Call the Midwife  |  Jennifer Worth

In the 1950’s, Jennifer Worth left her comfortable, middle-class life to work in London’s East End as a midwife. She gathers the stories of her experiences in this remarkable memoir.

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Caroline: Little House Revisited  |  Sarah Miller 

Charles, Caroline, Mary, and Laura Ingalls pack their wagon and set out on a cold day in February, leaving their home in the Big Woods of Wisconsin to settle a farmstead in Indian Territory. It’s a story familiar to anyone who read Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books, but here we read it through a different perspective, that of Caroline. 

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A Christmas Carol  |  Charles Dickens

The second most famous Christmas story ever told. Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly businessman, learns the true meaning of Christmas after he is visited by the ghosts of Christmases past, present, and future. Bah humbug!

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A Christmas Memory  |  Truman Capote

Filled with memories from his childhood in Alabama, this memoir from Truman Capote pays tribute to his distant cousin Miss Sook Faulk, his old-maid cousin with whom he formed a special bond; making fruitcake, cutting their own tree, and celebrating a tipsy yuletide (from the leftover moonshine-soaked fruitcake). 

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Clock Dance  |  Anne Tyler

Clock Dance begins in 1967, when 11-year-old Willa Drake is trying to figure out her mother’s absence; picks up in 1977 as she starts college, jumps to 1997 when she is a young widow and then to 2017, when her sons are off living their own lives and all she wants is to become a grandmother. Then a phone call from a near-stranger changes the trajectory of her life again, sending her to Baltimore to care for the daughter of a person she barely knows.

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The Color of Water  |  James McBride

James McBride wrote this best selling work as a tribute to his mother, a Jewish girl who left her middleclass childhood home in Virginia to live a life of largely inner-city poverty. James celebrates this extraordinary woman’s love and determination while exploring his own identity, racially and culturally.

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Crossing to Safety  |  Wallace Stegner

When Larry and Sally Morgan, poor Westerners, move to Wisconsin to begin work at Wisconsin University during the Depression, it is the generosity of wealthy Easterner Sid, an established faculty member, and Charity, his headstrong domineering wife, which keeps them afloat. Decades later Charity reunites everyone after tragedy strikes one of the couples.

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Dancing at the Rascal Fair  |  Ivan Doig

With his friend Rob Barclay, Angus leaves Scotland for Montana, where the two friends become sheep ranchers, as well as fathers, husbands, and men along the way. 

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Dandelion Wine  |  Ray Bradbury

12-year-old Douglas Spaulding suddenly awakens to the world around him in the summer of 1928 in Green Town, Illinois. His new adolescent awareness takes him on a journey of first discoveries full of magic and exuberance. A joyful read, Ray Bradbury’s first novel is about childlike innocence and living in the present.

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The Day the World Came to Town  |  Jim DeFede

After thirty-eight jetliners were rerouted to Newfoundland on September 11, 2001 because the United States’ airspace was closing, the townspeople of Gander came to the aid of six thousand travelers, offering food, lodging, and other comforts.

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Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat  |  Vicky Myron

One cold morning in Iowa, librarian Vicki Myron came into work and found a tiny kitten had been stuffed through the book-return drop. Rescued by the librarians of the Spencer Public Library, Dewey became the library cat. This memoir details his twenty years at the library, including his influence on both the librarians and the library patrons.

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The Diaries of Adam and Eve  |  Mark Twain

Mark Twain retells the story of Adam and Eve in a diary format, alternating between Adam’s experiences and Eve’s. By turns hilarious, moving, and heartbreaking, their tale in Twain’s hands becomes something different than its telling in Genesis. 

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The Distant Hours  |  Kate Morton

In contemporary London, Edie receives a letter that was mailed to her mother nearly fifty years ago and only just arrived. Her normally mellow mother reacts so strongly to the letter—which came from one of the three sisters she lived with in Middlehurst castle in Kent during the Blitz—that Edie decides to investigate. 

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Drenched in Light  |  Lisa Wingate

After her dream of becoming a prima ballerina with the Kansas City ballet crumbles, Julia moves back home to work as a guidance counselor at a prestigious school for performing arts. Her life begins to intertwine with Dell, a scholarship student who is a music virtuoso but struggling to fit in with her wealthy, snooty peers. 

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The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe  |  Gayle Tzmech Lemmon 

In 1995, Kamili Sidiqi’s dreams of becoming a teacher were disrupted by the Taliban’s descent upon Kabul. A loophole in the new law, however, allowed for women to work out of their home, and so she started a business designing and sewing dresses. 

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Edenbrooke | Julianne Donaldson

When Marianne receives an invitation to spend the summer with her twin sister in Edenbrooke, she has no idea of the romance and adventure that await her once she meets the dashing Sir Philip.

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Ella Minnow Pea  |  Mark Dunn

Ella lives on the tiny island called Nollop, off the coast of South Carolina, a “nation of letter writers” named after Nevin Nollop, who wrote the sentence that uses all the letters of the alphabet. (The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.) All is peaceful and happy on Nollop, until letters begin falling off the statue of Nevin Nollop.

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Ellie and the Harpmaker  |  Hazel Prior

Whenever she can get away, Ellie Jacobs takes long walks through the English countryside near the home she shares with her husband Clive. On one walk, she discovers the barn/workshop of Dan Hollis, who is a harp maker. When he discovers that she has wanted to learn to play the harp, Dan gives her one, but because Clive objects to the gift, she keeps it in Dan’s barn, where she secretly learns to play.

