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Inn
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Innes
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innocent awekward but bang on in her views of people. This novel is funny and subtly so. It has strong characters like Maddie’s mom who has some of the best one liners and I danced from disliking her to rooting for her. The sharp
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Iran 1950- 2022
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Iranian revolution through the eyes of an orphan
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Irish village in 1850
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iron lung
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is a memoir of growing up in Maoist China---------- Did not finish.
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is arrested for sexual assault at a prestigious prep school in Connecticut. While he awaits his trial in jail
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is forced to seek refuge among the sisters of the abbey of Sainte Marie-de-la-mer. Reinventing herself as Soeur Auguste
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is moving from New York back to Delhi
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is passing as a wealthy white aristocrat in Philadelphia. His secret identity is threatened
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is sitting alone on a French Quarter wharf late one November night
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Isaac
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Isaac Amin is tossed into prison
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Isabelle
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Island
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Israel
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Istanbul
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It is a warm
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It is January 1993 and Bombay is threatened by terrorism and sectarian violence. Ten-year-old Chamdi has rarely ventured outside his orphanage
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it is temporary. Not so for Rose
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It is the early 1960s and Jessica Speight
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It was an accident. It was dark
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it's a time of dizzying splendor
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it's annihilating them
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It's December 1997
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Italy in 1500s
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Jean Perdue
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Jeresulem
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Jewish
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Jewish escape
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Jewish familt deprecated
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jewish history. Holocaust.
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Jews
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jews
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Jews ( Jude) & Arabs (Salim)
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Jews and Muslims live side by side. 5 years later
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Jimmy
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Jivan
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Johanna ‘s love and marriage to Theo the brother of Vincent Van Gogh
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Johannesburg
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Jordan
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Josephine
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Jottie
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journal
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journalist
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journalist In 2016 doing research
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journalist Martha Gelhorn
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journey to find him and finds herself
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Joy Candellaro is beginning to dream of a new life with widower Daniel O'Shea and his son
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joyful reunions
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Jr. hockey team
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judging by her sudden departure. It’s only when she returns
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Judith
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jugglers. nuns
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Julie Andrews
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Julie psychologist
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Juliette makes a new life for herself and her young daughter
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Juliette's comfortable existence begins to unravel. The abbey's new leader is the daughter of a corrupt noble family
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jungle
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Junkyard Guy
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just as she herself once had. Faced with their helplessness
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Just before dying
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Kabul
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Kamal Punja
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Kamila Sidiqi Afghanistan during Taliban rule
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Kashgar
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Kate and daughter Sophie with Lukemia
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kate the mother
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Katerina Sarafoglou's home in Asia Minoris destroyed by the Turkish army.
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Kathy and her house
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Kenan
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Kenya
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kenya
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Khatna survivors
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Kim and ma
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knowing someone
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Ko Phi Phi
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Kora
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La Draga
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Lale was given the job of tattooing the prisoners marked for survival
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langauge
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Laos meets Michigan. Written by friend of Maureen’s.
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Larry Weller
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Laura and Henry
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Lavinia
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Le Cadre Noir
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Leela's Book weaves a tale of contemporary Delhi that crosses religious and social boundaries. Leela
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lena
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Leo
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Leon and his daughter Saffron
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Letters and journals reveal the struggles
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letters to her husband. Are parents responsible?
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letters to Osama bin laden
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Lexi
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Lexi Baill is taken in by a newly discovered great-aunt who lives a spartan life near Seattle.
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Lexie
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Lexie and her family and 2 loves
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Life
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life after war
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Life in Crosby Maine
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Life in India
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Life in New Delhi
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Life in NYC.the courage to make choices.
