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Of Love and Shadows
by Isabel Allende
A young woman's journey of courage, fighting for justice in a repressive and dangerous society.
Irene is a magazine editor living under the shadow of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Francisco is a handsome photographer and he comes to Irene for a job. As a sympathizer with the underground ... (Wikipedia)
Eva Luna
by Isabel Allende
A magical story of a woman's journey of love, adventure and self-discovery.
Meet New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende’s most enchanting creation, Eva Luna : a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller—available for the first time in ebook. Eva ... (Goodreads)
Portrait in Sepia
by Isabel Allende
A woman's search for her true identity, connecting the past and present.
Portrait in Sepia is the sequel to, Daughter of Fortune, and follows the story of Aurora del Valle, the granddaughter of Eliza Sommers (, Hija de la fortuna, ). The daughter of Lynn Sommers (the ... (Wikipedia)
Hausfrau
by Jill Alexander Essbaum
A bored American housewife in Switzerland seeks fulfillment through a series of affairs, leading to tragic consequences.
For readers of Claire Messud and Mary Gaitskill comes a striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine who struggles to live a life with meaning. ... (Goodreads)
The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles
by Katherine Pancol
Two sisters navigate love, family, and deception in Paris. One writes a bestseller, the other takes credit.
Le Divorce, meets, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, in this hilariously entertaining mega-bestseller from France When her chronically unemployed husband runs off to start a crocodile farm in Kenya with ... (Goodreads)
Another Brooklyn
by Jacqueline Woodson
A poetic story of four teenage girls growing up in Brooklyn in the 1970s.
The story starts with August, an adult anthropologist, returning to New York to bury her father. On the subway, she encounters an old friend, and begins to reminisce. She remembers being an 8 year ... (Wikipedia)
Look at Me
by Jennifer Egan
A woman's story of self-discovery and transformation in the digital age.
At the start of this edgy and ambitiously multilayered novel, a fashion model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident in her Illinois hometown with her face so badly shattered that it ... (Goodreads)
The Tortilla Curtain
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
A story of two families, one affluent and one struggling, and their intersecting paths.
Cándido Rincón (33) and América (his pregnant common law wife , 17) are two Mexicans who enter the United States illegally, dreaming of a good life in their own little house somewhere in California. ... (Wikipedia)
The Devil and Miss Prym
by Paulo Coelho
A small town is given a proposition by a stranger, to kill someone in exchange for gold. The moral dilemma tests the town's values.
A stranger arrives at the remote village of Viscos, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the answer to a question that torments him: Are ... (Goodreads)
Salvage the Bones
by Jesmyn Ward
A family struggles to survive in the aftermath of a devastating hurricane.
The novel follows a working-class African-American family living in southern Mississippi in 2005. The family consists of Daddy, his daughter Esch (the narrator), and his sons Randall, Skeetah, and ... (Wikipedia)
The Joke
by Milan Kundera
A reflection on the nature of humor, and the consequences of a single joke.
The novel is composed of many jokes, which have strong effects on the characters. The story is told from the four viewpoints of Ludvik Jahn, Helena Zemánková, Kostka, and Jaroslav. Jaroslav's joke is ... (Wikipedia)
Lila
by Marilynne Robinson
A young woman's journey of self-discovery and exploration of faith and spirituality.
Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder. Lila, ... (Goodreads)
The Prince of Tides
by Pat Conroy
A man's search for solace and understanding in his troubled family's past.
Tom Wingo is a middle-aged man with a wife and three young daughters who has recently lost his job as a high school English teacher and football coach. He learns that his twin sister, Savannah, has ... (Wikipedia)
The History of Love
by Nicole Krauss
A journey through a web of intertwining stories, searching for the meaning of love.
Approximately 70 years before the present, the 10-year-old Polish-Jewish Leopold (Leo) Gursky falls in love with his neighbor Alma Mereminski. The two begin a relationship that develops over the ... (Wikipedia)
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
by Alex Haley
A multigenerational saga tracing the journey of an African American family in the U.S.
Roots tells the story of Kunta Kinte —a young man taken from the Gambia when he was seventeen and sold as a slave—and seven generations of his descendants in the United States. Kunta, a Mandinka ... (Wikipedia)
The Angel's Game
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
A writer's journey through a supernatural world of secrets and lies.
