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Gift Guide: For the Reader In Your Life

The Peabody Institute Library staff's recommendations for gifts this year.

Have a reader in your life who's looking for a good book, but you don't know where to start?

The calls this list, "Books to Give the
Reader in Your Life This Holiday Season: From Our Library to Yours." To see a description of each book, click here.

All titles were recommended by the staff at the .

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Title Author The Winter Sea Susanna Kearsley Spies of the Balkans Alan Furst Mildred Pierce James M. Cain 11/22/63 : a novel Stephen King Those Across the River
Christopher Buehlman We the Drowned Carsten Jensen, Charlotte Barslund, Emma Ryder Still Life Louise Penny The American Heiress Daisy Goodwin The Last Letter from your Lover : a novel Jojo Moyes Rosemary and Rue : an October Daye novel
Seanan McGuire Unbroken : a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption
Laura Hillenbrand The reading promise : my father and the books we shared
Alice Ozma Radioactive : Marie & Pierre Curie : a tale of love & fallout
Lauren Redniss Lost in Shangri-la : a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II
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