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  • The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
    The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
    by Natasha Pulley
    Hardcover: Jul 2015
    Paperback: Jul 2015
     
    A sweeping, atmospheric narrative that takes the reader on an unexpected journey through Victorian London, Japan as its civil war crumbles long-standing traditions, and beyond.
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  • Water for Elephants
    Water for Elephants : A Novel
    by Sara Gruen
    Hardcover: May 2006
    Paperback: May 2007
     
    An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932 illuminated by a wonderful sense of time and place. Winner of the 2007 BookBrowse Award for Most Popular Book.
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  • Water, Carry Me
    Water, Carry Me : A Love Story
    by Thomas Moran
    Hardcover: Feb 2000
    Paperback: Mar 2001
     
    The breathtaking love story of a young woman's betrayal, a haunting portrait of the extraordinary beauty and inexorable violence of a divided Ireland.
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  • The Wave
    The Wave : In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean
    by Susan Casey
    Hardcover: Sep 2010
    Paperback: May 2011
     
    From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil’s Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal, ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out.
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  • The Way The Crow Flies
    The Way The Crow Flies
    by Ann-Marie MacDonald
    Hardcover: Sep 2003
    Paperback: Aug 2004
     
    A novel that is as compelling as it is rich. With her unerring eye for the whimsical, the absurd, and the quintessentially human, Ann-Marie MacDonald stunningly evokes the pain, confusion, and humor of childhood in a perilous adult world.
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  • We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
    We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
    by Karen Joy Fowler
    Hardcover: May 2013
    Paperback: Feb 2014
     
    The story of an American family, middle class in middle America, ordinary in every way but one. But that exception is the beating heart of this extraordinary novel.
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  • We Are Called to Rise
    We Are Called to Rise : A Novel
    by Laura McBride
    Hardcover: Jun 2014
    Paperback: Apr 2015
     
    Three lives are bound together by a split-second mistake, and a child's fate hangs in the balance.

    What happens next will test—and restore—your faith in humanity.
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  • We Are Not Free
    We Are Not Free
    by Traci Chee
    Hardcover: Sep 2020
    Paperback: Mar 2022
     
    "All around me, my friends are talking, joking, laughing. Outside is the camp, the barbed wire, the guard towers, the city, the country that hates us.
    We are not free.
    But we are not alone."
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