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Tortilla Curtain

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A car collision between two men represents the dividing line between America and Mexico and between rich and poor in this humorous and serious political novel from 1996.
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Virgin of Small Plains

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Small Plains, Kansas, January 23, 1987: In the midst of a deadly blizzard, the naked, frozen body of a teenage girl is found in a field. Seventeen years later, three families and three friends, their worlds inexorably altered in the course of one night, must confront the ever-unfolding consequences in award-winning author Nancy Pickard’s remarkable 2006 novel of suspense.

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Water for Elephants

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As a young man in the great Depression, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. For Jacob, now ninety, the circus world he remembers in this 2006 novel was both his salvation and a living hell.
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When the Emperor was Divine

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Julie Otsuka's commanding debut novel from 2002 paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. In five chapters, each flawlessly executed from a different point of view within a family, she has created a novel of unrelenting economy and suppressed emotion.
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Under the Tuscan Sun

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Francis Mayes buys and renovates an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside, describing all in her 1996 book.  An accomplished cook and food writer, she brings the reader along as she discovers the beauty and simplicity of life in Italy. 
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