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The Opposite of Everyone
by Joshilyn Jackson
I Was Born Blue (11/23/2015)
THE OPPOSITE OF EVERYONE is the perfect title for this cunning, captivating and delightful novel that hits home in a few spots. "I was born blue," completes the circle of this enchanting novel when Paula Vauss, a divorce lawyer in Georgia, receives a note from her mothermore
Maud's Line
by Margaret Verble
Determination (7/10/2015)
Maud's Line is a rich novel of the life of an eighteen-year-old Cherokee Indian living with her family on a U.S. Government allotment in 1928 Oklahoma. Like all poor girls, she dreams of colorful dresses, mirrors, running water—all the things she reads about in books.

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Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story
by Mac McClelland
A PTSD Love Story (1/6/2015)
Mac McClelland, a well-known human rights journalist, writes about her experience reporting on the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti in 2010. The horrific atrocities she sees and hears, leaves her sick. McClelland becomes fearful and extremely vulnerable to themore
First Frost
by Sarah Addison Allen
The Year Everything Changed (11/9/2014)
First Frost is a delightful story about the Waverley women in Bascom, North Carolina. They each have strange powers and the women in the community take wide berths around them so their strangeness does not rub off on them, unless they need something like a special mixturemore
Juliet's Nurse
by Lois Leveen
WHEN LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH (7/20/2014)
The death of a newborn infant is always devastating. When an opportunity arises for the woman to become a wet-nurse for another newborn infant, she accepts the opportunity to ease her discomfort. This is how Juliet got her wet-nurse.
The wet-nurse fell in love with themore
Mimi Malloy, At Last!
by Julia MacDonnell
Family Mysteries (2/15/2014)
Mimi Malloy at Last is an adventure where a family finds a gap in their family tree. After World War II the Irish Catholic family did not move from Quincy, Massachusetts so they were able to revisit their earlier haunts and homes to relive those memories. It is surprisingmore
Buying In
by Laura Hemphill
The Fall (10/8/2013)
Buying In tells the entertaining story of Sophie's adventures as a first-year analyst with Sterling and Sons, a brokerage investment bank. Sophie is from rural Massachusetts and has a lot to learn on her job dealing with mergers and the idiosyncrasies of big-namedmore
The Mouse-Proof Kitchen
by Saira Shah
Lessons in Love (6/18/2013)
The Mouse Proof Kitchen is the story of Tobias and Anna whose perfect life is shattered when their daughter Freya is born: flawed. Will they be able to give her unconditional love?

Their lives change when they leave England to live in France. They are the new owners of anmore
Sharp: A Memoir
by David Fitzpatrick
Growing up the hard way (7/18/2012)
David Fitzgerald shares his experience with manic depression during his twenty's and thirty's. When young, his older brother Andy beat and insulted Fitzgerald. His college roommates bullied him relentlessly. Fitzgerald never learned to fight back or stand up for himself.
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A Land More Kind Than Home: A Novel
by Wiley Cash
A Land More Kind Than Home (3/27/2012)
A Land More Kind Than Home is a line from You Can’t Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe, that reflects the thread in this novel. It is a painful tale of courage and bravery in the face of cruelty. In the early 1900s, the town of Marshall was a small crossroad in Madison County inmore
The Lieutenant
by Kate Grenville
Aboriginals versus convicts (9/23/2009)
If you are interested in the Aboriginals and how the first penal colony was settled in New South Wales in the 1780’s, The Lieutenant is the book worth reading. Although it is fiction loosely based on a real person, the rich details of daily life, conflicts, and diversity ofmore
Valley of the Lost
by Vicki Delany
Valley of the Lost (12/17/2008)
Valley of the Lost takes place in picturesque Trafalgar near Vancouver, Canada. Lucky Smith finds a small baby crying behind the Women’s Support Center where she is a counselor. Lucky discovers the body of a young female. Is she the baby’s mother? Could this be a drugmore
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