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Etta and Otto and Russell and James  |  Emma Hooper

Etta and Otto and Russell and James tells the story of Otto Vogel, just one of a 15-kid family growing up on a dusty farm in Saskatchewan with his best friend Russell, who becomes a sort-of Vogel, pitching in with the chores and eating at their table. When they are teenagers, their teacher, ill from the area’s constant dust, is replaced with a new one, Etta Kinnick. 

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*** Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone  |  Benjamin Stevenson

Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I’m not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I’m Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I’d killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it’s a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let’s get started.

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A Fine and Pleasant Misery  |  Patrick F. McManus

“The more you talked about the miseries of life in the woods,” writes Patrick McManus, “the more you wanted to get back out there and start suffering again. Camping was a fine and pleasant misery.” If you’ve ever pitched a tent or hit the trail, McManus’s writing will make you laugh in recognition of the miserable joys of the great outdoors.

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Fire of the Word  |  Carol Pratt Bradley 

Anne Ayscough was a young English noblewoman during the reign of King Henry VIII. Raised in a Protestant home where she learned to read, studied the New Testament, and was encouraged to express her ideas, Anne was an unusual woman. But when her sister died just before her wedding, Anne’s father declared that Anne would marry in her sister’s stead—marry a staunch Catholic. 

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The Fountains of Silence  |  Ruta Sepetys 

Daniel, an 18-year-old American who is in Madrid with his parents, is trying to capture the city through his camera lens. Ana is a young woman working at the Castellana Hilton whose parents were executed for their anti-Fascist politics. Her brother Rafa, who promotes the bullfights. Their cousin Puri, who works in an orphanage. In 1957, the lives of these four young adults intertwine in the Spanish city, ruled by Franco’s politics and made dark by secrets.

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Frankenstein  |  Mary Shelley

Victor Frankenstein, compelled to find the meaning of life and of death, creates a living being from the body parts of dead people, but his creation is monstrous to him. 

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The Frozen River  |  Ariel Lawhon

As a midwife and healer, Martha Ballard 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. Her diary soon lands at the center of scandal, compelling Martha to decide where her loyalties lie.

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A Gentleman in Moscow  |  Amor Towles

In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors.

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Girl in Translation  |  Jean Kwok

With the promise of housing and a job, Ah-Kim and her mother immigrate to San Francisco from Hong Kong. The housing her Aunt Paula provides is a squalid, unheated apartment and the factory work is demanding and exhausting. It’s not flashy, but her quiet strength, intelligence, and courage as she tries to create an American life for herself and her mother infuse this novel with an uplifting sense of possibility.

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Good-Bye, Mr. Chips  |  James Hilton

Charles Chipping is a terrible teacher – uninspiring and unloved by his students at the (somewhat) prestigious Brookfield School for Boys in England. But everything changes when he meets and marries the lovely and intelligent Katherine on a summer vacation. With some of his shyness finally overcome, Chips discovers a way to begin connecting with the young men in his classes, helping them to uncover the beauty of language and history. 

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The Goose Girl  |  Shannon Hale

Princess Anidori is born with a word on her tongue, which means as she grows she learns, under her aunt’s encouragement, how to speak to animals. This strangeness does not sit well with the queen, so when the king dies, Princess Ani’s mother forges a marriage between her and the prince of Bayern, a neighboring country. But Ani’s betrayal by trusted people is just beginning; on her way to Bayern her friend Selia plots to kill Ani and take her place. 

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Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society  |  Mary Ann Shaffer

On the tiny Channel island of Guernsey, an impromptu literary society is formed when four friends are stopped by German officers. On the spot they claim they’re walking home from a literary society meeting; their quick thought helps them avoid prison and leads to the formation of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society. A decade later, English writer Juliet Ashton stumbles across the stories from the society and strikes up a conversation via letters with its members.

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Guests of the Sheik  |  Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

In 1956, Elizabeth Fernea was a newlywed. Her husband’s field research in anthropology took the couple to a small, rural Iraqi village. In a friendly, intimate tone, Fernea tells the story of her two years there, which she begins as an American woman knowing next to nothing about Iraqi culture, language, or mores, resentful of the abaya she is required to wear; and ends as a close friend to the women of El Nahra.

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Hamnet  |  Maggie O’Farrell

A short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare’s 11 year old son Hamnet – a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain – and the years leading up to the production of his great play. 

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The Happiness Project  |  Gretchen Rubin

One day, while riding a bus in New York City, Gretchen Rubin realized that despite her fabulous life—good, kind husband, two beautiful daughters, a writing career—she wasn’t quite, exactly, thoroughly happy. Deciding that she wanted to “feel grateful for ordinary days,” she embarked on a happiness project, which was a year-long experiment in different approaches to happiness.

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The Help  |  Kathryn Stockett

Skeeter, a white socialite; has recently graduated from Ole Miss and wants to write a book about the experiences black maids have raising white children and taking care of white people’s homes. The maids in the community initially resist Skeeter’s idea, but when a tragedy befalls one of their friends, thirteen of them take the risk to tell of the hardship of their positions.

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The House in the Cerulean Sea  |  TJ Klune

Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he’s given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel to Marsyas Island Orphanage, where six dangerous children reside.

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The Housekeeper and the Professor  |  Yoko Ogawa

He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem — ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to care for him. And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them.

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How to Read a Book  |  Monica Wood 

When Violet Powell, Frank Daigle and Harriet Larson encounter each other one morning in a bookstore in Portland, Maine their lives begin to intersect in transformative ways.

