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  • Pachinko
    Pachinko
    by Min Jin Lee
    Hardcover: Feb 2017
    Paperback: Nov 2017
     
    A new tour de force from the bestselling author of Free Food for Millionaires, for readers of The Kite Runner and Cutting for Stone.
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  • The Painted Girls
    The Painted Girls
    by Cathy Marie Buchanan
    Hardcover: Jan 2013
    Paperback: Feb 2014
     
    Set at a moment of profound artistic, cultural, and societal change, The Painted Girls is a tale of two remarkable sisters rendered uniquely vulnerable to the darker impulses of "civilized society." In the end, each will come to realize that her ...
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  • A Painted House
    A Painted House
    by John Grisham
    Hardcover: Feb 2000
    Paperback: Dec 2001
     
    A Painted House is a moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience inspired by Grisham's own childhood in rural Arkansas.
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  • The Painter
    The Painter
    by Peter Heller
    Hardcover: May 2014
    Paperback: Mar 2015
     
    Peter Heller, the celebrated author of the breakout best seller The Dog Stars, returns with an achingly beautiful, wildly suspenseful second novel about an artist trying to outrun his past.
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  • The Paperbark Shoe
    The Paperbark Shoe : A Novel
    by Goldie Goldbloom
    Paperback: Mar 2011
     
    Set in 1940s Australia, The Paperbark Shoe is a remarkable novel about the far-reaching repercussions of war, the subtle violence of displacement, and what it means to live as a captive - in enemy country, and in one's own skin.
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  • Paradise Park
    Paradise Park
    by Allegra Goodman
    Hardcover: Mar 2001
    Paperback: Apr 2002
     
    With an open heart, a soul on fire, and her meager possessions (a guitar, two Indian gauze skirts, a macrame bikini, and her grandfather's silver watch)Sharon begins her spiritual quest to find herself. Possibly the happiest book of the year.
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  • The Paragon Hotel
    The Paragon Hotel
    by Lyndsay Faye
    Hardcover: Jan 2019
    Paperback: Dec 2019
     
    The new and exciting historical thriller by Lyndsay Faye, which follows Alice "Nobody" from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland's the Paragon Hotel.
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  • Pardonable Lies
    Pardonable Lies
    by Jacqueline Winspear
    Hardcover: Aug 2005
    Paperback: Jun 2006
     
    In the third novel of this bestselling series, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful WWI memories to resolve the mystery of a pilot's death
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    The Wager
    by David Grann
    From the bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a gripping story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth.
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    Babylonia
    by Costanza Casati
    From the author of the bestselling Clytemnestra comes another intoxicating excursion into ancient history. When kings fall, queens rise.
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    Let's Call Her Barbie
    by Renée Rosen
    She was only eleven-and-a-half inches tall, but she would change the world. Barbie is born in this bold new novel by USA Today bestselling author Renée Rosen.
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    Beast of the North Woods
    by Annelise Ryan

    When a local fisherman is mauled to death, it seems like the only possible cause is a mythical creature.

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    Going Home
    by Tom Lamont

    Going Home is a sparkling, funny, bighearted story of family and what happens when three men take charge of a toddler following an unexpected loss.

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    The Secret History of the Rape Kit
    by Pagan Kennedy

    The story of the woman who kicked off a feminist revolution in forensics, and then vanished into obscurity.

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