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Cutting for Stone: A Novel

by Abraham Verghese
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“xx hrs - Borrowed from Dunlap Library - A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel—an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa.... ”

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Let the Great World Spin

by Colum McCann
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“xx hr - Borrowed from Dunlap Library - In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets... ”

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Brooklyn

by Colm Toibin
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“xx hrs - borrowed from Dunlap Library - Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín's sixth novel, Brooklyn , is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself. Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the years following World War Two.... ”

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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

by Daniel Brown
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“CD version not available at the library - xx hrs - In April of 1846, Sarah Graves was twenty-one and in love with a young man who played the violin. But she was torn. Her mother, father, and eight siblings were about to disappear over the western horizon forever, bound for California. Sarah could not bear to see them go out of her life, and so...”

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In the Forest: A Novel

by Edna O'Brien
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“CD version not available at the library - xx hrs - In the Forest returns to the countryside of western Ireland, the vivid backdrop of Edna O'Brien's best-selling Wild Decembers. Here O'Brien unravels a classic confrontation of evil and innocence centering on the young, troubled Michael O'Kane, christened by his neighbors "the Kindershrek”

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A Suitable Boy

by Vikram Seth
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“CD version not available at the library - xx hrs - Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find -- through love or through exacting maternal appraisal -- a suitable boy for Lata to marry. ”

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Black Water (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)

by Joyce Carol Oates
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“CD version not available at the library - xx hrs - A senator seduces young Kelly Kelleher at a Fourth of July picnic, and as they head for his hotel, his rented Toyota swerves off the unnamed road and into the black water. Reprint. NYT.

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The Master: A Novel

by Colm Toibin
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“CD version not available at the library - xx hrs - Like Michael Cunningham in The Hours, Colm Tóibín captures the extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer. Beautiful and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of a man born into one of America's first intellectual families who leaves his country in the late nineteenth century...”

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Create Your Strongest Life: What the Happiest and Most Successful Women Do Differently

by Marcus Buckingham
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“7.3 hrs - In Find Your Strongest Life , Marcus Buckingham reveals the powerful key to bring fulfillment, peace, and control into a woman's life. In today's world, can a woman truly "have it all"? A fulfilling career full of passion and performance? A belief that she is truly becoming the best,...”

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Survival Chinese

by Boye De Mente
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“A handy guide to the Chinese language, Survival Chinese contains basic expressions and key words that are necessary for getting around. The notorious tonal changes in the pronunciation of Chinese words are a challenge for any beginner in the language. De Mente shows how these variations...”

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