Think of England - Alice Dark
Two cataclysmic events occur on February 9, 1964. The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show and later that night, nine-year-old Jane MacLeod's life changes forever. It has been said that children are good observers but poor interpreters. Jane's interpretation of the events of that evening shapes her life in ways she doesn't recognize. Think of England follows Jane from an intense love affair in the ex-pat scene in punk-era London to working motherhood in New York to a family reunion in the country — and a reckoning with the ghost that has stood between her and her dream of a happy family.
Book Review: From allreaders.com
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A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns tells the story two women against the background of the last forty years in Afghanistan. Mariam was born an illegitimate child in 1959 and was married off to a man from Kabul when she was 15. Her husband was abusive and cruel and he forced her to wear a burqa even though many liberal women in Kabul were free to go without it. Laila was born just before the Russian invasion and had dreams of a life of education and travel.
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About the Author: From Wikipedia.org

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace -- One School at a Time - Greg Mortenson
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Three Junes - Julia Glass
A luminous first novel, set in Greece, Scotland, Greenwich Village and Long Island, that traces the lives of a Scottish family over a decade as they confront the joys and longings, fulmillments and betrayals of love in all its guises. Julia Glass was awarded the 2002 National Book Award for Fiction for Three Junes.
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Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
A touching love story with a new twist. Told alternately from the viewpoint of time traveler Henry and his wife Clare who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six. The story unfolds from both points of view as they attempt to live normal lives while threatened by something they can neither prevent nor control.
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Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom rediscovered his college professor Morrie Schwartz from nearly twenty years ago in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final "class": lessons in how to live.
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Unless – Carol Shields
Carol Shields tells the story of Reta Winters, as she endures the breakaway of Norah, her eldest daughter, from family, boyfriend, girlfriends and university. Reviewers describe this work as piercing and sad, astute and evocative, and full of tenderness and laughter.
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Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell
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Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
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