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  The Promise

  by Chaim Potok

  Reuven Malter lives in Brooklyn, he’s in love, and he’s studying to be a rabbi. He also keeps challenging the strict interpretations of his teachers, and if he keeps it up, his dream of becoming a rabbi may die. One day, worried about a disturbed, unhappy boy named Michael, Reuven takes him sailing and cloud-watching. Reuven also introduces him to an old friend, Danny Saunders–now a psychologist with a growing... (more)
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  You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know

  A True Story of Family, Face Blindness and Forgiveness

  by Heather Sellers

  This is an unusual and uncommonly moving family memoir, with a twist that gives new meaning to hindsight, insight, and forgiveness. Heather Sellers is face-blind -- that is, she has prosopagnosia -- a rare neurological condition that prevents her from reliably recognizing people's faces. Growing up, unaware of the reason for her perpetual confusion and anxiety, she took what cues she could from speech,... (more)
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  The Way

  by Kristen Wolf

  Anna is a fiery tomboy living in ancient Palestine whose androgynous appearance provokes ridicule from the people around her and doubt within her own heart. When tragedy strikes her family, and Anna's father—disguising her as a boy—sells her to a band of shepherds, she is captured by a mystical and secret society of women hiding in the desert. At first Anna is tempted to escape, but she soon finds that the... (more)
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  Shelter

  by Frances Greenslade

  A spellbinding and wise coming-of-age story from New Face of Fiction Frances Greenslade, Shelter draws readers into the precarious world of two young sisters in search of their mother, and brings to life a breathtaking BC landscape. Maggie is a born worrier who really believes that trouble comes in threes and that threats to her family's cozy but fragile life in Duchess Creek are never far. For reasons she... (more)
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  The Little Russian

  by Susan Sherman

  The Little Russian spotlights an exciting new voice in historical fiction, an assured debut that should appeal to readers of Away by Amy Bloom or Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. The novel tells the story of Berta Alshonsky, who revels in childhood memories of her time spent with a wealthy family in Moscow –a life filled with salons, balls and all the trappings of the upper class — very different from her... (more)
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  Tribes of Eden

  by William H. Thomas

  Outtake "I am named after the great Peace Maker of Kallimos; the woman who stood before the angry mob and helped them remember reason and compassion... Emma shifted in her seat. The contrast grated on her. She was named for a brave and mighty woman but what had she done, what would she ever be allowed to do, that could measure up to her namesake?" Product Description On the run... (more)
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  White Crosses First edition by Watson, Larry published by Atria Hardcover

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  And the Mountains Echoed

  by Khaled Hosseini

  On May 21, 2013, the new novel from Khaled Hosseini Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times- bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns , has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations.With profound wisdom, depth, insight and compassion – and moving from Kabul, to Paris, to San Francisco,... (more)