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Solstice Wood

Patricia A. McKillip

Los Angeles bookstore owner Sylvia Lynn is summoned to upstate New York to attend her grandfather's funeral and finds herself the center of a conflict between the Fiber Guild, a clique of women who me

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The Girls

Lori Lansens

A fictional autobiography of conjoined twins told by Rose and Ruby Darlen, two young women who, nearing the age of thirty, are about to become history's oldest surviving twins to be joined at the head

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Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Marisha Pessl

Sixteen-year-old Blue van Meer and her professor father settle into North Carolina after a decade of moves, where she becomes a part of an elite group of student intellectuals and is rocked by the sus

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The Wolf King

Alice Borchardt

The shapeshifters, Maeniel and Regeane, who can change from wolf to human, attempt to help Charlemagne in his conquest of Italy, but they are opposed by forces from their distant past.

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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

ZZ. Packer

Presents eight short stories revolving around young African-Americans, from little girls in a Brownie troop to a young man who accompanies his father to the Million Man March.

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Zoya's Story

Zoya

Presents the life of an Afghani woman who grew up in wartime, saw the rise Taliban, and has worked to improve the lives of other Aghani women.

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Fray

Joss Whedon

Hundreds of years in the future, a young girl learns she has a great destiny that may unite a fallen city against a demonic plot to consume mankind.

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Unscripted

Amy Kaye

After a year on a reality show filmed at her high school, Claire Marangello makes it big, scoring her own reality show, a role on Broadway, and a famous heartthrob boyfriend, but she finds that stardo

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And One More Thing Before You Go--

Maria Shriver

The author provides an inspirational guide for young women on how to achieve a fulfilling and happy life and offers advice on the important things to consider in life.

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Florida

Christine Schutt

After her mother is committed to a psychiatric hospital Alice Fivey is shuttled from relative to relative, trying to develop her own sense of self in the midst of the ever-changing world around her.

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