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      Dreams of Joy by Lisa See 

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      Published on 07-20-2011 12:04 AM
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      In this sequel to Shanghai Girls, Joy, the girl who was born to one sister but raised as the daughter of the other, flees from both mothers when she learns of the bizarre relationship at age nineteen. Since she was born in the United States to Chinese parents, she is an American citizen, but her adoptive mother Pearl raised her to understand and embrace Chinese culture and customs. Joy's rapture with all things Chinese extends to Mau's teachings, and when she feels betrayed by ...
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      Love You More by Lisa Gardner 

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      Published on 07-01-2011 12:03 AM
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      This is not an ordinary love story. It is action-filled right from the beginning when a female state trooper gets home and finds herself in a deadly confrontation. The love story of this book is in the true love that State Trooper Tessa Leoni has for her missing 6 year old as she vows to find her daughter no matter what it takes, even murder. The reader is given hints about Tessa's actual situation in the prologue, but it isn't until halfway through the book that it becomes clear whether she is the victim or ...
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      Frank: The Voice by James Kaplan 

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      Published on 06-30-2011 12:02 AM
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      It's hard to imagine that the world might never have known Frank Sinatra nor been seduced, charmed and entertained by his beautiful music if it hadn't been for the pity and compassion of an Italian woman in 1915. When the midwives could not help Dolly deliver her only child, they called a doctor who used forceps to rip the inert child from her womb. The baby's ear torn and bleeding, he was cast aside ...
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      Rescue by Anita Shreve 

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      Published on 06-10-2011 12:06 AM
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      "911. What's your emergency?" If it were only possible to solve life's problems with a simple phone call, Pete Webster and his daughter Rowan might have avoided 15 years of hurt and loss. Pete Webster was just finishing his EMT training in a small town in Vermont when he was called to the scene of an accident that changed his life forever. At 21 one years old, his life was normal and predictable. He planned to be an EMT, meet a nice girl, marry and ...
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      Ape House by Sara Gruen 

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      Published on 05-06-2011 12:02 AM
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      Isabel Duncan is a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab and her best, maybe only, friends appear to be the six bonobo apes with which she is currently working. The apes have been taught to communicate using American Sign Language, and she is studying and documenting their ability to express human-like emotions when a devastating explosion destroys the lab, critically injuring her and freeing the apes. A reporter who had visited the lab before the explosion, John Thigpen, is sent to cover the story of the explosion and he forms an alliance with Isabel to locate and reclaim the apes. ...
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      The Reversal by Michael Connelly 

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      Published on 05-04-2011 12:06 AM
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      Mickey Haller is used to sitting on the left side of the courtroom, beside whatever defendant is currently paying for his expert legal counsel, but when the prosecutor's office asks him to be independent special prosecutor in the retrial of child molester and murderer, Jason Jessup, he can't refuse. Aside from the fact that he'll be assisted by his ex-wife Maggie McPherson, for whom he still has feelings, and his newly discovered half brother, Detective Harry Bosch, Mickey Haller accepts the assignment because after 24 years in prison, the evil Jessup is ...
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      Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks 

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      Published on 05-02-2011 12:22 AM
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      How can you disappear in plain sight? Apparently Katie Feldman has figured it out, escaping an abusive marriage in Boston and reinventing herself as a waitress in a small coastal North Carolina town. She tries to keep to herself and avoid personal contact outside of work, but with her physical beauty and inherent kind and loving nature, that is impossible. She soon develops friendships with her neighbor, Jo, and with the children of the man who runs the general store where she buys her food. ...
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