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Between life and death there is a library. Up until now, Nora Seed's life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. When she finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. The books in the library allow Nora to live as if she had done things differently. She can now undo every decision she regrets. But soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger.
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Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and...
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Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. But it's the 1960s and despite the fact that she is a scientist, her peers are very unscientific when it comes to equality. The only good thing to happen to her on the road to professional fulfillment is a run-in with her super-star colleague Calvin Evans. The only man who ever treated her-and her ideas-as equal, Calvin is already a legend and Nobel nominee. But three years later Elizabeth Zott is an unwed,...
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In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps build a world-class collection. But Belle has a secret, one she must protect at...
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Darley, the eldest daughter in the old money Stockton family, followed her heart traded her job and her inheritance for motherhood, giving up too much in the process. Sasha, a middle-class New England girl, married into the Brooklyn Heights family, and finds herself cast as the arriviste outsider. Georgiana, the baby of the family, has fallen in love with someone she can't have and must decide what kind of person she wants to be,
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Dutton
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[2020]
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1913. Laura Lyons's husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building. She discovers the Heterodoxy Club, a radical, all-female group in which women are encouraged to loudly share their opinions on suffrage, birth control, and women's rights. But when valuable books are stolen back at the library, threatening the home and institution she loves, she's forced to confront...
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When Mia's father doesn't come home from a walk in the local nature reserve, she doesn't think much of it. He must've turned off his phone. Or his battery died. Or he probably stopped for an errand. Soon more questions arise and it becomes clear to Mia and her family that he is missing. Or is he?
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For generations, the Kalotay family has guarded a collection of ancient and rare books. Books that let a person walk through walls or manipulate the elements—books of magic that half-sisters Joanna and Esther have been raised to revere and protect. All magic comes with a price, though, and for years the sisters have been separated. Esther has fled to a remote base in Antarctica to escape the fate that killed her own mother, and Joanna’s isolated...
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Minnie Cooper and Quinn Hamilton have never met, but their mothers gave birth to them at the same hospital just after midnight on New Year's Day. Quinn was given the cash prize for being the first baby born in London in 1990 -- and the name Minnie was meant to have, as well. Since then each of her birthdays has been a disaster. When Minnie unexpectedly runs into Quinn at a New Year's party on their mutual thirtieth birthday, she sees only more evidence...
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"Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community. Months earlier, Martha documented the details of an alleged rape committed by two of the town's...
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When it comes to love, Emma is cursed. Every guy she dates finds his true love after they break up. But it turns out she's not the only one afflicated with this condition. His name is Justin, and his Reddit thread about being "love's good luck charm" has gone viral. Now the two have come up with an ingenious plan: if they date each other, their curses will cancel out and they'll go on to find their soulmate. Only Justin wasn't supposed to be so unbelievably...
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Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. She delights in donning her crisp uniform each morning, stocking her cart with miniature soaps and bottles, and returning guest rooms at the Regency Grand Hotel to a state of perfection. But Molly's orderly life is upended the day she enters the suite of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black, only to find it in a state of disarray and Mr....
13) Class: a memoir
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One Signal Publishers/Atria
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2023.
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In Class, Stephanie Land takes us with her as she finishes college and pursues her writing career. Facing barriers at every turn including a byzantine loan system, not having enough money for food, navigating the judgments of professors and fellow students who didn't understand the demands of attending college while under the poverty line, Land finds a way to survive once again, finally graduating in her mid-thirties. Land paints an intimate and heartbreaking...
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Emma loves her husband, Leo, and their young daughter, Ruby, she'd do anything for them. But almost everything she's told them about herself is a lie. And she might just have got away with it, if it weren't for her husband's job. Leo is an obituary writer and Emma is a well-known marine biologist. When she suffers a serious illness, Leo copes by doing what he knows best, reading and writing about her life. But as he starts to unravel her past, he...