A Novel Idea Book Suggestions-6/13/23

 

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1. The Dutch house: a novel

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Author:
Patchett, Ann
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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"At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril's son Danny, as he and his older...

2. Earth's the right place for love: a novel

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Author:
Berg, Elizabeth
Series:
Mason novels
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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"This beautiful novel tells the love story of young Arthur Moses and Nola, and how a young man grew up to become the wise old man known as Arthur trulove. Set in the 1950s in the warm community of Mason, Missouri, Arthur is a shy, unathletic teenage boy, in love with the most beautiful girl in his class. He is thrilled when they become friends, but he wants more than friendship. Alas, he learns that Nola has a crush on the wrong Moses--Arthur's older...

3. The grapes of wrath

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Author:
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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Depicts the hardships and suffering endured by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression.

4. Mad honey: a novel

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Author:
Picoult, Jodi, 1966-
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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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...

5. The matchmaker's gift

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Author:
Loigman, Lynda Cohen
Average Rating:
4 stars
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15 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Duraleigh Road - Adult Fiction
LOIGMAN
North Regional - Adult Fiction has 4
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Northeast Regional - Adult Fiction
LOIGMAN
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"From Lynda Cohen Loigman, the bestselling author of The Two-Family House and The Wartime Sisters, comes a heartwarming story of two extraordinary women from two different eras who defy expectations to utilize their unique gift of seeing soulmates in the most unexpected places in The Matchmaker's Gift. Is finding true love a calling or a curse? Even as a child in 1910, Sara Glikman knows her gift: she is a maker of matches and a seeker of soulmates....

6. The measure: a novel

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Author:
Erlick, Nikki
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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"When every person, all over the globe, receives a small wooden box bearing the same inscription and a single piece of string inside, the world is thrown into a collective frenzy"--

7. The orphan of Salt Winds

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Author:
Brooks, Elizabeth, 1979-
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3.7 stars
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East Regional - Adult Fiction has 2
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Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Fiction has 3
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Holly Springs Community - Adult Fiction
BROOKS
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"England, 1939. Ten-year-old Virginia Wrathmell arrives at Salt Winds, a secluded house on the edge of a marsh, to meet her adoptive parents: practical, dependable Clem and glamorous, mercurial Lorna. The marsh, with its deceptive tides, is a beautiful but threatening place. Virginia's new parents' marriage is full of secrets and tensions she doesn't quite understand, and their wealthy neighbor, Max Deering, drops by too often, taking an unwholesome...

8. The shadow sister: Star's story

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Author:
Riley, Lucinda, 1965-2021
Series:
Seven sisters (Lucinda Riley) volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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Seven sisters (Lucinda Riley) volume 3.
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4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Leesville Community - Adult Fiction
RILEY
Southeast Regional - Adult Fiction
RILEY

9. To kill a mockingbird

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Author:
Lee, Harper
Series:
To kill a mockingbird volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee exploreswith rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice--but the weight of history will only tolerate so much."--Provided by publisher.

10. Unsheltered: a novel

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Author:
Kingsolver, Barbara
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2.8 stars
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New York Times Bestseller • Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, O: The Oprah Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek

"Kingsolver brilliantly captures both the price of profound change and how it can pave the way not only for future generations, but also for a radiant, unexpected expansion of the

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11. The vanishing half

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Author:
Bennett, Brit
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4.1 stars
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"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...