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American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
Category: Fiction | Series: Random House Reader's Circle
A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice Lindgren has no idea that she will one day end up in the White House, married to the president. In her small Wisconsin hometown, she learns the virtues of politeness, but a tragic accident when she is seventeen shatters her identity and changes the tra ...Show more
Anthropology of an American Girl by Hilary Thayer Hamann
Category: Fiction | Series: Random House Reader's Circle
This is what it's like to be a high-school-age girl.To forsake the boyfriend you once adored.To meet the love of your life, who just happens to be your teacher.To discover for the first time the power of your body and mind. This is what it's like to be a college-age woman.To live through heartbreak.To s ...Show more
Between Sisters by Kristin Hannah
Category: Fiction | Series: Random House Reader's Circle
#1 "NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER Years ago, Meghann Dontess made a terrible choice that cost her everything, including the love of her sister, Claire. Now, Meghann is a highly successful attorney who doesn t believe in intimacy until she meets the one man who can change her mind. Claire Cavenaugh has fall ...Show more
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
Category: Fiction | Series: Random House Reader's Circle
For eighteen years Fran Benedetto kept her secret, hid her bruises. She stayed with Bobby because she wanted her son to have a father, and because, in spite of everything, she loved him. Then one night, when she saw the look on her ten-year-old son's face, Fran finally made a choice--and ran for both th ...Show more
Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir
Category: Fiction | Series: Random House Reader's Circle
Nearing her thirtieth birthday, Eleanor of Aquitaine has spent the past dozen frustrating years as wife to the pious King Louis VII of France. But when Henry of Anjou, the young and dynamic future king of England, arrives at the French court, he and the seductive Eleanor experience a mutual passion powe ...Show more
Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table (Vol 2 of memoirs) by Ruth Reichl
Category: Biography | Series: Random House Reader's Circle
In this delightful sequel to her bestseller Tender at the Bone, Ruth Reichl returns with more tales of love, life, and marvelous meals. Comfort Me with Apples picks up Reichl's story in 1978, when she puts down her chef's toque and embarks on a career as a restaurant critic. Her pursuit of good food an ...Show more
Juliet by Anne Fortier
Category: Fiction | Series: Random House Reader's Circle
"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER When Julie Jacobs inherits a key to a safety-deposit box in Siena, Italy, she is told that it will lead her to an old family treasure. Soon she is launched on a winding and perilous journey into the history of her ancestor Giulietta, whose legendary love for a young man named ...Show more
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Category: Romance | Series: Random House Reader's Circle
In the small village of Edgecombe St. Mary in the English countryside lives Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired), the unlikely hero of Helen Simonson's wondrous debut. Wry, courtly, opinionated, and completely endearing, the Major leads a quiet life valuing the proper things that Englishmen have lived by fo ...Show more
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
Category: Young Adult | Series: Random House Reader's Circle
"A stunning novel of the Holocaust from a Newbery Medalist" He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Filthy son of Abraham. He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals food for himself, and the other orphans. He's a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels. He's a boy ...Show more
The Dream: A Memoir by Harry Bernstein
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Random House Reader's Circle
During the hard and bitter years of his youth in England, Harry Bernstein's selfless mother never stops dreaming of a better life in America, no matter how unlikely. Then, one miraculous day when Harry is twelve years old, steamship tickets arrive in the mail, sent by an anonymous benefactor. Suddenly, ...Show more
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Category: Romance | Series: Random House Reader's Circle
January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name.
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
Category: Romance | Series: Random House Reader's Circle
One of most acclaimed books of the year, ""Tom Rachman's debut novel follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters and editors of an English-language newspaper in Rome.
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