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THE GREEN ROAD

Available now in hardcover and ebook. Coming to

paperback in May 2016.

From internationally acclaimed author Anne

Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small

town on Ireland’s Atlantic coast. The Green Road

is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and

selfishness—a book about the gaps in the human

heart and how we strive to fill them.

Spanning thirty years, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch

of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling

irreparably apart.

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THE READERS OF BROKEN WHEEL RECOMMEND

One of our recommended books for 2017 is The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald

Once you let a book into your life, the most unexpected things can happen…

Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her book-loving pen pal, Amy. When she arrives, however, she finds Amy’s funeral guests just leaving. The residents of Broken Wheel are happy to look after their bewildered visitor—there’s not much else to do in a dying small town that’s almost beyond repair.

You certainly wouldn’t open a bookstore. And definitely not with the tourist in charge. You’d need a vacant storefront (Main Street is full of them),

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STATION ELEVEN

One of our recommended books is Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels.

One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time—from the actor’s early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains—this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor,

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Douglas Petersen may be mild mannered, but

behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that,

against all odds, seduces beautiful Connie into

a second date . . . and eventually into marriage.

Now, almost three decades after their relationship

first blossomed in London, they live more or

less happily in the suburbs with their moody

seventeen-year-old son, Albie.

Then Connie tells Douglas that she thinks she wants a divorce.

The timing couldn’t be worse. Hoping to encourage her son’s artistic

interests,

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CHANCE HARBOR

Catherine and Zoe are sisters, but even their mother, Eve, admits her daughters are nothing alike. Catherine is calm and responsible. Zoe is passionate and rebellious. Nobody is surprised when Zoe gets pregnant, drops out of college, and spirals into drug addiction.

One night Catherine gets a call from Zoe’s terrified daughter, Willow, saying her mother has abandoned her in a bus station and disappeared. Eve blames herself, while Catherine, unable to have children, is delighted to raise Willow as her own.

Now, five years later, Eve is grieving her husband’s death and making reluctant plans to sell the family’s beloved summer home on Prince Edward Island.

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A VIEW OF THE HARBOUR

Self-deception and betrayal are Elizabeth Taylor’s

great subjects, and in A View of the Harbour she

turns her unsparing gaze on the emotional and

sexual politics of a seedy seaside town that’s been

left behind by modernity. Tory, recently divorced,

depends more and more on the company of her

neighbors Robert, a doctor, and Beth, a busy author

of melodramatic novels. Prudence, Robert and

Beth’s daughter, disapproves of the intimacy that has grown between her

parents and Tory and the gossip it has awakened in their little community.

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