Rooted in the PastUnpublished

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Updated May 3, 2026

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All the broken places

Boyne, John

Paper Book

"You can't prepare yourself for the magnitude and emotional impact of this powerful novel." --John Irving, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The World According to Garp "Exceptional, layered and compelling...This book moves like a freight train...

Orphan train : a novel

Kline, Christina Baker

Paper Book

#1 New York Times Bestseller Available in a special hardcover edition, Christina Baker Kline's smash bestseller that is "a lovely novel about the search for family that also happens to illuminate a fascinating and forgotten chapter of American history" (Ann Packer). Between 1854 and...

Maus : a survivor's tale

Spiegelman, Art.

Paper Book

The underground railroad : a novel

Whitehead, Colson

Paper Book

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. One of The New York Times's 10 Best Books of...

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