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I Capture the Castle  |  Dodie Smith

Meet Cassandra Mortmain: 17, living in a falling-down castle with her impoverished family in 1930s England, trying to learn how to write by keeping a journal. Initially disdainful of love, but still full of romantic ideas, she experiences an Austen-esque series of adventures with the wealthy American family who moves into the estate near the castle. 

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I Heard the Owl Call My Name  |  Margaret Craven

I Heard the Owl Call My Name is the simple yet powerful story of a young vicar sent to live with the Kwakiutl tribe in the Pacific Northwest. Unaware of his own impending death, he finds that the tribe’s ways are being eroded by an encroaching American culture. 

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I Miss You When I Blink  |  Mary Laura Philpott

“I miss you when I blink”: A sentence coined by her son when he was six that came to help Mary Laura Philpott start to understand her life. Especially once she had “made it,” once she had a home and a husband and a job and some kids but still found herself just…herself. 

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I’ll Be Your Blue Sky  |  Marissa de los Santos

Clare Hobbes isn’t sure: are her fiancé Zach’s temper flares just a quirk of his personality or something darker? On the weekend of her wedding, a chance encounter with an older woman named Edith helps her to see her troubles clearly, and she decides to call off her wedding. Shortly after, she is surprised to find that Edith had passed away and left her beachfront home in Delaware to Clare. 

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In the Heart of the Sea  |  Nathaniel Philbrick

Did you know that Herman Melville’s Moby Dick was actually based on a true story? Philbrick takes you on an exciting tale of seafaring, a whale attack, survival, starvation and the eventual cannibalism of the crew. This National Book Award winner is a must read.

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The Invention of Wings  |  Sue Monk Kidd

Sisters Sarah and Angelina Grimké were two of the earliest abolitionists and suffragettes in America, fighting for equal rights in the 1830’s so vocally that they were eventually exiled from their Charleston, South Carolina home.

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The Kitchen House  |  Kathleen Grissom

Young Lavinia’s parents die while the family is crossing the ocean to America, and the ship’s captain takes her as a servant at his plantation to pay for her passage across the Atlantic. She is assigned to the kitchen house, where she is taught to work by Belle, a slave who is also the captain’s daughter. Lavinia forms a close relationship with the slaves she works alongside, but as she grows older her life’s possibilities and the untenable conditions of slavery begin to fracture the bonds.

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The Language of Flowers  |  Vanessa Diffenbaugh

At 18, Victoria Jones has gathered a bouquet of sorrows. She’s just aged out of the foster care system and, with a string of difficult placements behind her and no one to take care of her, she begins living in a park. Using the knowledge of the Victorian language of flowers—taught to her by the one foster parent —she plants a small garden, bringing her notice, and a chance at a better life.

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The Last Lecture  |  Randy Pausch

The tradition of the “last lecture” is an old one; a retiring professor gives his last remarks, with the idea of transmitting one final bit of lasting wisdom. When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, gave his last lecture, he knew it was vital to express his wisdom, as he was dying from pancreatic cancer.

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Leaving Home  |  Garrison Keillor

Lighthearted and full of warmth, Keillor celebrates the common events that fill our lives. The work is a collection of the author’s Prairie Home Companion radio shorts. Although the pieces are set in fictional Lake Woebegone, Minnesota, the stories remind us of our shared human experience.

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Letters of a Woman Homesteader  |  Elinore Stewart

After deciding that city life as a laundress wasn’t for her, Elinore Pruitt, a young widowed mother, accepts an offer to assist with a ranch in Wyoming, work that she finds exceedingly more rewarding.

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The Library of Lost and Found  |  Phaedra Patrick

When librarian Martha Storm finds a book of fairy tales left on her doorstep, her calm and predictable life takes an unexpected turn. The book’s dedication was written, surprisingly, by Martha’s grandmother Zelda; other clues suggest that Zelda might not be dead as Martha had believed. 

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Light of the Candle  |  Carol Pratt Bradley

Most everyone knows the bible story of Daniel in the lion’s den: captured and taken away to Babylon, he remained true to the religion he learned in Jerusalem by praying three times a day. In Light of the Candle, Utah author Carol Pratt Bradley brings ancient Jerusalem and Babylon to life with the stories of Daniel’s experiences.

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The Light of the World   |  Elizabeth Alexander

In this memoir, the poet Elizabeth Alexander tells the story of the unexpected death of her husband, Ficre, and of her life without him. While it is a memoir of loss, it is most precisely a memoir of love: how her husband existed within her life, and how her memories of him, as well as his art, kept him present even once he was gone.

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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk  |  Kathleen Rooney

Loosely based on the poet Margaret Fishback, who was the highest-paid female advertising copywriter in the 1930s, this novel explores how choice and social forces influence a woman’s life. 

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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe  |  C. S. Lewis

When the Pevensies, four children from England, stumble upon a connection between our world and Narnia, they discover magic, talking animals, friendly satyrs, and a battle between good and evil.

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The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book  |  Wendy Welch

When Wendy Welch decided to open a used book store in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, she knew that fulfilling this ambition would be difficult given the economy, the proliferation of e-readers, and, of course, Amazon. Rather than just a place to buy books, she created a community resource where readers of all sorts make connections with others in the community and the reading world at large.

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Little Women  |  Louisa May Alcott

A classic and much-loved novel about the four March sisters (Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy), Little Women is Alcott’s semi-autobiographical novel. It deals with themes such as transcendental and feminist ideals, the struggle between caring for others and developing your own happiness, the need to be focused on the inner spiritual self, and the resistance of societal expectations.

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A Long Way from Chicago  |  Richard Peck

The book is a set of hilarious tales of an eccentric gun-toting grandmother and her two grandchildren, visiting on their annual summer hiatus from Chicago. The novel, written by the award-winning Richard Peck, is a perfect and beloved yarn for seekers of all ages.

