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1) The namesake
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English
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A young man born of Indian parents in America struggles with issues of identity from his teens to his thirties.
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c2003
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English
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Clare and Henry, deeply in love, try desperately to maintain normal lives even though he has been diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition in which his genetic clock periodically resets, pulling him through time to the past or future.
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The multi-million bestselling novel about a young girl's journey towards healing and the transforming power of love, from the award-winning author of The Invention of Wings and The Book of Longings
Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted Black "stand-in...
Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted Black "stand-in...
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Ya-Yas volume 2
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Siddalee Walker, a successful theater director, is thrown into a void of uncertainty when she has a falling out with her mother over a New York Times article in which Vivi is characterized as an abusive parent, and the Ya-Yas, Vivi's gang of lifelong girlfriends, conspire to restore the mother-daughter relationship.
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Ballad novels volume 6
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Folksinger Lark McCourry is haunted by the memory of a song that has been passed through the generations of her family since 1759, and her only hope of remembering the song, and preserving her family legacy, lies with a mountain wisewoman who talks to both the living and the dead.
11) The map of love
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Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
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English
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After the death of her husband, Anna Winterbourne travels to Egypt, where she falls in love with Sharif Pasha al-Baoudi, an Egyptian nationalist.
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Soho mysteries volume 2
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2002
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English
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Seven-year-old Rosie lives happily with her Uncle Bert and Aunt Maggie in a small Soho neighborhood, unaware that her mother is a local prostitute, but when her aunt and uncle decide to adopt her, Rosie is forced to face the truth about her past.
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Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Aspiring writer Laura Rider, having given up sleeping with her sexually enthusiastic husband Charlie after twelve years of marriage, meets Jenna Faroli, a popular radio host in Hartley, Wisconsin, and decides to promote a relationship between Jenna and Charlie, hoping their affair will give her material for a book.
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Warren Ziller moves his family to California with aims to provide them a comfortable life, but when Warren's real estate investment tanks, he is forced to move his family, along with their mounting troubles and suspicions, into one of the abandoned model homes in his housing development in the middle of the desert.
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Viking
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Adult sisters Van and Linny Luong, temperamental opposites, find unexpected common ground when they are called home to the traditional Vietnamese community of their youth to plan a celebration in honor of their father's invention of an instrument to help short people grasp objects that are out of reach.
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
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English
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Cynthia Archer, married to an English teacher with whom she is raising a daughter, continues to be haunted by the disappearance of her family when she was a teen, but her decision to go on a television show that looks at the old case leads to mayhem, danger, and revelations she could never have anticipated.
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