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Keira Soleore
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by Roberta Gellis
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By Possession
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The Sweetest Remedy
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The Proposition
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Ayesha at Last
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Hana Khan Carries On
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Kiss Me, Annabel
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Pleasure for Pleasure
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The Sword Dancer
by Jeannie Lin
The Lotus Palace
by Jeannie Lin
The Jade Temptress
by Jeannie Lin
The Taming of Mei Lin
by Jeannie Lin
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by Carrie Lofty
What a Scoundrel Wants
by Carrie Lofty
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by Julie Ann Long
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by Emma Lord
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by Alexa Martin
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by Michelle Martin
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by Michelle Martin
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by Michelle Martin
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by Priscilla Oliveras
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by Priscilla Oliveras
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by Barbara O'Neal
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by Barbara O'Neal
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by Tara Pammi
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by Sajni Patel
Lady Be Good
by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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by Jane Porter
Odd Mom Out
by Jane Porter
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by Mary Jo Putney
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by Amanda Quick
Seduction
by Amanda Quick
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by Katee Robert
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by Farrah Rochon
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by Morgan Rogers
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by Theresa Romain
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by Patricia Ryan
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by Sophia Singh Sasson
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by Joanna Shupe
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by Joan Smith
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by Joan Smith
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by Joan Smith
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by Rachel Lynn Solomon
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by Mia Sosa
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by Sherry Thomas
The Lord's Inconvenient Vow
by Lara Temple
The Return of the Disappearing Duke
by Lara Temple
Not Quite a Husband
by Sherry Thomas
99 Percent Mine
by Sally Thorne
The Hating Game
by Sally Thorne
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by Olivia Waite
A Debutante in Disguise
by Eleanor Webster
Just Breathe
by Susan Wiggs
The Fastest Way to Fall
by Denise Williams
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OTHER FICTION
Lizzie & Dante
by Mary Bly AKA Eloisa James
Girl with a Pearl Earring
by Tracy Chevalier
The Lady and Unicorn
by Tracy Chevalier
New Kid
by Jerry Craft
A Share in Death
by Deborah Crombie
The Night Watchman
by Louise Erdrich
Belgravia
by Julian Fellowes
North and South
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
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A House Without Windows
by Nadia Hashimi
Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Ayesha at Last
by Uzma Jalaluddin
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Death Comes to Pemberley
by P.D. James
The Jane Austen Society
by Natalie Jenner
News of the World
by Paulette Jiles
Unmarriageable
by Soniah Kamal
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by Madeleine L'Engle
Inside Out & Back Again
by Thanhha Lai
The Bookman's Tale
by Charles Lovett
A Long Walk to Water
by Linda Sue Park
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Truckers
by Terry Pratchett
Thrush Green
by Miss Read
Busman's Honeymoon
by Dorothy Sayers
Have His Carcase
by Dorothy Sayers
Strong Poison
by Dorothy Sayers
Rosie Project
by Graeme Simsion
Stargirl
by Jerry Spinelli
The Warden
by Anthony Trollope
The Running Dream
by Wendelin Van Draanen
All Historical Books by Joan Wolf
Brown Girl Dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
NONFICTION
We Should All Be Feminists
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The One Skill: How Mastering the Art of Letting Go Will Change Your Life
by Leo Babauta
Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice
by Paula Byrne
The Writer's Life
by Julia Cameron
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down
by Christian McEwan
Being Mortal
by Atul Gawande
The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran
The Art of Stillness
by Pico Iyer
Tropical Classical
by Pico Iyer
Paris in Love
by Eloisa James
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio
by Peg Kehret
How to be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
Without You, There Is No Us
by Suki Kim
Talking About Detective Fiction
by P.D. James
Figuring
by Mary Popova
Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader edited by
by Mary Popova and Claudia Zoe Bedrick
Becoming
by Michelle Obama
So You Want to Talk About Race
by Ijeoma Oluo
Citizen: An American Lyric
by Claudia Rankine
Walking
by Henry David Thoreau
The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861
by Henry David Thoreau
Beyond Heaving Bosoms
by Sarah Wendell & Candy Tan
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
I am Malala
by Malala Yousafzai
POETRY
A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings
translated by Coleman Barks
The Country Without a Post Office
by Agha Shahid Ali
The Carrying
by Ada Limón
Devotions
by Mary Oliver
PICTURE BOOKS
Children's Picture Books...to come...
Friday, August 19, 2011
Picture Day Friday
The Library of Congress Reading Room
Image copyrighted by VisitingDC.com.
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