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The Lost Letter  |  Jillian Cantor

Kristoff, an 18-year-old German, starts his apprenticeship as an engraver, learning how to create stamps and documents from the Jewish Frederick Faber and forming a relationship with his daughter, Elena. Katie Nelson is working through a divorce while simultaneously helping her father, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. When she discovers an unopened letter with an unusual stamp mixed in with his stamp collection, she begins a journey that will reveal her history and lead her to a new beginning.

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The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post | Allison Pataki

A child of the modest farmlands of the Midwest, Marjorie was inspired by a few simple rules: Always think for yourself, never take success for granted, and work hard--even when you're American royalty, even when you're dripping in imperial diamonds. From crawling through Moscow warehouses to rescue a tsar's treasures to outrunning the Nazis in London, from serving the homeless of the Great Depression to entertaining Kennedys, Roosevelts, and Hollywood's biggest stars, Marjorie lived an epic life few could imagine.

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Maisie Dobbs  |  Jacqueline Winspear

Maisie Dobbs, the new maid at the London home of the suffragette Lady Rowan Compton, is not an average maid. She’s only thirteen, and she can read, and she sneaks into the manor’s library to study European philosophy. When Lady Compton discovers Maisie’s precocious intellect, she becomes her patron, eventually sending her off to college, but the Great War interrupts Maisie’s education. She volunteers as a nurse and then, when the war ends, decides to become a private detective.

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A Man Called Ove  |  Fredrik Backman

Ove, a widower living in Sweden who’s recently been forced to retire, has had enough: the residents of his neighborhood are constantly breaking the rules and everyone’s annoying. So he decides to end his own life—except his efforts are interrupted by the new neighbors, Parvaneh (who’s fairly pregnant, despite already having two kids) and Patrick (who’s a bumbling idiot who can’t even back up a trailer).

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat  |  Oliver Sacks

An 88-year-old woman, somewhat deaf, awakens one night to the sound of music from her childhood playing loudly. The songs don’t come from any radio but play loudly and repeatedly in her head. Her ENT and psychiatrist can’t find anything wrong, but her neurologist, Dr. Oliver Sacks, eventually figures out what’s causing the music: a small stroke in the woman’s temporal lobe. That’s just one of the stories Dr. Sacks writes about in this collection of neurological case studies.

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March: A Novel  |  Geraldine Brooks

Louisa May Alcott’s classic Little Women is re-imagined in this novel by Brooks. Based loosely on Alcott’s real father, March is a minister influenced by Emerson and Thoreau (both family friends) and struggles to maintain his faith and idealism in the face of racism and mercenary behavior from both sides of the civil war. 

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*** The Measure  |  Nikki Erlick

It seems like any other day: You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live. From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean? As society comes together and pulls apart, everyone faces the same shocking choice: Do they wish to know how long they’ll live?

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Meet Me at the Museum  |  Anne Youngson

At the Silkeborg Museum in Denmark lies the Tollund Man: a body pulled from a peat bog, placed there roughly 2300 years ago. Tina Hopgood, who lives on an isolated farm in England, has been fascinated with this mummified corpse since she was a young adult, away from home at University, but has never gone to see it. One day, Professor Anders Larsen receives a letter from Tina starting a correspondence which blooms into a friendship.

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Mere Christianity  |  C. S. Lewis

Mere Christianity is C.S. Lewis’s forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. In this classic, C.S. Lewis explores the common ground upon which all of those of Christian faith stand together. 

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Migrations  |  Charlotte McConaghy

Fanny Stone lives on an earth on the brink of environmental collapse. For most of her life, she’s followed the ocean’s tides and the flights of birds, escaping the memories of her traumatic experiences. She travels to Greenland, where she convinces the captain of a fishing boat, The Saghani, to sail south in an attempt to follow what will likely be the last migration of the last flock of Arctic terns.

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Miss Benson’s Beetle  |  Rachel Joyce

It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and Margery Benson–a sensible schoolmarm and lonely spinster–is just trying to get through life. But one day, she reaches her breaking point, abandoning her job and her tidy, circumscribed life, to set out on an expedition to the other side of the world in search of an insect that may or may not exist: the golden beetle of New Caledonia.

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Moon Over Manifest  |  Clare Vanderpool

Abilene Tucker's father, Gideon, has sent her back to live in Manifest for the summer, thinking she’ll be safer there than living a drifter lifestyle with him. While there she discovers the decades-old mystery of The Rattler along with new friends and a boxful of old objects that lead her to Gideon’s history.

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A Monster Calls  |  Patrick Ness

Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill–an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.

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Mr. Dickens and His Carol  |  Samantha Silva

Immerse yourself in Victorian England in this atmospheric imagining of Charles Dickens’s experience writing A Christmas Carol. In November 1943, Dickens finds himself in a bit of a financial crisis. His wife has just had their sixth child, the holidays are almost upon him, and his serialized novel, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, is not selling well. To keep his publishing contract, he must write a Christmas story, even though the idea is not especially appealing.

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Mrs. Mike  |  Benedict Freedman

Mrs. Mike is the true story of Katherine Mary O’Fallon, a young Irish girl from Boston, who marries Canadian Mountie Sergeant Mike Flannigan, who is priest, doctor and magistrate to all in the wilderness of the North Woods of Canada. Extremely popular, the novel has won the hearts of millions for its depiction of young love’s journey to maturity.

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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd  |  Agatha Christie

Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Then he is stabbed to death.