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life in Savannah
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life in the isolated Iris countryside
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Lighthouse keepers
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Lillian
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lilly
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Lilly
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Lily and Omar
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Lily Casey Smith an astonishing woman
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Linda Holeman's second novel is an epic story of one woman's escape from persecution and search for a better life
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Lithuania
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Liverpool
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Liz
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Lizzie and Frances
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London 1660 and London 2000
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London 1870. A terrifying place for a young
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London life during Blitz
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Lore
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lost brother in WWI
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Louise Kirk
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Louisiana 1875
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love this author
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love this author-"A harrowing survival story about four strangers who spend five days lost in the mountain wilderness above Palm Springs"-
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low self asteem
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Lucien
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Lucretia
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Lydia and Luca
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Lynch family
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Mab
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Maine
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making do with poverty
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Malasia
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Malaya.occupation by Japan
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Malta
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man lies dying
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manic
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Marianne comes across a painting of the tiny port town of Kerdruc in Brittany and decides to try her luck on the coast.In Kerdruc
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Marianne decides to leap off the Pont Neuf into the Seine
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Marianne is left with a choice: to step back into the known
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Marianne meets a host of colourful characters who all gravitate around the restaurant of AR MOR (The Sea). It is this cast of true Bretons who become Marianne's new family
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Marianne Messman longs to escape her loveless marriage to an uncaring husband - an artillery sergeant major named Lothar. On a day trip to Paris
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Marriage
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Marta
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Marta Nederman is lucky to have escaped with her life. Recovering from the horror
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Martinique
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Mary Gooch
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master if the house
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maternity homes
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mating and birth
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Maureen passed on to me
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Maureen's favorite childhood book. I should buy this for her.
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May 1943. As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across the city
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maya Angelou’s story as a child
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Meet Dolores Price. She's 13
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Mel Toews
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Memmonite life
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Memoir if an FBI art crime investigator. Stories of the Gardner heist
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Memory lost
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Mercedes is a spirited young Spanish girl whose passion is dancing. Her life is turned upside down by the Spanish Civil War & the oppression of Franco's dictatorship.
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Microsoft
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middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War Office: to travel to the remote jungles of northeast Burma and there repair a rare piano belonging to an eccentric army surgeon
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Minnesota
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miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father. His life and the life of a little painting
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Mrs Orchard next door.
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n January 1943
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National Book award winner
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Nazi Hunters. Russian WWll pilot
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newlywed Nerys Watkins accompanies her husband to a missionary posting in the exotic lakeside city of Srinagar
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not all of them. And she cannot remain forever untouched by what she has left behind . . . and who she has become in the leaving.
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one of Canada’s foremost journalists.
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Ont after WW1
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Ontario. dying mother
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painting called "The girl you left behind"
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Paris 1939
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part 2 Avairy gate. Venice
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perhaps
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perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time
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Perry
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personal dialogue is rich with themes of family loyalty
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Polly signs on to time travel to the future as a sort of indentured servant to help rebuild America in order that her lover Frank will receive the necessary health care to save him from the pandemic that is raging in 1981. She is only trav
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Prequel to “ Falcon Flies”. Mungo St John
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present day Greenacres
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Presents a narrative about an aged author who flees Nazi-occupied Poland leaving his unpublished manuscript behind and a teenage girl in New York who was named after the heroine in Leo's book which was published under a different man's name.
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pro life and pro choice.”
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pulling the plug
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Purchased at Logan airport
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putting his life in grave danger when he is compelled by a promise to travel back to the South to rescue a beloved boy servant named Pa
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quixotic smalltown bookseller: the second Jew—and the most vivid person—Tom has ever met. He dares to believe they could make each other happy. But it is 1968: twenty-four years since Hannah and her own little boy arrived at Auschwitz. Tom Hope is tak
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Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school and rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh
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Raphael
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rare book buyer
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Ravensbruck
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read years ago and fell in love
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Received as an early review book
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received for Xmas 2010.
