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Everyday Ghosts James Morrison
For two years, Brother Pete has lived as a monk in a rundown abbey on the outskirts of the city. He has run away from his life only to find himself among a group of outcasts and oddballs, from a former child star who’s… More
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The Playgroup Elizabeth Mosier
A young mother faces old fears and new challenges when she becomes pregnant with a second child.… More
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The Possibility of Lions Marta Maretich
A family seaches for the meaning of “home” when they are forced by war to moved from their adopted village in Biafra back to the US.… More
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The Church of Cheese Carol Miller
A rare inside look at Roma culture, ritual and belief at its peak in the American Gypsy experience – A Disapora spread over five continents, Gypsies conjure the romance of a nomadic life, a nostalgia for a simpler… More
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Oliver’s Surprise, revised Carol Newman Cronin et al.
Historical young adult fiction on the Storm of ‘38 by Olympic sailing superstar. Longing to feel closer to his favorite grandfather, Oliver skips school on a sparkling September afternoon and hides out on a tired schooner.… More
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Oliver’s Surprise Carol Newman Cronin et al.
Longing to feel closer to his favorite grandfather, Oliver skips school on a sparkling September afternoon and hides out on a tired schooner. When he wakes up on the ways of his grandfather’s boatyard and realizes… More
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Fiona Gemma Whelan
Fiona Clarke, an Irish writer living in New York, has been running away from her past since she left rural Cregora, Ireland, for boarding school. That past finds her, many years later, when her thinly veiled autobiographical… More
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Cape Cod Surprise Carol Newman Cronin et al.
Oliver returns! The character we came to love in Oliver’s Surprise finds himself on Cape Cod aboard Cap’n Eli’s boat, the beloved “Surprise,” as a major hurricane threatens to make… More
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A Yank Back to England Denis Lipman
Denis Lipman left London’s East End for Washington, DC more than 20 years ago, but made an annual pilgrimage year after year to visit aging parents, a pair of cantankerous, real-life Cockneys. He endured the visits as… More
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Dragon Chica May-lee Chai
Nea, a Chinese Cambodian teenager, has survived the Khmer Rouge only to land in poverty in Texas. Her small family struggles to get by when a miracle occurs. Wealthy and mysterious, Auntie and Uncle write to say they are… More
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Postville U.S.A Mark A Grey et al.
An inside view of a rural Iowa town torn apart by greed, failed immigration policy and misguided view of diversity. Postville (population 2400) is an obscure meatpacking town in the northeast corner of Iowa. Here, in… More
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Lola’s Luck Carol Miller
A wild and bittersweet adventure into a world none but Machvaia Gypsies know – Susan Sarandon Gypsies in America are hidden. With estimates between fifty thousand and over a million, the Gypsy population is as… More
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Yarn Kyoko Mori
A memoir of crossing cultures, losing love and finding home by a New York Times Notable author in her prime. As steadily and quietly as her marriage falls apart, so Kyoko Mori?s understanding of knitting deepens. From… More
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The Sorrow of the Elves Brian Bouldrey
Walace Weiss, a once?-?famous fantasy novelist, now troubled by drug addiction, sets ?himself on a final two?-?fold quest?: ?to finish his first novel in over a decade, and, like the ?immortal elves of his stories, … More
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Yankee Doodle Loretta Welch
The Charles River divides Boston and Cambridge, and the Red Line ties the ?cities together, traveling through an expanse of class and cultures along its route?. ?When an unlikely combination of riders share an afternoon… More
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The Lane Maura Rooney Hitzenbuhler
In the tradition of Maeve Binchy, The Lane paints a clear and poignant picture of Dublin in the Fifties? its people, their hardships and their humor. The Lane draws a sharp line under the restrictions on Irish women and… More