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The Music Shop  |  Rachel Joyce

In the late 1980s in an English suburb, Frank owns a music shop, where he uses his special skill—knowing what song or album a particular customer needs to hear—to keep the shop open. But only barely, as a developer is attempting to overtake Unity Street and most customers want CDs now, not vinyl. 

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My Antonia  |  Willa Cather

Narrator Jim Burden tells the story beginning when, as a small boy, he left his life in civilized Virginia and traveled to the edge of the Nebraska frontier. Jim remembers his childhood friend, the vivacious and spirited Antonia, an immigrant child from Bohemia, and how their own lives, families, and friends were shaped by the beauty and cruelty of the Great Plains. 

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My Grandfather’s Blessings  |  Rachel Remen

Having grown up emotionally divided between the religious devoutness of her rabbi grandfather and the academic world of her parents, Remen shares with her readers the lessons she learned as she consolidated these two views and embraced healing.

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My Name is Resolute  |  Nancy Turner

My Name is Resolute narrates the story of the daughter of a Jamaican plantation owner. Resolute is kidnapped, along with most of her family save her mother, by pirates and sold as an indentured slave in America. She is driven by the desire to return home to her mother, but her life takes her to many other places.

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My Real Children  |  Joe Walton

Jo Walton’s novel My Real Children is hard to pin down: part alternate-universe, part family saga, part love story, part travelogue, what it really does is explore the consequences of choice. 

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No Ordinary Life : An Autobiography of Helen Mar Carter Monson  |  Helen Mar Carter Monson

Helen Mar Carter Monson survives the aftermath of WWI, the deadly flu epidemic of 1918, sliding down a haystack into a convict’s lap, the dissolution of her parents’ marriage, skinny-dipping in the penitentiary pond, and two broken noses, among many other adventures. These true stories, originally told to entertain bored children, are written in vivid, first-person description.

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North and South  |  Elizabeth Gaskell

When Margaret Hale’s father gives up his role as a priest in the Church of England after doubting its leadership, the family leaves the pastoral, southern town of Helstone for the industrialized, northern town of Milton. Here Margaret discovers a sharp contrast to her previous experiences, caused by the poverty and difficult working conditions of the factory laborers. 

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Once Upon a Town  |  Bob Greene

They began almost immediately, just after the attack on Pearl Harbor: the people of a tiny town in Nebraska started feeding the soldiers who came through North Platte by the trainful. Chicago Times columnist Bob Greene explores this little-known story from World War II, showing how the kindness of strangers changed lives.

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The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot  |  Marianne Cronin

Lenni is a teenager living with cancer in the long-term care section of a hospital in England. Margot is an older woman living with cancer in another section. They meet each other on the day Lenni witnesses Margot climbing into a garbage can. 

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Oral History  |  Lee Smith

Lee Smith captures the wandering thread of personal story in this narrative about an Appalachian family cursed by a witch woman, starting in 1902 and weaving through the century to the contemporary Jennifer Cantrell, who delves into her dead mother’s family history for her thesis.

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The Orphan Keeper  |  Camron Wright

Growing up in India, Chellamuthu experiences hunger, poverty, abuse, and quite a bit of theft, but everything changes when he is kidnapped and sold to an orphanage. An American family meets him at the orphanage and decides to adopt him, but it is many months before he can speak enough English to tell them that he actually already has a family. A semester abroad in London, spent living with an Indian family, sparks his need to find his birth family.

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The Outsiders  |  S. E. Hinton

The Outsiders is the story of Ponyboy, Soda, Johnny; Cherry, Bob, Marcia—the Greasers and the Socs and their rumbles against each other. Capturing the violence in the contrast of social structures, S.E. Hinton’s novel, written when she was still in high school, explores the way that both groups must come to terms with adult experiences such as fear, loss, and love. 

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Peace Like a River  |  Leif Enger

After years of work with Minnesota Public Radio, storyteller Leif Enger weaves together a beautiful expression of love. The novel follows a young family in a heroic trek to find their fugitive brother. Although none of the family finds what they expected, Enger blends faith and hope in a story of family, sacrifice, and religion. The writing is delightful and the story meaningful.

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The Persian Pickle Club  |  Sandra Dallas 

In Depression-era Harveyville, Kansas, a group of women form the Persian Pickle Club, erstwhile quilting group turned sisterhood. The newest “Pickle,” Rita, has just moved to Kansas from Denver, and she’s a little bit different from the rest of the group. She’s a big-city girl who doesn’t know the details of living a farm life, let alone quilting, but Queenie Bean, the group’s youngest member and the novel’s narrator, strikes up a friendship with her anyway. 

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Persuasion  |  Jane Austen

The last novel that Jane Austen wrote is the story of Anne Elliot. At 19, Anne fell in love with a young naval officer, Frederick Wentworth. When she accepted his proposal, however, her wealthy family thought he was beneath her and convinced her to break the engagement. Seven years later, the Elliot family has developed some financial troubles.

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A Piece of the World  |  Christina Baker Kline

Andrew Wyeth’s iconic American painting, “Christina’s World,” catches a simple scene in oil paint: a looming house, a field of waving, golden grain, and a woman in a pink dress, a scene that evokes an uncertain emotion as it creates a strong sense of place. Christina Baker Kline’s novel A Piece of the World imagines the story behind and beyond the painting, also creating an evocative sense of a place in a time within the life of Christina Olsen, the woman in the pink dress.

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A Place to Hang the Moon  |  Kate Albus

In this witty, heartfelt World War II story for junior readers, orphaned siblings William, Edmund, and Anna are evacuated from London to live in the countryside, where they bounce from home to home in search of someone willing to adopt them permanently. 