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Recommend by Maureen- borrowed from library. gays AIDS
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recommended by Christine. The spectacularly dramatic memoir of a woman whose curiosity about the world led her from rural Canada to imperiled and dangerous countries on every continent
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recommended by Francine
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recommended by Francine- Borrowed from library. scent keeper
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recommended by Francine-The suspenseful
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recommended on site "31 books that will restore your faith in humanity"
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record breaking
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record most countries visited
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redemption
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redneck gigoalo
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referendum
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reflective
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reform school
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refugees
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rehab
(2)
reincarnation
(1)
relationships
(7)
religion
(1)
remembrances
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remote
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remote island off Nfld
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Rennie witnesses the way her community places suspicion on the newcomers when a young girl is murdered.
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Reno
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renovations of Paris streets
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reporting from Europe. Dr Fitch
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repression
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rescue elephants
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rescue friendship
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Rescue puppy
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Rescued
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rescued animals
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research
(2)
research project on great great grandfather
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researchers
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Resistance
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resistance
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resistance escape line
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Resistance in France
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resort
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resort development
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responsibility and how to find love. Maame means woman and Maddie becomes a whole complete one in this novel.
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reunion at a wedding
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reunion with father
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revenge
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revenge on Hugo
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Revolution
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rich
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rich corrupt bankers
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rich hotel
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rich vs poor in neighborhoods high school .
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Richard Burton
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Richard Holbrooke
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riots
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river Thames
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River Thames
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River Tigris
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rivers
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romance
(6)
romance with a German airman
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Ronsel
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Rose
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Rose and her sister Ava
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Rose's letters
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Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growing up in an idyllic household in the countryside south of Londo
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Ruby and Tomas
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rug makers
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Rumi
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Runaway girl
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running away
(2)
rural England
(1)
rural family
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Rural Kentucky
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Rural Manor house
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rural small southern town
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russian artists. bolshoi ballet
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Russian female sniper in WWII
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russian historical fiction. catherrine the great. borrowed from Sue
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Russian immigrant
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Russian immigrants
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Russian nobility
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Russian revolution
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Russia’s frozen north
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Rwanda
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rwanda
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Sabine
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Sabine sets out to learn who Parsifal was outside the world of illusion.
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sadness
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Saffron Courtney
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Saleem and mother Fereiba
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Salem
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salem lost witch
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Sallie Duke’s daughter .
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same sex couples
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San Fran
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San Francisco
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sanctuaries
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Sara and Gerard
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sarah the humanatarian
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saw at Indigo
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scavenger hunt
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scholarship student
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school
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school football
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school shooter
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school teacher
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science
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scientist
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Scotland
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Scotland's outer Hebrides
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Scottish
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Scottish family
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scout
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Sculpture in wax
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search for Loch Ness
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searching
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Searching for answers about her dissident father's disappearance
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searching for family
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searching for her roots.
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Seattle
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secrets
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Secrets
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secrets and betrayal.present day grandmother and granddaughter
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secrets kept
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secrets.
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secrets.chemist
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seed vault
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self made ice cream
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senator’s daughter
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sent midwest train. foster care Molly
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sent off to work as servants during the Great Depression
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serfs 1860
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service
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set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town.
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Set in 1850's Afghanistan
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set over the course of 5 decades
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sewing
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sex trade
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sexuality
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Shaker Village
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Shakespeare
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Shakespeare & Co book store
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Shakespeare's 11 yr old twins
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Shanghai
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shantytown in Zimbabwe
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Shapur Irani and his grandson
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shared wedding dress
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shattered family - borrowed from Christine
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she cannot go through with her plans
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she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will change the course of her life
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she marries one of the survivors
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she meets Paul
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she risks the safety of herself and her family
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she snatches one of the babies and flees into the snowy night.
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she spends the next few years nourishing herselfd with Mallmomars
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shell shock
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sheriff
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ship of rejected jews.
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ships
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shoe company
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shooter in abortion clinic
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shop owner
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Silicon Valley
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single dad
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single female
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single mom
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single mom Celia
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single women
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sister and brothers
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sister runs away
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Sisters
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sisters
(6)
sisters growing up
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sisters. attorney Thomas Clarke
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Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station
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slave trader
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slavery
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Slavery
(2)
slum
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small
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small southern town
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small town
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Small town
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small town England
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small town Feathertown
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Small town in England
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Small town Maine
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small town Ont. family unravelling after a tragedy.
