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Alexander McCall Smith, “La’s Orchestra Saves the World”
La’s world is beginning to change: just as she leaves her family home to start a life with her new husband, she is left abandoned and alone, rejected by the love of her life for another woman. Escaping...
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Pam Jenoff, “Kommandant’s Girl”
In 1939, Emma Bau is living a peaceful, happy life with her husband Jacob; when Germany invades Poland, however, her contented world is destroyed. Her husband, an active member of the Resistance, goes...
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Mark Mills, “The Savage Garden”
When he’s given the opportunity to travel to Tuscany for his art history thesis, Cambridge University student Adam Strickland jumps at the chance. What his advisor doesn’t tell him, however, is that...
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Suzanne Brockmann, “Over the Edge”
Patriotism. It can be displayed, felt in degrees. A flapping American flag positioned next to a front door. A robust anthem, a pledge of allegiance sung and spoken with pride. An oath to serve one’s...
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Suzanne Brockmann, “Into the Night”
It was supposed to be a dog-and-pony show, an elaborate – if brief – ceremony to honor the brave SEALS of Team Sixteen. For Joan DaCosta, it was supposed to be an opportunity to spin the crumbling,...
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Stephen Hunter, “The Master Sniper”
In a valley carved out of the Black Forest, two dozen prisoners – Russians, Communists, Jews – wait, huddled in the dark. Although the only sounds are those of the forest, each prisoner drops in...
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Gertrude Chandler Warner, “The Boxcar Children”
It’s a special kind of person who can be left destitute and without hope, yet he or she thrives, is resourceful and creative. In short, he or she’s a survivor. It’s no easy feat, sure. But with a...
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Markus Zusak, “The Book Thief”
Although Death is busy in the late 1930s and early 1940s, the life of a girl piques his interest. He comes close to her over the years, lifting up the souls of the ones she loves to a sometimes milky...
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