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The Professor and the Madman  |  Simon Winchester

Who would have thought that a madman in an insane asylum would have been one of the greatest contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary?  Although it sounds like fiction, the book it is a true story of the collaboration between the OED scholar James Murray and the incarcerated Dr. Minor (an American Civil War surgeon).

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The Quilter’s Apprentice  | Jennifer Chiaverini

The first novel in the Elm Creek Quilts series, this book introduces us to Sarah McClure, who has recently moved to a small town in Pennsylvania with her husband. Sarah strikes up an uneasy relationship with an older woman named Sylvia Compton, who begins teaching her to quilt, an activity that might just turn around both of their lives.

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Range of Motion  |  Elizabeth Berg

Lainey’s life changes as she tries to cope with caring for her husband, who is in a coma after being struck by a chunk of ice falling from a roof. Lainey never stops believing that her husband, Jay, will wake up, and to encourage him, every day she brings some small item to call him back to his life. Berg has a way of using story to examine the way difficult moments propel us to change, and she does so beautifully in this novel.

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The Reading Promise  |  Alice Ozma

When Alice Ozma was in fourth grade—the year her mother left—she and her father started a reading streak: every day, 100 days in a row, he would read to her. When the 100 days were up, they decided to continue, and they kept the reading streak alive until she left for college. As they worked their way through a huge variety of books, from Harry Potter to Shakespeare, their relationship grew and changed, but it stayed steady because of their tradition.

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Rebecca  |  Daphne Du Maurier

When she arrives at Manderley, the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter discovers not all is as expected. Her husband’s first wife, the seemingly-brilliant, talented, and beautiful Rebecca, haunts both the house itself and its occupants. Attempting to establish her marriage and her place within the house, Mrs. de Winter is challenged at every turn by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers. 

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Remarkably Bright Creatures  |  Shelby Van Pelt

After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. 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.

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The River Between Us  |  Richard Peck

861 brings changes for young Tilly Pruitt. The nation stands at the brink of war and the only boy in the family, Tilly’s brother Noah, wants to join the fight. That leaves Tilly with her mother and sister struggling to make ends meet. That is, until the elegant Delphine and her dark traveling companion arrive on a steamboat. 

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The Rules of Magic  |  Alice Hoffman

The curse on the Owens family began in Massachusetts in the 1620s, when Maria Owens was accused of witchcraft. It lingers still in Susanna Owens, living in New York City in the 1960s with her three children, Franny, Jet, and Vincent. She teaches them the rules for living in order to avoid the curse: no cats, no candles, no black clothes. Definitely no books about magic, or walking in moonlight, and absolutely no falling in love. 

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The Running Dream  |  Wendelin Van Draanen

16-year-old Jessica Carlisle, is her high school track team’s star 400-meter racer. But when she loses her leg in an accident, her identity seems to be amputated as well. What is life worth to a person who lives to run but only has one leg? She discovers that finding the worth in life is a little bit like running: the spark has to come from her.

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Same Kind of Different as Me  |  Ron Hall

Ron, an international art dealer, is wealthy, with a supportive wife and a beautiful home, whereas Denver grew up a modern-day slave in Louisiana before escaping to a life on the streets. They are united by Ron’s wife Debbie who is dying of cancer. Debbie asks Denver to maintain the ministry she began for homeless people in Fort Worth, Texas, and through this work the two men’s disparate lives weave together to form a friendship that redeems them both.

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Saving CeeCee Honeycutt  |  Beth Hoffman

When her mother Camille—former Onion Queen of 1951—is killed, CeeCee Honeycutt is just about on her own. After all, her father isn’t about to step in and take care of her. Luckily, CeeCee’s long-lost great-aunt Tootie shows up in Ohio just hours after the funeral. She whisks her great-niece off to live with her and her maid Oletta in Savannah. 

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The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place  |  Julie Berry

The seven students at St. Etheldreda’s School for Young Ladies have formed a pleasant little sisterhood away from their horrible families. But when the school’s headmistress and her brother die during their Sunday meal, their situation is threated. So they do what any clever girls would do: hide the bodies and carry on.  

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The Secret Garden  |  Frances Hodgson Burnett

Mary is a brat. Tragedy followed by banishment to a neglected English estate does nothing to improve her character. It will take an equally unpleasant cousin, a young laborer, and a hidden garden to bring happiness to all. 

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The Secret Keeper  |  Kate Morton

Avoiding her siblings by hiding in a tree house during a family party, 16-year-old Laurel witnesses her mother kill a man who appears to be an intruder. But fifty years later, when she is an accomplished actress and her mother is near death, Laurel rediscovers questions she has about what she witnessed. 

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The Secret Life of Bees  |  Sue Monk Kidd

Ten years after the death of her mother, all 14 year-old Lily Owens has left of her is a mysterious picture of a Black Madonna, with the words “Tiburon, South Carolina” written on the back. After a run-in with the law, Lily and her Black nanny Rosaleen must flee the police and Lily’s abusive father to find the answers Lily has been seeking. 

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Sister  |  Rosamund Lupton

When she receives the news that her sister, Tess, has committed suicide, Beatrice Hemming flies home to London. She is certain that artistic, mercurial Tess would never kill herself, so—despite a reluctant detective—Beatrice begins searching for her sister’s murderer. This is a mystery novel that reads like a gothic thriller; creepy, intriguing, and puzzling, it raises hackles and inspires chills. 