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small town Virginia
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Smallpox
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smart women 1950’s chauvinism
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snowstorm
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so she and Frank make careful plans about when and where to meet in the future. He will be 12 years older and she will be the same age as she presently is
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social issues
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social media
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social services
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social status
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society and parties and drinking
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Sohie and Liv.
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Soho
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Somali pirates
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son Max
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sons
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sophisticated Marina Thwaite; Danielle
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south
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South Africa
(3)
South Africa 1901
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South Africa during apartheid
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southern Appalachia
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Southern Baptist faith
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southern boarding house
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southern charm
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soviet life
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Spanish war
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Spanning the years between 1921 and 1975
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Sparrow women
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spices.legend
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Spinalonga island
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spinster
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spirit
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spoiled
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Spokane
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Spy
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St. Elizabeth's is a home for unwed mothers in the 1960s. Life there is not unpleasant
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stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio- apple trees
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stained glass windows. Rose
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start of WWII
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statue on Mountain
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Stella
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stepbrothers and sisters
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stereotypes
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stories
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stories of mother's and daughters
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stories of townspeople
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stories showcasing tension between tradition and modern
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storytelling
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strikes
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strong mother
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strong women
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struggle justice for women
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student accused of teroist attack
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student housing
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Subhash and his brother Udayan
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subway accident Manhatterhenge
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Sue Morrissey lent it to me.
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suffragette
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suffragettes
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Sufi
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suggested by FG- borrowed from the library. Young reader version
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suicide sisters
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summer stock theatre. Retelling lufe to daughters
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Suora Zuana
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supernatural
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surgeon Robbie
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surgeons
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survival
(4)
surviving high school
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survivors guilt
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sweatshop
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Sweden
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Switzerland
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Switzerland spy
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swiv
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syria
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taboo subject
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taciturn
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Taita
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taken at the age of six
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taken by mother
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takes a running leap into the river's chocolate swell
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takes Noel in
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tales from author
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Taliban
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talks to dog Vera
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Tanzania
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Tanzania and Rawanda
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tarit cards
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Ted
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Ted and his dog Lily
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Ted andElina
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teenage girl. crazy mother
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teenage yearning
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teenaged Sunja
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teenagers
(2)
Tells the story of the Buendia family
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tells the story of three women who are affected in different ways by a death that happened on a morning train.
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tells Wiesenthal's personal story
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Ten years after leaving high-power jobs to raise their children
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Tennessee Children’s home
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tennis
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Terezin
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terrorists
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Tete
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Texas
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Tge Duke
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Thailand
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Thames River
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that he discovers his surprising talent as a father. So when Trudy finds Jesus and takes little Peter away with her to join the holy rollers
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the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman
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The adventures of Una Spenser who went to sea disguised as a cabin boy. Shipwrecked
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the arab/ Israeli confllict
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The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father and distant mother
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the children fall in love with each other and dream up a plan for the most extraordinary and seductive circus show the world has ever seen. Separated as teenagers
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The church of Fire and Brimestone
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The Dakota apt building
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the diamond and the notebook.
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the effects of rape culture on a family.George Woodbury
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The epic story of a mother's search for the father of her child - from Australia to Armenia via England and Mesopotamia
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The epic true story of Charlotte Taylor
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the Father of Impressionis--- recommended by Francine
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the Gestapo hunted down 230 women of the French Resistance and sent them to Auschwitz. This is their story
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The Happy Fig
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the last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration camps in Germany. Marijke is given a terrible choice: to suffer a slow death in the labour camp or—for a chanc
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The narrator of The Zahir is a bestselling novelist who lives in Paris and enjoys all the privileges money and celebrity bring. His wife of ten years
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the NYPD Major Case Squad detective assigned to art theft.