The Angel's Game is set in Barcelona in the 1920s and 1930s and follows a young writer, David Martin. In a once-abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, Martín makes his living by writing ... (Wikipedia)
Holy Smokes
by Katie MacAlister
A woman discovers she's a demon hunter and falls for a demon she's supposed to kill. Chaos ensues.
Drake Vireo, the green dragon of Aisling's dreams, is finally ready to make an honest woman of her-if she can ever get him to the altar. Being stood up cools Aisling's jets, but not her passion, ... (Goodreads)
Wintersong
by S. Jae-Jones
A young woman must journey to the Underground to save her sister from the Goblin King, but at a cost.
"Darkly romantic and atmospheric in all of the best ways, this book reads like a fever dream you never want to wake from." —Emily A. Duncan, , New York Times bestselling author of Wicked Saints and ... (Goodreads)
Before We Were Yours
by Lisa Wingate
Family torn apart is reunited across generations, revealing a powerful tale of resilience and hope.
Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the ... (Goodreads)
Doctor Sleep
by Stephen King
A man confronts his dark past as he defends a young girl from a supernatural evil.
Following the events of The Shining , after receiving a settlement from the owners of the Overlook Hotel, Danny Torrance remains psychologically traumatized as his mother Wendy slowly recovers from ... (Wikipedia)
Under the Jolly Roger: Being an Account of the Further Nautical Adventures of Jacky Faber
by L.A. Meyer
A young girl's thrilling journey across the high seas, encountering danger and adventure.
After leaving Lawson Peabody, a boarding school in Boston , Jacky joins the whaling ship, the Pequod , as a companion to the Captain's wife, a teacher for the Captain's son, and as the cook's helper. ... (Wikipedia)
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
by John Green
Two teenage boys with the same name discover each other and form an unlikely friendship.
Will Grayson meets Will Grayson. One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two strangers are about to cross paths. From that moment on, their world will collide and lives intertwine. It's ... (Goodreads)
A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
A woman's struggle to break from societal expectations and find her own identity.
A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the tragic hypocrisy of Victorian middle class marriage on the stage. The play ushered in a new social ... (Goodreads)
Insatiable
by Meg Cabot
A high school student discovers she is a vampire and must navigate her new life while dealing with typical teenage drama.
When it comes to devouring her delightfully outrageous, phenomenally fun fiction, Meg Cabot’s fans are, Insatiable!, And now the #1, New York Times, bestselling author of, The Princess Diaries,—not ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Brightest Star in the Sky
by Marian Keyes
A mysterious spirit observes the lives of the residents of a Dublin apartment complex, influencing their fates and revealing secrets.
Welcome to 66 Star Street . . . In the top-floor flat lives music exec Katie. She spends her days fighting off has-been rock stars and wondering how much cheesecake you'd need to eat yourself to ... (Goodreads)
The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland
by Rebekah Crane
A summer camp for troubled teens brings together a group of misfits who learn to confront their pasts and embrace their true selves.
According to sixteen-year-old Zander Osborne, nowhere is an actual place—and she’s just fine there. But her parents insist that she get out of her head—and her home state—and attend Camp Padua, a ... (Goodreads)
Falling Angels
by Tracy Chevalier
Family drama spanning three generations of two Victorian families in London.
In her New York Times bestselling follow-up, Tracy Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters. Told through a variety of shifting perspectives- wives ... (Goodreads)
The Witches of Eastwick
by John Updike
Three women in a small town discover their supernatural powers and attract the attention of a mysterious man.
The story, set in the fictional Rhode Island town of Eastwick in the late 1960s, follows the witches Alexandra Spofford, Jane Smart, and Sukie Rougemont, who acquired their powers after leaving or ... (Wikipedia)
Solo
by Kwame Alexander
A young basketball player navigates life's challenges on and off the court, learning about love, loss, and the power of perseverance.
Solo by Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess is a New York Times bestseller! Kirkus Reviews said Solo is, “A contemporary hero’s journey, brilliantly told.” Through the story of a young Black man ... (Barnes & Noble)
Skim
by Mariko Tamaki
A teenage girl discovers her identity and sexuality through the struggles of self-discovery and acceptance.
Skim is a "not slim" sixteen-year-old Japanese-Canadian who is a student at an all-girls Catholic school. She is known as a Goth , and practices Wicca . When popular girl Katie Matthews gets dumped ... (Wikipedia)