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The Small and the Mighty  | Sharon McMahon

A heartfelt, inspiring portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country. Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn't make it into the textbooks. McMahon's cast of improbable champions will become familiar friends, lighting the path we journey in our quest to make the world more just, peaceful, good, and free.

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The Snow Child  |  Eowyn Ivey

It is the story of Jack and Mabel, who’ve left their fairly safe but exceedingly sad life in 1920’s Pennsylvania for the Alaskan frontier. Sad because, except for one stillborn, they never were able to have children, and all of the family reminders around them (the nieces and nephews, the new babies, the excited couples marrying) were just too much.

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Solito: a memoir  |  Javier Zamora

At nine years old, Javier embarks on a two-week, three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border.  But those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside a group of strangers who will come to encircle him like an unexpected family.

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The Soul of An Octopus  |  Sy Montomery

Octopuses are fascinating! Montgomery’s interest in them was sparked one day at the New England Aquarium, where an octopus named Athena reached her tentacles towards her. These intelligent creatures play games, solve puzzles, change colors to show their moods, and interact surprisingly well with their human handlers. Montgomery explores both the octopuses’ world and the people who take care of them, creating a book that will both surprise and delight as it reveals this fascinating animal.

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A Sparrow in Terezin  |  Kristy Cambron

Two women, one in the present day and one in 1942, each hope for a brighter future. But they’ll both have to battle through their darkest days to reach it. 

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Spinning Silver  |  Naomi Novik

Told through the voices of three women, Spinning Silver is a reworking of the “Rumplestiltskin” fairy tale blended with aspects of Russian mythology. 

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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down  |  Anne Fadiman

In the small community of Merced, California, reside thousands of Hmong refugees from the highlands of Laos; among them is the Lee family, whose youngest daughter Lia suffers from severe epilepsy. Anne Fadiman attempts to shed light on Hmong culture and understand the seemingly irreconcilable differences between western medicine and the Hmong in this poignant narrative.

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State of Wonder  |  Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett’s novel State of Wonder begins with a probable death, that of Dr. Marina Singh’s pharmaceutical co-worker, Anders Eckman, who has disappeared while working in the Amazon jungle. Marina is sent to Brazil herself, tasked with the responsibility of discovering the fate of Anders. 

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers  |  Mary Roach

A crash-test dummy. (What happens to a body when it’s in a car crash?) A subject in an Army Ordnance Department experiment. (Just how, exactly, do bomb shells affect human flesh?) An anthropological assistant. (What happens to a body as it decomposes in, say, a block of cement?) Those are just a few examples of how a body can be useful after dying, the main thread in Mary Roach’s book.

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Summerlost  |  Ally Condie

A year ago, Cedar’s father and brother Ben were killed by a drunk driver, and to help everyone cope her mom has moved what’s left of her family to the small town of Iron Creek, Utah. Cedar finds a friend, the quirky Leo, who helps her get a job at the town’s Shakespeare Festival, Summerlost. When they’re not working, the two friends discuss the mysterious life of an actress who haunts the sets of the festival’s stage. 

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Survival Lessons  |  Alice Hoffman

Survival Lessons is about choices and how they affect our perspective. You’ll finish it uplifted and revitalized, ready to see what choices you can make to improve your own life.

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Take My Hand  |  Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients.

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Tell the Wolves I’m Home  |  Carol Rifka Brunt

Before he dies—of a mysterious illness no one will discuss—June’s Uncle Finn, a famous artist living in New York City, finishes a painting of her and her sister Greta titled “Tell the Wolves I’m Home.” After the funeral, June receives a package from Finn’s friend Toby, the man she heard her mother say murdered him. 

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These is My Words  |  Nancy Turner

Written as a diary, this novel is Sarah’s story. At 18, in 1881, she leaves her home in New Mexico to begin a new life on the Arizona frontier. Her journal starts out rough—full of misspellings and awkward sentences—but (with the assistance of a pile of books she discovers) becomes smooth, confident, and powerful, illustrating how her experiences change her.

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Things Fall Apart  |  Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe’s novel is considered the first masterpiece written in English by an African author. The work explores the cultural collision of Western influences and traditional Nigerian tribal practices. As the story unveils it exposes a shared humanity that transcends national boundaries. 

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Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All  |  Laura Ruby

When Frankie’s mother died and her father left her and her siblings at an orphanage in Chicago, it was supposed to be only temporary – just long enough for him to get back on his feet and be able to provide for them once again. That’s why she is not prepared for the day that he arrives for his weekend visit with a new woman on his arm and out-of-state train tickets in his pocket. 

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The Thursday Murder Club  |  Richard Osman

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. When a local developer is found dead, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case.

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To Kill a Mockingbird  |  Harper Lee

A terrible crime splits a Southern community along racial lines. However, Atticus Finch, a courageous white lawyer, refuses to sacrifice his principles to public demand. The consequences of his choice affect both his family and the town. This tale of courage, strength, and love is told through the insightful and charming voice of Atticus’s daughter, Scout. 

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Transcription  |  Kate Atkinson

In 1940, Juliet Armstrong is 18, naïve but intelligent. She reluctantly begins working for M15, transcribing the exploits of British Fascist sympathizers until the accidental discovery of an important document thrusts her into the world of espionage. A decade later, the choices she made during the war come back, forcing her to reckon with her true identity. 

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn  |  Betty Smith

Francie Nolan is eleven when the novel opens, living in Brooklyn in a tenement house. Her father is an alcoholic but her mother is a strong woman who makes sure her family is provided for. Francie is a quiet, imaginative child, passionate about learning, reading, and writing, but life doesn’t bring her the things she wants. 