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the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world"- Borrowed from library
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the painter
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The Plum Tree follows a young German woman through the chaos of World War II and its aftermath.
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the possibilities of their childhood dreams are renewed
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The powerful story of two sisters separated at birth one abused and one loved and their search to understand their past.
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The Queen of Jordan describes her youth in a privileged Arab American family
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the Quran
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the servants story behind Pride and Prejudice
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the son of wealthy art gallery owners
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The story of a young Irish girl who dives into sorcery and experiments with different magical traditions
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The story of an Indian family during the 1969 Communist disturbances in Kerala province. It is told through the eyes of a boy and his sister
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the struggle against drought
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the tiger
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the “pure gold baby” of the title.
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theatre
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theft of thevMona Lisa
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their griefs and
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their sudden expulsion at the hands of one of the world's most terrifying tyrants.
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their talents emerge: Pierrot is a piano prodigy; Rose lights up even the dreariest room with her dancing and comedy. As they travel around the city performing clown routines
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then a teeming multicultural neighborhood
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then falls in love with Captain Ahab
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Theo Blake painter
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Theo Corntney and his sister Constance in India
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Theo Decker
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things going wrong
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This funny and heart-rending novel tells the story of a fractured family on the verge of spinning off its axles and a road trip that just might keep them together.
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This novel is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov
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This novel is set in Kolkata and features Korobi
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This story is a journey into the minds of African elephants as they struggle to survive in a land racked by drought and slaugher. The story is told by a young cow named Mud
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Thomas med student and researcher and his father a psychatrist who wrote a book using his son as the subject
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Three friends on the verge of their thirties--beautiful
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thriller
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Through the two main characters
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Thursday night suppers
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thus setting the stage for a devastating tragedy.
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Tiger Island
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tilo real and unreal. borrowed from library
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time lines
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time travel
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Titanic
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to a convent
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to hide Sam--a Jew.
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Togo africa
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Tokyo
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told in full for the first time--a searing and unforgettable chronicle of terror
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Tom Hope doesn’t think he’s much of a farmer
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Tom Page We
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Tom’s heart breaks all over again. Enter Hannah Babel
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Took from Richmond St.Afgans and Americans
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Took from Sedona Airbnb 1970s
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Toronto
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Tourette's syndrome
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tourism trail guides
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towner
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tradition
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traditions
(4)
traditions of 3 generations
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Traffiking women
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tragedy
(3)
tragedy of middle East
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Tragic
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trailing spouses
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training
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traitor
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tramps
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trauma
(2)
traumas
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travel
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travel narrative
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travel writer
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travelling
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travels Holland
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trial
(2)
tribal lore
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Trudy
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true love
(1)
true love acting
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True recount of P.E.I. dr opioid addiction
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true story
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True story
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true story.
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truth behind Ismail
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trying to make a life.
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trying to understand
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tsunami
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Tuberculousis patients in NY state
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Tupelo
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Turkey
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Turtle and her mother taylor
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tuscany
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Tuscany. food and wine
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twins
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twins Marion and Shiva
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twins.
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Twins. Apt in
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two friends
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two girls
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Two half sisters
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two Slovakian Jews
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two women
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UBC
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Uganda
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Ukraine
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unaware that a connection is about to be forged between their lives - one that will reveal itself fifteen years later
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unbutu
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uncle
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underage
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underground railway. quits.
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Unions
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university days
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unknown to each other
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unknown writer journeys from his home in neutral Ireland to conflict-ridden Paris and is drawn into the maelstrom- Irish Writer Samuel Beckett
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unlikely friendship
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unravelling family mystery as mother dying
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until a fateful Christmas Eve forces her to make a painful choice.
