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  • Children of the Jacaranda Tree
    Children of the Jacaranda Tree
    by Sahar Delijani
    Hardcover: Jun 2013
    Paperback: Jun 2014
     
    A stunning debut novel set in post-Revolutionary Iran that gives voice to the men, women, and children who won a war only to find their lives–and those of their descendants - imperiled by its aftermath
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  • The Children's Blizzard
    The Children's Blizzard
    by David Laskin
    Hardcover: Nov 2004
    Paperback: Oct 2005
     
    A masterful portrait of a tragic crucible in the settlement of the American heartland - the 'Children's Blizzard' of 1888.
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  • The Children's Book
    The Children's Book : A Novel
    by A.S. Byatt
    Hardcover: Oct 2009
    Paperback: Aug 2010
     
    A spellbinding novel that spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous children's book author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the people she loves.
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  • The Children's War
    The Children's War
    by Monique Charlesworth
    Hardcover: Sep 2004
    Paperback: Sep 2005
     
    Evokes wartime lives and places with astonishing immediacy and in an utterly unforgettable way, from the point of view of a young Jewish girl and a boy who struggles with his place in the Hitler Youth.
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  • China Dolls
    China Dolls
    by Lisa See
    Hardcover: Jun 2014
    Paperback: Mar 2015
     
    Lisa See has garnered international acclaim for her great skill at rendering the intricate relationships of women and the complex meeting of history and fate. Now comes her highly anticipated new novel, China Dolls.
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  • Chocolat
    Chocolat
    by Joanne Harris
    Hardcover: Feb 1999
    Paperback: Jan 2000
     
    A timeless novel of a straitlaced village's awakening to joy and sensuality - every page offers a description of chocolate to melt in the mouths of chocoholics, francophiles, armchair gourmets, cookbook readers, and lovers of passion everywhere.
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  • The Chosen One
    The Chosen One
    by Carol Lynch Williams
    Hardcover: May 2009
    Paperback: Aug 2010
     
    Kyra has grown up in an isolated fundamentalist community never questioning that her father has three wives and she has twenty brothers and sisters. But when the Prophet decrees that she must marry her sixty-year-old uncle - who already has six ...
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  • Christ The Lord Out of Egypt
    Christ The Lord Out of Egypt
    by Anne Rice
    Hardcover: Nov 2005
    Paperback: Feb 2008
     
    A novel about the early years of Christ, based on the Gospels and on respected New Testament scholarship.
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