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True Grit  |  Charles Portis 

“People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father’s blood,” begins the novel True Grit; incredible, perhaps, but fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross did just that. When her father is shot down in Fort Smith, Arkansas—his horse and his $150 bank roll stolen as well—she heads out into Indian Territory in the company of the meanest U.S. Ranger she can find, Rooster Cogburn. 

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Until I Say Good-bye: My Year of Living with Joy  |  Susan Spencer-Wendel

At 44, Susan Spencer-Wendel was an award-winning journalist writing for the Palm Beach Post, with three kids and a happy marriage. One day, her left hand started shriveling; it was the onset of ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Once she knew the name of her illness and what it would entail she made a choice to seek happiness and fulfilling experiences in whatever time she had left.

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The Unwedding  |  Ally Condie

Ellery Wainwright is alone at the edge of the world. She and her husband, Luke, were supposed to spend their twentieth wedding anniversary together at the luxurious Resort at Broken Point in Big Sur, California. But now she’s traveling solo. 

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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox  |  Maggie O’Farrell

When she receives a phone call explaining that her great aunt Esme is being released from Cauldstone Hospital—and needs somewhere to live—Iris Lockhart is stunned: she didn’t know she had a great aunt. Esme was placed in a mental hospital at the age of sixteen and has lived there, forgotten and written out of her family’s story, for sixty years. Although Iris enjoys her solitary life, she can’t bear to put Esme in the miserable halfway house, so she takes her home with her for a trial weekend.

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A Walk in the Woods  |  Bill Bryson

Weaving from Georgia to Maine, the Appalachian Tail (AT) takes hikers through 2,100 miles of mountains and forests, the longest swath of nature in America. Bill Bryson started on the trail at its southern-most point in Georgia with the goal of hiking the entire length. Then he wrote about his adventures on the trail.

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*** The Warm Hands of Ghosts  |  Katherine Arden

Home in Halifax Laura Iven receives word of her brother's death in combat, along with his personal effects–but something doesn’t make sense. Determined to uncover the truth, Laura returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospital. Soon after arriving, she hears whispers about haunted trenches, and a strange hotelier whose wine gives soldiers the gift of oblivion. Could Freddie have escaped the battlefield, only to fall prey to something–or someone–else?

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The Watsons go to Birmingham  |  Christopher Curtis

Kenny Watson’s parents are fed up with his older brother Byron, who is running with the wrong crowd and getting in trouble. They pack up Byron, Kenny and little sister Joetta and head to Birmingham, Alabama. Instead of finding the slower pace and quiet lifestyle they had hoped for, the Watsons witness one of the most chilling events of the Civil Rights struggle.

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The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle  |  Jennifer Ryan

After losing everything in the London Blitz, renowned fashion designer Cressida Westcott heads to the country where she inspires a local village sewing group to mend wedding dresses for both local brides and brides across the county, helping others celebrate love while searching for it themselves.

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What Would Cleopatra Do? Life Lessons from Fifty of History’s Most Extraordinary Women  |  Elizabeth Foley and Beth Coates

This illustrated book is not just a collection of short histories of famous women. It helps us understand both the impact of the decisions and actions of such women as Frida Kahlo, Catherine the Great, Boudica, and Hedy Lamar during their own time period, as well as the influence they can have upon us in our current situations.

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Where the Crawdads Sing  |  Delia Owens

After Kya’s mother leaves, the rest of her family abandons their small house in the North Carolina marsh, one by one until she’s left to grow up on her own. She learns to live alone, surviving on what she finds in the marsh as she learns its secrets. The people in Barkley Cove call her the “Marsh Girl” and stay away, but when two different boys cross her path, she begins to interact with people again.

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The Witch of Blackbird Pond  |  Elizabeth George Spears

When her beloved grandfather dies, Kit Tyler is orphaned, and so must sail from Barbados to the village of Wethersfield in the colony of Connecticut. When she strikes up a friendship with an old woman named Hannah—thought to be a witch—she must confront the society’s narrow moral views.

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A Wizard of Earthsea  |  Ursula K. Le Guin

Ged, an overconfident boy, must survive his training and daunting experiences to become a master wizard. 

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The Women  |  Kristin Hannah  

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. She has always prided herself on doing the right thing.  But in 1965 when her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.

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The World’s Strongest Librarian  |  Josh Hanagarne

Josh Hanagrarne first developed the tics of Tourette’s Syndrome when he was six, on stage acting the role of a tree in his first-grade play. The syndrome—which he nicknamed Misty—came to influence almost all of his life. Now a librarian at the downtown Salt Lake City library, Hanagarne mixes his personal narrative with the tales of a metropolitan library, creating a funny, moving memoir that explores faith, books, limitations, family, adaptations, and the lengths we will go to in order to save ourselves. 

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The Wright Brothers  |  David McCullough

Mankind’s historic first flight, accomplished at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina by the Wright brothers, is a well-known tale. Pulitzer-Prize winning writer David McCullough develops the details of the story that are not as widely known, especially the help of Wilber and Orville Wright’s sister, Katharine, whose assistance had a far-larger role that most people know.

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A Wrinkle in Time  |  Madeline L’Engle

Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and her new friend Calvin O’Keefe travel through space, with the help of Mrs. Who, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Which, to find her father, who has vanished. They find him imprisoned by the powerful IT on the planet of Camazotz, where all people are identical. As much an exploration of good and evil, the consequence of individuality, and the power of loving people as it is an intergalactic adventure, A Wrinkle in Time won the 1963 Newbery Medal and changed the lives of countless readers.

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