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//Room// Five-year-old Jack has spent his life living in an eleven-by-eleven foot space his mother calls Room and while Jack uses his imagination to create wondrous fantasies to entertain himself, his mother dreads the day her son begins to question why they must remain in Room and tries to find a way to escape.
 * by Emma Donoghue **

//The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet // Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, this debut novel tells the heartwarming story of widower Henry Lee, his father, and his first love Keiko Okabe.
 * by Jamie Ford **

//Water for Elephants // Orphaned and penniless in the early part of the Great Depression, Jacob Jankowski lands a job with the third-rate Benzini Brothers circus, lucky to have any job at all. Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, is there because she's fallen in love with the wrong man, a handsome circus boss with a wide mean streak. And Rosie the elephant is there because she's the great gray hope of the circus, the new act that will be its salvation. But Rosie doesn't have an act, and can't even follow instructions. The bond that grows among this unlikely trio is one of love and trust, and ultimately is their only hope for survival.
 * by Sara Gruen **

//Mudbound // The shaky marriage between Henry McAllan and his city-bred wife Laura becomes even more unstable when his brother Jamie returns from World War II in 1946 to help work the family's miserable cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta, along with his comrade-in-arms Ronsel Jackson, the oldest son of local sharecroppers, who soon learns that his heroics in battle mean nothing in the Jim Crow south.
 * by Hillary Jordan **

//When She Woke // In the future, abortion has become a crime as a series of events threatens the existence of the United States. One woman wakes up to discover that her skin color has been changed to red as punishment for having the procedure done. Now she must embark on a dangerous journey in order to find refuge from a hostile and threatening society.
 * by Hillary Jordan **

//The Host // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. But Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind. Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of the man Melanie loves--Jared, a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself from her body's desires, Wanderer yearns for a man she's never met. As outside forces make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set off to search for the man they both love.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">by Stephanie Meyer **

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">The Night Circus // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">A circus known as Le Cirque des Rêves features two illusionists, Celia and Marco, who are unknowingly competing in a game to which they have been irrevocably bound by their mercurial masters, and as the two fall deeply and passionately in love with each other, their masters intervene with dangerous consequences.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">by Erin Morgenstern **

//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">The Help // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">by Kathryn Stockett **