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  Secrets to Happiness: A Novel

  by Sarah Dunn

  Holly Frick has just endured the worst kind of breakup: the kind where you're still in love with the person leaving you. While her wounds are still dangerously close to the surface, her happily married best friend confesses over a bottle of wine that she is this close to having an affair. And another woman comes to Holly for advice about her love life--with Holly's ex! Holly decides that if everyone around... (more)
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  My Korean Deli

  Risking It All for a Convenience Store

  by Ben Ryder Howe

  This sweet and funny tale of a preppy editor buying a Brooklyn deli with his Korean in-laws is about family, culture clash, and the quest for authentic experiences It starts with a gift, when Ben Ryder Howe's wife, the daughter of Korean immigrants, decides to repay her parents' self-sacrifice by buying them a store. Howe, an editor at the rarefied Paris Review , agrees to go along. Things soon become a lot... (more)
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  Jeeves and Wooster: Book 15

  Aunts Aren't Gentlemen

  by P. G. Wodehouse

  Also published as The Cat-Nappers.The story begins with Bertie finding himself with pink spots about the thorax, so he flies off to E. Jimpson Murgatroyd (the sombre bird of Harley Street who despotted Tipton Plimsoll in Full Moon). After getting mixed with Orlo Porter fleeing from a policeman and a crowd, Bertie is sentenced by the doc to a quiet life in the country. Thus Bertie goes to Maiden... (more)
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  The Edge of Sadness

  by Edwin O'Connor

  Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1962, this haunting novel shattered reigning cultural stereotypes of priests and parish life whenit was first published. Father Hugh Kennedy is a recovering alcoholic, committed to his vocation yet struggling with the demands of it.
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  The Ballad of Peckham Rye

  by Muriel Spark

  Working to swindle two competing nylon manufacturers, a Scottish migrant sows havoc among the employees of both firms while coming to the private conclusion that he might be the Devil.