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• Park Avenue

  Ahdieh, Renée

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  Jia Song has always been destined for greatness. As the daughter of Korean bodega owners, she promised herself that she would have every Fifth Avenue luxury when she grew up, and it is all finally within reach. She has just made junior partner at…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book Swap

  Bickers, Tessa

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  Still grieving the death of her best friend, Erin knows she needs to start living - but has no idea how. Then she loses her favorite book, a heavily annotated and containing her friend's final words to her. When James finds Erin's note-filled book…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sweet Fury

  Bischoff, Sash

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  Lila Crayne is America's sweetheart: she's generous and kind, gorgeous and magnetic. She and her fiancé, visionary filmmaker Kurt Royall, have settled into a stunning new West Village apartment and are set to begin filming their feminist adaptation…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What Kind of Paradise

  Brown, Janelle

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  Growing up in an isolated cabin in Montana in the mid-1990s, Jane knows only the world that she and her father live in: the woodstove that heats their home, the vegetable garden where they try to eke out a subsistence existence, the books of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Note

  Burke, Alafair

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  A vacation in the Hamptons goes terribly wrong for three friends with a complicated history. It was meant to be a harmless prank. Growing up, May Hanover was a good girl, always. Well-behaved, top of her class, a compulsive rule-follower. Raised by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The French Kitchen

  Cambron, Kristy

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  As Paris rebuilds in the aftermath of World War II, one ex-pat uses the skills she learned in French kitchens during the war to bring long-held secrets to light"-- Paris, 1952 -- An ex-pat wife living in Paris signs up for a cookery class taught by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Flashlight

  Choi, Susan, 1969-

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  One night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the beach. He's carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later Louisa is found washed up by the tide, barely alive. Her father is gone. She is ten years old. In chapters that shift from one member to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ghostwriter

  Clark, Julie, 1971-

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  June, 1975. The Taylor family shatters in a single night when two teenage siblings are found dead in their own home. The only surviving sibling, Vincent, never shakes the whispers and accusations that he was the one who killed them. Decades later,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Typewriter Beach

  Clayton, Meg Waite

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  Set in Carmel-by-the-Sea and in 1950s Hollywood--in the days of the studio system and McCarthy-era scaremongering about an America "riddled with communists and homosexuals"--Typewriter Beach is the unforgettable story of an unlikely friendship…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Party of Liars

  Cox, Kelsey

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  A lavish, Texas-sized Sweet Sixteen turns deadly in this twisty, pulse-pounding new novel - serving up a fresh take on a classic locked-room whodunnit. Let the festivities begin... Today is Sophie Matthews's sixteenth birthday party, an exclusive…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Stolen Queen

  Davis, Fiona, 1966-

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  Egypt, 1936: When anthropology student Charlotte Cross is offered a coveted spot on an archaeological dig in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, she leaps at the opportunity. But after an unbearable tragedy strikes, Charlotte knows her future will never be…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jenny Cooper Has a Secret

  Fielding, Joy

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  Reeling from her husband's death and best friend's dementia diagnosis, seventy-six-year-old Linda Davidson feels lost and alone. Her beloved daughter Kleo and son-in-law Mick have moved into her house to keep her company, but the constant bickering…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Missing Half

  Flowers, Ashley

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  Nicole "Nic" Monroe is in a rut. At twenty-four, she lives alone in a dinky apartment in her hometown of Mishawaka, Indiana, she's just gotten a DWI, and she works the same dead-end job she's been working since high school, a job she only has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What Will People Think?

  Hamdan, Sara

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  A debut novel that follows a young woman's career aspirations to become a stand-up comedian in New York City as she balances the traditions of her Palestinian upbringing with her need to live--and to love--on her own terms, particularly as she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Phoenix Pencil Company

  King, Allison

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  Monica Tsai spends most days on her computer, journaling the details of her ordinary life and coding for a program that seeks to connect strangers online. A self-proclaimed recluse, she's always struggled to make friends and, as a college freshman,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Paris Daughter

  Lane, Soraya

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  Blake gazes down at a scrap of shimmering silver velvet attached to a faded dress design, tracing the details with wonder. They were left at Hope's House, a home for unmarried mothers, where her grandmother was born and then adopted. Now her beloved…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Secret of Orange Blossom Cake

  Linden, Rachel

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  A magical cookbook and a summer on her family's Italian olive farm help a brokenhearted social media chef cook up a satisfying new life. Rising star Jules Costa loves re-creating vintage recipes for her popular online cooking show. But when personal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Family Matter

  Lynch, Claire, 1981-

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  Family Matter is a heartbreaking and hopeful exploration of love and loss, intimacy and injustice, custody and care, and whether it is possible to heal from the wounds of the past in the changed world of today. 1982. Dawn is a young mother, still…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Unladylike Secret

  Murray, Amita

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  Mira Marleigh, as far as the public is concerned, is an unassuming companion. She quietly drifts through London society accompanying her dear friend and confidant, Ursula. Mira flies under the radar, which is exactly how she likes it, because…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The River Knows Your Name

  Mustian, Kelly

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  For nearly thirty years, Nell has kept a childhood promise to never reveal what she and Evie found tucked inside a copy of Jane Eyre in their mother's bookcase--a record of Evie's birth naming a stranger as her mother. But lately, Nell has been…Read moreRead more of this annotation