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City of Girls : A Novel
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Hardcover: Jun 2019
Paperback: Apr 2020

From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't have to be a good girl to be a good person.

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City of God
by E.L. Doctorow
Hardcover: Feb 2000
Paperback: Jan 2001

Daringly poised at the junction of the sacred and the profane, and filled with the sights and sounds of New York - a narrative of the twentieth century written for the twenty-first.

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City of Thieves : A Novel
by David Benioff
Hardcover: May 2008
Paperback: Apr 2009

A writer visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. His grandmother won't talk about it, but his grandfather reluctantly consents. The result is the captivating odyssey of two young...

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City of Tranquil Light : A Novel
by Bo Caldwell
Hardcover: Sep 2010
Paperback: Oct 2011

Inspired by the lives of the author's maternal grandparents - City of Tranquil Light is a tender and elegiac portrait of a young marriage set against the backdrop of the shifting face of a beautiful but torn nation.

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City of Women : A Novel
by David R. Gillham
Hardcover: Aug 2012
Paperback: May 2013

It is 1943 - the height of the Second World War - and Berlin has essentially become a city of women. In this page-turning novel, David Gillham explores what happens to ordinary people thrust into extraordinary times, and how the choices they make can...

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City Under One Roof
by Iris Yamashita
Hardcover: Jan 2023
Paperback: Jan 2024

A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone lives in a single high-rise building, in this gripping debut by an Academy Award–nominated screenwriter.

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Claire of the Sea Light
by Edwidge Danticat
Hardcover: Aug 2013
Paperback: Jul 2014

A stunning work of fiction that brings us deep into the intertwined lives of a small seaside town where a little girl, the daughter of a fisherman, has gone missing.

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Clara Callan : A Novel
by Richard B. Wright
Hardcover: Oct 2002
Paperback: Dec 2003

A mesmerizing tribute to friendship and sisterhood, romance and redemption, written with such insight and passion that the characters' stories will remain with you long after you have read the last page.

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The Frozen River
by Ariel Lawhon

"I cannot say why it is so important that I make this daily record. Perhaps because I have been ...
Prophet Song
by Paul Lynch

Paul Lynch's 2023 Booker Prize–winning Prophet Song is a speedboat of a novel that hurtles...
The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
by Lynda Cohen Loigman

Lynda Cohen Loigman's delightful novel The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern opens in 1987. The titular ...
Small Rain
by Garth Greenwell

At the beginning of Garth Greenwell's novel Small Rain, the protagonist, an unnamed poet in his ...