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  • Vaclav & Lena
    Vaclav & Lena : A Novel
    by Haley Tanner
    Hardcover: May 2011
    Paperback: Feb 2012
     
    In Vaclav & Lena Haley Tanner has created two unforgettable young protagonists who evoke the joy, the confusion, and the passion of having a profound, everlasting connection with someone else.
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  • The Valley of Amazement
    The Valley of Amazement
    by Amy Tan
    Hardcover: Nov 2013
    Paperback: Jul 2014
     
    A sweeping, evocative epic of two women's intertwined fates and their search for identity, that moves from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fog-shrouded mountains of a remote Chinese village.
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  • Vampires in the Lemon Grove
    Vampires in the Lemon Grove : Stories
    by Karen Russell
    Hardcover: Feb 2013
    Paperback: Jan 2014
     
    From the author of the New York Times best seller Swamplandia!—a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—a magical new collection of stories that showcases Karen Russell's gifts at their inimitable best.
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  • Vandal Love
    Vandal Love : A Novel
    by Deni Y. Béchard
    Paperback: May 2012
     
    In assured and mystically powerful prose, Deni Y. Béchard tells a wide-ranging, spellbinding story of a family trying to create an identity in an unwelcoming landscape.
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  • Vanessa and Her Sister
    Vanessa and Her Sister
    by Priya Parmar
    Hardcover: Dec 2014
    Paperback: Oct 2015
     
    The work of exciting young newcomer Priya Parmar, Vanessa and Her Sister exquisitely captures the champagne-heady days of prewar London and the extraordinary lives of sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf.
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  • The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
    The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
    by Maggie O'Farrell
    Hardcover: Oct 2007
    Paperback: Jun 2008
     
    Maggie O’Farrell takes readers on a journey to the darker places of the human heart, where desires struggle with the imposition of social mores. This haunting story explores the seedy past of Victorian asylums, the oppression of family secrets, ...
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  • Vanishing Acts
    Vanishing Acts
    by Jodi Picoult
    Hardcover: Mar 2005
    Paperback: Nov 2005
     
    What happens when you learn you are not who you thought you were? When the people you've loved and trusted suddenly change before your eyes? When getting your deepest wish means giving up what you've always taken for granted? Vanishing Acts ...
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  • The Vanishing Half
    The Vanishing Half : A Novel
    by Brit Bennett
    Hardcover: Jun 2020
    Paperback: Feb 2022
     
    From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.
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