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1. Acts of Violet

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Author:
Montimore, Margarita
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3 stars
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Cary Regional - Adult Fiction has 2
MONTIMOR
East Regional - Adult Fiction has 2
MONTIMOR
Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Fiction has 3
MONTIMOR
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"Nearly a decade ago, iconic magician Violet Volk performed her greatest trick yet: vanishing mid-act. Though she hasn't been seen since, her hold on the public imagination is stronger than ever. While Violet sought out the spotlight, her sister Sasha always had to be the responsible one, taking over their mother's hair salon and building a quiet life for her beloved daughter Quinn. But Sasha can never seem to escape her sister's orbit or her memories...

2. Animal joy: a book of laughter and resuscitation

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Author:
Alsadir, Nuar
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Athens Drive Community - Adult Non-Fiction
814.6 ALSAD
Duraleigh Road - Adult Non-Fiction
814.6 ALSAD
Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
814.6 ALSAD
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"Taking laughter's revelatory capacity as a starting point, and rooted in Nuar Alsadir's experience as a poet and psychoanalyst, Animal Joy is an ode to spontaneity and feeling alive."--

3. Atomic Anna

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Author:
Barenbaum, Rachel
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5 stars
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Athens Drive Community - Adult Fiction
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Cary Regional - Adult Fiction has 2
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"In 1986, renowned nuclear scientist Anna Berkov is sleeping in her bed in the Soviet Union when Chernobyl's reactor melts down. At that exact moment she tears through time-her first jump-and it's an accident. When she opens her eyes, she's landed in 1992 only to discover Molly, her estranged daughter, shot in the chest. Molly, with her dying breath, begs Anna to go back in time and stop the disaster, to save Molly's daughter Raisa, and put their...

4. Fly away

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Author:
Hannah, Kristin
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"Fly away is the story of three women who have lost their way and need each other-- plus a miracle-- to transform their lives" -- from author's web site. A follow-up to Firefly Lane returns readers to the world of Tully, Kate, and Tully's mother, who explore their understandings about love, family, loss, and redemption while turning to each other in the hopes of salvaging their lives.

5. The four winds

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Hannah, Kristin
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4.2 stars
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"[A]n epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras--the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with...

6. The Joy Luck Club

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Author:
Tan, Amy
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4.7 stars
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Four Chinese women, drawn together by the shadow of their past, meet in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, eat dim sum, and to "say" stories to each other. Nearly 40 years later, one of the women has died, and her daughter arrives to take her place. However, the daughter never expected to learn of her mother's secret lifelong wish—and the tragic way in which it has come true. The revelation creates among the women an urgent

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7. The magic of found objects: a novel

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Dawson, Maddie
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Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Fiction
DAWSON
Fuquay-Varina Community - Adult Fiction
DAWSON
Holly Springs Community - Adult Fiction
DAWSON
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"Phronsie Linnelle was conceived at Woodstock in a serendipitous liaison between a free-spirited hippie and a farmer's son and was born with magical wonder flickering in her DNA and rationality knit into her bones. All her life she's been torn between the two. But now that she's been betrayed by both love and the mother she once idolized, her rational side is winning. So when her best friend from childhood proposes that they give up on romance and...

8. Tom Lake: a novel

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Patchett, Ann
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America's finest writers.

"Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature." —The Guardian

In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in

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