Queen Victoria as they have never seen her before.<\/p>\n

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    West with Giraffes
    \nBy: Lynda Rutledge
    \nGenre: Fiction – Historical Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    “Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes…”<\/p>\n

    Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave.<\/p>\n

    It’s 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to deliver Southern California’s first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo. Behind the wheel is the young Dust Bowl rowdy Woodrow. Inspired by true events, the tale weaves real-life figures with fictional ones, including the world’s first female zoo director, a crusty old man with a past, a young female photographer with a secret, and assorted reprobates as spotty as the giraffes.<\/p>\n

    Part adventure, part historical saga, and part coming-of-age love story, West with Giraffes explores what it means to be changed by the grace of animals, the kindness of strangers, the passing of time, and a story told before it’s too late.<\/p>\n

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    The Women in the Castle
    \nBy: Jessica Shattuck
    \nGenre: Historical Fiction – Fiction
    \nBooks in Set:8<\/h3>\n

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    Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold\u2026<\/p>\n

    Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined\u2014an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New York Times Notable Book The Hazards of Good Breeding.<\/p>\n

    Amid the ashes of Nazi Germany\u2019s defeat, Marianne von Lingenfels returns to the once-grand castle of her husband\u2019s ancestors, an imposing stone fortress now fallen into ruin following years of war. The widow of a resister murdered in the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Marianne plans to uphold the promise she made to her husband\u2019s brave conspirators: to find and protect their wives, her fellow resistance widows.<\/p>\n

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