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• The Incredible Kindness of Paper

  Skye, Evelyn,

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  Can one random act of kindness change the trajectory of a life? In elementary school, Chloe Hanako Quinn is assigned Oliver Jones as her pen pal partner. Before sending her letter, she also whispers a note into it...and he hears her. Little does she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

  Ford, Olivia,

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  A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food. Nothing could be more out of character, but after fifty-nine years of marriage, as her husband Bernard's health declines, and her friends' lives become focused…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Time of the Child

  Williams, Niall, 1958-

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  Doctor Jack Troy was born and raised in Faha, but his responsibilities for the sick and his care for the dying mean he has always been set apart from the Irish town. His eldest daughter, Ronnie, has grown up in her father's shadow and remains there,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Age Disgracefully

  Pooley, Clare,

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  When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens' Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she'll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards. The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Secret of Snow

  Shipman, Viola,

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  When Sonny Dunes, a SoCal meteorologist whose job is all sunshine and seventy-two-degree days, is replaced by a virtual meteorologist that will never age, gain weight or renegotiate its contract, the only station willing to give the fifty-year-old…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hana Khan Carries on

  Jalaluddin, Uzma,

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  Sales are slow at Three Sisters Biryani Poutine, the only halal restaurant in the close-knit Golden Crescent neighborhood of Toronto. The owner's daughter Hana waitresses there part time, but what she really wants is to tell stories on the radio. If…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Weather Girl

  Solomon, Rachel Lynn,

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  Ari Abrams has always been fascinated by the weather, and she loves almost everything about her job as a TV meteorologist. Her boss, legendary Seattle weatherwoman Torrance Hale, is too distracted by her tempestuous relationship with her ex-husband,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Peculiar Combination

  Weaver, Ashley,

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  Electra McDonnell has always known that the way her family earn their living is slightly outside of the law. Breaking into the homes of the rich and picking the locks on their safes may not be condoned by British law enforcement, but World War II is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Before the Coffee Gets Cold

  Kawaguchi, Toshikazu, 1971-

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  If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet? In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Half of It

  Fay, Juliette,

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  When 58-year-old Helen Spencer reviews her life, what she sees are the mistakes. Over the years, things seemed to go sideways incrementally, one little wrong decision at a time. She can even pinpoint where it all started to go awry: a wonderous,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Graceland

  A Novel

  Crochiere, Nancy

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  Hope Robinson can't seem to please anyone lately, from her pink-haired teenage daughter Dylan to her mother, flamboyant soap-star, Olivia Grant. Now that she's of a certain age and on oxygen, Olivia insists Hope take her on a final trip to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Leonard and Hungry Paul

  Hession, Rónán,

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  The mundane becomes entertaining in this charming and wonderfully funny debut that tells the story of two single, thirty-something men who still live with their parents and who are . . . nice. They take care of their parents and meet regularly to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sipsworth

  Van Booy, Simon,

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  Sometimes a second chance comes in the most unexpected way.... Following the loss of her husband and son, Helen Cartwright returns to the village of her childhood after living abroad for six decades. Her only wish is to die quickly and without fuss.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Authenticity Project

  Pooley, Clare,

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  "Everybody lies about their lives. What would happen if you shared the truth?" This is the question that Julian Jessop, an eccentric, seventy-nine-year-old artist, poses within a pale green exercise book that he labels The Authenticity Project,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Supremes at Earl's All-you-can-eat

  Moore, Edward Kelsey,

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  For Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean, Earl's All-You-Can-Eat is home away from home for this inseparable Plainview, Indiana, trio. Dubbed "the Supremes" by high school pals in the tumultuous 1960s, they weather life's storms together. Dutiful,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Henry, Himself

  O'Nan, Stewart, 1961-

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  Soldier, son, husband, breadwinner, Henry Maxwell has spent his whole life trying to live with honor. A native Pittsburgher and engineer, he's always believed in logic, sacrifice, and hard work. Now, seventy-five and retired, he feels the world has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Phoenix Ballroom

  Hogan, Ruth, 1961-

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  For fifty years, Venetia’s world revolved around her husband, his big career, a lovely home, and a dutiful son just as business-minded as his father. Now Venetia’s a wealthy widow left with a beautiful but empty home and a distinct feeling that she…Read moreRead more of this annotation