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unwed mother
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unwed mothers
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upper class
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urban East Africa
(1)
Ursula Todd
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used in movies
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useless men
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using a Christian friend's identity papers
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vacation
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vanashing
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Vee
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veiled in mystery. Not wanting to be an ignorant widow
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Venice
(3)
verbal abuse
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vermont
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Veronica Swan severs ties with her family in her inability to forgive their killer
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very close family
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vet
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Victorian
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Vienna
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Vietnam
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Vietnam War
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Vietnamese boat people
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village
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Vineland New jersey
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vineyard
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violence
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violence. Batuk
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Violet Speedwell
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violin makers
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violinist
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Virgin birth
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Vivian
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Vivian and Violet parallel stories
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wacked out family
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waiting for marriage
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walking backwards
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walking in England
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Wanda born in hurricane . Survivors of epocolyps
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wandering dervish
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war
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War torn 1940 Paris
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wars
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wartime
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wartime clothing restrictions
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was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota.
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Washington DC
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Wavy
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wealth
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wealthy family
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well-born doctor
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west virginia
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what happens to our ambitions over the course of time
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when a brutal fight for freedom
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When Helena discovers an American paratrooper stranded outside their small mountain village
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When Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of Monsieur Trabuc turns up unexpectedly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art—a $50 million painting shipped from Argentina via UPS
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When war breaks out in Europe in 1939
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where she is swept up in a liaison that completely changes her life
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where she meets American doctor Paul Cook.
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Where the Air Is Sweet tells the story of Raju
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which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age.
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which includes his experience as a prisoner at the Janowska concentration camp in Poland
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which she cleans in order to earn her keep. When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp
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which they are months away from finally receiving. The Plumb siblings have been counting on the money to solve a number of self-inflicted problems. Brought together as never before
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white family raised child
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white man
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White Russians escaped to Paris after the 1917 Revolution in Russia. Evie leaves NYC to meet her grandmother in Paris. Plots
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whitshank family
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who carve a life for themselves in a racially stratified colonial and post-colonial society. Where the Air Is Sweet is the story of a family: their loves
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who find resilience
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who knew nothing of his private life
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who survived Auschwitz and eventually made their home in Australia. In that terrible place
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whose is it?
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widow
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widow and her son
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wild mustangs
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wilderness
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wildlife
(1)
Willa
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William
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William Blake poet
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Winchester cathedral
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winemakers
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winning
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wins lottery
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wise-mouthed but wounded
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with a drug-addicted father and no brothers
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with its nearly all female student body and teaching zoo of two hundred animals.
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wives
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Wolf child
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wolf packs
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wolves
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woman ambulance driver
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Woman dies in suicide bombing in Jerusalem
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woman forger
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woman scribe
(1)
woman’ fight to hold onto herself during crisis
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women friends
(1)
women surviving poverty
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women without family or fortune
(1)
women's society
(1)
women’s revolution
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women’s rights
(1)
words and women
(1)
working class London
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Working in a local library
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working in book store
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works for rock star
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world of secrets
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wounded
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Writer
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writer
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writers
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writer’s block
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writing a novel
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Wrongly accused of spying after the Iranian Revolution
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WW II resistance fighter
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WW II. .
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WW11
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WW2
(3)
WW2 pilot Teddy
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WWI
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WWI woman ambulance driver
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WWii
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WWII
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WWII - journal of a jewish girl. Paris.
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WWII 14 yr old Dutch boy. survivor story. underground
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WWII local spies
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WWII London
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WWII occupation
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WWII-era
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WWII.
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WWII. jewism
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WWl
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WWll
(2)
Xmas gift from Christine
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Xmas season
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Yellowknife
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Yemen refugee
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young
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Young Franscesca Visser dreams of becoming a Master Painter and travels to Delft to study with Vermeer.
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young girls
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young gravesite artist in Toronto. Grandmother Polish artist
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young love
(5)
young Lydia
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young musicologist
(1)
young newlyweds
(1)
young nun
(1)
young prostitute
(1)
youth novel
(1)
Yrllowstone park
(1)
Zairos Irani
(1)
Zambia
(1)
Zanzibar
(1)
Zeba accused of murder
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Zimbabwe
(1)
Zoe
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Zoo
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Zott
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——and in New York City
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” Lord’s Resistance army”
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