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• The Love Letter

  Hauck, Rachel, 1960-

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  1781: When Hamilton Lightfoot’s family is murdered by the redcoats, he fears he'll fight for revenge instead of honor. He pens a letter to his love. Present: When Jesse Gates finds one of his ancestor's letters, he writes a screenplay based on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Spring House

  Taylor, Mary Ellen, 1961-

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  Pregnant, grieving the death of her fiancé, Megan Buchanan is forging ahead on a dream project: to restore her family’s hunting lodge on Virginia's Eastern Shore. After finding a cache of old letters, Megan is drawn into the captivating life of a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pack Up the Moon

  a Novel

  Higgins, Kristan,

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  Joshua and Lauren are wildly in love. When Lauren is diagnosed with a terminal illness, she forms a plan to keep her husband moving forward: twelve letters, one for every month in the year after her death. The letters lead Joshua on a moving, often…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Their Promised Land

  My Grandparents in Love and War

  Buruma, Ian,

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  During the years England was at war with Nazi Germany, Winifred and Bernard Schlesinger, were thoroughly sundered from each other. Their only recourse was to write letters. And write they did, often every day. Ian Buruma weaves his own voice with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Other Birds

  Allen, Sarah Addison,

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  In Mallow Island, SC, lies a cobblestone building called The Dellawisp, after the tiny turquoise birds who inhabit it. When Zoey Hennessey arrives, she meets a girl on the run, a grieving chef, two estranged sisters, and three ghosts. Each with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Crane Husband

  Barnhill, Kelly Regan,

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  The backbone of her small Midwestern family, a teenager manages the household and raises her younger brother while her mother, a talented artist, weaves beautiful tapestries. Yet, she’s powerless when her mother brings home a six-foot tall crane…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Whispers Through the Trees

  Plunkett, Susan

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  Ornithologist Abby Stanton rushes home to the San Juan Islands after a terrible car accident leaves her sister, Mary, paralyzed. Once home, Abby spots a rare, endangered marbled murrelet and its mate. Determined to save them, she finds herself…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ravenmaster

  My Life With the Ravens at the Tower of London

  Skaife, Christopher, 1965-

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  The Tower of London’s ravens are of mighty importance: tradition says that if a raven ever leaves the tower, the city will fall. A rewarding, intimate, inspiring partnership has developed between the ravens and their charismatic, charming human, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Loving Eleanor

  Albert, Susan Wittig,

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  When reporter Lorena “Hick” Hickok is assigned to cover Eleanor Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential campaign, the two women become deeply involved. Their relationship begins with mutual romantic passion, matures through stormy periods of competing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Becoming Mrs. Lewis

  the Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis

  Henry, Patti Callahan,

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  Poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewis looking for spiritual answers, not love. Seemingly ill-matched, they bonded over their letters. Joy traveled from America to England and back again, facing heartbreak and poverty,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sutton

  Moehringer, J. R., 1964-

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  Born in Brooklyn’s Irish slums in 1901, Willie Sutton came of age at a time when banks were taking brazen risks and shamelessly seeking bailouts. Sutton saw only one way out, one way to win the girl of his dreams. So began the career of America's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Beautiful Exiles

  Clayton, Meg Waite,

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  Key West, 1936. Journalist Martha Gellhorn meets literary titan Ernest Hemingway in a dive bar. While covering the Spanish Civil War, their friendship flourishes. Martha reveres him. The married Hemingway is taken with Martha’s beauty, ambition, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Train

  Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World -- From the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief

  Zoellner, Tom

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  Train presents a history of railways around the world and offers an impassioned case for the future of travel. From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the futuristic MagLev, not only do trains transport people and goods in an efficient manner,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Car

  the Rise and Fall of the Machine That Made the Modern World

  Appleyard, Bryan,

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  Cars have created vast wealth, and dreams of freedom and mobility. Almost everything we now need, want, imagine, or aspire to assumes the existence of cars in all their limitless power. Bryan Appleyard's brilliantly insightful book places the car…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One Giant Leap

  the Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon

  Fishman, Charles, 1961-

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  JFK astonished the world in 1961, when he announced the United States would land a man on the Moon by 1970. No group was more surprised than NASA’s scientists and engineers, who suddenly had to invent space travel. A sweeping account of the furious…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Build a Boat

  a Father, His Daughter, and the Unsailed Sea

  Gornall, Jonathan,

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  Part ode to building something by hand, part celebration of the beauty and function of boats. Gornall set out to build a traditional wooden boat as a gift to his newborn daughter, determined to navigate his way back to a time when we could fashion…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Widows of Malabar Hill

  Massey, Sujata,

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  Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry has just joined her father's law firm. She is appointed to execute the will of Mr. Omar Farid, who has left behind three widows, and notices all three of the wives have signed over their full inheritance. Now it is her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Marriage Bureau for Rich People

  Zama, Farahad

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  What does an Indian man with a wealth of common sense do when his retirement becomes too monotonous? Open a matchmaking business, of course! Under the vigilant eyes of his wife and his assistant, Aruna, Mr. Ali’s business flourishes. Aruna has no…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sisters of Mokama

  the Pioneering Women Who Brought Hope and Healing to India

  Thottam, Jyoti,

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  In 1947 six intrepid nuns from Kentucky set out for the small town of Mokama, in India, knowing that they would likely never see their families again. A year later, they opened the doors of Nazareth Hospital, and soon began taking in young Indian…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Million Dollar Arm

  Sometimes to Win, You Have to Change the Game

  Bernstein, J. B., 1968-

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  India is a country with more than one billion people, a national cricket obsession, and zero talent scouts. There, sports agent J. B. Bernstein knew that he could find someone with a strong arm and enough raw talent to pitch in the major leagues. A…Read moreRead more of this annotation