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A tale spanning 150 years and two continents re-imagines the peace efforts of democracy champion Frederick Douglass, Sen. George Mitchell and World War I airmen John Alcock and Teddy Brown through the experiences of four generations of women.NPR Bestseller
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Children of the Jacaranda Tree
A tale set in post-revolutionary Iran follows three generations of families whose political activist loved ones were murdered during the violent purges inside Tehran's prisons.
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And the Mountains Echoed
The author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another and how choices resonate through subsequent generations.NPR Bestseller
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The Son
Kidnapped by Comanches after his mother and sister are murdered, 13-year-old Eli McCullough quickly adapts to Comanche life. Then the tribe is decimated by armed Americans, leaving Eli alone in a world where he is neither white nor Indian.NPR Bestseller
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The Burgess Boys
Catalyzed by a nephew's thoughtless prank, two brothers confront painful issues surrounding the freak accident that killed their father when they were boys, a loss linked to a heartbreaking deception that shaped their lives. NPR Bestseller
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The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
Exiled to an equestrienne boarding school in the South at the height of the Great Depression for her mysterious role in a family tragedy, strong-willed teen Thea Atwell grapples with painful memories while acclimating to the school's strict environment.NPR Bestseller
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The Interestings
Forging a powerful bond in the mid-1970s that lasts throughout subsequent decades, six individuals pursue respective challenges into their midlife years, including an aspiring actress who harbors jealousy toward friends who achieve successful creative careers. NPR Bestseller
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The Woman Upstairs
Relegated to the status of schoolteacher and friendly neighbor after abandoning dreams of becoming an artist, Nora advocates on behalf of a charismatic Lebanese student. She is drawn into the child's family until his artist mother's careless ambition leads to a shattering betrayal.NPR Bestseller
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Love Minus Eighty
Looks at the disparate love lives of people in a world where death is not necessarily the end, and a cryogenics program turns women who die young and beautiful into "bridesicles."
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The Blood of Heaven
After running away from home, Angel Woolsack, a preacher's son, settles on the rough frontier of West Florida where he is swept up in a violent new world as would-be revolutionaries plot to break away from the young United States and create a new country under the leadership of renegade Aaron Burr.
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The Sweet Girl
Resisting the social mores imposed on women in fourth century B.C., Pythias, the daughter of Aristotle, is forced to flee Athens with her family after the death of Alexander the Great and discovers a hostile world of superstition that forces her to test the boundaries of her father's logical methods and her own sharp wits. By the award-winning author of The Golden Mean.
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Taipei
A dark lament reflecting the macabre aspects of today's world follows the experiences of a man who navigates Manhattan's art and literary scenes before touring Taipei, where he confronts family origins, suffers a breakup and pursues an internet affair that culminates in a gaudy Vegas wedding.
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The Universe Versus Alex Woods
The son of a fortune teller, who was struck by a meteorite when he was ten years old, befriends a grumpy old widower and proves his friendship by getting stopped at the border by customs with a large bag of marijuana and an urn full of ashes.
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Cubop City Blues
A nearly blind and sheltered boy named "The Story Teller" must care for his aging Cuban-American parents when they are diagnosed with cancer. He does so by telling them elaborate stories of the fabled Cubop City.
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The Silver Star
Abandoned by their artist mother at the age of 12, Bean and her older sister, Liz, are sent to live in the decaying antebellum mansion of their widowed uncle, where they learn the truth about their parents and take odd jobs to earn extra money before an increasingly withdrawn Liz has a life-shattering experience.
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The Good Lord Bird
Fleeing her violent master at the side of legendary abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-19th-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859. By the best-selling author of The Color of Water.
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Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish
The NPR radio essayist and award-winning author of Fraud presents an edgy novel in verse that traverses the experiences of characters linked by acts of generosity or cruelty throughout major historical events of the 20th century.
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Cinnamon and Gunpowder
Kidnapped by a ruthless early 19th-century female pirate and ordered to serve exquisite Sunday dinners or forfeit his life, renowned chef Owen Wedgwood transforms meager shipboard supplies into sumptuous meals while the pirate queen pushes her exhausted crew to track down a deadly privateer.
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The Hired Man
Duro is off on a morning's hunt when he sees something one rarely does in the Croatian village of Gost: a strange car. Later that day, he overhears its occupants, a British woman, Laura, and her two children, who have taken up residence in a house Duro knows well. He offers his assistance getting their water working again, and soon he is at the house every day, helping get it ready as their summer cottage, and serving as Laura's trusted confidant. But the other residents of Gost are not as pleased to have the interlopers, and Duro must be increasingly creative to shield the family from the town's hostility, and his own past with the house's former occupants.
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The Liars' Gospel
Re-imagining the life of Jesus, this novel presents the story of Yehoshuah, who wandered Roman-occupied Judea giving sermons and healing the sick. Now, a year after his death, the four people closest to him tell their stories. His mother grieves, his friend Iehuda loses his faith, the High Priest of the Temple tries to keep the peace, and a rebel named Bar-Avo strives to bring that peace tumbling down.
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Americanah
Separated by respective ambitions after falling in love in occupied Nigeria, beautiful Ifemelu experiences triumph and defeat in America and explores new concepts of race, while Obinze endures an undocumented status in London. When the pair is reunited in their homeland 15 years later, they face the toughest decisions of their lives.NPR Bestseller
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The Twelve Tribes Of Hattie
In 1923, 15-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children, whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of the tenderness they crave. Captured here in 12 luminous narrative threads, their lives tell the story of a mother's monumental courage and the journey of a nation.NPR Bestseller
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A Guide to Being Born
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The Pushcart Prize finalist author of No One Is Here Except All of Us presents a new collection of short stories featuring imaginative explorations of the human condition, including "Atria," in which a pregnant teen harbors beliefs that she will give birth to any number of strange animals; and "Catch and Release," in which a girl encounters a Civil War ghost.
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Pacific
In Los Angeles to reunite with the mother who abandoned him seven years ago, 14-year-old Micah Darling finds himself way out of his league. Meanwhile, back home in the Midwest, his half-sister Lyris and their father Tiny find their lives unsettled by the arrival of an ethereal young woman.
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The Dark Road
The Chinese dissident author of Stick Out Your Tongue explores the human cost of China's one-child policy as reflected by a rural family on the run from the state, describing how a cultural imperative to have a son prompted their decision to conceive a second child before becoming subject to cruel government practices of enforced abortion and sterilization.
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How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia
Structured like a business self-help book, this novel tells the story of a boy born into poverty who attains dazzling wealth. NPR Bestseller
