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  Shades of Blue

  by Karen Kingsbury

  Brad Cutler, twenty-eight, is a rising star at his New York ad agency, about to marry the girl of his dreams. Anyone would agree he has it all; a great career, a beautiful and loving fiance, and a fairy tale life ahead of him, when memories of a high school girlfriend begin to torment him. Lost innocence and one very difficult choice flood his conscience, and he is no longer sure what the future will bring except... (more)
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  The Ghost's Child

  by Sonya Hartnett

  This enchanting fable of a young woman and a wild boy is a haunting meditation on the nature of love and loss. Maddy, an old lady now, arrives home one day to find a peculiar boy waiting for her. Over tea, she tells him the story of her life long ago, when she wished for her days to be as romantic and mysterious as a fairy tale. It was then that she fell painfully in love with a free spirit named Feather, who... (more)
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  I Still Dream About You

  by Fannie Flagg

  Though her friends think Maggie has the perfect life, she's actually perfectly miserable.  The former Miss Alabama is worried about how her life has turned out--she's given up on her dream of living in a beautiful home like Crestview, and instead is a real estate agent in Birmingham. But just when Maggie begins to wonder if there's much point in going on, her life takes a wild turn, and she finds herself... (more)
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  The Nanny Diaries: Book 2

  Nanny Returns

  by Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus

  The highly anticipated sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller, picks up with a decade later as Nan returns to New York City.
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  Chasing Amanda

  by Melissa Foster

  Nine years ago, Molly Tanner witnessed a young girl’s abduction in the busy city of Philadelphia, shifting her occasional clairvoyance into overdrive. Two days later, the girl’s body was found, and Molly’s life fell apart. Consumed by guilt for not acting upon her visions, and on the brink of losing her family, Molly escaped the torturous reminders in the city, fleeing to the safety of the close-knit rural... (more)
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  Right Behind You

  by Gail Giles

  When he was nine, Kip set another child on fire. Now, after years in a juvenile ward, he is ready for a fresh start. But the ghosts of his past soon demand justice, and he must reveal his painful secret. How can Kip tell anyone that he really is--or was--a murderer?
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  Scribbler of Dreams

  by Mary E. Pearson

  Kaitlin Malone hates the Crutchfields. Her family has feuded with that family for generations, and now her dad is in jail for killing one of them. This legacy of hatred has never been questioned--until Kaitlin falls for a Crutchfield boy. As if that's not bad enough, that boy is the son of the man her father murdered.
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  Before I Fall

  by Lauren Oliver

  What if you had only one last day to live? What would you do? Who would you kiss? And how far would you go to save your own life and someone elses?Samantha Kingston has it all: the world's most crush-worthy boyfriend, three amazing best friends, and first pick of everything at Thomas Jefferson High - from the best table in the cafeteria to the choicest parking spot. Friday, February 12, should be just... (more)
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  Husband and Wife: A Novel

  by Leah Stewart

  In this new novel by the celebrated author of The Myth of You and Me , a young mother discovers that her husband's novel about infidelity might be drawn from real life. Sarah Price is thirty-five years old. She doesn't feel as though she's getting older, but there are some noticeable changes: a hangover after two beers, the stray gray hair, and, most of all, she's called “Mom” by two small children. Always... (more)
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  Memoir Girl

  by Yuu Watase

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  Are You Alice?: Book 1

  Are You Alice? (Volume 1)

  by Ninomiya Ai

  After throwing away his dreams a boy wanders into "Wonderland" and he holds the name of "Alice" which is the primary requirement in the "Game to kill the White Rabbit". In a crazy story where common sense does not apply and everything is bound by the rules of the game and the orders of the Queen of Hearts, Alice decides to take the gun in his hand.
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  The Artist at Work & Other Short Stories

  by Philip Oyok

  The Artist at Work and Other Short Stories is a collection of eleven deep, evocative stories that speak of the human heart and of the emotions that evolves around them. (edited by author)
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  Secret Regrets

  What if you had a Second Chance?

  by Kevin Hansen

  ALSO AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD on Kindle, iPhone, iPad, iTouch, Blackberry, Android, PC or MAC for only $9.99 at www.tinyurl.com/SecretRegretsKindle. What is the BIGGEST regret of your life? The one thing you would change or do differently if you had a second chance? Thousands of people have anonymously answered that question on the www.SecretRegrets.com blog. This book is a compilation of hundreds of the most... (more)
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  Emma Rae Creations: Book 1

  Always the Baker, Never the Bride

  by Sandra D. Bricker

  Thirty-six-year-old Emma Rae Travis has been baking specialty cakes and melt-in-your-mouth pastries at The Backstreet Bakery in historic Roswell, just outside of Atlanta, for the last six years. But here s the rub about her job as a baker ... Emma is diabetic. When she tastes her creations, it can only be in the most minute portions. Emma is considered an artisan for the stunning crème brulee wedding cake that... (more)
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  Pursuit of Happiness

  by Douglas Kennedy

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  Thirteen Reasons Why

  by Jay Asher

  Seven cassette tapes, thirteen stories, thirteen reasons why Hannah Baker committed suicide. Clay Jensen, Hannah's former classmate, arrives home from school one day to find a box on his front doorstep. The box is addressed to him, but bears no return address. Inside the box he discovers seven cassette tapes labeled with numbers 1-13 in what he assumes to be blue nail polish. He begins to listen to the mysterious... (more)
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  Birthday

  by Alan Sillitoe

  Birthday is the long-awaited sequel to Alan Sillitoe's classic novel of the 1950s, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Four decades on from the novel which was at the forefront of the new wave of British Literature, we re-discover the Seaton brothers: older, cetainly; wiser - possibly not. Arthur and Brian Seaton, one with an ailing wife, one with an emotional knapsack of failure and success, are on their way to... (more)
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  The Memory Keeper's Daughter

  by Kim Edwards

  Kim Edwards’ stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every mother’s silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? In 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins, he immediately recognizes that one of them has Down Syndrome and makes a split-second decision that will haunt all their lives forever. He asks his... (more)
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  For One More Day

  by Mitch Albom

  Mitch Albom mesmerized readers around the world with his number one New York Times bestsellers, The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie. Now he returns with a beautiful, haunting novel about the family we love and the chances we miss. For One More Day is the story of a mother and a son, and a relationship that covers a lifetime and beyond. It explores the question: What would you do if you... (more)
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  Slow Man

  by J. M. Coetzee

  A masterful new novel from one of the greatest writers alive. Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Tactfully and... (more)